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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Inquisitor Peregrinus" data-source="post: 4142746" data-attributes="member: 1707">The faceplate was "double shot". That is, rubber was put in those places in the die and before it set up the plastic was injected behind it. This fuses it together annoyingly durably. I'm leaving the brow trim and chin grille rubber. Gonna repaint them, once the work I'm doing on them is done, with automotive rubber bumper spray paint. Patient effort gets the neck trim off. An X-acto knife to get it separated from the plastic, and once you can get a grip on the rubber, just keep pulling it way from the faceplate and working your way along. Once you're within an inch of the chin grille, you'll have enough separated that you can pull it away from the edge and around to pull it away from the inside of the faceplace. The bit around the chin grille is more annoying, as it's part of the rubber on the grille. I very carefully cut it at the dividing line between grille and neck trim and much yanking and cussing eventually got it off. I have yet to clean up that area and get the undercut properly extended, but it's well along.No pictures tonight. I solved the tube slit spacing. I treated the first few as properly placed -- even if the edges were too soft. I noticed standard units worked better than metric, and once I made that mental switch, everything clicked. 5/16" from center to center. If the slits are an eighth of an inch wide, that's 3/16 between them, which works beautifully. I just have to fix the spacing and angle of the last few on each side.I've got the faceplate sides extended an eighth of an inch rearward, and am fine-tuning the earcap edges for proper fit.And, related to the first paragraph... Notice how the lower edge of the side tubes curves downward in the last half-inch or so? It shouldn't. I've ground them to the right shape as part of preparing the lower edge of the faceplate to extend to my preferred extent.I'll take pictures Friday or Saturday. All my free time the last 48 hours has gone into drafting a pattern to my head measurements, cutting, and sewing an ANH Imperial Stormtrooper Officer cap to wear to the Rogue One premiere tomorrow.--Jonah</blockquote>

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