Back assembly completed. Mounted the tires and riveted a couple more pieces.
The torso assembly so far looks great with chest and hood temp attached. The hood will attach by the Jeep clamps on top of fenders, and by the strap clips I added above shoulders. The male clip is riveted under hood and the strap length is adjustable for fitting.
I fitted a cover piece for over the vinyl strap clip.
Riveted on the underside panels to the chest fenders, few paint scratches from rivet gun, touch up later.
Continued on lower Leg fenders.
Pieced together the folded roll bars on each leg and painted black.
Both inner side panels are done and ready to rivet onto PVC boot frame. Going to do attach them last after paint and final clear coat on fenders.
Fitted the cover panel, cut out of storage bin plastic, and ready to rivet after paint job.
Started the headlights for the grill. Found reflective paper sheet at craft store to line the inside of cone. Made a paper cut-out template first for reflective paper.
LED bulb fits good.
I have all the necessary parts ready for headlights, wires, LED's switch, resistors, shrink tube, etc.
Sanded, primer and painted while weather was clear today.
Sanded hood and fenders with 400 sandpaper before green coat.
The newspaper is covering an area of black I spray painted a few weeks ago that will be covered by grill.
Let first coat of green dry for an hour then did a second coat.
I will do the final clear coat later this week.
Time to order my decals soon.
The front bumper and grill I sprayed with dark grey and then a final clear coat.
Also riveted the back assembly onto the motocross harness.
Finalized the PVC frame for left boot, and then started measuring and cutting vinyl panels to rivet onto frame.
Also did a test walk around wearing both boots assembled with frame and wheels.
This side panel on boot frame I had to use two pieces side by side and rivet together.
This will get riveted directly to PVC frame after painted.
The back panels turned out great with final clear coat.
I went with the dark grey color for the boot panels.
Started the left boot PVC frame this past weekend.
Amazingly it went pretty fast for one day, also spray painted the fender shroud in a primer coat.
The left boot repair I did earlier this year did not hold up, had to redo the rivets with support washers.
All day Saturday I worked on trying to finalize the PVC frame support around boots.
Many alterations and testing walks wearing boot, also to mention getting it on and off procedure.
I had to make the wheel fixed in place for mounting purposes.
More than half of the entire shroud weight around the boot is heavy to one side, so I had to affix the PVC frame directly to boot in order to balance it.
So far the entire assembly has a few pieces that completely remove to get my foot in and out of boot.
The lower bracket holds most of the weight of frame balance, and also an upper screws directly through boot into the PVC.
First the tire mount bracket connects...
Then a PVC frame connects to tire bracket in addition to a lower PVC coupling.
Last piece is a connector pipe that slides through PVC couplings to secure frame.
Because of off-balance weight during alterations, I made a simple wood block stand that helped a lot.
The cardboard cutouts are for measuring the outer covers, not sure yet if I am going to use vinyl sheet board or just thin storage bin plastic.
