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FISD has many wonderful programs to help members build and submit costumes for our detachment, whether it be a classic Stormtrooper, a First Order Stormtrooper, or even one of the new Imperial Armored Commandos. While our Expert Infantry and Centurion programs get most of the attention, FISD staff wants to relaunch the Armorer Program (Currently called the Master Armorer Program). What is the Armorer Program you ask? Well, it is a program designed to recognize those troopers that go above and beyond to assist themselves and others in getting costumes built, submitted, and approved. One of the goals of all the detachments in the 501st Legion is to help members build and submit costumes that meet and hopefully exceed the minimum requirements of the Legion’s CRLs. Currently the Master Armorer program has the requirement of helping a minimum of 5 members achieve Expert Infantry status. The member must have spent at least 30min physically helping another member with cutting, gluing, sizing, etc, just because they want to help (no money exchanged). The definition of an armorer is “a maker, supplier, or repairer of weapons or armor”. So while we certainly love the feedback that members provide to others on the forums, and the extra steps some do by having video calls to help walk people through issues with their builds, this program requires hands on work. The new program will have the same physical help requirement, but we are going to move from a “wins” system, (where a win was help an individual for 30 min or more) to a points system, and we aren’t limiting it to only Expert Infantry builds. While we are pushing the Advance to 1500 to try and achieve 1500 Expert Infantry members, we recognize that the goal of the detachment is to get FISD members build, submitted, and approved. So we will be awarding points for Basic builds as well. Currently there are 3 levels of the award, FISD Armorer, FISD Senior Armorer and FISD Master Armorer. The new program will add a 4th level at the beginning called the Apprentice Armorer. The point scale will be as follows. 5 points - Apprentice Armorer 10 points - Armorer 20 points - Senior Armorer 30 points - Master Armorer The Armorer candidate would earn points based on what level the member costume they assisted with achieved. If you help with a basic build, you get 1 point, if you help with a EIB build you get 2 points. So a person to basic you get a point, help them again to get their EIB earning another 2 to a total of 3. The thought again here is that we want to help build as many stormtroopers as possible. If you love building armorer and love helping fellow members get their costumes built, then this is the program you’ve been searching for. We look forward to awarding more members with this award as we know how much we all love Troopers helping Troopers.

At this time all First Order armour kits require at least some filling of seams to be clearable. The holster can be found here, though a non-functional one is included in the DN kit. A full list of resources is here in the First Order section

Thank you very much on updating the ranking. I did help the following members for basic clearances Jim @gijim - TK-28888 - MTK ANH Stunt Grave Wong @MrGrave - TK-36036 - MTK ANH Stunt Galton Ho @Galton - TK-28823 - TM ANH Stunt Tiffany Wong @rabbitiff - TK-92230 - MTK ANH Stunt I will try getting their endorsement.

Bit more done

Update for relaunch Total 16 points, 2 more EIB and you make Master! It sounds like you may have had a part in some basic clearances as well if those can be confirmed you would be able to earn some extra points there also. Jim @gijim - TK-28888 - MTK ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Grave Wong @MrGrave - TK-36036 - MTK ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Billy Au-Yeung @baysk - TK-71814 - Anovos ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Henry NG @Henry Ng - TK-12762 - Anovos ANH Stung - EIB - 2 points Peter Lee @TK28228 - TK-28228 - RS ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Galton Ho @Galton - TK-28823 - TM ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Tiffany Wong @rabbitiff - TK-92230 - MTK ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points Gary Ng @TK66124 - TK-66124 - RS ANH Stunt - EIB - 2 points

Depends on the area, I used E6000 on areas that would need some give, like the shins and forearms and JB weld for a more solid join yoke, abdomen, biceps etc. JB weld can be sanded too which is handing if you've applied too much or used to fill gaps before ABS slurry (or filler paint for some)