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This looks SO good!! Well done Alice! Don't forget to weather your pauldron! Your lovely armor weathering is making that pauldron look a little shiny and new.

omg. Chances of me printing this are high.

For the answer to every possible short-trooper question possible, I present @Cricket's excellent build thread. For the thighs, certainly trim them for your body. It is definitely needed. Trim at the top and try to follow the shape that already exists. Trim a few times instead of one huge trim. It's much easier to remove material than it is to add it back on. I'm a huge advocate of a belt to hold up the thighs and I'm 95% sure Cricket uses the same method in the link above. A "tactical" belt made of nylon that fastens with velcro is the best option in my humble opinion. The velcro lets you snug it up super tight on your hips regardless of how fat or thin you are that day. Being in between a belt size is not fun and everyone's weight fluctuates. Hang some nylon straps off the belt and attach them with double snap straps to your thighs. Not having the thigh weight hang from your shoulders is fantastic. Hope this helps!

Jeep guys will go quackers for this.

Beautiful pack!!!

I did use paypal for my purchase. I just remembered that. Maybe an option to not expose your bank info?

I bought the file and had no bank or spam call issues. I've also purchased previous Cults files before.

BEAUTIFUL work sir. I didn't quite have things lined up with my image above. Very happy to see you have the 10 openings. I need to print your bucket. I sliced my Nico helmet teeth on the inside of the bucket to have about that same edge that you designed yours to use.

If you have a phone with multiple lenses, try the 3x lens. I'm on a Samsung (S24ultra I think) which has 2 wide lenses (.6 and 1.0), a normal lens (3.0x) and a zoom lens (10x). There's also some software zoom settings that don't actually change the lenses (2x, 5x, 30x, and 100x) which can and should be ignored. On an iphone, I think the 5x lens is the right one to use. A Canon Rebel would be fine as long as you're not using a wide angle lens. The focal length is the issue, not the camera. If you put a kit lens at the 18mm setting on your Rebel, you'd have the same issue as your phone. You wanna use something like a 50mm to 85mm fixed lens. On an 18-55 kit lens (common with many cameras), somewhere around 35mm would be a great focal length.

That's a shame the etsy store closed. Thanks for the link! I grabbed his spacepack. I've got a half dozen files from Oxprops. He does fantastic work.

I modified my Jimmi and Nico buckets in about 20 minutes total. Not too bad.

I totally agree. 10 spaces is right. I'm just trying to point out that - very likely - no current helmet print file or prop producer has 10 spaces.

I don't quite have things lined up perfectly, but it's good enough to post - this is @TKModder421's helmet, which is obsessively modified from Nico's already-gold-standard helmet. Please note the teeth. Nine teeth. Eight openings. There COULD be ten openings with some hand modification to the printed parts, but it would be difficult. The outer teeth go pretty far to the edge. My printed Nico bucket is the same. I think every kit would require very careful modification to achieve ten openings. However, NINE teeth is the correct number that should be in every R1 based CRL.

It's a resin printed (huge) stud. I used Elegoo's clear red resin in my Saturn2. I think I printed four of them before I got a good one. Hollowed out in chitu box with the breathing hole exposed on the back edge of the stud. There's a very small gap between the black ABS and the red resin to keep it from cracking.

Once in a great while, this one attends a troop with me. Usually the unofficial toy themed ones.

Congratulations Centurion!

Looking good trooper!!! Welcome!!!

Welcome to FISD! Glad to have you here.

I would honestly leave it. That's just weathering and experience. It'll get more impossible to remove marks like that. This isn't a bad spot for some weathering honestly. Make sure none of your soft goods are touching your armor inside your storage bin. I keep my soft goods inside a white pillow case. That'll protect it from purple smudges as purple tends to come from clothing dye. If you want to try more aggressive removal tactics, get some fine cut rubbing compound from your local auto parts store. It's like fine liquid sand paper. WAAYYYY more aggressive than Novus plastic polish but still quite gentle on your plastic.

You look FANTASTIC!!! Congratulations and welcome to the ranks!!

Just my own humble opinion, but I think for weathering, more is MORE. I don't feel like it's a case of "less is more" until you get quite far with it. I think more chipping shows more experience and like your trooper has lived more life. As long as it's still a stripe, I say weather it as much as you want. Or as little as you want. Weathering is beautiful. The more the better.

to my fellow troopers who keep this place friendly and inviting.

I noticed that too. I loved that detail!

Welcome to FISD Sam! Looking good in that kit!

You want lexan shears. They're little scissors meant exactly for this task. https://www.amazon.com/Hobbypark-Trimming-Scissors-Bodyshell-Helicopter/dp/B088WVN6M5 Here's a set on amazon, though I haven't tried this exact set. They're all about the same. A set of these shears does about 1 TK kit exactly. You can also get them at a local hobby shop. Their real job is to trim the hollow plastic bodies of RC cars. So that sorta hobby shop, not a Hobby Lobby style place. Respirators - I never used one when building my TK. I use them in my daily job but never had any worries about TK building. About the worst fumes are from melting the ends of elastic straps. I use one of these to protect me from cancerous materials I use in my profession. I can wear glasses with it. I used to have a full face helmet when my eyes were better. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IF7RBS4 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009POHLRC and these filters. https://www.amazon.com/C-S-Osborne-Durable-Setter-229-24/dp/B07CQWTB36 Snap tool. I swear by this simple thing. You hammer Tandy Line 24 snaps into elastic and nylon strapping with it. https://www.amazon.com/Tandy-Leather-Snaps-Nickel-1263-12/dp/B003ABSPT4 100 snaps is about enough for a TK kit.