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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.

As for replacement batteries and just swapping it out that would be easy enough for me, I was always thinking that if I would do something it would be the mod so that you could charge it up again! (that's the one solution that seemed to hard for me)

The iComm battery literally takes a couple minutes ro replace. Let me know if I can help. Send me a message if you have any questions.

Hello! I recently found a deal on Facebook marketplace for a full TK kit for $50. It was a landlord selling left behind stuff from an old tenant and they had no idea what it was or where it came from, just wanted it gone. Can anyone help me identify it? I’m not well versed in the different TK makers. I know it’s not Anovos for sure since I already have one. I’ve seen suggestions this could be a WTF set but I’m not sure. Thanks in advanced! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Bonjour, Je vous sollicite pour avoir accès 501ème https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=42806&costumeID=533 Bien cordialement

49. 2023-05-02, Miltonloppet 2024 (The Milton Race), Uppsala (Hero) Milton was a kid at a school in Uppsala, Sweden who was a big Star Wars fan. We attended during May 4th 2023 but he couldn't attend due to him being in the hospital with cancer. He passed away a few months after that and the school has arranged this race in his honor. Every kid at the school yelled "FOR MILTON!" with their fists high up in the air. Miltons mother and sister was there too, along with Miltons best friend who had gotten free time from a different school to attend this race. Milton was only 8 when he lost his battle to cancer. We really got hit by the feels at this troop, and Luyinga (the teacher who arranged this race) just got her own TK delivered at her door a few hours after the race happened today! She'll be a future member of the Scary Looking Nerd Herders (fireteam)! For obvious reasons I cannot post images of all the children, but there were around 300! Andrew (the guy that made me decide to become a TK, Luyinga and me with my floppy drop box)

I've also had the ticking sound, but I think it was the battery for me too. I haven't been able to use mine since I'm no good with things like this so I just plug my mic directly into the other system that you have there in your helmet, and it still sounds good - just not with the voice changer at the end of every sentence!