Alay

Nope, but it does make it smell FABULOUS

Why did you post the same picture twice?

Inb4 they actually send an Anovos kit and Frank reminds us about it constantly

Looks good for basic to me! Nice work!

Looking great so far! Be sure to keep posting pictures and asking questions along the way

Just gonna go ahead and plug AP armor. I have 2.5 sets, have built about 4 total between myself and other people, and can vouch for it's quality!

I bought all 3, I'm secretly a billionaire Very cool finds though! Anyone know which ANH helmet trooper that was?

Worth noting, his 501st costume is not a set used one Rather a bunch of TDH folks helped put it together... here's a breakdown

I keep a single pouch with sideways straps for my shoulder one. I then have a loop of elastic that goes around my shoulder bridge to keep it mounted.

15mm 5/8" 24 Liege This one will fit Tandy Line 24 snaps that I use.

Oops didn't noticed the post after Joseph's! Looks like you're already ahead of me on that! See ya at Centurion soon?

You look very good! Joseph hit what I noticed. Only other thing... your belt is a bit long and that extra "flap" after the detonator might snag you on submission. I'd shorten up the belt a bit if you are able to, or hold down that extra bit with some velcro. Good luck!

You should totally take whoever made that awesome backpack out for a nice dinner or something! Good luck

As someone who makes and sells strapping kits, it's much cheaper to make them yourself. If you're going to snap/pads route, start off with a Snap Press because it's *so* worth the money in the long run. About 50 Tandy Line 24 snaps will give you more than enough to do an entire TK plus extras for screw ups. You'll need Nylon Webbing, 1" Black Elastic, and a little bit of 2" white elastic for the shoulders (cut in half for drop boxes). As Joseph said, buy a soldering iron or woodburning iron to burn holes/ends so they don't fray. Rivets and hand guards you can get on FISD for really good prices. If you're in Europe the correct sized rivets should be easy to get locally too.

So the thing about Tapatalk is they require their own plugin to be installed with their own authentication system. Then they advertise to everyone that visits your site, unless you pay them. Effectively their business model is to hold forum owners ransomed... and all for software that guts most of the features already available in the web view of IPS :/

I usually use imgur if something needs to be used by persistence isn't a big deal, it works pretty well so far. Now what I'd love to see, is FISD itself (or all the detachments) host image attachments. Currently there's a 0.83MB max limit per user or something tiny like that... maybe we could get that bumped up a little? Disk space can become a problem, but we could always attach an IPS script that resizes/jpegifies stuff down. It's what we did over on the CTG website. Obviously our traffic is nowhere near comparable to here though...

It's simple; if you host an image or anything on the internet and you don't own the web space, it's no longer in your control and it can be gone tomorrow. Photobucket has always been garbage tier service, but I'm kind of glad it showed so many folks that this kind of thing can happen. If you value information on the internet and don't want it gone tomorrow, host it yourself and save a copy locally!!!

Don't suppose we can get a re-upload or source of these? They were super useful before the great photobucket removal

Thanks for all you've done and continue to do!

... Field Report. Location Code: Location Id: Simsbury - Connecticut Transmission Details: The Connecticut 501st Garrison took over the Simsbury Children's Carnival! Four of our members went to the school yard for some fun photo ops with the kids, and to get in on the carnival shenanigans... Full image gallery here: https://ctg501.com/community/index.php?/gallery/album/16-simsbury-school-carnival-2018/

Full album here: https://ctg501.com/community/index.php?/gallery/category/2-event-photos/

Incoming Transmission... ... Field Report. Location Code: Location Id: New England Air Museum - Connecticut Transmission Details: The Connecticut 501st Garrison was joined by member of the New England Garrison as we took over the Air Museum in Windsor, CT for their annual Space Expo! Transporting the prisoner "You seen that new BT-16?" Flight Simulations! My husband also brought his Black & White film camera and snapped a ton of fun pictures:

I used charcoal powder then hair spray to keep it on. Gave the armor a bath and it all came off ezpz =)

Hello again! I'm Sarah Bailey, TK-20466. I'm the attache for Connecticut and also the commanding officer of the Connecticut Garrison! I started in the legion with an Imperial Stormtrooper (ANH Stunt) build a year and a half ago. Ever since then I've been hooked on building costumes! I was terrified on my first go around, but if a novice like me can learn all this stuff anyone can! I eventually talked my husband into joining (He's TK-66402!) and we both made Heavy Weapon Stormtrooper variants too! Later that year I also made an ESB-Style stormtrooper, which I swear I'll get to Centurion one day with I do more than just Stormtroopers though... Over the last year I've completed an Imperial Line Officer costume, and my first face-character Admiral Daala (my signature picture). I'm working on some non-CRL variants for her from other depictions. I've also started two Bounty Hunter Builds, my Dengar Build (which is nearing completion) and a Jodo Kast build (about a year out from completion). Along the way I picked up many new skills and learned a love of molding. Now instead of buying and assembling props, I make my own props too. (some people even buy them!!) If I haven't gotten a chance to say hi to you yet feel free to drop me a PM. If you're ever in Connecticut and need help or just want to say hi, feel free to drop me a line Or stop into one of our Armour Parties! ~20466

Zap a gap + kicker sorta works. Cut it up with a razor on the bottom for extra texture to grip. Or get ones with embedded cheese cloth or canvas