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Well it was BBB day yesterday yippee. Unpacked and all accounted for[emoji4] List: Armour and helmet: 850armorworks Boots: imperial boots Gloves: Crowprops Undersuit and neck seal: stormtrooper shop uk Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yea it wasn't a clean snap so was still there. Going to put thin layer of black abs paste on crack also.

nothing all that exciting; lotta trimming and sanding, trimming and sanding... but I was able to get the helmet assembled, hoping to get some detail painting done with the traps, tubes, etc... ...coming along though, slowly but surely

Nice work, just to add to the above comments, just on your side you can see the butt plate is away from your kidney, you could try tighter strapping or I came up with a V tab idea that works quite well. With a heat gun you bend strips of ABS plastic into the shape of a V, only glue one side and the other remains free to allow movement when you bend. Just helps stop the butt plate from pushing back from the back plate. Great work and good luck with approval

Temp fix until it needs to completely be replaced.

Great Looking armor Gretchen! Easy for basic and a couple of adjustments for higher levels. Adding to what Tony said: Ab buttons panel could be flat with no return edges. Reference Image

Thanks for all those replies, I have made a new belt. Am getting some pics together to put in pre-approval to see how far off my suit is from being ready.

Ok so I pulled my thighs up as much as they can go and still needed a little more clearance so I trimmed bottom of calf so sniper knee could be clear of being pushed by thigh. It already started developing 2 cracks on each side. So I am going to make some trusty abs paste from anovos scrap and patch that up then wet sand it a little bit.

Most definitely thanks Sly, I’ll try and go to Cyclops one Saturday and catch up there if you like[emoji4] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Some really good points being made and good to see the progression. Yes agreed R1 should gain the Anthology tag and if the Solo version are identical no reason Solo can’t be added to the title of the same CRL When I mentioned a miss match of helmets that was from some screen grabs posted in one of the threads here showing very sharp cheek structure on the face plate so looks very much like an Anovos OT Bucket. It would be a whole lot easier if that is actually not correct and it is just the one helmet used across all the LFL production suits in Mando. If the shiny is the same as Solo and R1 no need for another CRL it's just part of the Anthology and we create a new CRL to support the weathered variant and perhaps it is named Remnant as has been mentioned already. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Yup, already have elastics, that morning I switched out my straps for the lengthier ones (left side), ultimately led to a back droop. I'm back to using the old ones (right)

Ouch, we see this with a lot of the thinner armor makes. Looks like you have it well in hand

Where I was going with Anthology Stormtrooper was that all shinny white trooper in both Rogue One and Solos as well as any shinny trooper in the Mandalorian and other new series should all fall under the Anthology Stormtrooper as long as the armor is all the same style/ design. For the mismatched armor types and the dirty troopers should fall under a new CRL called Remnant Stormtrooper. This CRL will be hard to nail down since there are several variations of mismatched armor. Also keep in mind that just because it appeared in a film or show, we should not always look to incorporate it. An example of this is the unmodified Black Series helmets on pikes in season one of the Mandalorian as well as the helmets scattered in Death Star 2 in the last film. Or another way to look at this would be to classify all newer Stormtroopers as Anthology similar to how was call the first three films Original trilogy and withing this Anthology classification we have specific CRLs for each film/ show if they are different. I am less concerned with clean vs dirty than I am with different armor design/ ensemble. Just my 2 cents

@Sly11, thanks for the comments. So, if I'm understanding this correctly, Rogue One TK would remain the same. However, due to the other variants coming forward in movies and shows, "Anthology Stormtrooper" would be created as a separate CRL. The only problem I foresee is when we encounter shiny white TKs in the Anthology movies and Disney+ shows, which other than the weathered guys, is the same costume as the ROTK. Additionally, Rogue One is an Anthology Movie. This is why I was in favor of a new name and agree with Jeff's comment below. Remnant Stormtroopers: I don't recall any instances of weathered R1 style helmets in the show. If they're out there, I couldn't find them. However, in the Mandalorian, we see two variants of TKs, which I suppose could all be called Remnants, but thus far, we haven't seen Disney/ Lucasfilm market them that way. They have intentionally referred to one as Imperial Stormtrooper and the other as Remnant. Again, figures shouldn't be used as a basis for a CRL, I use this only to illustrate the direction they've gone with marketing, product development and apparently canon reference. If someone picked up a copy of Pablo Hidalgo's "The Mandalorian, The Ultimate Visual Guide" before it was yanked off the shelves, please let us know how this was handled. Were Remnants referenced? I agree with both of these comments entirely. Ultimately, I feel "Stormtrooper: Anthology" is sufficient. The CRL "Context" would likely read "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Mandalorian: Disney+ Originals, or you can remove "The Mandalorian" and leave it as "Disney+ Originals." Also, if the remnant costumes show up in a BBY era show such as "Andor," I'm curious what they will be called. Ok, so last comment. I'm willing to finish my Jimi kit and put it up for the Remnant CRL. Now, I've been doing a lot of "crazy" stuff to it in order to get it as accurate to the screen used costume as I can and my intent is to bring it up to Centurion. But, I'm supposed to be receiving an OT helmet in the near distant future and am willing to go forward with it. I'll continue building to the Centurion standard, but now thinking this could help in establishing a level 2 and 3 CRL later down the road.

To be honest, that doesn't look bad to me. Many builds out there do not have a textured surface at all - but this one has. Looking forward to your next update.

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