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Congratulations.

Congratulations and welcome! Bart

Hey awesome and congrats!!

Congratulations Trooper!

Great work! Welcome to the ranks!

Great news, well done and welcome to the ranks trooper

I proudly can announce It's approved.

Congratulations Andreas! As a GML of the Spanish Garrison, I can't find anything that would block your approval. Good luck !!!

Nice work Very hard to see everything when you are the one in the costume. As a GML I would have no issues with your submission. Good luck with approval

some tweaks done. I know, the belt isnt closed the right way and therefor the terminator sits too high. I' ve seen it too late.

Thank you guys, for your input. I'll go and make those adjustments asap. Honestly, I don't know, if I'll be going for higher levels, yet. But if I do, it'll be great to get some tips and tricks from you.

Hi Andreas. Glad to see you finally went for the classic ANH stunt armor. Looks good so far. Basic approval should be easy.

As Glen rightly says, most of the adjustments are for higher levels. You should have no problem getting level 1(basic).

I have been plodding away on this, completely missed my initial deadline shocking absolutely no one ? Today I managed to finish rough trimming the last pulls. As these we more than "completely boring" I'll do a quick update on them. First was the shoulder bells. The trim line on this was "soft" to say the least. It was okay at the top but by the bottom was all but invisible even on the back. I ended up adding a few dots on the back side where it was JUST visible using an ultra fine sharpie. Then I held this up to a light and played join the dots on the front to be able to trim it. This was then trimmed with a mix of score and snap and some curved laxan scissors. The last parts I did was the abdomen shells. For these I was worried about flex at the "petals" causing cracks into the main armour so I started by using a 3mm drill to add a "crack stop" in all the corners. This gives a nice clean end to the runs and stops cracks forming in the first place. I then went back added all the trim lines and got to work on the rest, Again a mix of score and snap and the scissors. This shows the purpose of the drill holes. The trim is a bit rough but you can see how the drill left a nice clean corner with no chance of a crack running. I'll clean up with some sandpaper and files before gluing. With all the parts trimmed I did the obligatory "am I too fat" check. And I think I am okay. I expect I'll need about 1-2" of gap at the back but shouldn't need any shims. I am have some leave booked to use up each week this year in a "use it or lose it" situation so I am hoping to get a bit more done on this but Christmas looms large and there is shopping I'll need to do. I think my next goal is to get the abdomen cleaned up, test fit and see where that gets me. This part seems to from the core of the armour with other bits hanging off or fitting over so seems like a reasonable start point.

Sanded some more and I guess were they got the inspiration for the deathtrooper helmet from?