Looking awesome Clint! That kama is something! I am shocked how good the styrene bent at the bottom, it looks great! How easy was it to apply and what glue did you use? This is shaping up soooooo nicely!
Well, it was a semi tedious task but like you, I was surprised by how easy that styrene was to manipulate. I would cut one end of the strip to the right angle if necessary "like in the front at the top where it met the stock belt at an angle" then with a bit of super glue, I would glue that starting point in place keeping the closer remaining length at a close angle where it would need to be fixed when I got to that point. I would work in about 1/4 inch increments tacking a small area, curing it with accelerator, and moving the next length into place and tacking again. It was kind of like spot welding a piece of weldment. I would have a small puddle of superglue and a small puddle of accelerator on the work bench and had a scrap of resin flash for each medium handy. As I held the section of length in place with my fingers, I would apply a fraction of a drop of glue to bond both the styrene and the edge of the kama and then I would dab a bit of the accelerator to the same area. When one tack was cured, i could bend the next loose length of styrene to conform to the kama edge shape and then tack again. Once I got to the end of each run, I would trim and test fit the dead ends of styrene and then glue and accelerate into place. I had always done this in the past with strips of typing paper but felt that the styrene would offer a more uniform width and poke out a bit more for a bit more of a presence.
mate he is looking awesome! can i make one observation (please dont kill me !) is that i think the kama is a touch too long,usually its no lower than the knees (unless that's what your going for mate ,then its all good 
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Thanks Jay, you are right that this one is too long to be a standard arc kama. I had meant to mention when I was trimming this to length that I meant to leave it longer and like Jedimerc said, I was probably intending to make it look like the bottom of just the infantry long coat that some of the ww2 German soldiers wore. I did do alot of armor modeling in the past and it was their uniforms that I most admired. Kind of a cross in between that and the long tails of a trench coat or duster. I thought that the longer length might look better with the long sandtrooper rifle that I intend to equip him with. I do plan on doing a more traditional cw arc figure in the future and will leave that figure's kama short like it should be. I will probably use a Rex fig as the base and leave his stock kama just to repaint.
Great kama work, Clint! Definitely a nice looking figure you have going on here!
Hey Pat, I haven't seen you in this thread for a while. did you catch the RC figure that I finished a few pages back?
WOW!!!
The Kama looks Great!!!
The color, the trim is AMAZING!!!
I can't wait to see what is next for this camo guy!!!
Great work!!!
Rich
TY rich, I am getting closer to wrapping this one up, buddy.
Thank you all for the wonderful comments. I have finished applying the trim to the kama and will shoot some update pics after I paint up the trim. After that, I will paint and install his holsters and pistols.
