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Thank you to everyone that contributes to these, I am positive the membership appreciate the detail and information that goes into each edition.

Man, you are doing an awesome job of this upgrade. very impressed so far. I'm going to pin this thread so it's easier to find. looking forward to you next post.

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Congratulations Josh, well done mate.

Thanks for the update Dino, looking forward to those photos. I think you went the right route with the shin bars.

Such a clean build Greg, you are doing great work here.

Excellent, thank you.

LMO's have stated it needs to be TFA. Also Toys are only used as a basic reference, this character has a book that places it in a time frame. Who knows what the next LMO's will want or change, it seems to change yearly so at this stage this costume is being built based on discussions had and the book detail and original images. The black series Cardinal toy is a lazy effort to simply use the latest molds they had of the standard trooper simply done in red plastic, but it is interesting that they produced the galaxies edge Black series helmet as TLJ

Rodney, just to go back a couple of posts about the shin closures, you most certainly can use Velcro instead of the elastic with bra hooks. We only judge armour on its outward appearance, not how you strap it all together so do what you are comfortable with and all will be good.

Good to see you sorted out your photo issue, I look forward to your progress. Welcome aboard sir.

It is looking good so far, never underestimate your ability Rod, every cut brings more confidence every part assembled a new skill. Make sure when you are sizing up for your final cuts that you are wearing your under suit. It does make a difference and you will know how that fit feels. When you move to the shins, wear your undersuit and your boots to size appropriately. Also make sure you use a reinforcing strip on the inside front of the shine as well as your cover strip. A reasonable amount of force goes to the front of them when you open them to put on and take off. I also put strips in the front of my thighs before resizing the back so i could overlap them without fear of the front strip taking all the strain. I have skinny legs so had a reasonable amount of overlap to trim away. Your Ab button stencils worked beautifully. Keep up the great work.

Same to you Kevin, new project sounds good, make sure you start a new thread for it.

Welcome aboard David! As you can see the information flows quickly around hear, so start your research, ask loads of questions and your journey shall begin.

Thanks Mathias. So this will be a rebuild rather than a refresh. Danny we can look at this as part of the translation work later on.

Wow Tino, this is a great thread!

Thanks Eric, this is awesome

Welcome to FISD Tim!

The merch item will be in the form of a pin to match the 1000 EI pin in the same or similar dimensions. Gold plate with the centurion maroon colour

This is great news Brad, welcome to the legion. Don't forget to request your 501st access if you haven't already. It will give you access to more areas of the forums.

That's looking a lot better seeing all the green now, thanks for updating that Glen. Also just to note, the main reason we started placing who had fixed what thread is in case of a future issue with images stored on different accounts, this way we know who's account it was on for any future command staff and they can contact us easily to ask if something can be replaced etc. I also started placing a comment on each thread I edited (check the edit box and place the comment or reason why the post was edited) generally it has been Restored Photobucket images, or Removed broken Links etc, so it was also easy to trace for future generations in the event we need to relocate images again. Secondly it adds another level of transparency for an original poster that comes back looks at their posts and see the message.

There are also post that were rectified as we discovered them. Before Glen went to a systematic approach. I think we will need to review some of the sections to make sure we get the bulk of the useful ones covered.

Very Awesome Romain, looking forward to your build progress.

Hi Aaron, welcome to FISD This is the best place to start, it has contact info for armour makers so you can get pricing and discuss with them what they supply. This and much much more great information for new members is found here https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/38-getting-started-read-this-first/ Have you decided on which Stormtrooper variant you wish to become, here are the TK costume CRL'S (Costume reference library) these are the specifications you need to build your armour too for 501st approval. https://databank.501st.com/databank/Costuming:FISD_CRL Hope this helps get you on your way. one thing with this hobby, it does require plenty of research, good luck on your journey.

Great reenactments Kelvin.

Not sure How everyone is situated but we have a few weeks left before elections that could be used to put thought into these CRL's. Hopefully they get the attention they deserve after the fun and games of the 501st political season. Just wanted to bump the thread to keep it front of mind