Doggydoc

Welcome back. looking forward to seeing your build

Hello Burn. welcome to the FISD. looking forward to seeing your build

Congrats on EIB.

Amazing work Adam.

Hi Robert. Welcome to the FISD. Looking forward to seeing your build.

Congrats trooper. Welcome to the 501st.

Troop 4 - Oct 22, 2022 The Great Pumpkin Trail - Royal Botanical Gardens - Burlington Ontario My first Outdoor troop on a beautiful fall evening. Lots of some smiles and high fives from kids and parents. Found this poor guy floating in the water and tried to give him a hand Leave it those darned Jolly Roger Squadron folks to be pulling pranks.

Looking amazing. Your work is truly inspiring

Congrats.

Now that is looking like a proper stormtrooper helmet

Here is a photo of the screen used helmet. It is much thinner throughout the entire ear. Just trim slowly and keep testing the fit to see where to trim

it’s tough to tell with the 2 pieces separate. I found that it helped a lot to build the helmet and hold it together with the magnets to get a feel of what it looks like to see if the brow is good or not. RS propmasters has a great tutorial video for the helmet. My kit is an AP one , so not exact but it still helped a lot.

My wife and daughter were laughing at me because I also said finally and rewound and paused it over and over to look.

Hey Carter. It’s a good start. The ears are tough. Each one took me a few hours to get trimmed. when I did mine, I followed the tutorial that I posted below. Before attaching or fine trimming the ears, I placed them in the correct alignment to line the screws up with the back line of the traps. I then lightly traced the ear with pencil on the helmet so I could trim and place repeatedly without having to realign it. once this was done, just start trimming small amounts at a time like the tutorials show. Go slow and remember. The screen ones used were not perfect.

I received info from Jim at Jimmiroquai a couple of weeks ago. His kits are flexible fibreglass and this is what he says about sizing. ”Without mods, this armor will fit someone 5'6" to around 6'1". Waistline 32" - 45" (guestimate). Thighs are 27" circumference at the widest part. Biceps are 17". If you are familiar with working with fiberglass, or know someone who is, you can modify the armor to fit outside the range. FOTK armor is actually more of a “one size fits almost all” kind of design with gaps being covered by the gaskets” hope this helps

Gonna look awesome.

Congrats Adam. Very well deserved.

Welcome to FISD. Love the photo.

Bonjour Jean Louis. Bienvenue a la FISD.

Smart move on leaving the extra room. Once you have them trimmed down like you do, you can now tape the 2 halves together and figure out the fit, then trim what you need. I also have slightly larger biceps and forearms, so my cover strips were 20 mm I believe. 15 mm is pretty thin when you actually look at it. The issue that caught me was the space between the cover strip and edge of the forearm was too wide when I applied for certification and I had to trim a bit down. so I would lean to widening the cover strip to better cover the raised flat area. Some of the more experienced builders can please correct me, but from what I understand, the 15 mm is screen accurate but if you need larger, it will not affect your approval as long as it looks proportional. The thing to aim for however is that the width of the cover strip on the forearm and biceps is the same to give the uniform appearance running down the length of the arm (same for shins and thighs).

Congrats on your first troop (as a TK)

Congrats on your BBB. Keep that photo of all the armour pieces on the floor to show people who have no idea what is involved in making the costume what it starts like. I started with the biceps since they were fairly straightforward. Just make sure that they are not upside down like I did when I couldn’t figure out why they weren’t fitting right.

Congratulations on the EIB approval. Awesome job

Looking awesome Adam

Looks awesome. Great job