Forced Restart!

Well no... not a complete restart... but parts of the armor seem to have not wanted to cooperate with me... and combine that with both a series of upcoming exams and little nit-picky things that just didn't want to go right, and you have a recipe for a really irritated (and irritable) and really scatter-brained me.
So scattered that I am WAY behind on my Friday 'thank you back-scratching' posts and behind in the pics as well.

Quick update:
I redid both boots... completely... from paper... and have resined them and applied the first layer of Bondo. I will sand that away by the weekend (at the latest... probably Thursday morning) and have

Just a teaser... boots all glued together!

the second layer applied by the end of the weekend... I will also slice the treads out of wood and insert them 'post-haste' (hur hur seewhatIdidthere?) and solidify them in with silicone caulking... seal the boot tread with the flap of resined paper and then use small wood screws to stick it down and to the Bondo'd sides of the boot. Oh yeah... my thoughts of metal plates on the tread were kaiboshed by my brother who reminded me that convention centers would frown upon my scratching the hell out of their floors with my metal boots.

So I found myself some rubber matting and will cut that to fit the tread, woodscrew it down to the wood treads. AT this point, it's about 'appearance' versus 'functionality'. Looking 'good enough' will have to suffice for now if I'm going to get this thing done in time.

The ribs/lumbar/cod piece has been resined together in one large piece... and I'm at a bit of an impasse with regards to whether I want to slice down the abs and fit them into the unit and have it a sealed piece, only opening from the sides... or have the abs as a separate piece?
They attach to the cod at the bottom... that's a 'fer sure'... and they aren't going to be moving much... so I might as well attach them permanently, methinks...
I think I'll print the bottom-most link of the ab section and slice it down and plunk it into the space where it will sit... to see if it looks good. If I can shape the ab pieces to appear so as their 'wings' are tucked in behind the ribs, it would look better, though... so I'm going to do that if I can... and give up on it in short order and resin the sliced abs into the full unit if I can't.
One layer of Bondo for the whole, then I'll slice it up similar to the articulation shapes between the lumbar and the ribs - down both sides.

Which reminds me, I should be keeping an eye out for small rubber lines or round lengths of wire... I will use these to contact cement them into the areas where I want 'lines' to be on the solid armor parts... I'll show more on this as I get to it... worry not... this one won't take any extra time. In fact, it should save be a fair bit of sanding time as I won't have to mess around with the tight spots between lines... in theory... /sigh