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What parts are you from Jonathan? we can get you in touch with your local 501st garrison or squad so you can also get some local help.

Yes indeed. if you create a build thread and keep it updated with your progress and photos of your work, ask questions on anything you are unsure of, the help and feedback will flow.

Excellent, hopefully come May we get some good screen time and all will be revealed.

Congratulations Nicholas, welcome to Centurion rank

Congratulations Mario, you look fantastic sir.

The pulls on this kit are really crisp, I'm loving it, along with your build progress.

Good to see some progress again Mario.

You need to make 5 post before you gain access Kevin, the forums are set up that way to help avoid spam is all. Hope that helps.

Wow, looking good Daniel. This looks like a very nice kit as well.

We can take care of that for you. One of the DCOGS will attend to it once they are online. Best of luck in your new endeavors Joakim.

OK folks, we have 5 pages of work here so far, we need to start planning to take this to the next level. Importantly we will need some new images for some of the changes we are looking to update, but before that lets get changes grouped finalise some language and look at creating Polls for each proposal. I do think some of the discussion currently has highlighted a few things that might be difficult to use in a CRL at this time, so we need to isolate those and keep them for a future discussion There are plenty of things we can improve on from this thread and potentially some we have missed. Importantly TroS needs to be added to the TLJ tile and the possible load outs for weapon carry looked at closely. I'm sure everyone would like more toys to carry but they also need to fit with what we have seen on screen.

Greetings all. I would like to formally announce our CRL team for the year, starting with our new editions. Daniel (TheSwede) TK-55669 IPM and Justin (TheRascalKing) TK-61490 IPM. Both these members have a keen eye for accuracy, have built several costumes and will make valuable additions to the team. The rest of the team consists of Joseph (justjoseph63) TK-10963 DO Mario (TKSpartan) TK-48117 DO Jose (Chemi) TK-30173 DO Glen (grmhodes13) TK-85421 DPRO Tony (ukswrath) TK-10116 DPRO And myself as LMO contact, Wiki doc editor and general word refinement. Currently the TLJ/TroS CRL work thread is in Hard armour so all are welcome to contribute to the conversion. https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/48906-tlj-tros-crl-update-work-flow/ Once we are satisfied with the proposal for changes, we will again set up Polls for membership to vote on before actioning the updates and releasing the improved CRL. This years CRL approach will be systematic to keep focus on updating costumes that need it the most, before moving to check through others to see if we need to align descriptions, add new photos that more accurately represent the costumes, and look for minor typos and errors.

Rubies, not known for their accuracy

May I suggest you make that kind of modification after you have the costume approved, even at basic level, or check with your GML just in case. If you were to go for our optional higher levels, again I would suggest the same, get approved to the level you want, then make additional mods.

Happy 25 years to any of our members that have been around that long. It's a huge milestone for the 501st regardless of how long you have been a member of this magnificent hobby and well worth celebrating.

Congrats on finally getting your TK done and out on a troop. You look fantastic!

Congratulations Chris, great to see you approved as a TK!

I'm going to point out the major stress areas of the armour from a wearing it perspective. These areas I see as almost impossible to be able to duplicate with a 3D printed set of armour and have last any period of time without repair rebuild or even complete part failure. Before I go into this, I would recommend anyone looking to attempt a 3D set of armour, take a good look at a correct ABS kit, understand how flexible it is and where it needs to be able to flex when worn. Shins: These need to be able to flex open to get into them, They need to be assembled in two hemispheres like all other limb pieces but they clam shell at the back. With ABS plastic at 1.5 mm you get the flex you need to be able to open them up and get your shin in. Printing in a hard medium will not work for this, rigidity is going to send the stress strait to the front join and it will fail at the weakest point. Shoulder bridges: these flex when putting the chest/back torso armour on. Even with the flex of ABS they still tend to crack over time. 3D printed could break on the first outing or so. Agian a rigid material like PLA or ABS filament will fail. Chest piece has a degree of flex just from moving your arms around and taking certain poses. it needs to have a small degree ot twist and flex. But plate: this also needs to flex when you strap it to the Cod piece. Remember, these files were designed to use as a bucks for vac forming, not necessarily to build a functional set of armour that is 501st approvable, that would come from the bucks and refining them until Chris could vac form something that is functional and how the original suits were constructed. His 3D printed helmet looks ok but the vac formed version he does from the buck looks much closer to on screen as an example. Not only will you need to be prepared to sped a lot of time and money on printing and trying to make this actually work, you need to then refine it so it looks like all the vac formed TK's out there. No one is going to give a guarantee a GML will ever approve a printed kit unless side by side it stands up to all the kits available that look identical. I can't wait to see someone try, but be prepared for disappointment, i can't be more honest than that.

Congratulations Jessie, welcome to centurion.

Just a note Chris as we do with any vendor that mentions 501st approved, nothing is effectively 501st approved until built to the CRL and approved by a GML of a local garrison. Might help you avoid any noise or negative responses to your hard work by removing anything that sounds like 501st approved. I think it is OK to mention you are working with the 501st to get these as good as they can be. To explain further, a member could buy any armour on the vetted sellers list and completely make a hash of building it, bad trimming, miss aligned parts etc, and be knocked back by a GML, 3D printed armour would undergo the same scrutiny, in fact maybe more if an applicant doesn't finish it to a suitable standard, like visible print lines bad paint job and the like. I look forward to seeing your V2, you know where to find me if you need any more assistance.

Looking good so far Daniel, I'm getting the popcorn out for this as you get deeper into the build.

Hi Rob and welcome to FISD. I love that you have plans to take your armour to centurion level and wish you the best of success on that journey to level 3 approval.

Bienvenido a bordo Darth Pakal!

Hi Marty two small adjustments that might help a little are rotating the shoulder bells forward a touch. if you want them to naturally fall forward you just need to move the strap that secures them at the top, forward. That alone can help close that gap down between the chest and the bells.. if we look at your rear photo, you can see that they fall toward the rear more than they do the front, so that strap adjustment should easily rectify the situation. i would also shorten those straps slight;y so the top of the bell, virtually touches the plastic shoulder bridge. It looks a fraction long in your photos. You could also shorten the strap between the cod and butt plate. This should help curve the butt plate under you more, if that makes sense. As to the way the butt plate fits your small frame, all you could do is trim it down in size, but I would check in with your GML to see if you can get proved as is at basic before cutting into your armour. Other than that, I can offer several other pieces of advice about re sizing various parts, but first and foremost get approved or feedback from your GML again before making any major modifications. Good luck sir.

Welcome to FISD Bart, my deepest sympathies and condolences to you and your family for your loss. people come here for many different reasons, but the one major thing is we all share a passion for Stormtroopers, and the love from this community. We are indeed one large family, and welcome you with open arms. I see there is good advice already heading your way, don't be afraid to ask plenty of questions, we are here to get you on your new journey and active in this great hobby. Once again, welcome aboard!