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Yeah. Especially if it had accidentally gotten armed and exploded. ABS shrapnel everywhere! =:o

I see it happen a lot that access to the site bogs down or ends up in a Server Error 500. One time I got specific php error messages with file names and line numbers, which is odd if the server was set up not to do that. I have real-world experience with setting up and maintaining LAMP servers. I don't mean to butt in; I'm sure you have your experts madly trying to solve the problem. That said, can I help?

Here is some more eye candy

Submitted my pics today. Let’s see how it goes. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

You can get basic approval with those gaps Michael. For EIB the gap would need to be 1/2" or less. Add shims to kidney and fill in with abs paste. Same with your thighs. Then no need for paint. Arms are looking good btw. Keep up the great work!

Love the time lapse videos and very interested in how your thighs turn out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hi Michael, I believe the side gap is perfectly acceptable for basic clearance, possibly even EIB; however, if your aiming for Centurion, you would have to add shims. Check out some of the other builds on here where shims have been added. As you’ve already added the fittings to the ab and kidney plates, it might be a little more involved at this point. By the way, it looks like you’re doing a cracking job on your build! Looking good. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can’t find it, worst Where’s Waldo ever.

Another avenue is your local Garrison(s), quite a few Centurions up there, I’m sure you could get some great hands-on advice if needed.

A few days pass since last posting and more build progress. I didn’t get any responses on my questions here so sought out help on RWA Creations’ Facebook group — people seemed to be eager to help and responded much more quickly. One issue I had was the sizing of the thigh pieces with a 30-40mm gap in the back tops. Some folks shared with me how they essentially built up a back support and bondo’d the front. I may take a hybrid approach: support inner strip and fill in the outer gap with as much ABS as I can and then fill in the gaps. After it’s sanded and painted, put on a 25mm cover strip on back. Currently: I also have the arms done and strapped up — for the most part they’re feeling good: Also have much of the strapping done save for the sides: But I am in the same struggle now with the torso sides with a sizable gap (I’m not exactly a thin dude): Thoughts? Suggestions? Progress photos and time lapse videos: Day six: https://photos.app.goo.gl/Ft38VzYMVOoUSAlZ2 Day seven: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FMyH5AVTGVepN73U2 Day eight: https://photos.app.goo.gl/zWQIhliYcI3g66mq1 Day nine: https://photos.app.goo.gl/FRCNWXJuxMUMS1UJ3 Day ten: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mZfB0DtaahlA2Wrh1 Day eleven: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bck4zwyAPVBS1J8b2 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

As a #2 in this SW trilogy, I walked out of the theatre (2x) a bit more satisfied compared to my experience in TFA. I rewatched TFA a few days ago, and I have an improved appreciation for it. My 11-year old daughter loves the new SW, so why fight it?

My new spats are FINALLY on their way. I should hopefully be done with those and ready for the next phase next month (next year sounds long lol). Let me know when you want to team up again.

Amen brother, my wife is about to kill me!

Shins are complete

Use a third party host to link images to your posts, I also use Imgur without any issues so far.

Update: approved for Centurion! https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/43656-tk-19233-requesting-anh-stunt-centurion-status-wtf-367/

I made a cardboard mok up to give be an idea of size, pull measurements frome the figure. That was before the kit had even come in. Here you can see the size difference.

I'm going to start discussing the differences I found in Jimmy's kit versus the photos from the celebration display and the screenshots that I have been obsessing over for the past few months I can assume that his butt piece is larger because Jimmys kits need to fit a large range of people. I've been pulling measurements from the 1/6 scale hot toys fig as well, as we are pretty much the same body size. The fig is just a little bit taller than I am. I've got several several side by side companies that I'll be posting as well. Understandably there are different camera perspectives and different body types.

I would recommend Imgur

Your best resource for the Anovos build is Ukswrath's build. It is step by step and everything is correct for Basic to Centurion.

Hi all, Finally got some natural light photos. As a rubber blaster for £85, I really can’t complain. :-) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It's one of those annoying Heisenbergian things from the EU -- not canon until it is, but everything in the EU prior to ROTJ is still tacitly "in" unless and until it's overwritten. Just don't put too much stock in anything. Back in the early '90s, Decipher had to come up with a bunch of stuff for the card game. That's where we get a whole lot of the names and ranks of various Rebels and Imperials and denizens. Everything had to be approved by Lucasfilm (for what that's worth, then and now), and most got propagated down through the later EU. Wizards of the Coast continued this when they got the RPG/CCG license in 2000. Between those we got (chronologically within the films) the following (non-TK) troopers: ANH DV-523 -- one of the first through the Tantive IV's breached airlock. DV-692 -- "Mr. No Stripes", aka "Inform Lord Vader we have a prisoner." ...And the following pilots/craft: ANH DS-73-3 -- The patrol ship the Falcon ran into. DS-3-12 -- The TIE chasing Luke that Wedge took out. DS-29-4 DS-55-2 DS-55-6 DS-61-2 -- Black 2. "Mauler Mithel". Vader's left wingman in the trench run. DS-61-3 -- Black 3. "Backstabber". Vader's right wingman. DS-61-4 -- Black 4. "Dark Curse". DS-61-9 DS-73-5 TESB [Stationed on the Executor] EX-1-2 (Bomber) EX-1-8 (Bomber) EX-4-9 [Rotational squadron stationed on the Thunderflare during Empire] OS-72-1 -- Obsidian 1. OS-72-2 -- Obsidian 2. OS-72-8 OS-72-10 -- Obsidian 10. ROTJ DS-181-3 -- Saber 3. Baron Fel's wingman. (Interceptor) DS-181-4 -- Major Phennir's wingman. (Interceptor) Brace for a mini-essay... I try to base as much of my informed conjecture on first sources as possible. The original, non-SE film is the baseline from which everything else is either derived, or deviated from. I've reached some conclusions that clash with more recent official assumptions, but better fit the observed phenomena. Like... The difference in rank insignia between ANH and TESB. Motti is listed in the credits as General Motti. Not sure when and where "Admiral" first got hung on him (I can run that down easily enough, but not right now), but General fits better, for many reasons. The Prequels establish the clonetroopers have commissioned officers, but no higher than the apparently-granular "Commander". Their Generals are non-clone officers. This supports what we first saw in TESB with Veers. The Imperial military is a combined service (though in ANH we only see the inside of an Imperial Army installation), with identical uniforms between the ship and ground forces, and the observed evidence of the rank insignia gives us a nice distinguishing feature to separate the two. Motti is the facility commandant (answering to Tarkin). Bast is seen directing Stormtroopers and gunnery crews, so is likely some flavor of General, like Veers. He sits with Tagge at the briefing, the two of them as far across the table from Motti as they can. All three are probably Generals, but Motti sneers at Tagge's concerns, referring to "your Starfleet". So Tagge was probably the General commanding the Stormtroopers embarked aboard the Devastator and, like Veers, Navy-style rank insignia while aboard ship, for ease of identification by Naval officers. Army rank insignia are a single row of some permutation of one through six blue, red, and/or amber chips. There's potentially a lot of information being conveyed by color, number, and placement. The Navy ranks, on the other hand, are geared for ease and speed of comprehension in the often-entirely-too-chaotic atmosphere of ship combat. Two rows, red over blue, and one can tell at a glance if one is encountering someone recently graduated (one pair), in the Lieutenant grades (two pairs), command grades (three pairs), or low, medium, or high level flag ranks (four, five, and six pairs, respectively). When you have a second to think, you can determine more finely who is senior to whom within that block. I theorize that four pairs is specifically for embarked Stormtrooper Generals, the Stormtrooper Corps being roughly analogous to the real-world Marines, being tacitly part of the naval forces. They serve the same role -- embarked troops and military base security (in both battle armor and garrison uniform -- a whole other can of worms I won't get into now). So, based on the unit sizes in the Grand Army shown on the mustering yard at the end of AOTC, and presuming unit sizes remain at least roughly the same over the next couple decades... 13-man squads, 2 squads per platoon (26). This is each file shown above. 6 platoons per company (156), 4 companies per battalion (624). This is each discrete block of troops, 24 files across. 5 battalions per legion (3,120), 3 legions per division (9,360). This is the larger array bordered by the access lanes. 3 divisions per corps (28,080), because that's a unit size given in the ancillary materials. Bigger than that, though, the Prequel stuff didn't give us. All that number crunching to surmise limits. Do we presume three-digit numbers where only three digits are given? We have four-digit TK Stormtroopers elsewhere in the newer material. Did TK-421 just omit the initial zero? That would give us up to ten thousand potential within a given prefix. Conveniently, a division -- at these numbers -- is enough shy of that mark to make things non-problematic. On the other hand, five digits gives us potentially up to a hundred thousand under a single prefix, so it could be a corps designator. Or it could be a flexible thing, applied to whatever discrete unit is posted to a particular ship or facility. Tarkin could just have a legion. Or each prefix could be presumed to have as big a block of numbers available as needed, that are unique to each trooper assigned to that posting over the years, the numbers getting higher as older troopers die or retire. Maybe there's another number hyphenated between the prefix and the individual identifier, like with the pilots, that gets left out for most day-to-day address. That would be the legion number (up to 9 legions in a corps, and legions just sound like a convenient "biggest standard unit"). In the case of the pilots, the prefix is the group identifier, the number in the middle is the wing number, the last number is the individual identifier. The EU gave us a structure where they follow the British/Commonwealth model of 3 squadrons per wing. The squadrons just have names, where applicable, for the pilots' callsigns. Where no squadron is designated, they go by the group name (see Obsidian, above). Me, I'm doing a Bridge Crew uniform just to get the IC tag, because the persona I've created for my non-face-character Stormtrooper costuming is posted to Imperial Center. Even in armor or Stormtrooper garrison uniform or Royal Guard robes, I'll refer to myself as "IC-whatever-whatever". This is a case where there is conveniently a club costume identifier tag that works for what I want. YMMV. --Jonah

IMHO the TLJ cod is a bit disturbing. Too narrow at the bottom for my liking lol Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

Looking good Mandy! One recommendation I would have is to double up the number of snaps on the shoulder straps. They see a lot of FORCE and could become un-snapped during a troop.