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Don't be afraid to ask me personally if you need help with a detail. But try to find it yourself first. You might learn something new in the process that is completely unrelated at the time but you will have use for later on. Unfortunately I don't have the time to follow all build threads from start to end.

Pictures and credit added to the boot gallery.

Good! Otherwise it ends up like the whispering game where the message gets more and more distorted the further it goes. Always stay as close to the original as possible. Only look at replicas if you really can't find an original reference. But our gallery is so exhaustive now that I really don't think there is anything you can't get a good look at (unless you are replicating a specific trooper).

I'm going to hold you to that.

You should only use screen shots and other pictures of original armour. Our gallery ("photo references" in the top bar) exists for a reason. Only then will you not repeat other peoples mistakes. Centurion is good, but not perfect and you can still get approved with lots of flaws. I try to combat that, but there is only so much I can do without upsetting everyone (more than I already have).

What pictures are you using for reference?

Yup. That sums it up. Try to remove as much as you can of the material on top and below the boxes, redo the belt corners and put the covers at the very end of the belt so they line up end to end.

The barrel tapers from back to front. This was the best picture i could find in the thread you linked:

TE (ATA/TMC/AP/TE2/ etc) derived kits are undersized because of several generations of recasting (even the original ROTJ and SE-suits are recasts in a way). I'm sure most makers of those armours have made some modifications to enlarge the kits again, but to me that seems mostly to have been focused on the girth of the torso and not so much on the limbs.

When you assemble your belt, position the rivet covers end to end with the main belt part. And trim your belt to have little to no excess above or below the boxes.

So they say. But personally I think it's more in line with "accurate size" the same way as TM and RS are.

Sorry for being absent in the discussion so far. I was on vacation abroad. Basically, you have "all the boxes ticked". But it doesn't look very good. I'm sorry to say so, but that's how I see it. However, I think that if you follow Phil's advice given in the post above it will improve your looks a lot. And the belt really is too low. This is a common mistake with all TE-derived kits that they somehow end up too low.