Alay

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!

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

For snaps: Tandy Line 24 snaps I'd strongly recommend https://www.tandyleather.com/en/product/line-24-snaps For cap rivets (belt) I'd use these: https://www.tandyleather.com/en/product/steel-double-cap-rivets For chicago screws (holster): https://www.tandyleather.com/en/product/chicago-screws (seeing a theme here? ) For split rivets (ab/kidney/cod/knee) you can nab them from joseph or for slightly less cheap from me https://www.etsy.com/listing/600962011/stormtrooper-516-8mm-movie-accurate Or if you're in Connecticut give me a shout and I'll hook you up with everything but the snaps for free

Yesterday afternoon the Connecticut Garrison hosted our second armor party of the 2018 year. This is my sixth armor party I've "lead". The Location The Portal in Manchester. The Portal is a local gaming store. Normally not quite the ideal scene for this sort of event, a member of the CTG (Jonathan Roath) is the general manager / partial owner of the place. He loves the 501st, and though he rarely has the time to actively participating in troops he goes out of his way to make sure these sort of outreach events have a place to happen. Just his way of giving back how he can. The cool thing about using this public venue is we get people that are just wandering in for tabletop gaming or whatever see us, come talk, and sometimes it leads to new recruits/events!! The Troopers Quentin - ID Pending Quentin is a new recruit of the CTG. He's working on a Del Mekko TIE Pilot uniform. Pretty slick, and he had tons of questions about approval, requirements, etc. He came with a printed CRL and a big smile and we were able to help point him in the right direction on a lot of stuff--and save him from a few ebay purchases! Michelle - TK 24124 Michelle is the newest CTG member. Recently approved as an ANH Stormtrooper, she brought along her helmet to ask some questions. Her main concern was replacing the eye pieces from acetate film to an actual harder material. I pointed her in the direction of green tinted face shield and let her snag some pictures of the buckets I'd set those in for ideas. She seemed to have a great time, and is excited for her first troop this Saturday!!! Nick - TX 686 Nick is our resident Death Trooper. He's also at just about every armor party to help, socialize, and put smiles on faces all around. His currently project is an all metal E-11D for his death trooper. Partially aluminum, he's machining several bits himself. Since I had a torched Sterling L2A3 I brought it for him to take for reference (since I'm still a long way from finishing my pipe to weld it to). It was really cool seeing the aluminum parts he'd gathered. He also hooked me up with a spare Hengstler Counter, so that was awesome!!! Brian - ID Pending Brian is a recruit of the CTG that was brought in by stumbling upon our armor parties! He purchases an Anovos TK kit a while back and has been assembling it over the past couple of months. He brought his kit to work on and ask some questions. He had us look over some parts, notably the leg and arm pieces, for a sanity check. Not that it was needed! Brian is doing an amazing job assembling it! I'm hoping to see him in our approval inbox very soon Christopher - TK 66402 Christopher is one of the CTG event coordinators. He brought along his stormtrooper kit to shine up like he does for most events, as well as talk and help out new members/builders. He's pretty fun to be around, that's why I married him. Arthur - ID Pending Arthur has been a recruit of the CTG for a while now. He's most of the way through a stormtrooper Rogue One style kit. He had a few personal complications along the way, but the end of those seem to be in sight and he should be in our approval inbox soon! He came by to meet the other recruits, say hi, and get a set of my Patented (patent pending) Floppy Silicone TK Hand Guards™ (trademark pending) Joan - ID 31461 Joan is the second event coordinator for the CTG. She lives wayyyyyy on the other side of the state, so it was a real treat to have her out and meet up with us Joan has been convinced to start building an ANH Stormtrooper, and came by to ask us where to cut some parts, and what parts are left/right for legs. She also came to nab a set of my Patented (patent pending) Floppy Silicone TK Hand Guards™ (trademark pending), since I'd asked her to testrun the first pull of them Now that she's over her fear of cutting into ABS I expect her to be up and running in no time. Oh yeah, I was there too. Group Shot:

Another year goes by, and I learn more things. I broke out the HWT for a troop again recently. The thighs and shins got *even smaller* to fit me better. I've ditched rubber gloves forever and now have nomex gloves with a self-made rubber backing. I'm putting magnets under the back of my shoulder bridges and under my backplate so they stay down nice and tight. I've repadded my helmet twice... my face is a tight squeeze in there. I'm redoing the backpack strapping because it KILLS my back currently. Going to go with a harness-like solution, ala Boba Fett.

I have one as well. It's quite nice. Solid resin though so don't drop it!

Looking amazing!!

You look great, only two things I noticed: Your forearms could stand to be a little lower on your arms to even out the gap on your wrist. I think your squishy handplates will have to be glued directly to the gloves for EIB; but definitely for centurion. Great job!

I'd strongly suggest against anovos; their shipping times are long at best, indefinite at worst. There's plenty of other great vendors (some even more accurate with kits) that deliver for similar prices.

Hey all, Just received basic approval on my ESB variant TK. I'd love some feedback in how I could improve it before I submit my EIB. One thing I noticed when wearing it was the gloves (rubber with clamshell) "tilted" forward if I made a fist or the glove slid forward. I might try and solve it with some velcro on the backside on the gloves, but does anyone have a better suggestion on correcting that? I may just stitch some for trooping.

Only differences are the belt, the gloves, and the helmet details. My ANH stunt is from AP. I bought a spare belt face from him, another belt to mount it to, a looped holster from a friend, some glove clamshells from TrooperMaster, and a second helmet from AP to paint black/user trooperbay decals on, then hotswap between them as desired Take a look at the vetted armor vendors thread in Getting Started section. Anyone that makes ANH armor should work fine

it doesn't need to be painted, just needs to be white ABS. It can be painted though, and would need to be if it was HIPS or HDPE.

I use my SE-14r with everything. Such a neat looking blaster!

Is Anovos armor truly that thin? I've never seen anything other than the helmet in person. I'm downright mean with some of my armor pieces and other than the occasional scuff I've never had a crack or break.