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I'm somewhere between 5'9" and 5'10" and weigh 165 lb and have CFO armor excluding helmet & handplates. I think you can make CFO armor fit you just perfectly

Thanks Maxim, I appreciate it Also glad my suit can be an inspiration to someone. I'm not the best one to tell how to build a TK but if you ever need any info about INC details or how I built mine, feel free to ask. Cheers, Osku

Thanks for the compliments Mark, appreciate them Feel free to link this thread anywhere you wish. Your kit was really great to work with ! Thanks Mathias, appreciate it ! I just try to live up to the high standards of Nordic Garrison After finishing my plasma rifle & a few tweaks & adding a few rivets & fixing a couple of things, it's time for EIB and Centurion apps. Hopefully way before CEII Thanks Michael, appreciate it

Thanks guys, appreciate it David: I bought my ammo pouch from here http://www.epicmilitaria.com/product.php/744/mp40-black-smooth-leather-ammo-pouches UK store so it was closer to me and I didn't have to pay import taxes. I could have bought canvas one locally but I wanted leather.

Osku - 11767 - Nordic Garrison

TK-11767 Requesting 501st access http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=15702 Thank You

And... approved TK-11767 reporting for duty, ready to get his butt kicked for the Empire ! More pics from my first troop later, they are still in a camera. Pretty comfortable to wear from the beginning, 3,5 hours in a row was a no-brainer. Just need a few tweaks to prevent biceps & forearms twisting around like a merry-go-round Next phase, finishing the Plasma rifle, aka Flamethrower. Cheers, Osku

Thanks Todd, that's a huge compliment because it was what I tried to do I know I took at least one project pic of that button and base but I guess I accidentally removed it from my camera because I can' find it anymore. Cfo kit came with quite a lot of excess material around parts, good for me because I then had a lot of stuff for scratch building. The "base" for button was made out of two corner sections from the part you see in next pic. I just cut two of them, made the measurements match the Cfo base, glued (or actually welded) them together and then to the Ab. I used methyl ethyl ketone ( Butanone or MEK ) to weld the parts together. Besides styrene, MEK works well with ABS too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanone If you look close, you can actually still see the vertical seam in base part, just between Ab itself & button. To smooth the seam areas I used ABS paste. I use the same MEK for that too, instead of acetone. I think I repeated the ABS paste - sand smooth process at least 5 times. I'm rarely completely happy with the work I do (forever-frustrated perfectionist ) but I think I did pretty well this time. The button was made out of excess ABS too. Just took piece of it, heated it carefully with a heatgun and pushed from the inside with a flat end of my hand drill. The rest was, again, cutting and welding and ABS paste and sanding... If anyone wants to do buttons like this, I advice to choose bigger ABS piece, small ones just start to warp from the edges before you can push & form the button. I know, I have several strangely deformed ABS pieces lying in the garage floor

Btw, any criticism and/or suggestions are highly welcomed. I have a long model-building background but this is my very first costume ever. I did repaint the forearm stripes, those in my pic seemed way narrower than ref pic stripes. Cheers, Osku

A small update where I'm at the moment. Still a lot of small stuff to do like weathering parts, securing some parts like belt so it stays where it suppose to stay, finishing helmet ( especially ears ), attaching pauldron so it won't lift the helmet ( couldn't see #%¤& while these pics were taken LOL ). Also a few parts missing from the pic. Red markings are a bit too bright in upper pic, lower shows them about right, at least in my monitor... Flower Power

Like others have said, waiting is a part of this hobby. I got same automated response from RS and that's 5 months ago so they clearly forgot to answer me. ( Got a ATA helmet instead so no big issue or hard feelings towards RS at all ) RS guys are just human and forgetting things is part of being a human. So, I'd say wait a bit more and resend the mail if needed. Cheers, Osku

Great news, thanks Btw, there's still small hick-up in Incinerator CRL. CRL says about the forearm unit markings: "Special unit details in red shall be present in the form of two vertical stripes, running the length of the forearm. One in the front and one in the back (cover strip area)." Ref pics and even CRL pic clearly show three vertical stripes. No big deal for me and this has been discussed earlier. But may cause some confusion for someone just starting. Cheers, Osku

Sorry for nit-picking here Nicky. What you wrote above might give people the idea that mesh behind frown is mandatory. CRL says "Mesh may be used behind the frown to obscure the face of the wearer." For example balaclava does the same thing. I think it's up to the wearer to decide what to use. Regards, Osku

I can also share my vision of Plasma Rifle (based on airsoft AK-47, tubing & parts I can find here in Finland) as soon as I find time to do that. Next 2 weeks are pretty hectic, trying to get my suit ready for approval pics so you have to wait a little if you don't mind. I don't even have time to update my own build thread at the moment. A great example how NOT to do a build thread

What Karin said. ATA and AM both offer ABS kit if you are considering getting Shadowtrooper. Edited: I forget AM in earlier post

Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Rob, great, there's never too many Incinerators From which kit are you starting your project ? I've been tackling small stuff lately, belt, sniper plate, trimming thighs etc. Pics later, maybe after next weekend.

Thanks Todd A question instead of new progress pics, how many dropboxes do I need to get my suit approved ? CRL says dropboxes (meaning two) but references show only one on left side. http://www.whitearmo...ages-26-images/ http://www.whitearmo...il-icn-screens/

Thanks Todd, I used tool called "Denial" for my belly Bye bye Ronald McDonald, sodas, candybars, beer... (well, not all of the beer but most of it) Looking at the pics now I noticed my left shoulder bell sits really weirdly. I guess the tape behind it keeps it up. I haven't strapped the biceps yet. Have to do that after I've moved bells a bit closer to shoulder straps. Also noticed that I'm not standing straight and i have what seems like unintentional muscle tension on my left shoulder. I did manage to dislocate my left shoulder two months ago and it's not functioning as good as it did before. About the biceps, how form-fitting should they be ? Is as form-fitting as possible the ideal ? They are really comfortable now but I think I can make them little tighter if needed. The forearm you see in the pics is as tight as it can be, I can barely get my hand through it. Cheers, Osku

I had this BURNING desire... Now that I have my suit steadily in progress, I thought it is a good time to contribute something to this forum instead of just lurking here. I'm not going to repeat myself by telling you how I got into this costume building thing, all of it can be found in my small intro. I just say that a year ago I couldn't even imagine building a Trooper suit of my own. After studying different costumes for a while, I chose Incinerator Trooper for my first suit. Don't ask me why, I didn't analyze it that deep. It just clicked instantly I found FISD in a very early stage, lucky for me, and started researching. After reading everything possible about Incinerators and this great thread http://www.whitearmo...e-to-find-them/ over and over again, I finally chose Cfo for armor and ATA for helmet. If someone new to this is considering making a deal either with Cfo or ATA, I can recommend both of them. Both have great products & top notch service. Mark (Cfo) answered my first PM in 14 minutes ( You read it right folks, in fourteen minutes), kept me updated weekly and sent my armor faster than the estimated turnaround time was. Same thing with ATA, quick answers and I think I got my helmet in less than 2 weeks. From US to Finland, that is quick. The first thing I found out after quick trimming of Cfo ab & kidney/butt plates was that my belly didn't fit properly between those. I am lean built but I also had a beer belly. Ok, I said "I had" because that was 17 lbs ago. Armor building Step 1: Get rid of that belly - completed Ok, enough of this chitchat. A few pics for those of you who managed to read all this and still stay awake. This is where I am at the moment. It's 1 am here now and I'm going to bed, need to get up 6 am. So, questions (a lot of them) later. All feedback is very welcome, although I'm not new to working with plastic, this is my very first costume build. Cheers, Osku PS. Seems like Photobucket is acting stubborn with that last pic, I've tried to rotate and relink it severaI times and still see it sideways

We are pretty much in the same boat, it was our soon 6 year old son whose interest towards Star Wars "boosted" both mine and my wife's interest to a new level. We both have project going on now and next ones already planned -------------

I'll be 46 next March and just building my first suit

Thanks Mathias

If Cfo is the way to awesome Incinerator, I'm almost there already To be clear, I have Cfo armor in progress as we speak. And that is a great kit. Going to buy ATA helmet soon. Hoping to get my suit approved by the end of March 2013. Now the contradictions I mentioned are between basic level approval & Centurion. Seems like i cannot make my Incinerator suit Centurion level right away. For example, can I get my suit 501st approved if I have a game style Thermal Detonator (Game style TD is what I want to have). Or should I first build a ANH or ROTJ style TD to get approved and change Game style for Centurion pics... I did ask about holster issue & belt earlier in Incinerator section, and got answered how CRL should be but it still isn't that way. Basic 501st level mandates holster & Centurion doesn't allow one. EIB states that holster willi be affixed with two fasteners at the bottom of the belt instead of none or four. Centurion mandates that holster is not allowed and belt should have four (per side, total of 8) rivets forming a rectangular pattern. So I cannot build my belt to be Centurion level right away, as far as I know. Now don't get me wrong, I know creating and modifying things like CRL and other standards takes time and work. And members who are involved have my utmost respect for doing it. And I don't want to be seen as a whiner or a difficult person. Like I said earlier, I am just a bit lost here in StandardJungle. If I need to build two different belts or TDs to be a Centurion, that's the way it is then. Just don't want to do unnecessary work Cheers, Osku PS. I AM going to start a WIP thread, just takes a bit more time to get it written. Bear with me

Hello Mathias, Any news of these ? I must admit I'm a bit lost with CRLs and EIB and Centurion requirements when it comes to getting an Incinerator Trooper as a Centurion approved. A few things that still contradicts between 501st approved level & Centurion. Going Centurion is my goal though, as accurate as I can get. Gotta try to stand up to the high standards of Nordic Garrison Cheers, Osku

Oops, sorry about that. I'm building an Incinerator Trooper.