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Positions of scope and counter are looking good, Marko.

Welcome to the ranks, JC. Any plans to go for level 2 and 3?

Congratulations Freddy! Guess you will have the Centurion badge when we meet on our next troop...

Hi Freddy, welcome to the ranks and congratulations on completing your first troop - without any damages as far as I can tell. It was my pleasure meeting you in person and I am looking forward to both, your applications for L2+L3 and our next troop.

Not bright enough? What you ended up with, looks perfect to me. Like the Terminator's eye. Seriously, you are not installing a laser pointer. You just want red light inside your scope. And it looks superb on that photo.

Easiest to discuss this on the upcomming troop next Saturday.

Good luck Freddy, hope you will be joining the ranks soon.

Sorry Marko, looks like I missed to reply earlier. You can align the rear foot of the scope to sit above the folding stock hinge. In other words, just move that scope 3cm closer to the rear sight. Great idea with the red light inside the scope. Excited to see this working...

Hi Jesse, congrats on your latest progress. Using a coloured primer, always changes the game. It not only hides the green stuff, but also shows the last few weak spots - in case there are some. Very small issues can even get fixed simply by sanding that area. Maybe it is just the photo, but in this picture your rear sight sits critically close to the end cap. Looks like maybe 2 mm got lost because of that cut through the receiver tube. I understand you want the locking mechanism of your end cap clip to work. But do not forget the end cap needs a little gap to the rear sight, so you can rotate it for removal. By the way: this reference photo is from our Blaster Reference pictures straight out of photobucket.com. Seems like their 3rd party hosting service works again...?!?!

Whaaaaat??? Maybe I have seen to many photos where hot glue was used for such cases, but I never expected that. Sorry Jesse. The same would have happened to me.

Good looking armor, can't see anything wrong at the moment. Maybe you get asked for a photo of your TD from a different angle, showing the top button. Not sure... On your blaster I noticed the magazine being inserted the wrong way. Didn't it take a lot of pressure to get it in that way?

@Scalawag Thanks Paul for sharing that knowledge about the crinkle paint with us.

Hi David. Your 3D-printed T-track seems to be accurate from what I can see so far. Not sure if you have come across this thread from Henry (@SlyFox740) but he really did a great job with his R1 Blaster Reference. As for the counter, this topic is also covered in his thread and there is Dennis @TK-50101 Blue Snaggletooth who built a very nice R1 replica here. Dennis also offers Hengstler counters on ebay, including a R1 version. So your R1 blaster could get completed soon.

Same for me. Haven't received a single email since the server move. Anything I can do?

Your latest progress looks really good, Marko. As mentioned by Dan, I also would suggest to move the scope a bit towards the rear sight. Your completion set contained the earlier version of finished scope rails with this flaw. The new rails got improved and the mounting holes repositioned. You can fill the wrong holes with green stuff and drill new ones. Good job done on the end cap clip as well. If not yet installed on your receiver tube, you might want to trimm the edges a bit to look more like this: Can't wait to see your dovetail mod for the front sight.

Understood. What a shame. Would have been awesome however. No problem. Anytime. You can use CA glue, E6000 or a combination of both. In some cases even green stuff can work like an adhesive. You can use a thin piece from a sheet of spring steel (like in the picture below), or cut a small spring from a ballpoint pen to shape. Well I have come across a few original scopes with some sort of 'enhancement' on the small lens. It was only the ribbed section though, but looked like simply screwed onto the front end. Here is an example. Maybe Brian @Bulldog44 can chime in and tell us more...

Scope looks great so far, Marko. If you could place that display at the same location where the reticle lens is supposed to sit (see below), you would get a working magnification. Just an idea but I am not sure if there is enough space in the hollowed scope body, as I not yet had this display in hands.

Glad to have you back Jesse and nice build progress.

Yes Chris, spam folder has been checked, but nothing was in there. No email notifications since the server move. In this comment, Eric (@Darth Aloha) said: "I wouldn’t be surprised if some folks aren’t getting email. We did change the to way mail is sent. We’ll take a peek soon."

Armor looks great. Good luck for your approval.

Thanks very much Chris

Hello everybody, I am halfway there and can log in again. Not sure who did what, so first of all I want to thank every person here who helped getting my account up and running again. A very big special THANK YOU goes out to Brian @Bulldog44 who immediately took action. Not only did he start this thread here to raise attention for my login problem. He also updated me via email, so at least I had an idea of what was going on. Can't thank you enough for this, man. Above I said "halfway there" because meanwhile I am able to log in again, but still have the original problem: the FISD does not send me email-notifications for anything. It never was a password issue, only an email issue. That means, I miss every private message until I log in next time. Did anybody ever experience the same issue and/or has any idea how to fix this? Is there anything at all I can do, or is it a technical thing for the webmaster(s)? Any help is highly appreciated.

Not sure if this is the correct thread to post this in, but it is the only one I found covering issues with the server move, so I give it a try: Is anybody aware of issues with notifications from FISD via email? Since the server move, I don't get any emails for incoming PMs and other things. Just me?

Hi Dave, to me your armor looks well built. Maybe you get asked to shorten some cover stripes on the arms and to raise the belt a little bit. But I am no expert on this. Let's wait and see... Loving your removable holster Good luck with your level 2 request.

Great looking armor. Good luck with your Centurion request.