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I fear they might not be as helpful as I'd hope, since I never really went in-depth on these issues, but perhaps some of what I did mention might still help others. Build Thread EIB Application Centurion Application What might be of interest to other skinny people are the areas where I didn't resize, but instead worked with padding, return edges, and strapping to make it look like I fit the armor. In fact most of my measurements were based on the original measurements for the TK. I feel like this picture demonstrates the space underneath my shoulder bells and in my bicep/forearm/torso armor pretty well (where I lift my arm) -- whilst also showing how it looks proportional to everyone else.

I'm really skinny as well (177cm/51kg|5'10/113lbs), but with some resizing and padding I've been able to make it not only work, but even look proportional. Once you start building, just open a build thread and we'll be here to help. And some others have already posted some build threads that can help you achieve the correct height for your armor. You got this!

From Bielefeld? Impossible Welcome to the forum! If you ever need any help during the build, we're here for you. I hope we'll get to meet at a troop in the future

Good luck!

Also, @Nairy

Such a good series!

That looks like a super fun troop! And that Obi-Wan... wow, did he escape out of the movie? He's on point.

Maybe a buckets Off picture in your TK next year then? Rainbow hair looks awesome!

Pride Month is about to start and we're looking for your pictures for our Social Media! From TK-421 himself to our troopers marching in Pride parades all over the world, the LGBTQ+ community has always played a part in who Stormtroopers are. If you have some pictures of your Trooper in rainbow, you marching in a parade, or you're part of the community and want to show off your armor, please share your pictures with us! All that's needed is a picture of you, your ID and your Garrison/Outpost. You can submit your pictures either here in the thread or send them to me directly if that's preferable to you. If you don't have a good picture from this year, you can also submit older pictures. Good to know: for this one, we're not sticking strictly to the CRL. Flags, different paint and, yes, even Pauldrons are welcome. As this is for our LGBTQ+ troopers, please do not submit pictures of yourself in plain armor if you're not part of the community. Pictures of rainbow troopers however are more than welcome from all our troopers, whether you're part of the community or not! This thread will stay open until the 25th of June. Happy Pride Month, everyone!

Congratulations! Those pictures look awesome, I'm sure you'll get EIB without much trouble. Looking forward to meeting you on a troop one day!

Thank you, Paul! A bit surreal to finally have reached this milestone. Now on to the next badge Meme! Thank you, Adam! Especially the children's festival was all kinds of awesome. Thanks Nairy [51] 13.05.2023 -- Galaktisches Wochenende im Zoo Münster Back to one of my favorite events from last year -- I got to meet CC-75367 here last year and we quickly became close friends. Now it had been several months and this would be our first time meeting each other since Speyer in September. So despite a train strike coming up, I decided to risk the journey through half of Germany for at least one day of this event, and met up with IN-88900 on Friday. Shout-out to him for being a wonderful host once more and for agreeing with my music taste when we watched the ESC on Saturday evening. Looking at you @Nairy. Together with him and TK-10671 we drove to the zoo, got changed, and started our long treck throughout the zoo. So many fellow troopers, so many animals, so much dumb stuff done that day! Most of my day I spent with several clone troopers, visiting the playground, entertaining the wait queue, patrolling the park, and showing Omega, Hunter and Wrecker the way to the lions. Towards the end of the day we even had a pushup competition -- the Shocktrooper won that one by far. In between various shenanigans, I also got to meet several recruits. They were an absolute delight. One of them even walked with us for the parade. I foresee a bright future for the empire! TK-66744 signing off

Time to bring this back

Wow, thank you for sharing your story and pictures! It's been a long journey for you, but you did it, so welcome to the 501st and congrats on your first troops! And no worries, I think it feels a little surreal every now and then for all of us, that this is real, that we're Stormtroopers. It's as Nairy said, it's the best feeling in the world, being able to run around as a Stormtrooper and make other people so very happy when they get to meet a Stormtrooper. I'm glad you get to experience that now as well!

Requesting my 50 Troops Award

[50] 07.05.2023 -- HerzogTumult Children's Festival Mölln The big 50 -- finally! And I had so much fun as well! This one catapulted itself into my favorite troops with ease. Since I live in a pretty trooper-less area, we were all really happy to get six troopers together for this event. The children's festival had a lot of visitors and most were really excited to see us. Aside from us there were local clubs, emergency services, and several other exhibitors who offered opportunities for the kids to play and to learn. Sadly, us TKs couldn't climb this, but our scout fit into the safety harness and got all the way to the top with ease. The rest of us waited at the bottom and cheered for him. Luckily, there were lots of other stuff where the rest of us could participate -- ring toss, a nature quiz, a first aid refresher and a politics questionnaire were all completed. Afterwards we were invited to join a swordfight, in which the imperial forces lost spectacularly against dozens of Ewok-sized opponents. We didn't stand a chance against their sheer energy and all walked away -- or ran away -- with a few new scrapes and additional weathering. We cheered each other up by visiting the local scouts group and getting some popcorn and pancakes, which were prepared over a fireplace. Afterwards I didn't want to miss my chance to go onto the bouncy castle, so I simply had to drag DZ-15925, who managed to accompany us as a handler for the last two hours, over there to help me stay uprigh, take off my shoes, and take some pictures. TK-66744 signing off

[49] 06.05.2023 -- Lego Store Hamburg Getting up at 5am, this was going to be a long, long day. Similar to the Elbenwald Store on Thursday, Lego requested two troopers per store. This time, TK-21641 and I showed up to represent the Empire. The Employees were happy to have us there, but not as happy as the kids were, when they spotted two Stormtroopers guarding the store. At the very beginning TK-21641 and I decided to take up guard at the doors and soon enough a crowd began forming up. I've never before had this many pictures taken of myself. One after the other went up to ask for a picture with us, we barely had time to take a break or take pictures for ourselves. At times the employees even had to step in for crowd management. Despite so much going on, we still managed to find the droid we had been looking for, if only towards the end. As a thank you for showing up, the two of us each got to choose a Lego set worth around 70€, so I'm now the proud owner of a Lego Captain Rex helmet. And, yes, I'm already working on it. TK-66744 signing off

[48] 04.05.2023 -- Elbenwald Store Kiel For Star Wars Day several Elbenwald Stores across all of Germany requested two troopers. For those who do not know Elbenwald, they're a nerd store, so perfect for us, selling mainly Harry Potter, StarWars and Marvel merchandise. We stood at the entrance to the store, taking pictures with the guests. Since there wasn't much going on due to it being the middle of the week, we decided to fool around inside the store, trying out almost all of the merchandise on offer. I mean, I look absolutely dashing in this imperial robe, don't you agree? I was very, very tempted to actually buy this. Just look at it! TK-66744 signing off

I woke up to these news and am incredibly saddened to hear it. I didn't know him very well, but when we interacted he was always so very kind, helpful, and supportive. He was truly one of the people who helped FISD and FISD Members. He will be missed. My condolences to his family and friends. Bucket off.

Welcome to FISD! And good luck with your approval -- if you ever need help with anything regarding your Stormtrooper, we'll be here. Hope to see you apply for higher levels as well

Congratulations on reaching Centurion-- well earned!

Congrats on L4 -- that definitely counts!

Congratulation and welcome to Centurion!

Thank you both! [44] 07.04.2023 -- Star Wars Celebration London, Friday Without a break, the next weekend saw my longest travel to my largest troop so far: Star Wars Celebration. The Chaos Division met up on Wednesday, drove 11 hours by car on Thursday, and was ready for Celebration on Friday. Due to all the horror tales we'd heard regarding wait times and queues we arrived a short time after opening on Friday. I was the only one in my armor that day, everyone else wanting to see something at the convention. Mostly, we saw lots and lots of people, but we managed to run into some friends and one of the droids we were looking for. Although I didn't get to see much of the event itself, I still had lots of fun -- until I discovered that there were few to no seating options. When I had said before the convention that one could recognize me, since I'd be either dancing Macarena -- or sitting down on the floor... I did not expect to do both of those things during my first day. [45] 08.04.2023 -- Star Wars Celebration London, Saturday Saturday was the day of the group photos. Before we even got to enter the ExCel center for the first time that day, we were at the Garrison Group photo, the Squad group photo and -- finally! -- the 501st group photo. Whilst waiting for said photo I finally got to meet @Chemi and @Hoda. Meeting people from the forums in real life was simply amazing. Although the Detachment photos had originally been planned for the stairs in front of the center as well, said plan was changed and we finally got to enter the convention. In the empty hall behind the changing room was enough space for all the Detachment group photos and whilst waiting there was enough time to get to know even more Detachment members. Later that day the Chaos Division would come back for some pictures of our own: we'd film getting chased by Ahsoka and Rex, took a proper Fireteam photo, and we made fun of TIE pilots. I'd missed trooping with the whole team. [46] 09.04.2023 -- Star Wars Celebration London, Sunday These two Jedi had a bad feeling waiting for the DLR -- who expects to run into four Stormtroopers in the Railway, after all? On Sunday our day started with possibly even more pictures than the previous day, as we were held up before entering the convention. Later, we would discover a picture of ourselves in a German newspaper. We also arrested some of the local police. What for? No idea, but it was fun. During Sunday I finally got to meet the last people I'd been looking for, and we once more barely got to go anywhere. We took photos at the VW booth, with a Death Star, and with various visitors. During midday I entertained myself by acting as if I were a statue next to the 501st booth, scaring some of the visitors. Completely exhausted, we finished off the day by playing ball with Grogu before going back to the hotel a bit earlier than planned due to an injury. I went back in casual clothes for another hour before getting to meet even more people during the FISD Meet and Greet. Thank you to all who were there, I had an amazing time! [47] 10.04.2023 -- Star Wars Celebration London, Monday Last day of Celebration and I was the last trooper standing, as the rest of the Fireteam had decided to go casual once more. Everything hurt, I was exhausted, but at least I got to sit down during the Bad Batch Panel. Monday was a bit calmer than the previous days, which I greatly enjoyed. We ended the day a bit earlier to go explore London instead. It was my first time in the UK and I'm glad I got a bit of sightseeing in before we had to go back the next day. Thank you all for the wonderful time, and a #notatyourpost (except Danny) for my fellow FISD Staff TK-66744 signing off

[42] 01.04.23 -- Power of the Force Cologne, Days 0+1 Once more I got to be part of the wonderful construction team for our booth, so I arrived a day early to help set everything up. It took us about 4.5 hours to get everything ready and afterwards we went to grab something to eat. Starting Saturday by standing guard outside, I made the biggest mistake of the weekend by not listening to my body when I started freezing in the low temperatures. Luckily TR-88900 helped me warm up again by allowing me to stay underneath his robe for a while. Following that we went back to our usual duties -- guarding the throne, being available for pictures, and escorting several of the star guests. A highlight among those were Ken Colley (Adm. Piett) and Julien Glover (Gen. Veers), especially for the various officers who were there. In the afternoon there was a short parade as well as the group photo before people slowly started to leave. [43] 02.04.23 -- Power of the Force Cologne, Day 2 Having woken up not feeling well, I decided to skip standing guard on Sunday. But even so I continued to feel worse, until after about two or three hours I was forced to leave my costume due to intense shivering, dizziness, and just not feeling well at all. Some of my friends of the Galactic Academy thus took it upon themselves to lend me one of their jackets and kept me supplied with energy drinks, snacks, cake, and some paracetamol, whilst I took a break to man first their booth and then the German Garrison booth whilst half out of armor. Their magic potion of care, warmth, caffeine, sugar, and meds managed to get me back up after about two hours and I went back into armor for the last two hours of relaxed trooping -- this time having fun at the Galactic Academy booth. After the convention we got our booth back down and packed up in under two hours and said goodbye to everyone. Despite not doing well (to a point where I probably shouldn't have been trooping at all. Always take care of yourself!), I still had a lot of fun and want to thank all my fellow troopers for their support! TK-66744 signing off