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Congrats trooper!

If you are referring to the top return edge, then yes.

Yep. No hard number for stripes. You can even have a different number of stripes on each side. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey Giles. It’s awesome to see your application here! Looking good! You might want to lower your forearms a touch - perhaps just a dressing issue?

Trimming the top of the thighs is a good place to trim. You really don't want any return edge up there anyways - trust me. You are right about the shins - trooping is the best test. And it is easier to take away plastic than to add it. Again, armour looks great.

Great job! You might want to bring your belt up a touch (about 5mm or so) so that it is overlapping the bottom of the button panel. Other nick-picky things are: the tube stripes on the left side seem to extend pretty far forward. I'm not sure if this will affect approval. Your back plate is over-riding your kidney plate a bit in some pictures - this is not a requirement for EIB (or even Centurion, necessarily) but just an area that might need a strapping adjustment. Trimming a little off the return edge at the bottom of your shoulder bells might bring them in a little - makes for less black space between the shoulders and chest. Nice work and good luck with approval!

Hey Ryan, I just noticed this build thread. Great job on sizing down that armour! Since you are already referencing Cricket's build, I can't really add anything truly helpful here. I'll repeat something that has already been said - you will probably want to trim away some of the return edge at the top of the forearm for comfort - speaking from experience. Keep up the good work. I like your solution for hot bathing larger items.

Looks very good! Nice work. As mentioned above, moving the torso up a touch will help out with the thighs. I found that I had to pull my AP armour up nice and snug to get a good fit (I'm 5'10", so that may or may not work for you too). You might have to add straps to your chest to ab connection to pull up the ab if you are shorter. The shoulder bells and drop boxes were mentioned already. Can you pull your shins down any more? Might help with mobility. I'm really struggling to find things to point out. You look great for L1 and even L2 from what I can see. A couple of L3 / screen accuracy things might include adding a little white paint to your hovi mics to simulate weathering. I would lose the back tube stripe that gets partly covered by the ear. You did a great job with the sniper knee and the back to kidney seam. These were things that gave me grief on my build. I think we will be seeing you at Centurion soon.

Congrats trooper!!

Thank you, sir!

And... approved!! That was quick!

Well, I posted my application photos for PO over at MEPD. I guess we’ll see. In the meantime, more fun in photoshop. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Correct - ideally no gap. Is there a gap when you are wearing the armour? When wearing it, the back piece usually pivots back a bit and closes the gap in the middle of the back to kidney seam. I can't speak for AM armour, but with my AP armour I had to do a little reshaping of the return edge of the back piece with a hot water bath to get it perfect (well... better than it was).

Wow, Daniel. I haven't check out this build in a while - nice work!

LOL So, if I understand this right... you are offering to order and build these for me? That's great, Matt! That will give me time to start researching a landspeeder build. Thanks! Now if you will excuse me, the markets are about to open.

This madness is the new constant in life. I’m already researching the next build and I haven’t even started this one. I may need an intervention.

That’s pretty much what my wife said. Minus the “lol”.

Oh yes. And then there is this... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Well, the magnets didn’t hold as well as I hoped. I will have to double up. I did troop a few days in the TD and discovered a few places that needed trimming and a few that need padding. I picked up an iComm system for my TD and it has been great. I also need to adjust the padding/weight distribution in my helmet - it keeps tilting one way thanks to my USB power source. Here are a few pics from the troop. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Great job on the armor! Looks like a really good fit. Easy pass.

Nice job! I'm glad the build helped! As mentioned, you are good for basic... at least. Most of what is mentioned above could be dressing issues. Daniel makes a good point regarding the button plate. For your shoulder bells - try giving them a little hot water bath to change the curve of the bottom. They tend to be a little narrow front to back - if that makes sense. Or tighten up the elastic that goes around the bicep - that can help too. Your forearms could come down a touch to balance out the black space between your hand guards and forearms versus your forearms and bicep. Sometime this is just a matter of giving the forearms a little tug down - at least until your elastics get a bit more worn. Again, looks great!

Black lines look much better. If you are using Humbrol paint, I find the blue can take a long time to dry enough to scrap away. At least a day depending on temp and humidity. I did the same thing with mine - luckily even the smudges will scrape off once dry (you might need a bit of mineral spirit on the toothpick, but it is doable). Nice work!

Awesome work Erik! Congrats!

Looks good Mark. The height on the belt is good. As the pics show, you could come up a bit to just slightly cover the lower button if you wanted to. For the poppers vs line 24 snaps - I agree with you, the line 24 snaps seem stronger - at least with the ones I had. I went with the line 24 snaps so I don't have trooping experience with the poppers. If you are going for screen accuracy - then the poppers are the way to go. I just feel more confident trooping with the line 24 snaps (I tend to bump my belt a lot - I'm surprised I haven't knocked it off during a troop yet).

Yes!!! This has been a fantastic build. The best part is yet to come - trooping! See you at Centurion