Yeah... the abdominal/rib/lumbar sections were a bit of a piecemeal operation to assemble... basically you have to envision how the whole body is shaped... which is where my years of human anatomy knowledge came in handy.
For those NOT familiar with lordosis curvatures and the like, my suggestion would be to finish the codpiece FIRST, so you have at least one piece with which you can be sure to know where it goes.
The other three pieces (on the back, four abdominal pieces) fit one atop the other... the low-back area pieces are a gentle curve towards the body, the abdominals lie more-or-less flat.
The ribs... that's a different setup. They mainly articulate with the back plates and have a pattern that vaguely resembles:
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... with the parentheses being the line of the rib plates and the period being where your belly button would be. It's a bit of a jigsaw puzzle, figuring out which pieces fit into which back plates... but once you get one side, you can simply match the OTHER side's pieces... if it helps, you can see a gentle curve from my back 'over' my hips and pointing slightly downward at the front. This will match the line of the codpiece.
As for the abdominal plates, they're pretty easy to piece together... there's really only one way for them to go.
Holding them together you don't really have to worry about much... resin each of them in turn, layer a dose of fiberglass on the inside, then coat in- and outside with resin again. What I have done in the pics is articulated each piece together with duct tape to get the initial feel of how the complete setup will feel both with all the pieces assembled in their units... and the entire back-ribs-abs configuration. Don't worry about permanently connecting them all JUST yet... you still have quite a few pieces left to do...
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