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Stormtrooper Name Plate File-Name: Star Wars Imperial Soldier - Your Name Designer: davinchi20 Last Update: 03/16/2025 File-URL: https://makerworld.com/en/models/1210330-star-wars-imperial-soldier-your-name#profileId-1225031 Description: Feel free to personalize the name Inversion printing is recommended for enhanced quality You can put the name you want Print upside down for better quality Terms of Use: EXAMPLE ONLY yours may differ. This user content is licensed under a Standard Digital File License. You shall not share, sub-license, sell, rent, host, transfer, or distribute in any way the digital or 3D printed versions of this object, nor any other derivative work of this object in its digital or physical format (including - but not limited to - remixes of this object, and hosting on other digital platforms). The objects may not be used without permission in any way whatsoever in which you charge money, or collect fees. Image:

On this day, 2021, I received an email from Terrell Reber, who most people know as the person behind ATA. In addition, he was an FISD DL, FISD XO (several times) and an all-around amazing human being. Little did I know that it would be the last time I ever heard from him, as shortly after he contracted and passed away from COVID, as did his wife. I have a ZIB (zero inbox) on my Gmail, or mostly, because I still can't bring myself to delete or even archive that last email from him. I still have the second ATA helmet he ever produced, and it's a cherished part of my collection. Terrell, you are sadly and sorely missed. Your expertise and dignity that you brought to our hobby was second to none. My bucket is off as I raise a glass to you, my friend.

Thanks very much for allowing me in. I'm a new prospective member from Washington, D.C. I've gotten pointed to some good resources here on this forum, and I know I have a lot of reading to do. I'm working on it. I've had a rough experience getting started, first some time ago but mostly over the last six months or so. I made some mistakes when attempting to buy pieces for my first costume; when I first submitted for approval, I was told that there were no modifications that would get me to approval, and I was advised to get a costume that I had no interest in just so I could join a forum and get help. I'm glad that it seems like it's no longer the case that I have to actually be a "member" before anyone can talk to me. I had some very negative and unkind interactions at first, but I'm hoping that was an exception to the rule, and I'm forging ahead regardless. I'm trying to make sure I don't repeat that mistake, so I'm studying up and getting read up on the resources available here before making any purchases this time. I came here for that reason. The forum here is daunting, but I know there's a lot of information housed here. I'm not used to using a medium like this, so I also sought help on the Discord channel, which pointed me back to resources here. I am looking forward to eventually (hopefully and finally) getting engaged with people near me or others I can communicate with in more real-time settings, but I have not had luck with that prior to finding the Discord server.

Wow, thanks! You've made my weekend! To be honest, I was quite self conscious about some of the details you pointed out. I lost a lot of weight last year, which could partially explain things. I'll work on getting this stuff right in my build thread. Stay tuned!

Congratulations trooper and welcome to Expert Infantry and the EI Honor Gallery Looking forward to seeing your Centurion applications

Awesome and honored to be featured in the Hall again

Hello everyone! Just wanted to introduce myself, I’ve been a huge Star Wars fan since I was very young. It has been a dream of mine to have my own Star Wars Costume and join the 501st legion. I am based in Kentucky and have been looking at a garrison to join to start the process of joining the 501st. This has been a bit overwhelming haha. Lots to learn but I’m getting there. After nearly 10 years of dreaming of purchasing my own armor. I just wanted to say a special thanks to @IceStormTK for his wonderful YouTube videos on the RS PropMaster TK Armor. After many countless viewings and dreaming. I have placed my very own commission with RS Prop Masters and ordered The Empire Strikes Back Stormtrooper.

I am glad to have met Terrell on a sunny afternoon in Orlando. It was a gathering of FISD staff and attaches for lunch during Celebration in 2017. He will remain a very highly respected contributor to the detachment and our hobby, and forever remain in our thoughts and hearts. Buckets off in remembrance.

Welcome. My dad and I had bought rubies costumes hoping to get in originally and heard that they weren’t capable for approval. It took a few years, but eventually we made it in with approved armor. The FISD was such a great help for me when I started. You’ll find a solid group here to help along the journey! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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Glenn, you know I'll be pestering you for that! Have a great weekend!

In stock now – The STAR WARS™ Classic Stormtrooper Kit. This is a build-it-yourself kit which allows for greater customization options during fitting. There are over 52 armor parts and 25-piece strapping system included. Armor pieces are made from vacuum formed UV protected ABS plastic. Order here: https://www.denuonovo.com/products/star-wars-classic-stormtrooper-kit?_pos=4&_sid=b7d65cb37&_ss=r&fbclid=IwY2xjawJBnaZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHR7jnEoA1OmgzavGJUCTFCSJmcLTW84O9YBfNDmd0oQVfj46Ijh9auxn0Q_aem_OJ3nHOoqY6QuNb1ALH6vkg Helmets out of stock

An iPhone speaker? In a blaster? Madness surely? No, and you can blame model train people. I just stole it from them. To an extent a speaker is a speaker is a speaker. There's a few things you need to know about. One is the impedance measured in ohms (Ω) and the other one is wattage. When you drive the speaker most drivers will state what impedance they need, and how many watts they put out. So something like "4-8Ω 3W", which is what's on the driver I am using. You'll also find that most of these will put out more power, and so be louder, at the lower impedance so you want to shoot for 4 if you can. For this one it's 3W at 4ohms and only 1.8 at 8ohms. So with that in mind on to the speaker. I am using a speaker for an iPhone 8 plus, but anything in the iPhone 5-8 range is all similar in size for a give phone class (e.g. normal vs the larger plus models). These came from AliExpress and are quite affordable, I got a 5 pack for £2.93 (with free postage as I made my order over £8 to qualify for choice). I went with the bigger speaker as I have room, and in general bigger is better with speakers. If space is limited get a non-plus speaker and it will be around half the size but volume will probably suffer. The specs on these online are sparse so first job is to work out what impedance these are. Using a multi meter over the 2 contacts (not photos sorry those pins are tiny and needs both hands) and I got about 8.7 ohms. This is DC resistance, which isn't the same as impedance but close enough. 8 ohm speakers. We don't know what wattage they will take but the train people seem to drive them hard, but if yours blows up then sorry no warrantee here. But we want 4ohms for maximum loud from our pew pew so how do we do that. We use 2 speakers, and wire them in parallel. Thanks to physics 2 speakers (resistors) in parallel make a smaller one. I won't cover the maths but simply if you have 2 of the same resistance in parallel you halve the resistance. So our 8 ohm speakers will be one 4 ohm one once wired up. Now on how to do it. If you've got a different speaker, you're on your own but basically join both of + sides together and both of the - sides together. None of of this is marked, so just join them "the same" on each. If you don't it will work but the speakers will be backwards to each other and sound awful and weak (they will be out of phase). This is how I did it: First the speakers have a few bits of plastic sticking out so those where trimmed with a pair of flush cutters. This isn't 100% needed but makes the package tidier. In order to parallel the speakers I decided to "piggy back them". So started by picking one speaker and bending out the contacts so they stuck straight out and so would fit over the side of the lower speaker. I then stacked the speakers. Due to the shape I sandwiched in a bit of 1.5mm HIPS I had lying around to pack out the air gap. With them carefully positioned so that the bent leg touched the unbent leg on the lower speaker, I applied a tiny bit of flux from a flux pen and tack soldered one side, then the same on the other side. Now things where stable I applied a little more solder to make the joint more solid. Care is needed here, these are small pins and you also don't want to cook the speaker by applying too much heat for too long. To attach the leads I pre soldered (aka tinned) both the wire and the connections again with some flux. This means the join is just a case of holding the wire in place and re-heating which makes the whole process far easier, but was still fiddly. I did add a touch more solder but this is probably unnecessary. At this point it's probably wise to test things. Hook it up make sure it works and sounds good. All okay, then you can move on. If not check things like you haven't created a short or melted the speaker by checking the resistance across the speaker if you have a meter, you're looking for something like 4-5 ohms of DC resistance. Things work but are fragile so lets try add some strength. First grab som 2-3mm heat shrink about 2-3cm long and slide it over the leads and slide it up close as you can whilst still being gentle. Ideally use a heat gun to shrink this in a more controlled manor than a lighter. Next we want to glue things in place to further strengthen things. You can use hot glue if you want, but this can be messy so I went with 8 year old E6000 as I had some left and seemed perfect for the job. This looks messy but the E6000 self levelled quickly and looked a lot cleaner. We want to glue the contacts, and also the wire it's self so hopefully there will be no strain on the contacts. Really you should now wait 12 hours or so for the glue to go off, but I am lazy and wanted it done. The final step in adding strength is more heat shrink. I want to say this was in the region of 13mm dia but may have been more like 15mm. I just grabbed some the right size from my stash. Cut a bit the right length to cover the whole assembly and shrink down again. And you're all done. Here is a comparison vs the typical 28mm speaker people generally use in blasters and lightsabres. It's a a little bigger but I think the shape means it will fit inside a blaster a bit easier and be less awkward to mount. It also sounds significantly nicer.

Hi Hanson, and thank you for your EIB application! CRL and EIB Application Requirements: All required photos have been submitted, and on behalf of the entire D.O. staff we are pleased to welcome you to the rank of Expert Infantry. Congratulations! Other-Armor Fit/Assembly; In this area we review observations made by your fellow troopers and the DO team. Some observations may lead to suggestions to improve the overall look of your armor, and please keep in mind that we consider both text (CRL) and pictures (screen caps/reference images) when reviewing submissions. Starting from top, you may want to check if it's possible to lower down a bit . Sometimes it's just a matter of removing some of the top padding . Another , probably just dressing issue to take care of every time you put on your armor is that the zipper of your neck seal is very noticeable and looks to be unbuttoned . Reference Images Looking at your ABS belt, we noticed that te square buttons have too much border. As you can see in the references, they don't look to have it. We are suggesting to remove them, sand the border to get them flat and re-glue. Reference Images This is just simple dressing issue, every time you put on your shins, be sure to lower down to touch the boots ankles Reference Images Centurion Requirements: In this section we prepare you for our highest tier of approval. Because Centurion photos must show more detail than EIB, items pertaining to Level 3 might be seen there and not here and additional photos may be required. We try to point out all that we can from what we are able to clearly see, but the final accuracy is the responsibility of the trooper. Startint from your shoulders CRL L3: There should be a minimal gap between the shoulder armor and the chest/back plates. This looks like a simple strapping issue. shortening the shoulder strap and a bit could reduce the gap. Another trick here is to remove the Shoulder Bell's return edge to allow them to sit close the chest armor. Reference Images CRL L3:Ideally there no gap between the abdomen and kidney armor. Abdominal and Kidney Plate align horizontally at top. A single visible seam line is present. This looks more like another dressing issue. Next time you take the Centurion Photos, ( we hope you will) , be sure to tighten the elastics a little to ensure there's no gap. Reference Images CRL L3: The top of the ABS ammo belt should sit at or just above the bottom of the central and vertical abdomen button panels. Not a big deal brother, your ABS belt alignment looks almost perfect , just a piece of velcro behind the right side to keep it up and you're golden. Reference Images CRL Requirements for all 501st costumes are proportional to the wearer in scale, fit and size. Your forearms and shins armor is very large compared to your arm and leg size. We absolutely welcome troopers of all different body types, but we do expect that for our highest level of approval, the armor is sized appropriately to the wearer's body. From the front they're quite large . In order to size down forearms, you'd need to carefully remove the cover strips, trim back the pieces some, and re-glue them. A hot water bath may also be helpful in re-shaping the curve. For the shins you could carefully remove the rear cover strip , trim both sides a little more and re-glue the cover strip for closure. Reference Images And that's all Trooper, CONGRATULATIONS AND WELCOME TO EIB RANK We are confident that you're going to do de fixes and continue the next level Trooper. !! Request your EIB Certificate Here

This is the sort of thing we love on the forum. You've clearly spent a good amount of time gathering resources and documenting the build, having it on the forum makes it available to anyone who's working on a build.

Any gaps you may have between the lower ridge you could add either ABS paste, sugru or even paintable silicon. Front views Back views

You don't need to wait or look for an event specifically for recruiting new members. You can attend any event they are at that is open to the public and chat them up. A lot of the bigger ones will have people on hand specifically to chat with the public and they will be more than happy to talk with you. I can tell you from first hand experience when working at a club table that the day is much more fun when people come up to talk about joining. Bart

NEW Detachment Leader Executive Officer Merchandise Officer Legion Elections Hall of Fame FISD Meme's Around the Detachment Trooping Opportunity INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS FISD Tri-Fold Brochure Common FISD Acronyms and TK Glossary Pre Approval Forum 3D Section Field Exercise Award Imperial Attaché Program Master Armorer Award Fire Teams EIB & Centurion: What do these terms mean? Need Help Ask the Deployment Officers Advance to 1500 Advanced Tactics Awards Social Media Newsletter Editor Staff List 2025 Follow FISD Greetings troopers, A month gone already! We don't have a lot to publicly show for this month but that doesn't mean we've been idle. Behind the scenes wheels are turning and soon enough that will start to show more publicly. That said there's a few bits I'd like to cover this month. First it's fundraising season! As I've mentioned previously at the end of the last term we moved to a new faster web server. We also have a few other costs we have to cover and so we are asking you the members to help keep the lights on for another year. Please head over to the thread for more details: One of the other goals for this year is to focus on the CRL backlog and get some over the line. The Captain Enoch CRL is looking positive and in the process of photo collection, before we pass it over to the LMO for their approval. A small discrepancy was noticed in the Incinerator Trooper against the reference images. A change was submitted to the LMO which is provisionally approved. There is currently an issue with updating CRLs so the actual update is still pending, but details are in the thread below: With Unquestioned Loyalty Chris Pearson TK-10991 "themaninthesuitcase" Detachment Leader Greetings fellow troopers As I write this passage, we are currently prepping for a cyclone to hit my region. The expectation is local flooding, strong winds/rain and the usual debris that comes along with these types of weather events. See you on the other side, and hopefully with a better entry to our next Newsletter edition. With Unquestioned Loyalty Andrew Franke TK-11469 "Sly11" Executive Officer Greetings Troopers! Welcome to the official start of Legion Year 2025-26. Let's cover the old business first! Old Business "FISD EIB Coins" EI coins are still available, but the numbers are dwindling. If you are eligible, please look into it. In order to buy one, you have to have an approved EI costume and you can not have ever bought an EIB coin from any pervious runs. EIB coins are a once and done coin. If you have this one and would prefer one of the older versions, I may have an option for you so please dm me. EIB v11 coin run is open "Advance to 1500 Keyring/Zipper pull" Item is in production. I've posted some pictures of the sample. These will ship to the regional distributors along with the SWCJ patches, hopefully very soon. More information can be found here. "FISD Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025 patch" Item is in production, and will ship with the Advance to 1500 Keychain/Pull tags to the regional distributors, hopefully, very soon as I want them in hands before the event. More information for the run can be found here. "FISD Stepping Out Challenge Coin" Coin artwork was approved yesterday, and a sample is being created. I will post the sample photo once I have it. Once the sample is approved it will be 10-15 for mass production and then these will ship to the regional distributors. Additional information about this run can be found here. Merch Poll for 2025 is still up. You can find the poll thread here. New Business Secret Merch Item #2 is in the works. Keep your eyes on the forum for details. As always, questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, please feel free to reach out With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer 2025-2026 Legion elections have now concluded. Congratulations to our continuing Legion Commanding Officer Justin Sonfield TKID74711 "Sonfield" - - - - - - - - And once again Congratulations Chris continuing as FISD Detachment Leader Chris Pearson TK-10911 "themaninthesuitcase" The eyes and ears of the Empire! Please welcome for the 2nd time TK-91213 John to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, February 2025! @JBar Troop log can be found here. Brilliant pic! Great work trooper! With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador You can find the full meme thread here Blast-A-Trooper Finally after many years of asking the Blast A Trooper files have been shared on the legion forum, sharing here for anyone who may have been looking for them https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_W3-wBM3Gsp5EN_juDwPSCVYhLcpv_MD *NOTE* unfortunately for those of you Down Under due to our PLI (public liability insurance) restrictions we are not able to run Blast A Trooper events as the insurer do not allow the firing of projectiles at our members (I know right, foam darts, ouch ) Thread here Request Edited Signature Banners/Profile pics/Fire Team Logos Troopers! I want to help out the community and the people that doesn't have the time or have the necessary tools or skills to create a cool Signature banner or have the background of your Action Photo removed, or even if you have a request for a certain Profile picture! I don't know how popular this will be, or what requirements I will need, but we will learn as we go and if it turns out to be popular and it gets too much for me - I'm sure that we can find a few more that are willing to help out! Thread here With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador Forum Fundraising It's that time of year where we need to pay our bills. As last year we moved away from the temporary legion hosting and on to our own systems we have an increase in costs to cover. As a stretch goal we have also included a proper backup solution into the costs. Currently this is managed manually and adhoc so a proper solution would be a great addition. We would like cover the next 14 months of costs if possible. This means next years admin team are not thrown in with suddenly having to run a fundraiser. The idea will be from then onwards it will be 12 months at a time. Our goal is $762.90 for the 14 months. All members who donate will also have the 2025 supporter banner added to their profile, as with the earlier email costs fundraiser. If you would like to make a donation you can find the fundraiser thread here Trading Card Archives For those with FISD detachment trading cards please consider sending two to Paul @Daetrin keeper of our detachment archives. Address and more info here With Unquestioned Loyalty Paul Hoeffer TK-8020 "Daetrin" Detachment Founder Keeper of Archives LFL Retail Moratorium Lift May 4th & Revenge of the Sith While there is currently a retail moratorium on character appearances in effect, it is being lifted May 1-7 at retailers selling Star Wars Related merchandise during the May the 4th fan holiday. We are also happy to allow appearances at theatres screening Revenge of the Sith. (edited to include dates of April 25 - May 1 for MOVIE re-release only) All fans, costumed or otherwise, can participate with venues of their choice within these windows with the restriction that costumed appearances must not be used in the advertising for the event. Although these appearances will be treated like an open invite, we’ll leave it to the fan groups to independently organize around these events as they see fit. LFL will not need to approve or coordinate these. Please note that retail locations should not include restaurants, bars, or venues with no apparent reason to feature Star Wars characters. Costumed fans should not pose in front of any brands or logos and should not pose holding any merchandise. In the coming weeks, we may send out a list of ‘preferred’ retailers and theatres who would welcome fans to participate at their venues within these event windows, but you are all still welcome to make plans with appropriate retailers or venue hosts of your choice regardless of whether or not they appear on the list. NOTE: We have been asked to keep track of all retail appearances in Latin America. Please have local clubs send retail appearances in Latin America to [email protected] so we can add the appearance to our tracker. I will be reaching out to the groups in Latin America to notify them of this request. Thank you, Alex Vargas Fan Relations Lucasfilm Ltd. *REMEMBER* Always follow your garrison/squad/outpost guidelines when in comes to organizing Disney/LFL promotional troops, only command staff should deal directly with LFL. INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS For a full list of FISD awards programs head here. *Now Available in Swedish* Want to spread the word about FISD?, you can with our FISD Tri-Fold Brochure. Originally these were done in a limited run by the member who created them, but nowadays, we have moved this to a print your own service making them accessible to all countries around the globe. Files are available to all full 501st members on request by contacting our DL Chris @themaninthesuitcase you can find more info here Currently Available languages: English - Spanish - German - Swedish Are you new to the FISD and wondering what the heck all those abbreviations and strange sounding terms mean? To help you @justjoseph63 has started a list of the most commonly used ones that will give you some insight. If you have ANY questions about a particular term that is not listed or suggestions for new ones please contact Joseph. You can find the list here. Pre Approval Forum allows future Troopers the opportunity to submit photos of their completed build to be reviewed by the Staff, Imperial Attaches and others in preparation for forwarding it to their GML for approval. Any and all advice/suggestions given will be specific, constructive, helpful and respectful. Please note that this program will NOT take the place of your local GML, as Detachments are not chartered for costume approval and can not override a GMLs decision, but is instead a peer review program designed to help you look your best and offer guidance and positive feedback. For more information on this program, please visit the link here. Don't forget to visit our 3D section when next surfing the FISD forums, there is plenty of useful information to potentially help you on your next TK adventure. You might be feeling may generous and share with our community a new TK related 3D file and maybe win yourself a 3D contributors award so check out the details below and be part of the in house 3D community. Here is a link to the FISD 3D Contributor program. Don't forget to create a troop log here on FISD and get awarded for your adventures The list of accomplished troopers keeps growing, so get on board and register your troops today Simply start (or update!) your troop log, keep the running total in the title, and post (at least!) a date and name for the official 501st event where you wore your TK! Once you've hit a milestone count, go over to the "Field Exercise Awards -- Post your milestones here" thread to request your profile be updated! Simple, right? Also if you would like your troop photos shared on our social media channels please add the following to the first post of your FISD troop log: I give permission for FISD to repost my photos on social media in an appropriate fashion. Award Recipients February - March TK-98752 "stormztrooper1" Zachary - - - - - - TK-77751 "bpieroni" Bob - - - - - - TK-5376 "TK Keith" Keith - - - - - - TK-77751 "Berbs42" Chris - - - - - - Are you an approved TK that spends more time on the boards than the average Trooper? Do you enjoy using your knowledge to help out future and existing Troopers? If so, we would like to invite you to join the Imperial Attaché program! Members of the I.A. team are chosen to help out not only those here on the boards, but on a local level as well. Our aim is to have at least one in each and every Garrison, Squad and Outpost in the entire legion to be the eyes and ears of the FISD on a local level. If you are a 501st approved Trooper who wishes to join the ranks of the Attachés, please get in touch with me and/or visit: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/15252-fisd-attaché-program/ For a complete list of Imperial Attaches, go here. Some of the benefits include: Access to exclusive Attaché merch, including patches. You may also be in the running for an Imperial Attaché Award. An award for those attaché's who have gone above and beyond [minimum 1 year of service]. You can find a list of prior recipients here. Imperial Attaché Outstanding Achievement Award Is the Attaché position vacant for your Squad/Garrison/Outpost? Interested in becoming an Attaché? Contact me by PM or apply in the thread below: With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador Master Armorer Program 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 Expect 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). 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 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. More information can be found here Armorer Rocker Patches Rocker patches are now available for the Armorer Program, there is currently just the one patch, and members are eligible to receive two of them once they reach Level 2, "Armorer". More information can be found here Want to setup a "Fire Team? the Fire Team program is completely optional, and is intended to help form a common identity and spirit of camaraderie among 501st Legion Stormtroopers in the same geographic area/garrison that troop together. Fire Teams are not officially recognized by the 501st Legion nor the FISD, although they will be able to access a Fire Team sub-forum on the detachment website. You can find more information here. For those interested here is the original discussion on the creation of Fire teams here With Unquestioned Loyalty Mark Ryner TK-4584 "captsafe66" Fire Team Relations So what exactly are and levels? These programs were designed for those who choose to take their armor above and beyond the minimum requirements for basic 501st Legion approval. It gives you the chance to show a level of dedication and pride that takes your armor closer to being as "screen accurate" as possible, without as much extra work as you may realize! You can find more information on the programs here. For those unaware it is possible to achieve extra awards at Expert Infantry for each additional version costume you have approved, additional awards are not issued with another Expert Infantry number (you are only issued 1 Expert Infantry number) but you will see a star above the award on your profile and the thread title will show [APPROVED] 2nd, [APPROVED] 3rd, [APPROVED] 4th and so on. Multiple EIB award recipients and info here NOTE If you are approved with a "2nd Version" of a particular costume that you are already approved with you do not receive an additional award, there is only 1 award issued for each costume version ie: only 1 x Hero, 1 x Stunt, 1 x HWT, 1 x ESB, 1 x TFA and so on. If you have a second/additional version costume approved you will see "2nd Version" and [APPROVED] added to the thread title, no additional profile stars (more info on profile awards here) For those of you who have a particular issue (or issues) before or after submitting for Expert Infantry / Centurion level approval, in order to get you an answer faster you can now privately contact the entire Deployment Officer team at one time! Questions about fitting, repairs, CRL standards/requirements or anything pertaining to reaching Levels 2 and 3 are not only welcomed, but encouraged. Keep in mind that no question is too small, and that your queries will only be seen by the D.O. Staff. We are here to help in any way we can, so please feel free to send us a message by clicking on this link: @Deployment Officer Team and we will get back to you A.S.A.P.! More info here This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both. FOR February - March the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: Riddick "Riddick322" TK31022 EIB 1088 GREAT job on your approval, now on to Level 3! Request your free EIB certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. Multiple EIB award info here Expert Infantry Honor Gallery here --------------------------------------------------------------- Centurion Badge Award: Kaden "Surgtech" TK36544 Centurion 538 Eric "0megaRed" TK30874 Centurion 539 Outstanding job on reaching Centurion, Troopers! Request your free Centurion certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. If you see any of these Troopers around your Garrison or Squad, be sure to congratulate them! I'm happy to announce that @Tall_Trooper will join our Social Media Team here on FISD as IPM! He'll be around the forum, sourcing your wonderful pictures for our Socials, so we can show off our amazing troopers online. If you want to get featured on our socials, remember to add the following to the first post of your FISD troop log: I give permission for FISD to repost my photos on social media in an appropriate fashion. Additionally, we're welcoming @Vicky_Velocipanda in our team as DPRO! She will be taking on a special project that we've had in the works for a while now and are looking forward to sharing with all of you over the course of the year. We welcome our new PR support and are looking forward to another term representing the FISD! SD! With Unquestioned Loyalty Luca Hahn TK-66744 "Morgi" Social Media Relations With Unquestioned Loyalty Adam Wolf TK-89400 "Revlimiter" Content Editor Support With Unquestioned Loyalty Vicky Mandlmaier TK-50893 "Vicky_Velocipanda" Content Editor Support With Chris remaining as our Detachment Leader I will still be looking after the newsletter (sorry folks ), As always if you have any interesting stories or photos please send me a PM. 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Cool to see that data. Thanks for the insight on that.

Hello and welcome to the forum Will! Great to have you here! Sorry to hear that your first impression wasn't as good as you hoped it would be! We are always kind and eager to help our fellow troopers, so you've had an unfortunate start it seems! We won't have that unkind stuff here! Congratulations on taking the first steps on your journey! What costume are you thinking of building first? Original trilogy Stormtrooper (OTTK)? Research is key, that cannot be understated, and it already looks like you are on the right track with that mindset! When you start building or order your kit (pre built or not) you can always create a build thread to get feedback on every little detail, as we have members online pretty much all the time over here, things should move on pretty smoothly!

All that's left is basically GML approval.

Hello and welcome aboard, a great thread to get you on your way

Decided to get some painting and some minor repairs done today and yesterday on my bucket after doing nothing for a while, feels good to work on it again. My speaker system's audio jack broke so I tried soldering a new one on the end, electricity can flow through it but I must've screwed up the audio connections or something because when plugged in they do nothing, still it was fun learning how to solder and attach different kinds of wires together even if it didn't work, I'll fix that another day. A while ago I painted out all the base black lines on my helmet aside from the ears, and today I masked over them (not sure how thin the black surrounding stripes had to be so I just eyeballed it from the photos gmrhodes13 sent earlier) and added the first light layer of grey, I'll probably only need two layers and then I'll clearcoat it, so far I think it's coming along pretty good, painting is fun too. Anyway that's all for today, peace out.

https://www.501st.com/mission.php I say the mission says exactly what is necessary. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Super excited for these to start coming through as well. Part of me wishes I still kept my order in, but then again I’d have not been a 501st member for 6-7 years longer. Can’t wait for more FOs to be hanging around!

Time to add another star to the EIB section!