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In that case you may wish to start your build thread in the ANH area, this area is more for armor discussion https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/80-anh-build-threads/

Just seen this pre approval application with 850 armor and certainly does have a separate mount plate

Nice work, just watch the cod, it's sticking forward, perhaps slightly tighter strapping Your armor is touching in a few spots and you may want to adjust, they will rub together and you will end up wearing the paint. Butt plate to top of thighs, biceps to forearms And watch the positioning of your belt pouches, large is on an angle You may also want to provide images showing your forearm box details are on the right sides, many forget that detail Once again nice work and good luck with approval

Hello and welcome, looking forward to seeing your images. What armor / helmet make do you have?

A fix for that would be cut out the TD mount and fill the opening with another piece of plastic, then fill the seams, not a lot of work for someone that knows what they are doing but still weird they made it molded in. No doubt Andrew will chime in with his thoughts.

I didn't notice that in the image I posted further up, I wonder why they do it that way. Personally I think that's something that they should change, whether they would or not would be the question. We'll see what Andrew has to say but we've always known it's a separate piece since TFA so it's strange they wouldn't make it separate, I suppose it saves one piece of plastic.

Hello and welcome aboard, nice finish on the helmet, I think you are correct it wouldn't pass for basic approval as is. Personally I like to purchase armor uncut, sometimes the extra material is needed for sizing and also scraps are good to use for ABS paste. You don't need a lot of tools, many use snips/scissors to trim and sandpaper to finish, I use a few dremel's (rotary tools) with different tips, I hate changing during trimming. You will need sandpaper, bondo (filler), spray putty, primer and paint as some pieces on a R1 need to be filled and painted. Take a look through the R1 build threads to get an idea of sizing and construction. https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/196-rogue-one-build-threads/ Good luck hope to see a build thread form you soon

Which make is that Mario, can't say I've seen that before. I think the issue there is we know the mount plate is separate and should be for basic so this maker may want to adjust as all the others supply separate. Looks like a soft pull also.

Hero version and again a lot of the games use the 4 attachment points although not slotted screws Helmet does appear slightly different in a lot of the images, but to me would be I would say Stunt would match more closely

Lots a lot of work, well done. With a lot of the game version they are slightly different, no curve, also mounted higher, it's all the artists faults

Very nice work, looks amazing, you've done a great job there, been waiting for someone to actually do one of these versions, many have spoken about it over the years. Hope you don't mind some suggestions, just with a quick look there are a few things you could address, (if you wanted too), one thing that appears different to realistic versions is the thigh ammo strip, doesn't appear to have the lower corner curves. Handplates don't look to have the extra angle/bend but that's artists impressions, in fact is very similar to the Hero version hand plates. The left arm pouch appears to be a little narrower in the reference, with angled sides on the flap. Looks like they added some lines in the middle of the belt on the left side, not seen on the right though so again and artists impression. Incidentally the drop box looks rotated around, like you can see the inner back box, again artists impressions. The white rectangles on the sides of the ab could be a little narrower too. Try to remove the wrinkles from the pauldron One other thing which is just a little off is the chests ab lines, they do dogleg back, I think it's the curve of the line putting it off. This is a hard one as it's very hard with some things to truly emulate a cartoon image into realistic armor. Here's a bit of a comparison. Also are the two black triangles the same size, they look slightly different?. With the pauldron most of the references show a curve to the top, again this is an artists impression and hard to emulate in a realistic version, the LMO's may or may not comment. One other thing which is pretty standard across most Stormtrooper version is the fall of the tube stripes, from the top they fall forward, yours appear to be leaning backwards at the front, but that's generally a higher level issue. I have to ask too how you managed to soften the mid chest curve/angles, it's very subtle, looks like you have used a covering, foam perhaps?. Do you have any other reference material to go off? Once again great work on this, I hope you will be talking to our DL Andrew @Sly11 in regards to a CRL for this costume.

References of the riot shield lights Artists impression from Star Wars Insider #166. A closer look Star Wars Destiny Bandai figure Visual dictionary

That's your forum profile, you need the membership profile which you will find is this https://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=31179

Could also be the position of the strapping of the thighs, may be angled inwards. Hopefully we'll be able to advise more once you get some images posted. Talking about images most of us use a free online image host, upload there then copy the links directly into your post, I like Imgur, great tutorial here

For reference as this keeps coming up, although there may be some TFA style cods seen in TLJ the majority are TLJ and a different design to TFA, no inner curves on the sides and a more defined angle on the top sides as can be seen below with the reflections on the sides. Even Anovos changed their armor for the updated TLJ style, although they got the top of the forearms wrong, they did change helmet and cod. So question is will we be allowing TFA pieces in TLJ, I guess it's not too much of an issue for basic approval (except helmet of course) but there has to be some "normality/consistency" to CRL's and higher levels. TLJ specifically changed some pieces for that particular movie, but I would say due to needing more costumes they used some pieces left over from TFA. Personally I would think the "consistent" appearance should be used, example we don't allow "Mr No Stipes" in ANH version so should we allow other variations on appearance seen in the movies if they are not the consistent majority? As example, TFA detonator

Hi there, some photos would help for feedback, do you have any gap between your legs and thighs. Could be your thighs have been assembled too large for your frame, I don't notice any rubbing on mine but I'm ideal height and weight for the costume, although I did with my First Order armor, I ended up adding some foam inside to centralize the things on my legs, I've got pretty skinny legs so this helped immensely.

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Thigh lower ridges can be difficult if you don't align from the get go, I've had to remove the cover strips on a couple that have moved while drying, hence we always recommend E6000 as it can be removed. For excess glue I find using off cuts of coverstrip ABS works well, just use the corner and push along the sides of the coverstrip on the thigh, it will dull after some use so I just cut the end and keep going. E6000 does like sticking to tape, as you have found

You may want to start a build thread in the HWT section, you may get more response as this thread is after all a pre-approval thread and some may not visit it

Hello and welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing your build, as there is not CRL at this stage document as much reference material as you can and keep that hand in case needed. Good luck

Hello and welcome aboard, looking forward to seeing some big brown boxes photos soon. Make sure you check out the CRL's (costume reference library) Also Gallery sections can be a reference source Good luck

A comparison of the TD's .Would also need to add the info about the black slot on top of the TD for basic, could be painted, decal or cut out with black pipe behind.

Allow for the anlge of the end of the detonator to end cap on the image, it's @ 1/8 of the length of the detonator, no idea what an inch/cm measurement would be until someone could get their hands on one. KB's TD

To me the blaster appears satin black in this LFL display anyway, which is what I've been using. I think you will find matt gives a flat, lighter black appearance with no shine but satan does give some shin depending on lighting

KB props used to supply ABS detonators and he may very well be able to supply again so an inner tube/end cap could be used. 850 armorworks used to have an ABS detonator, no idea what they currently supply but no reason they couldn't Jim's I haven't had one in front of me but going off other pieces I have seen should be able to be modified, it is a molded one piece. Separation between detonator and backplate would be a little more challenging. Walt's I haven't seen any images of what he supplies as yet. Anovos, ok I know they are no longer supplying but there are a lot of kits out there, which could be converted Again this comes down to my earlier question, do we make CRL's to fit suppliers or screen accuracy and do we need to update suppliers on CRL needs so they may be able to change how they produce some pieces and supply pieces in future. I wonder how many suppliers make the different TLJ helmet clips, I haven't researched that.