Are you going for TFA or TLJ/TROS? It'll be much faster/simpler to build as the latter, as that's what it was mastered as, with the overlapping inner arm and leg seams. I've added a whole 'nother layer of pain by needing to retro-engineer it to TFA spec.
Both. The film suits have a lot of reveal, to use the woodworking term. Lots of nice sharp edges with visible depth. Most of the suit seems to be about an eighth of an inch thick, double that at the seams. The kit's plastic is quite thin, to the tune of about a millimeter, average. And too many of the edges are soft as hell and need to be sharpened up a lot.
I have some .060" ABS on hand, but for many of the formed pieces cut-and-prepped bits from the same piece, glued inside, would be a lot easier. And to build up the edges, I'm probably going to use the acetone-and-ABS-paste approach, so it fuses and remains flexible. Which will all also help prevent cracking or flaking during trooping. I definitely don't want to half-ass it.
