This really wont become a trend of me leaving the thread for months and months at a time.
To make a short story long..I moved..again..

into a house this time with room for activities like painting armor!
My clan has also been providing me with much encouragement to complete my kit, so that is my goal for this year!!
With that in mind I was able to borrow a friends drill and get some very very much needed progress completed.
Magnets will hold my rangefinders cover in place allowing me to remove it for storage, I plan to make another rangefinder out of a shorter wifi router antennae for conventions so that it will not break as easy if anyone decides to grab it.

I also drilled a hole for the rangefinder bolt support system, bolt came from a pc monitor that was used to adjust the tilt angle of the monitor.

Here you can somewhat see the magnets that were glued in with E6000, I went back later and covered them with bondo to prevent them from coming out of place.

Plan is for paint to be applied this weekend if the weather allows it

I have added 3mm sintra to the side of the rangefinder in order to give it more support.
Is something like that allowed or will I need to try and get an aluminum one later?
Let me know what you think!