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Oh - and are you going for Centurion out of the gate? I think you'll hit EI for sure except for the hand guards (which need to be latex on rubber gloves). For Centurion, you'd need the hand guards and also the snaps on the crotch area. Otherwise you got the details set up well.

Looks really good - got a back shot? You'll make your GML happy

to me the less in a helmet is better - more room for air to circulate but then in Seattle we never get much above 80 anyways. The only mod I'd really want is vox in my helmet, but that it's self-contained, e.g. speakers behind the mike tips. My garrison mate has a wicked setup with the RomFx, batteries, speakers etc. all in his helmet and he's got the best sounding vox in the garrison, IMHO. I've never heard an analog system that matches the digital quality of the RomFX, though they are very, very expensive.

Tom - you're one of only two ever double Achievement Award winners. Those posts came from a lot of helpful content and research, not just "me too" posts. A job very well done

This is great work Paul - and very well done. We've seen the end of plastic belts in the Legion, I wonder if this starts the tipping point where rigid plastic hand guards also go the same way. We've come a long way in 6 years...

The doopydoos looks nicer, but my concern is damage. I can drop my hyperfim weapons on concrete floors and even just toss them on the ground for demonstration and they don't break. I've had a resin rifle (clone) once and gosh forbid it fall over or drop, as it just shattered in places or would chip if knocked in to things. They may not be as quite as detailed, but 5 years later I still have my MG-34 and it looks none the worse for wear. It will be interesting to hear how the DD holds up over time.

Totally awesome! My ride is under a cover right now. Yes, I'm jealous.

Thanks for never giving up Julie! When you first got here some were quick to dismiss you, yet you kept your chin up & perservered, and you are a true Legion member through and through. You brighten this place up with your positive attitude on every post.

Is it just me, or have the lady EI's been submitting cleaner builds than most of the guys. Seems you girls pay more attention to detail...

You can and I actually used RT-mod shins instead of TE2 shins. You just need to paint to match. Hmmm....that would have solved that butt plate issue

Oy - Julie said butt seaming should be easy. Dang, perhaps too much 16 year old scotch tonight. TE2 is great stuff - can't wait to see how yours turns out.

It depends on how much your time is worth to you, and how much of it you have. If you enjoy building armor and have the time to take a kit from nothing, doing it yourself and getting ABS for $200 more may work out. If you work a lot and have family/kids on the weekends and the only time to work on kit is between 9-10pm and maybe an our here or there on weekends (er, like me), then getting something near completely done for $200 less and just having some small dial-in work can be a very convenient way to go. Besides, $200 buys an awful lot of replacement parts.

I owned two TE2 kits. The second I took to Celebration 5, DragonCon, and China. Here was my experience: If you travel with it, get a hard shell suitcase. I was able to get everything but the helmet in mine, including blaster, boots, repair kit, underarmor, etc. For my helmet I had a helmet bag and took it as carry-on. The better the paint job, the longer it will last. If you live in a warm/dry area where you can let the paint cure for a day between each coat and use multiple coats, you can get a finish that's as good as ABS IMHO, and even get it to shine. If you live in Seattle where it's always moist and almost never warm, count on having to re-paint your armor about once a year as it will never truly cure well. Most of the armor held up really well. I got cracks in my ab plate and had to replace it with an ATA one. I also got cracks along the top front return edge of my thighs, and along the back bottom of the thighs. These can be repaired, and I suspect if I had reinforced them more it would not have happened. Otherwise the kit holds up just fine, and I don't baby my armor. As for sitting...well I had no fear of this in ABS but only sat gingerly in the TE2. In hindsight I should have been a bit more cavalier to see what I could get away with, as it's a cheap and easy piece to replace if it cracks. ATA HIPS works well for replacements. As I said I replaced the ab plate and they were close enough no one noticed. ATA's details used to not be as good, but after upgrading his vac setup it wasn't an issue.

Thanks everyone. What made it all worthwhile is all of you. I created a framework and a place to hang out, but it's you the members that really provide the magic. No man is an island, though he may live one one. I'm truly blessed with all the frienships I've made in this journey. And - let's not forget that Ed & Terrell each took a turn at the helm, though I was close by. There've been so many who've made FISD a true home for TK's. My dream from the start was to have a place where the stormtrooper costume could be first and foremost - where we weren't the butt end of Legion quality, and where we could take pride in being the best costume ever to come out ot Star Wars (my opinion, at least). I'm glad that this dream has been achieved, and it's my sincerest hope that evermore all Legion stormtroopers find a home here. Enjoy folks - I raise my glass to you in turn

Actually the CRL's are all hosted on the 501st.com site and the links should point there. The old ones hosted here on the forums should not be used.

Nice Sven - you're on your way

Very well done - you look great

No small feat. Cheers!

A picture says it all...

I don't believe you have to put the weathering detail on every armor part - that can be a top level comment. if you had to sum the difference between stunt/hero (so people didn't have to read the full text), it would be helpful to have some text that would read: An ROTJ Hero is an ROTJ Stunt with these differences, just like we can summarize the deltas between ANH Stunt & Hero that way.

Wow, another win for the Nordic Garrison. Great job Morten!

I have to ask - why is he selling kits with inaccurate kits at all. All people will do is just toss them. It seems a small thing to do.

That's already happening in the Legion. TKID's used to be 3 digits, then they ran out. Now we have 4 digits, unlike in the film, Those are nearing the end too, so they've already provisioned the database for 5 digit TKID's, e.g. TK-41222. At some point I wonder if they'll add a slash, e.g. TK-421/22 or TK-8020/20 if we get > 100000 TKID's needed, though that seems beyond the realm of expectation. RetCon that

You have my address ;-)

Shhhhhh - that's classified sweetie!