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Hi Joe, Thank you for your EIB application. Your armour looks great and is close to EIB level, but we are going to need a few changes before we can go ahead and approve it. Lets start at the top and work our way down. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. Helmet We are going to need a bit of paint cleanup on the frown ear bars and vocoder. This should be a fairly quick fix with a toothpick dipped in varsol or mineral spirits to carefully scrape away the over painted areas. DO NOT USE ACETONE FOR THIS AS IT WILL MELT THE PLASTIC ON THE HELMET. Your paint on the frown is extending up onto the gums in several areas. Please take a few minutes to clean this up. CRL Basic: Frown is painted gray and does not leave the teeth area. A total of 8 cut outs in the teeth area of the frown are present. References For your ear bars, the black outline will need to be cleaned up a bit as well. References Similarly, your vocoder paint needs to be cleaned up a bit to give more of a defined outline for each of the stripes. Again, this should be a fairly easy correction with a toothpick and some varsol or mineral spirits. References Shoulder straps The white elastic under your shoulder straps is being pulled out by the shoulder bells. This can be corrected by placing some velcro between the ABS shoulder strap and the white elastic one that is being pulled out. This will also bring your shoulder bells in a bit more and achieve the level 3 criteria. References Biceps Your biceps armour pieces are rotating somewhat when worn, this is likely caused by them being a bit too large. This can be corrected by padding the inside with some foam to help keep them aligned with your arm, or by trimming down some of the size for a better fit . References Forearms Your forearms are sitting a bit too high, creating a larger gap than desired at the wrist area. For a more screen accurate look, you want to try to adjust the strapping between the biceps and forearm to create similar sized gaps between the biceps and forearm and forearm and hand plate. References Abdominal Armor The lower edge of the abdominal armour should align with the edge of the cutout notch in the kidney armour. This should be a fairly easy correction and take a few minutes of trimming and sanding. References

Hi Brent, Thanks for your patience while we looked at your blaster repairs. The blaster definitely looks better and will pass for level 2 (EIB) approval. There are still some print lines visible around the hengstler eagle emblem that we would want cleaned up for Centurion level approval however. We know that they are typically more visible in photos than with the naked eye, but at level 3, we want everything to look as good as possible. With this completed, the only remaining item to get your EIB approval is the positioning of the thermal detonator. We just need you to adjust the positioning of the control panel so it faces backwards. Your thermal detonator control panel is facing a bit too much upward instead of to the back. This can be corrected by carefully unrolling the lower portion of the clips to roll the thermal detonator down. CRL L1: The white control panel raised ribbed pad faces the rear, with the controls/round washer style detail closest to the right end cap. References

Hello Frances, Welcome to the FISD. Looking forward to seeing your build.

Welcome back Tracy

Congratulations and welcome.

Hi Chandler. Welcome aboard. Looking forward to following your build.

@thelightsabercomplainer If you can’t get to AP through his Etsy account, then emailing Mark at [email protected] is the best way to contact them.

I don’t know DAProp and it looks like their Etsy store is currently closed, so it is tough to get an idea of their accuracy. make sure to look at this post for vendors we know are trustworthy and produce accurate costumes.

Welcome John

Welcome Seth.

Congratulations Justin.

Congratulations Justin

Welcome Nick. I think I can speak for the majority when I say that we were all pretty new to stuff like this when we first started. You will be amazed at the skills you develop making costumes. Always feel free to ask lots of questions and it looks like you are doing your research already which is the first big step that so many skip over. Looking forward to seeing your build.

Welcome Vincenzo. Your modelling work is absolutely amazing.

Hi Brent The barrel looks much better now. I apologize for not catching it earlier, but your hengstler looks to have some significant print lines as well that we will need to be removed. Sometimes lighting or angles on the photo make these more obvious.