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I'm not 100% sure of what you mean. As far as I know, none of the armor actually attaches to the suit. Most of us build some sort of harness system and all the armor parts just kinda hang off each other. I use a LOT of velcro. I have seen others use different methods. I even have the "cap plate" the covers the top of the cape tied on with leather thread. On my kit, I plastic welded the front and back armor pieces together at the shoulders. This allows it to "clamshell" over my upper torso. The sides have tabs with velcro that you overlap and let the velcro do its thing. Shoulder bells are connected to each other with, you guessed it, velcro and the combo piece that forms is connected to the main armor with straps and, yet again, more velcro. I made a long strip of black leather (I'm lucky as I made the tunic and had some of the matching leather left over...but it shouldn't matter as none of it is visible) that is attached to the chest plate and hangs down the front. The ab plate and the groin protector plate are attached to that with a 5 inch gap to allow for the belt between. As you have probably guessed, those are all fastened with velcro. The hand plates are fixed to my gloves. Once again, velcro was my go-to. The bracers are a different story. Mine are a bit tight, so they actually stay in place by themselves for the most part. I made a couple of plastic straps for each side that I painted the same color as the armor and they just push up under the bracers and connect with yet more velcro. I'm not sure if this works, but here is the link to my Imgur album for the IK. It shows some of the parts and how they are connected. https://imgur.com/gallery/imperial-knight-gYeir

I know...old topic. But I made a slight modification to my saber that others may be interested in. If you are like me and ordered one of these and was a bit disappointed that it lacked the iconic D-ring, I have found a fairly simple solution. I did this with my old saber that I made from a cheap Ultrasabers basic hilt and added sink tube and such to get the look I was after and thought it may work on this one, as well. I removed the pommel and did a bunch of measurements and test fits and found out I had enough room inside it to add a 3/8 inch long, 1/4-28 hex cap screw with a nut inside without interfering with the heart. I drilled a hole in the center of the pommel, tapped it to 1/4-28, then put the screw in and added the nut inside (nut was not really needed as there is plenty of material for the screw to grab when threaded). Another test fit to make sure the saber functioned properly and nothing was hitting the heart and all was good. Then I drilled the head of the cap screw to allow a D-ring to me installed. I did this in a few steps to help keep the hole as centered as possible as there is not much room for error on a head that size. Installed the D-ring and reattached the whole thing to the pommel and put the saber together. Everything is functioning and it looks closer to the reference material now. I also removed the covertech wheel and plugged the hole for it with a set screw I had. No need to do this if you actually use the covertech...but I don't, so wanted it gone. If anyone is interested, I can snap a few pics and toss them in here.

Greetings, all. A local guy is wanting to do an IK (actually...a couple are) and I was helping them with the parts when armor came up. I saw a post in a thread last year about Walt's Trooper Factory doing a run of the IK armor and reached out for this guy. Just wanted to drop a line to let you all know that WTF is currently doing IK armor. Some of the parts like the cape "cap" plate seem a bit elongated to me (although I gotta admit, I like that look). But, as it is a costume from a comic that has many, many variations in the drawings, I don't really see an issue with that. One really good thing about his kit is that the shoulders look to be the correct proportions. My first set was ginormous and the current set seem a bit small to me. I may be ordering a set of his shoulders to update my kit. Anyhow, shoot WTF a message if you are in the market for IK armor. He has, as he put it, normal man size, big mad size, and women's size. I have only seen pics of the raw, unpainted pulls of what I assume is the "normal man size", so I don't know if his female armor is shaped differently. His price isn't bad and he offers group discounts if you have a squad of IKs in the making (that would look soooo cool, by the way).

These sabers are really nice. I need to figure out a way to add the D-ring to the pommel to be a bit more accurate, but otherwise a really nice build. Never had a saber with a real board in it before, so it's taking some trial and error to get the blade and sounds just right.

Got the house stuff under control in time to order one of these. Supposed to be here this week

Hopefully, they will still be available in a couple of weeks. With all these house issues, I'm so broke I can't pay attention. No AC and no water really sucks

Nice. Been wanting to upgrade my home made one for a long time now.

Hope he gets the sizing good. Would love to see more avenues to get good armor that isn't ginormous.

Like Chris said, soft parts are tough to find. I wound up making mine, myself. But, the easiest way to meet the CRLs is, as Chris said, using a Vader undersuit and adding the tabbards (most I have seen go this route just attach them to the back of the belt). I'm not 100% on how the Vader top is made, but you may have to add the ribbed collar to fit the bill based on the images available.

At the holiday parade last Saturday, I was dubbed "Darth Santa" while in my Imperial Knight. Kids all along the parade route were yelling out "Santa" as we walked by and one guy said he always knew Santa was a dark sider :P

In the Imperial Knight, I have been called "Santa Jedi", "Viking Jedi", and a Royal Guard. In my old green Jedi gear (my daughter has it now), I was called just about every Jedi name in the movies. I tend to just answer to whatever anymore

Kevin sells a few different sizes and each has it's own look. From the look of Avatar's shoulders, I would guess he got the normal (large) kit. Mine is the medium (the large was ginormous on me) and the chest has a different shape to it...but it fits my frame much better :).

Silly question: what's wrong with your pants? Any leather/leather-like pants should work since both Vader-ribbed and smooth leather have been seen in the comics. I find the old leather pants I use are quite comfortable and not hot at all. As for the sleeves, you may have luck with adding zippers to the cuffs. I wanted mine as tight as possible, so I added some 6 or 7 inch (not sure what I wound up with) zippers to the sleeve seam at the wrist. Allows it to go over my hands then tighten up around the wrist. Zippers are covered by the glove cuff, so not a problem there. Also, not sure if we ever discussed this part, but I wound up using some leather thread and just tied the cap plate to the shoulders. Two small holes and run the thread through and tie inside the hollow of the shoulder. Removes all signs of a connection and can't feel the thread. I like the padding the shoulders idea. Thinking of padding mine as well as some padding in the upper chest to keep the armor forward a bit more (helps camouflage my gut ). I think you nailed it pretty good, man

I get my CA glue from the guys at Eternal Armory. But they are close by for me, so works out. Shipping might cost as much as the glue, though

Thanks all. Hope to get to troop with a bunch of you at some point. A sea of white is cool and all...but a sea of red would be cooler