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It's a saturday, the double glazing fitters have let me down....... what else is a guy to do...... I know blaster build!! (Scope rail and counter hanger fabricated) Almost time to get busy with the spray painting

That's the thought process I was working with. I was considering screwing the bracket to its own piece of ABS then gluing that in to support the bracket. I'll sleep on it and see what it's like in the morning light.

Finally got my notification that my BBB HAS SHIPPED!!!! My build thread will officially begin by Wednesday!!!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Getting close to strapping time!

Awesome! I will definitely check that out. Thanks! :-D Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Congratulations trooper, you could start a troop log in the Field Exercises section, if you also post separate troop reports they may be added to the monthly newsletter.

Hello everybody! Thanks for all of your input on my Pre-Approval thread! It has been an exciting time indeed as things wrap up and I transition towards membership. :-D Yesterday I had my first opportunity to troop as a TK. It was a BLAST. The event was called Radiothon, and it was held at the Children's Hospital in London, Ontario (and I'm told it raised $172,352 CAD for the Children's' Health Foundation! It was wild). Several costuming groups were invited, and throughout the day characters ranged from Disney princesses/princes to Star Wars to Superheroes. Members of the Canadian Garrison attended, and though I'm not yet approved, I got to stand with them for the afternoon (except for a few 501st promo shots, which is totally understandable). The officer and the pilot in the image above have been friends of mine for some time and they have been helping me greatly on my pathway into the 501st. :-D This shot is a combination of 501st, Rebel Legion, Heroically Ever After (our local hobby group) and of course, R2. I have done plenty of costume outings before, but none quite like this one. It was the first time I have been in a movie-accurate costume, for one. Also, standing as a TK next to a 501st Vader, with his breath and voicebox booming, was chilling. And no costume malfunctions! That was a relief, given it was the longest stretch of time I have worn the suit so far. Here are my takeaway notes from the first troop: - Helmet fans are AWESOME. I highly recommend them. I'm using Henry's Helmet Fans. I have now experienced trooping with and without them, because ... - My fan battery lasts just over 2 hours. The troop yesterday was 3 hours. As soon as they flicked off, my lenses almost instantly fogged up and I could feel the heat rising inside my bucket. I'm using a Duracell 2600 Mah portable phone charger, and I have a couple of extras, but I think I'll look into a bigger power supply rather than count on swapping them out mid-troop. - Although I can walk fine, my left leg made a clicking sound when I stepped unless I was careful. I'm reconsidering trimming cutouts behind my knees to prevent this and increase mobility. I don't know when my next troop will be, but I expect it won't be until after Legion elections are done and (hopefully) I have been assigned a TKID. Joseph sent me some stickers for my bin (Thanks again!!), and I'm waiting to put them on until I'm an official member. I'll post back here as I continue tinkering. Talk to you soon, troopers! :-D

The CRLs are meant to be the canonical trooper, and not to represent flubs and one-offs. If people want to troop with this as an alternative that IMHO pretty cool, but just like Mr. No Stripes or the one or two TKs that if you freeze frame you can see have no holster, these are just things that weren't meant to be standard. ANH is riddled with such types of variations as when you looked at it in the movies in '77 nobody noticed, so nobody cared about that level of consistency.

Scoured the movie last night, almost frame by frame looking for this trooper/holster with a straight on view, low and behold... That said I could only find one trooper with that holster, though I'm all for adding it to the CRL if unanimously decided by the members and staff.

Looks like that confirms what I had thought, the RS style holster should be acceptable for Hero TK approval, with the middle belt attachment.

The belt on the hero in this photo is the one owned by RS.

Yeah Rob - Let's look at it tomorrow, thanks. I don't know how I didn't do that because I remember you telling me, and seeing it in your thread. SIGH.... Too much info sometimes! Can you please bring yours over so we can measure off of it? Strapping system for the torso is almost done! Just need to connect the chest to the cod.

I'm gonna go dig through the hi res movie.

You can see now why a lot of people use the “offset method” for making their sniper knee line up on both sides (one of the few things I documented reasonably well in my build thread, I might add ಠ_ಠ )

So here is my CENTURION level Husky Bin ... READY FOR TROOPING !!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Chocolate chip, those aren't raisins