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Congratulations and welcome to Expert Infantry!

Also to note, if you are printing your armour, and need to scale it up, the Ab plate posses a problem. The main and side button plates will also scale up, placing them out of proportion with reference material and ABS and Fibre glass R1 kits available. I think the best options will be to speak with the file creators and ask if they can indeed make those details separate print files, so the size remains the same, and they are simply attached to the Ab plate. The couple we have seen are noticeable, so this would be a good option to have.

An issue we are seeing is when scaling the files up, specially for detailed parts like the Ab plate, it scales all those details along with it, as they are not separate pieces. The Ab button plates are the reference points we are concerned with. Perhaps we need to discuss with the file makers to have these button plates as separate files so when scaling up the main Ab plate, they are not affected and hence, don't look out of proportion when compared to reference images. Something to be mindful of.

As it stands, Ezra, helmet off, would reside under Rebel Legion, not 501st. Glen is correct, no reason why you can not emulate his armour Helmet on, but it will simply be a Night trooper, not Ezra.

This is me all over, lol

Exciting times ahead for you both

Congratulations, Tyler, welcome to Centurion rank!

Donated.

Crazy good work Joey, would be better to have all your photos in the thread rather than the link, show this beauty off to its fullest.

Welcome back to FISD Jonathan!

Very nice, keep us updated with your progress

Congratulations Chris! I think it’s pretty clear that the staff are all here to support you, and judging on the Poll for confidence, the membership are too. Joseph, all my love to you brother, we are here for you too.

Congratulations Justin.

This sounds really exciting, we look forward to seeing the progress.

Hi Leila and welcome to FISD. great to hear you are going to build an R1 TK, it’s a really good looking costume and it’s will be awesome to have another one on the FISD roster. we have some members here who have excellent build threads so certainly check in on those and see what it takes to reach our two optional higher levels of accuracy. once again, welcome!

Definitely the way to go for a printed blaster these days.

Welcome to FISD Connor, looks like the crew have you well on your way with research. Enjoy your new journey and ask plenty of questions along the way.

Looking awesome mate, I'd be amazed if this didn't pass a GML review.

This is correct and how I have done it for the last couple of years TBH.

At least we know the exact material for the wrapping, but again a possibility that the wrapping is also artistic license as long as it resembles the application rather than the positioning. 20 different CRL's for the one costume, an absolute Night trooper mare! See what I did there The complete costumes I've seen on FB posts have all looked pretty awesome, regardless of what armour the person used, some followed a particular seen on screen trooper, others just went for it and WOW! So far the only thing settled on is that 100% they were R1 costumes used, our source from the set confirmed it was between 17 and 20 full sets that were Dremelled, painted, Gold Leafed, and they thought it was funny that they used every costume they could get their hands on. The thought was, so what are they going to do now there are no standard white R1 TK kits left.

Right!, this is an unusual one for FISD with so many variations, and something that will be under discussion to work out how we get some kind of balance between flexibility and what we see on screen. I think one important factor is to try and keep it easy, not convoluted, which in turn can get confusing. This is only an extreme example, but we don't see an all grey Night Trooper on screen, so that seems logical to dismiss. We do see several different combinations of components in grey, but what might be nice is to simply have a minimum of say one grey component, and possibly a maximum of Three. That's if you wish to have grey components because quite a few had none. (options!!!) Find one on screen you like and match it, or even make your own combo of 1 to 3 components, or none of course. I agree there are so many possibilities, this could be our fist CRL that allows more flare than others because they are so different and so many. Then there is the cracking, I really feel that should be an open aspect, we are not trying to make a level like MEPD where you must pick one and make it exactly like the picture for Level 3. Personally, I've never been against having a new level to go that extreme, but there has never seemed to be much interest to pursue it. I am interested to hear from as many members and staff as possible so we can land on common ground to be honest. Above is only an idea to drive conversation and move us forward, but it is a great question to have asked.

Hey Richard, do you make the FOTK with the correct black stitching on the palms? It's one of our higher levels of accuracy requirements and would be great to know if you do. Gaskets look good.

Thanks.

There are a couple of members currently working on the Imperial commandos, so this is a work in progress. They have been asked to add build threads to the forums so we can track their progress and assist in the CRL creation. Cardinal will come up for discussion again this term with the LMO team once it is ratified with any staff changes. We all would love to see more of the R1 TK style armour come to life as there are some excellent looking costumes there, but also the animated phase 3 for sure. Let's also not forget Captain Enoch, Ashoka series) again a few working on the costumes, we have a build thread here by TK 44228