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Had some more vacation, and unfortunately some more hand pain. But progress was still made! Punch list update: For the thermal detonator, I still need to bend the clips on the back side. But having followed ukswrath’s guide, I’m finding that the part that goes under the belt is 4” long, which seems too long. Even after the bend, they seem too long. Not sure whether I should clip them so they don’t stick out from under (as stated in the CRL). Trimmed and looks good! But I've seen some posts where the line of buttons should face towards the back instead of the top - true? Fit the shoulder bridges. I’m still having trouble with this. I don’t have the right curve yet, and with the armor on, I will need to have a second person help me with fitting and reshaping. I didn’t find a suitable box to fit the chest and back plates over, so with the armor on, I went back and forth between the mirror and the stove on this one. It’s much closer now, but still might need some adjustments. Looks like some twisting is required, too. How flat should they sit on the back side of the armor? Attach elastic to the shoulder straps to hold down the backs of the shoulder bridges. I remade the shoulder straps, and decided to secure the ¼” elastic inside the creases of the 2” white strapping. This worked out pretty well. Overall, the straps are much shorter than before, and seem to fit OK. Then I added the double snaps for the limb attachments, biased towards the front. Figure out how to hold up the thighs. I’ve seen several posts on this. I’ve also seen something about ‘X’-style suspenders, but I’m not sure if those are meant to hold up the thighs, the torso, or both. I ordered a leather belt and fashioned the loops as described in other posts. We’ll see how this holds up. Put in the snaps on the cod and butt plate. Done (as posted previously) Put in the “Han” snap on the upper right of the ab plate. I've seen that this should be a male snap. Does it really face inward? I've seen conflicting measurements, too. Some say 20mm in from the left, 20mm down. Others say 10mm in from the left. Cover the left side ab-to-kidney rivets on the inside with silicone or something equally smoothing. Done! Make some ABS paste and clean up the back bottom of the right thigh. Having trouble finding such a small amount of acetone, since they sell them in quarts/liters at my hardware store. Going with Sugru. Paint tops of all rivets. Turns out that the paint I ordered, even though labeled Testors 1145TT gloss white, was in fact silver! Needing to re-order. Testors seems harder and harder to find since Rust-oleum seems to have purchased the company.

TK 87665 , I have reach my 25 milestone troop .requesting profile to be update.

@Coil Appreciates your loyalty to the Captain!

That's one shiny Pasma! You can see the reflections of the clouds!

Thanks. It cant be much heavier than my resin clone helmet. I have reached out to jimmi and rustoluem x2 is readily available so looks to be the one to go for,

21. Brickfest Cleveland 2024 6/16/24

Troop 19: Collectimania Meet and Greet. 15Jun24. These photos from Eric Sali one of our members in the Rebel Legion. Third time for this little event. We did it as a meet and greet as we try again to recruit members in the capital city of the province. There are currently no members and we could really use the help on the ground there! The venue this time was in a mall and we are 99% sure there was no A/C going. It was a tad warm even without the armor on. I think the first time ever the sweat was running down the inside of my shoulder bells! Come for the collecting, stay for the mania! I thought the droid would be bigger.... My partner in good (and bad) deeds. @GilesWoodward Always on the look out for some suitable off-duty clothing. A jersey. Maybe a hint for @jsilvius and @revlimiter perhaps... No wild stories for the most part in this one. I did have a lady grab my arm and yank me closer for a photo. Almost pulled me off my feet since I wasn't expecting it! Also got one or two leg hugs from some kids. Just as we were packing up we spent a good amount of time in conversation with a guy who seemed quite enthralled with the idea of the 501st so we are hoping that on a follow up contact with him maybe he will be that new member we've been looking for. We are going to try and recruit handlers too so we can lead them into joining up later on. We'll get then one way or another! Two weeks to the next troop. It will be a new one for some of us and the furthest yet I will travel at about 4.5 hours away. There may be a parade involved for added fun! Bart

You need to post your request and link into this thread: Instructions: "Once you've hit a milestone count, go over to the "Field Exercise Awards -- Post your milestones here" thread, post a link to your troop log and request your profile be updated! Simple, right?"

Troop #57 Riverside museum Glasgow Fun troop meeting and greeting the public.

56. 2024-06-16, Daddyhood's Dad-a-thlon, Stockholm (Hero) If any photos would be used from this post, the photographer is "Anna Klevebäck" I arrived with my recently found Beret flash patch sewn on! I also have a story on my jacket that there once was a trooper who went pew pew pew on the droid we were looking for, and that's a good reason to get R2 (my favorite droid) on my jacket! Got some help with velcro inside my shin that was attached a bit too rotated in the wrong direction! Then it was time to go out into the heat! This little girl came back to show us her medal! Very proud! Standing in the shadow to take off the edge of the heat!

Both. I didn't realize it was leather. I thought the kama/tunic was fabric. 🤣

I confirm, i wrote the text based of course on the reference pictures, but I checked that all costume parts pictures I took are matching exactly the text I submitted. I could easily provide additional pictures if needed for clarity.

Troop 44 Cosplay World Richmond, my 66th Troop overall. Sent from my SM-N981U1 using Tapatalk

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[73] 6/15/24 Solano County Fair

Updated @ScottL @kurtramsey

56. 2024-06-16, Daddyhood's Dad-a-thlon, Stockholm (Hero) The 56th troop was an event for fathers that want more activities with their children. This event is a friendly race of a minimum 1km in a royal park in Stockholm! Awesome event with a lot of happy families! This picture was taken by a janitor just before we went out! More pictures to come!

Which part? The suede diamond panels or the leather panels?

https://www.501st.com/members/searchresults.php?searchfield=36921&criteria=tkid Requesting Access please. TK36921

Troop 23: Mark's 50th BDay (6/15/2024)

Thank you! My husband is great with electronics, so I'll have him add that and see what happens. I also took the diffuser plates off the lights so it would be more pinpoint. It's just still so bright you can see my dang eyes. 🤣

I am so bad at updating build threads, but I am now in the thick of trying to get this guy done, and I've finally found out how to post images, so here's the work on Enoch's helmet so far. I'm waiting on my new printer to get here and I can work on printing the chest/back sections. The rest of the armor is sitting in a box waiting on me to get ready to paint and crack and weather it.

What did you use for your fabric? I'm having trouble finding something in the right burgundy color.

Troop 55 Niagara Falls, Ontario June 7, 2024 Niagara Falls Comicon Day 1 This was a huge event for us as the con organizers wanted to create the largest Star Wars pop up event. we were joined by Roxy the Rancor, the Rebel Legion and the Mando Mercs. We brought our Tantive 4, Jabba’s throne room, Endor Bunker, Droid scrap yard and Blast a trooper sets. A great weekend over all with visits on the 3rd day from Femmi Taylor (ROTJ Jabba dancer) and Paul Blake (Greedo). Pre con blue milk break in the Tantive 4 Corridor We had a rebel spy sneak up on us during this victory shot Smart move rebel scum There’s one, set for stun Met Roxy out of costume. She was a but hangry. Took a few minutes to visit the rebel booth and dispatch some droids.