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Post up a few photos Jamie, the parts you feel may be of concern and even a few of you fully kitted up. This is going to make the world of difference to the type of feedback you get. Ultimately you need to please your GML, but we can certainly get you heading in the right direction for your best chance of an easy re approval.

Congratulations Briannah, welcome to the legion and FISD as an officially approved trooper.

Hi Wade and welcome to FISD. You can get the U material through CFO (Cast from Original) sskunky is his forum name here so please send him a PM he can help you out. If you haven't already, you should join the Redback Garrison forums www.501st.com.au We are your local garrison (look after Queensland) and you may be lucky if one of our members has some of the U trim available locally, but failing that sskunky is you man and does ship to Australia.

Good to know, Should go over my armour now trooping is returning.

So neat and tidy Steve, nice job.

Totally impressed with your work on this project Richard, it is simply awesome.

Congratulations on your first troop Adam, hope it was everything you were expecting and more.

This set image from Kenobi proves they are R1 style TK's

The Lexan scissors I have are small and not hand specific. I bought a curved pair so you just flip them to have the blades in the right direction for your cut.

Awesome, starting to come together.

Welcome aboard Chris.

Hi Andy and welcome. That's a great story with a fantastic outcome for you and yes it is rare indeed that the planets align and everything just works out like that. Make sure you sign up to MEPD, (Mos Eisley Police Department) they are the official Sand Trooper detachment, where we are the shiny white Storm troopers in most cases. http://forum.mepd.net/ You can certainly be a member of both detachments no problem but you will see specific information relating to all things Sand trooper over their, and nothing really about them here. Hopefully you have signed up on the UK Garrison forums as that is the path to follow for you to get 501st approval. https://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/ Congrats on your purchase, and looking forward to hearing of your approval and acceptance into the 501st

No doubt this hobby isn't cheap, some costumes far more so than others. Vader for instance can run up to and well over $4k, Boba Fett no different, some are even dearer than this hitting $6K. Certainly well above Halloween type costuming. Storm troopers are one of the cheaper costumes of hard armour, there are multiple vendors to deal with so your choice is good. A basic Imperial officers uniform is a good lower cost costume to also consider getting into the 501st and out trooping. It's also easy to transport if you move around a lot. Stay away from most armour sold on ebay as you many times just don't get something that is either shown or up to scratch. Stick with vetted suppliers and feedback form the 501st garrison and detachment forums because this can also save you some coin in the long run. Good luck on your journey Terry

MoMo's back yes she's back, yes she back, yes she back! That's very reassuring news on your recovery Monica, I wish you all the best. Thanks for the update, and hope you get some time to continue on your build.

I am indeed here to help Justin. Considering New generation armour is available for this character, a CRL is going to be reasonably easy to create, but without a Model and all the images of the various parts and paint scheme, a CRL would be incomplete and not see the light of day. Only member built costume images are used for a CRL, not screen caps or action figure photos. This is always the case with new to legion costumes, it takes a trail blazer to do their research and start a build thread, then work with myself and the staff as well as the LMO (Legion Membership Officers) to make it all a reality. The detachment is here to support your research, build and the writing of the CRL. Use our expertise to assist you. Luckily we already have a CRL for the Rogue One TK which uses the new gen armour, so you have a huge head start by utalising that platform for the build of the costume. The paint scheme looks to be well laid out on screen and on the Hot toys action figure, so you have references to work with for the accuracy. I believe there is even 3D files available for the back pack, and definitely for the launcher, so your job is far from difficult when compared to many other costumes that require everything designed and built from scratch. To note, I'm pretty sure there are others who may already be working on this costume, but the first to complete will end up becoming the CRL model. I am at your service.

Hi Ben and welcome aboard. If you have just been approved at basic level, you should request 501st clearance so you can see more sections of our forums. Here is where you can do that. As to actual trooping, you can decide to stay in character and act just like an imperial Stormtrooper would, some like to be more entertaining for the kids, or put on an ascent to sound like the TK's in the movies etc. It really depends on the troop itself as some require you remain in charecter, others like Conventions etc, do not. Take cues off your fellow troopers, see how they are acting and follow suit. One thing is for certain, you will never forget your first troop, it is exhilarating, to say the least. Some find themselves overwhelmed and shed a tear because it has been a life long dream to take something from child hood and turn it into a reality. I wish you the greatest of satisfaction on your first official troop, and becoming an active member of the FISD community. Congratulations Trooper.

Wow, how did I miss this thread. Great work Lando, and also very exciting. Are you hoping to build this and create to a level for potential 501st approval?

Super clean job with the seam filling Adam, in fact your entire build is very clean. Great work Trooper.

Thanks for continuing to smash these out Glen, I'm in the busiest part of the year for work atm so my forum time has been limited.

Shawn, may I ask what it was about the boots the LMO's had issue with? I think you mentioned either the cape or the gloves as well.

This is going to be very very cool. Can't wait to see the finished product, so you must post a video when done

Excellent news Kalin, and you are right, not many do the ESB so it will be great to add another to the FISD ranks. Good luck on your journey and i hope you get to keep this one. Don't forget we have 2 additional higher levels of approval that don't take much work to achieve, so I hope you consider going all the way to centurion. As Glen mentioned, go and check out the ESB build threads, lots of info to garner from them.

Ahh got you. I actually holds one of my drop boxes together with Velcro and yes I do use it to keep a key and some cash in when trooping so your idea is sound. I guess if the size was not really distinguishable as being too large, then no reason why it would be an issue. It just needs to look the same as the armour so the real thing that pops out to me would be having them painted the same white as the ABS if for an OTTK.

You could simply create a card holder to clip onto your canvas belt. Just check your GML is happy for you to use it during certain troops. It would be an easier solution to slide cards out while wearing gloves and a helmet.

This is coming along nicely Dan, good clean build sir.