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Please join me in congratulating Chris Pearson themaninthesuitcase as our amazing Detachment Leader for 2026! Chris will continue on leading the best detachment within the legion. He has been an absolute rock star when it comes to leading the FISD. We look forward to having another fun and successful year under your leadership!

Hi James and welcome to the FISD! We are very happy to hear that you found our getting started section before buying items from the places you mentioned first. If you have interest in joining the 501st then unfortunately you would have had a super uphill battle ahead of your with stormtrooperstore. Anyway, AP is a great choice for armor. The other options you can look into if you are US based is Imperial Surplus who sells MTK armor at an attractive price as well as you can look into Walts Trooper Factory. There are tons of build threads on our forum for you to browse and utilize to help you with your build. Also, check out Youtube as well. Good luck with your build!

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Congratulations Chris! Well deserved!

Congratulations Angie! Well done!

Congratulations John! You have done an amazing job! Very exciting to bring another EIB trooper to the ECG!

Great work so far John! These should be pretty easy fixes for your. Lets bring another EIB home to the ECG!

Hey John! Glad to see you over here on the FISD! Your armor looks great in person. You should end up having no problem going EIB soon!

Thanks for the tag Jonatan. I believe we have Vincent sorted out. He is attending an armor party on April 20th from what I can see on our forums.

Congratulations Chris! You are a great person and the right man for the job. We are all behind you!

Congratulations Joseph!! It is going to be another amazing year!

This is the one thing I wanted to comment on with my GML hat. I completely agree with Chemi here. We have some detachments in the legion who are very strict with their CRLs. Believe it or not the FISD is actually not one of them. I feel that the pauldron should look like the video game references from the start. Us GMLs will approve this based on the wording and the pictures. If people start building them then we will have a handful of these characters in the legion approved with a pauldron that looks like the one made at this point. The black lines should be moved more towards the center to be more in line with the reference photos shown.

Hey all. Just wanting to put this out here that the COGs are watching. Thank you.

Just to chime in, I am another staff member in full support of Chris' and Justin's opinion in this matter. There will never be a thread posted on the FISD about the nature of this situation. However, if anyone does some digging of their own and/or reaches out to legion members then maybe you will be able to find the information you are looking for.

This truly is such a sad day. Dan has contributed so much to our community. He was a friend whom I never had the pleasure of meeting in person. I just spoke to him a few days ago. Our community has lost a great person. Prayers to his wife and children. You will be missed Dan. RIP