Daetrin

You're going to frankensuit it as some point. Either start with RT and get some FX thighs (which are the largest) if you need to, or else start with FX and then replace lots of parts if you're short. There's not much difference in the RT & FX calves that I have anyway, unless FX also increased the size of his calves when he re-did his thighs.

All set Mark!

I tried to help by putting you at the end of a row, rather than the beginning of the next and next to your garrison-mate Burge and this makes the "first" of each Elite type in column A (ANH row 1, ROTJ row 3, ESB row 4). Isn't that some nice symmetry? Yeesh, no pleasing some folks. :-p Tell you what - get three more GT folks to Elite ASAP. Wyatt, Walter, and AJ are like one mod away each.

Hey Graeme - any progress on this, esp. now that the blaster requirements are finalized?

Congrats Jim - that's three Elite for our garrison now.

Congrats Mark - our very first ESB Elite!!

I have to ask: this looks like a direct break down and copy of Scot's Skullworx kit. Did you or John get Scot's permission to do this & post the info?

Yes, there are plenty on MEPD.Net.

Jim/David - all set!

Thayne - provisional access granted until you can send me a larger shot of the two women in your personal pix. Yowza. Geoff - access granted, however since your Legion photo shows an orange pauldron and we all know that TK's don't wear pauldrons, you must send me a case of Sprecher Mai Bock as penance. That is all, gentlemen. Oh, and we just added a jacuzzi to the TK only lounge, feel free to swing on by, toss one back, and relax from a hard day of crushing Rebel scum.

Dude! Cutting into your ab plate is a right of passage for TD's. I know I was scared when I cut into mine, but once you realize that you can always order another if you screw up, the fear goes away. Turns out it's actually quite easy to do. I cheated as got a vac-formed knee plate, but I think the home made ones are better. You can cannibalize the plastic belt that comes with the FX kit to make both - heck you need to upgrade to canvas anyway ;-)

Looks like you're all set Jim - just waiting on Scott's decision.

Roger that. I sport an FX/AP and my garrison mate an FX/TE2. FX makes much better TD than TD armor.

The only downside of using the laserdisk rips is that the sound is classic stereo. It was fine when I just had two speakers, but it just seems lacking these days of pervasive 5.1 surround. Sigh: perhaps someone will take the original rips and update the sound for those of us who prefer the original '77 version.

Pristine seems an inadequate word - just beautiful

Done Miranda. Say "hi" to CMANavy for me

Jim would make 3, with a few more very, very close. Though I think we'll never catch up to the Singapore garrison if they replace their belts

Yup, those details while nice are not requirements. Perhaps after we hit 100 Elite ;-) Great job Jim

Ed - the one bag certainly has an FISD patch now - they weren't available at the time I bought the bags and took the pix. Marco - yup - my Dad's side is mixed German/Czech from the Bavarian/Bohemian area when the borders were a bit different (we think it was about 1865-1866). I understand the spelling was Höfer originally but like many Höfers arriving in America the spelling got changed to whatever the immigration official thought was correct (e.g. Hofer, Hoefer, Hoffer, Hoeffer, with Hoeffer being the least common derivation). I'd certainly ship to Germany if I made the things, but I don't do runs, and actually got them as part of a run someone else did. Looking at the result though, if I needed another (and I do), I'm just going to buy the bag myself and take it to a local place and say "make it look like this". The price tags were still on them, and I do believe they were only $15 or so per bag. I think the stitching etc. was another $10 or so per bag.

Yep, pix certainly help.

Excellent! Are you going to do an ANH stunt or other? It's always great to see a TE2 build

Outstanding job there Mark!

No, it's required. For the same reason that backpacks, etc. are required on MEPD. Not all wore them, but they are a common enough element that one should have them. Whether or not you troop with one is up to you.

It seems the blaster so far is the biggest barrier for many folks. We believe with the refined standards in place with screen caps to back them up, it will be easier down the line. Our apologies to Mark - he's the first ESB applicant and so it helping us shake out the bugs.

If it was seen on film, and it's not a flub, it's considered film canon, which is authoritative as you can get. This is 100% acceptable. There is a second kind of canon. The rule of thumb is "three". If it appears in three sources. For instance if a costume appears in a book, and in a comic book, and in an action figure, it may be considered canon. But more importantly to be considered canon it has to meet two criteria: 1. There needs to be a sense of permanence in the Star Wars universe, e.g. it can't just be a one-off. This is why it has to appear in numerous sources. 2. There needs to be an explicit, clear, and consistent visual sources from which to make a costume. If we only ever see the front and sides it's not good enough, as one has no idea how to make the back. Some things are film canon but not accepted. For instance the space packs on TK's are film canon, but since there's not been deemed a complete set of visual references it's not considered "official" for 501st.