themaninthesuitcase

Welcome to the FISD. Make sure you check what you're buying before you do, it can be an expensive mistake!

Welcome to the forum, check the links out above, take your time and you'll be ready to troop before you know!

It's not about what Disney likes or doesn't it's about replicating the source material to the best of our ability. For example to go down a GE First Order Stormtrooper route you'd need to have a 1 piece chest/yolk which is visible above. They also appear to have no side seams on the abdomen either. It would not be an amendment to the other CRLs which are based on the film suits.

Before you go too far on the gold, you will need to have another pass on the sanding and filling. The chest looks okay but the abdomen has a few areas that need more work.

Can you show a picture of the clipped ends of the screws? A few options to deal with them. One is brute force and ignorance. Brass is pretty soft so you use a correct size socket and screw driver and turn. Other wise you are looking at filing or grinding the ends to remove the damage from the cut ends.

Welcome to the FISD.

If you are good to go please check against the current working CRL in the first page and then PM me and we can check over the costume and sort out the appropriate photos.

Minor update to the General Construction Notes section to account for the recent changes to the CRL header.

They key to the grey seems to be less is more. Seems that they all have some, and if there is a big panel like a helmet or chest plate it's not all of it, and then there is maybe 1 or 2 small patches. Ideally I'd say match a screen trooper but this is also a rare chance for members to express them selves. So long as they aren't solid grey I think we can be reasonably open with the wording. All of the close ups we have, not one has any cracking on a shoulder strap.

I have a feeling they used a Boss VE-5 but I can't be sure.

Hi, Please make sure you are consulting the draft CRL available here: As it stands on the current wording these should be fine. Best images for this are in this post

Welcome to the FISD. Good luck with your Enoch build, it's still pretty new for us and the CRL is not yet 100% complete but we hope to be done soon. If you have any questions get a build thread going and we will see what we can do to help

I left the measurement off on purpose, as in the past there have been issues with GMLs treating these as an exact measures not guidelines. 2.5" feels about right but we also don't have anything in the reference of a known size to compare against. With that in mind I am currently inclined to let "be proportional to the wearer" in the header do the lifting here and so long as it looks right let it clear.

He's trying to get them out as fast as he can but has had no end of troubles with parts. All orders will be honoured.

Congratulations to @giskard8 on being the first to earn the Senior Armorer award!

All accounted for. Which does indeed make 20. Congratulations on being the first to make Senior Armourer! Thank you from the detachment for embodying troopers helping troopers.

I've ben trying to work on this in a sort of "little and often" manner. I know I can get overwhelmed, or start making silly mistakes if I try do too much at once. I'd actually like to finish this so getting angry and abandoning it is not a great plan Made a start on the rough trimming, most parts will need a 2nd look to either smooth off a bit or for the bigger parts remove some in areas where score and snap was just not working. I did start using lexan scissors but it was proving to be a bit troublesome, score and snap was mostly easier so most of the parts have been trimmed that way. The left forearm was a bit of a soft pull so have left more meat on that one to come back to later to clean up. Comparing it to the Right I think trimming where I need to remove the edge will be about perfect. I have approximated the correct curve on the forearms. It's not perfect and I think what I will end up doing is removing this section and splicing in a new section cut from a suitable flat section cut from one of the large body panels. This means I won't have to fight with the rough finish left from the moulding. I will also be able to make a template and get something a lot close to symmetrical that what I have eyeballed with a pen. The plastic for the shins was nice and thick, which is great apart from when trying to trim it. Score and snap only works if you can flex it to snap it, which I couldn't inside the areas your leg and ancle goes. I'll come back to these with a dremel sanding drum later. I have a simlar issue with the wrists as well but was able to get closer to where I wanted them to be. The other thing I've noticed is that there are a couple of nasty black dings on corners. I am hoping I can clean these up with a bit of light sanding. Worst case I'll have to rebuild with some ABS paste. I also have noticed some recesses could be cleaner. I'll see what I can do with a nice round tool to push them back into place. 12/39 parts rough trimmed. Progress continues on the TD. I sand, I die, I sand again. Then fill all the bits I missed, rinse and repeat. I am following @OddViking327 excellent video but I am using 3M Acril green as I can get that here. If I could get Bondo here I would use that as it sounds like it's easier to apply and sand after. This is a couple of passes of neat filler on both, and the 1st pass of diluted on the holder. The tube had 2-3 coats before rough sanding and filler primer. This, combined with my terrible painting skills, needed to be taken back and a few more rounds of filler. One tip I learnt from the tube, is to apply a light chamfer to the edges that will be glued together. It's much easier to fill this small defect than sand off the lip. I compared an off cut to my SE-44C which is painted in the paint I plan to use to see if it's a close enough match. This is Halfords "Appliance White", which sadly has been discontinued but there is a replacement "Gloss white" that I hope will be the same tone. It's not perfect but I think close enough. This was artificial light but I have also checked in daylight and it was not visibly any different. And I'll end with a photo dump of the other trimmed parts.

The link we use for detachment access will be perfect as it will show their costumes there, if there is just the one FISD costume we'll call it close enough,

Looking good trooper, not far to go! Nothing is currently jumping out by make sure that you are working with the draft CRL and matching all the requirements.

Thank you Justin for this contribution to the detachment.

make sure you consult the draft CRL before making anything for your self

I only use PETG for my cosplay parts, though I keep looking at ABS now I have an enclosed printer.

Still not started trimming as trying to find time is proving hard. I did have an issue that I thought was resolved but alas not. I ordered the Denuo Novo neck seal. It was actually the first thing to arrive but it was clearly not the right size. Seems I had been sent a 2XL that was marked up as an XL on the box and label. Whilst slow to reply to their support DN resolved this well and sent me a new seal in the correct XL I ordered, and when it turned up it was actually an XL. Alas that's not where it ends. After trying it on maybe 2-3 times the neoprene has torn ?Hard to show but essentially where the seam is has cause the neoprene to tear: What I think has happened is the sewing has introduced a weak spot in the neoprene. Then as the velcro is pretty strong the force of un-doing it has caused it to tear. I really can't decide if I am going to make another claim at this point, or just write it off to experience. I probably should just make a 2nd claim but need to build my self up to do so. At least it would then match the included gaskets.

Even just the helmet, and even with the fact it's going to be painted up, I'd still go with that forum. It's the closest we have and it might benefit others who want to do a Rebels build.

Alcald quote a pretty low pressure, 15PSI from what I remember. I've not had this issue on my very cheap 0.4 nozzle air brush. When I got my best results it was with barely any paint actually coming out of the air brush, mostly just the air. This is a handy guide for alclad I used before: https://www.snmstuff.co.uk/alclad-ii-faq/