Daetrin

Can you try using the default theme and see if that helps? You can change that in the lower left corner.

Awesome!

And thank goodness. How do you divide a meter by 12 anyway? And it's too chatty - you need multiple syllables to say anything. Mile, foot, inch, pound. All pretty easy to say and use, as they are analog in nature, just like humans.

How do you know it's your ISP?

In short, stay away from SDS. Any, why would you get Sheppterton when in the UK you have the two best makers: TM & RS?

Thanks - I'll remove the reference to cms on the next updated.

Overall my first thought is that it looks good. The items that jumped out at me where that the thigh looks like it could be tapered a bit more at the bottom (not uncommon on larger folk). The other is that is the kidney upside down? For the side gaps they are not required to be closed for basic 501st approval so they can't gig you on that, but like everyone says it will greatly enhance the look of your costume.

You look fantastic. Closing the gap is a must have for me as a GML. Remember in ANH there are a lot of costume flubs, and leaving it open falls too far on the prop replication and outside of the costuming club we are. Personally I'd ask to trim out the eyes as well. Looking good for a second on the screen in '77 is not the same as looking good from 3' away in '18

FWIW if you ever want, wrt to the belt issue you can have them comment directly on this thread. We write the CRLs after all.

Once you get the fever, you'll buy one of each.

If I were the DO, I'd say you look fine for EI with those shins. EI is meant to be an upgrade over base standards to fill in more accurate details. Centurion...yeah, I'd suggest new shins.

A wookie? The most expensive is an R2 - people don't sell them at all but I heard on the down low that one did sell for $10,000. A really good Chewbacca I think is $4500 or so? I have heard of Bob's going over $3000, but am not 100%.

Yeah, hey look at a Boba Fett? What's the floor on that? $2500, or more? When we did a poll even on ANH TK's when you add up the costs of all the parts, etc. the average for was about $1200 and that was a few years ago (yes, some higher, some lower). As noted, it's a very labor intensive build for now.

I would move the forearms up and the biceps down a bit. And the thighs down a bit. You can get longer shins from TM or RT that will help. I would say otherwise good to go.

They are massively time intensive. I think most people pay between $300-$500 to have someone build their TK for them. Clones used to be about the same, plus a few hundred for a really good paint job. KW said that when they did a run of EP3 clones, the average from start to finish including paint was about 108 hours of work. Even at $10/hour (minimum wage in a lot of the US), that's $1000 in build/paint time. A TFA TK is at least as hard at an EP3 clone, so unless you can take advantage of some crazy arbitrage, I could easily see someone charging $800+ for build time alone, maybe $1000 including paint. Yes, I know ANOVOS is working to simplify the kit to make it about as on par as an ANH TK, but we've not seen that yet. I also know people are working to 3D print some hard parts like the thermal detonator and the forearm details, but so far those haven't driven down the cost/time complexity of putting these together yet.

Awwww...cute as a kitten.

The Oracle is mysterious, and while I can perform the ritual and attend the sacrifices, it's beyond the ken of men to know when they will choose to intercede.

Wow, I didn't notice all the rightys. I'm a left handed shooter, so I tend to hold it in my left simply because it feels natural, and also because it keeps the magazine away from me chest.

Thanks Sean for understanding & being patient. I know it's frustrating on your end too. If after the bulk-update people are still having issues, we'll simply task someone out to do any last onesey's/twoseys' and simply approve everyone.

Oh, and for why we don't simply click "approve" on everyone it's because the web interface for this tool sucks ass. It can take hours to manually click "approve", even if we don't bother validating if the request was active. Instead, the Legion web team can bulk approve everyone in seconds, even if we tell them to "approve everyone".

I don't know why it's not working either Sean, and that's a question only the Legion web team can answer. I've been begging the Legion web team for 10 years for a simpler system and has not come to pass either. I manually updated you so you are unblocked, so that is clear at least.

OK, it happens. You look at your Legion profile and it shows that your detachment affiliation to FISD is pending, or otherwise incorrect. Why does this happen, and what is detachment affiliation anyway, and what will FISD do about it? The answer is that detachment affiliation is only ever used once a year, and for one purpose. The only time the Legion ever uses it for anything is to determine who can run for DL and who can vote in detachment elections. That's it. Otherwise it is pretty much ignored and not used for anything. The process of validating detachment membership is cumbersome and time consuming because people use different email information between their Legion and detachment logins, and that there is no way to bulk update the rosters. For a small detachment it is not a big deal to do this manually, but for a detachment the size of FISD with hundreds and soon thousands of 501st members, it's impossible. Fortunately we have technical folk both on FISD and in the Legion web team. Once a year they take a feed from FISD's database and do a bulk update on the Legion database. This occurs right before the election cycle starts and is done once per year. Also NOTE: *NOTE: Make sure you log into the forum at least once through a website and NOT through TapaTalk, as sometimes it does not register the login as a true login. Pro tips: 1) Ensure the email address you use on the Legion & FISD boards are the exact same. 2) Ensure that your FISD profile has the correct TKID. 3) IMPORTANT! You MUST be in the right security group. It should be "501st Stormtrooper" in order for the automated system to pull you over. This thread is where you get your detachment access updated. 4) If after the bulk update is complete and your profile is still not updated, and you are 100% sure your info is in sync between the two boards, then ask for to the Legion web team. They should get feedback on why this isn't working. 5) If all else fails, ping the FISD staff. Which basically means that we'll simply tell the 501st web team to bulk approve everyone Whew! Hope that answers everyone's questions!

I'll post a sticky somewhere. Detachment affiliation is only updated once a year before census, via automated process by the Legion web team for FISD. Detachment affiliation is used by nothing, zero, nada, nowhere else, for no other reason. This is why we only bother with it annually.

Love the collage

There is no CRL requirement, or EI/Centurion requirement, that the belt has to overlap the butt/kidney split that I could find. There is also no statement that you can't have the screws visible under the bottom of the chest plate. Next time you have such pushback from your GML, you can simply direct him to the GML/DL area on the 501st boards.