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The lock combination on my luggage.

When it comes to generalization, more or less yeah. But one big flaw with FX kits is their individual origin (~how it was obtained), most are second hands and copies of FX, trimmed and modded as tastes and fantasies went in different times and different hands. Even if we come up with a list of all that's wrong in general, there's even less certainty over each individual case of FX kit and wearer together. Sure it will be possible to fix, shim, bondo, but we're beyond generalizations. FX has a ticking clock, we try to avoid getting it, we never recommend it and we try not to talk about it too much because there are still many using it and happy about it and that's totally okay, so we won't point out how wrong it is for some greater good in the community. But when it comes to your kit, show pics of what you have and we'll advise in that specific case

It is possible to mod an FX armor to reach centurion-able accuracy, step one is to replace all the parts though.

Yeah, what is all that ROTJ TK hating? ROTJ TK still beats all other costumes around, the screen close-ups showed loose parts and inconsistent builds, but the game will idealise and conform. I think we'll be happy with the mix of attention to detail and mainstream gaming. Yes, the genre is as mainstream as it gets. In Battlefront, I believe we'll be shooting around from mid and marksman range, playing 3 meters from the TV or 40cm from a 24", getting our asses kicked by 12 years olds and be spoken to poorly over voice chat. Had it been an RPG game like Fallout or Skyrim, then sure we'd love to spin the camera around the characters for hours and hours, but there I mentioned two games that are heavily fan-modded and don't need to expect everything from developers.

Even with screen/prop accuracy in mind I still don't believe there's a better kit, only better kits for you. One member paying hundreds more for something another would think is less accurate, is not illogical in the context of the hobby. That's why this forum is big.

They are missing some revenue considering the price tag on their other stuff, like earlier mentioned "loss leader sale" is there. Here are some thoughts I had: - There was no mainstream market for kits. - Pre-assembling is lots of additional labor and store + workspace requirement even if you know what you're doing, it's gonna cost. - The license they're using can't be free. - Here and today, they've been getting somewhat free advertising through the celebration, the legion, detachments, RPF, their members and facebook. - Those are the big markets for kits, preaching the DIY way like it's for the cool kids. Anovos success will be greatly thanks to us.

Wow, okay. Yes. It's terrible. It's gonna be exactly that and we can base even more full-game criticism on a few teasers, I'm sorry. Let's form a boycott Battlefront. There's no point answering in your thread if you're going to extrapolate assumptions for the sake of being negative. Negativity without information is not criticism, it's annoying.

They released a video showing a spinning 3D model of a ROTJ TK that did not look anything close to an eFX https://youtu.be/2yKv45X_OIo?t=1m29s

I'm a bit like Trooper96. I currently have music and home studio recording, photography, PC gaming. I had other hobbies on the side and all hobbies make you spend a lot. Stormtrooping has saved me money by distracting me from the pulsating needs for more gear/hobbies. I love the stormtrooper armor so I only need one set, and I find every other SW costume incompatible with my approach to the hobby. So most money trooping I spent was travelling, and it did make all my trips more fun with new and old friends around. Travelling makes you a younger happier person so you save even more on antidepressants and anti-ageing creams.

Volunteering is its own reward.

It doesn't look too bad. There's a thickness to the ABS, that thickness gives you room to make the corners and depth. If you zoom in on mine you'll see how I worked it. It wasn't easy, or quick, I had to put on a tv show. -----------

If it's any consolation there will be fan made armor that are cheaper, more comfy and more accurate. Don't pay extra for impatience.

Your nose doesn't touch the helmet, so it really depends on the size of your glasses. To be on the safe side... wear the largest glasses you can find...

I also have the T/MC, softer details than Jeremy's. The definition of the last teeth didn't really bother me. They'll just be holes and once you drilled, filed into a rectangle and painted, it doesn't matter where the bumps/cravices were exactly.

Yes, you do what you have to do to get into the armor. Then I don't know why you quote me, I was saying that nowhere rubber was required at any tier, and we do have shimmed EIB's and centurions. I didn't see the arguments as valid because of those two examples. My whole intervention in this thread was about trying to motivate proper timing and use of tier 2 and 3. We should focus on referencing what we see and decide on the extra miles later. No one's possibility to get approved is at risk when we lay out the knowledge base for the builders and makers. It is a new project, we should go crazy with the requirements because requirements will lead to a need for stuff and variations in material, size and more versions will be available in the future. We have the skills and technology, moreover, we help each other.

I believe it's easy to simplify someone else's opinion and misunderstand it, so I'll explain what I mean: I want more stormtroopers, it's tough to troop in scarce numbers. We won't get fewer stormtroopers by being thorough about the CRL. The CRL is actually going to be the most helpful checklist you can find. Tiers are there for the extra mile after additional knowledge submerged, it is also for symbolic things with no particular appearance upgrade. The extra mile would be for example if we have two greeblies assumed symetrical and after the blu-rays or 4K def are released we realize: "oops, there's a difference!". Kilos of symetrical greeblies are out there, and new batches are on the way, it'd be okay to have symetrical greeblies anyway because that slight difference would fall on Tier 2 or 3. Same with color of the lens assumed gray/green/black, could turn out to be red or purple in a year. Same with whether something is a decal or handpainted, and what color exactly. It's a case by case thing: initially if we see something, we include it in basic requirement. If in the future we see something new, and we will, then we ask ourselves why we hadn't noticed, if it was too invisile or if it is major enough to change the basic requirement. Then of course you are among the 75 who already own an armor, if something turns out to be inaccurate you'll be the first ones able to modify and share the knowledge. Remember that the CRL is often used as a checklist for people all around the world to know what to build and how. I have a tier 1 TK and I had to read the tier 2 and 3 lines to know what to do even if my ambition was just to get approved.

Wrong arguments, the CRL frequently combined "or [something]-like material" for tier 3 and doesn't pose difficulty to fitting armor to any body type.

I have an opinion. lol. I assume the higher tiers and awarded titles for them were meant to encourage costumers to upgrade their previously approved costumes, given that new reference material surfaced in the form of higher definition release and official displays and shows of screen used armor. Then you have exceptional things none can see without investigating up close and will never be a requirement, like the S-trim. There is no reason to make basic requirement "low definition" because it isn't any cheaper or harder for the assembler/wearer as it would be for example to pick a differently accessible costume. If we rated the tiers as amount of research/accessories/work required, then comparatively we should ask for the ANH basic tier to match EIB. I don't know how other detachments define their tiers, at all... but this is the FISD so if we do things like for the TK's I suggest we only write the tier 1 as accurately as possible given knowledge and resources at movie release, then when more knowledge pops up: add tier 2 and 3. If for example you don't feel like doing the black+white patterns on your gloves, pick a TK from a movie where it has plain black gloves. I am pretty sure plenty of accurate TFA gloves will be made, same for the boots, neckseal, etc.

That is a smart approach!

What a nightmare! lol

Have you tried vaseline for the gaskets? I vaseline everything

I think the chest piece isn't what goes over the shoulders like on the older stormtroopers. You'd have a ribbed shoulder/bicep tube on which 3 white parts are attached and separate from eachother, the shoulder, the shoulder bell, the bicep. Only the shoulders are extension of the back plate, like two rings around the arms. Then the chest piece is shaped like the Atari logo and attached over the shoulder ends of the back plate. That's what I think is going on here: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/gallery/image/3519-star-wars-celebration-the-force-awakens-props-costumes-exhibit-characters-models-050/

Question. How can the FISD serve the legion in responding to the brutal increase in TK applications by the end of the year? I suspect the councils won't think a step ahead and try to adapt pre-emtpively with correct advice. Consequences can be very unequal waits between applications and occurrence of "auto-approve because it's ANOVOS and I can't bother" boredom phenomenon.

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I agree, if folks want to discuss more about our internal business: get a costume approved, join the ranks, and use the membership forums. Here's it's more about how to build white armor and gathering info and reference material to get there.