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Battery should arrive on Monday, I'll update to how it goes.

100%. But if it's not in full armor, doesn't count.

Captain Pedantic says TK-8020 had a black pauldron ;-)

Trying this again. Hope this is the correct link. https://www.501st.com/members/searchresults.php?searchfield=36910&criteria=tkid TK 36910 requesting access.

Looks like a rematch is due!

Nariy . I wish I was there to help you. It's an easy fix.

Bumping this thread as this came up on social media

no problem, no rush, didn't know if the first one went thru and sorry, I only now saw the reaction on the first request for acknowledgement 😬

Thanks Tom! I'm not biased at all but you'd love Scotland, hope you make the journey some day. Cheers Paul

Hello an Bonjour et bienvenue à bord

Nice work

Please stand by, A.J. is not on the forum everday and well be along in due course

WOW what a find, SCORE

Good luck, hope you have a great experience, hospital troops can be very rewarding but also can be quite confronting "Squire" I guess that's the name which is used locally for a wrangler/handler

TK-18238 requesting access. Thanks https://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=18010

A nice surprise albeit you'd think they would try to notify you will such a big delivery. They are useless here, I had a printer delivered on good Friday when everything was closed, no notification and only saw the box the next morning on my way out to walk the dogs, luckily it hadn't been taken. I don't use the hard hats, I have a thin 10mm piece of foam on the top of the helmet and small blocks of foam on the sides, stops the helmet from wobbling. I found the same issue, color was a little different between the plastic (base helmet) and the premier line (fibreglass) luckily the plastic matched a base white from the auto shop, premier line I have on show. Looking forward to seeing the build progress

TK-84114 Requesting FISD trooper access please https://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=34168

Hey all, today is the big day! After work, I went outside and was surprised with a BBB, MBB, and SBB! Here they are! They were the kit, the helmet, and the neck seal respectively. Im still amazed how quickly they got here, and so far, the quality is seemingly amazing! Here is a comparison of the Anovos TFA Premium helmet, and the Denuo Novo TLJ Standard helmet. The colors seem to be ever so slightly different, Anovos being a cooler white, DN warmer, but I don't see either of them being an issue with the armor. Here's a look: Happy I ordered the neck seal, it looks great, and feels great too! here it is with the included gaskets: Chest, yolk, and back: Shoulders: Biceps: Forearms: Abdomen: Cod and Butt: Thighs: Shins: Spats and Knees: Belt: Resin Greeblies: Decals: Fastening: That pretty much sums everything up. Im super super excited to get started. Just some observations going forward: - Bummed that the tall belt pouch cover doesn't fit the pouch, so I'll have to buy a set from Trooper Bay. - My big head doesn't fit in the hard hat rig they have set up in the helmet, so ill need to get that taken out - Ill either need to paint or find rubber for the neck ring on the helmet - Still need boots, gloves, and shiny shorts I'll keep you all updated, for any following along. Im gonna start trimming some stuff up tonight when I get home from my show!

Hi Paul, Love the ANDOR location picture, I must visit Scotland. It’s definitely on my list. kind regards Tom Felton. UKG.

Welcome to the Empire finest FISD..

Tomorrow I'll be a squire at the Lehigh Valley Childrens Hospital. Im pretty excited about it! This will be my very 1st event. Looking foward to meating the team!

My new printer arrives tomorrow so I'll finally be wanting to print out the last few parts for this. I should do an update on where I am. Anything I can print in resin is now done. Had a bit of trouble with warping of thinner parts but got there in the end. I ended up printing that part on my Prusa in PETG and then using Resin as a filler to get a nice surface, and a flat one! I also went back to CAD and added locating pins, well holes for a bit of filament, to align the cylinders, the Hengstler greeble and the magazine mount block. There are matching holes on the Hengstler and Magazine body. This helps ensure that everything all lines up and there is no mistakes with the glue. This is more or less where I am with the parts, though I need to reprint the hub with the new location holes in it. Once my be printer is setup and calibrated I'll run off what's left and get to my favourite part....painting 🤮 Electronics wise, mistakes where made. But so was progress. Looks great doesn't it. Nope I had the amplifier board rotated 180° so it stuck out the side! It does however fit inside the blaster which is nice: Wiring it up will be a nightmare but it will fit, even if I have to solder the wiring directly but I am hoping to avoid that. As I needed to order new boards I decided to check a few things. Like the red LEDs seemed REALLY bright, that's because I was running them at about 150%. Some maths later and a test board I went with ~25%. To the eye it's hard to tell vs 100%, and has the benefit of using a lot less battery. New boards have been ordered, and being made by robots at vast expense. I did it all by hand last time and it was a faff as the parts are tiny. And a demo of the FX: 1st trigger to fire, 2nd trigger is basically a mode switch. By default it loads up "safe" as we're not meant to use FX when trooping. Pull the 2nd trigger to toggle and the weapon is live. You can fire or hold the mode switch to enter the obligatory Disco mode. I am tempted to add a way to change disco tunes, but thats just being daft at this point. Barrel heat up is also something I have considered adding. The last "trigger" is actually going to be the front handle, and atm all it does is enable or disable the front torch. Everything is driven by the software, the switches are read in and than I act on those, so I can change things later. The other thing to note is power. There are 2 switches, one is for safety the other is convenience. The first you see me switch completely disconnects the battery from everything so if something s going wrong I can pull of the end cap which is held on with magnets and flip it and it's all dead. When the main power is on it connects the battery to a USB charging and limiting board, that goes to a 3.3v to 5v step up board and then finally on to the main circuit. Here a 2nd switch is in place, mounted in the magazine. This just cuts the power to the main board and lights. This just means I can flip it whilst trooping when on breaks to save some power.

78) 02/05/2024 - Disney HongKong Staff Event (Day 1) @ apm (KT KLN)

That is an amazing find! Congrats. I'm not familiar with the different makers marks or tells, but maybe one of the Deployment Officers will know.

Bonjour, Je me présente, Frédéric, j'ai 51 ans, habite en France. Je me suis inscrit en octobre 2023, mais pas présenté (erreur de ma part). J'ai découvert l'univers Star Wars depuis plus de 20 ans et dernièrement j’ai été validé à la 501st French Garrison en tant qu’Officier de la sécurité impériale. J’ai transmis ma passion à mon fils à l’âge de ses 4 ans, aujourd’hui âgé de 16 ans, qui fait parti de la Galactic Academy et porte fièrement son armure de Commandant de Stormtrooper, grâce aux informations de construction dans votre Forum. Je suis et sommes fier parti de cette famille.