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Hello Arturo, Welcome.

Welcome Marty. Looking forward to seeing your kit.

Welcome Kevin. Looking forward to seeing your build.

Welcome Matt

Hi Florian. Welcome to the FISD

Hi Adam. Welcome to FISD. I too was scared and overwhelmed when I started my journey a year and a half ago. The information given above I’d-s exactly what you need to get started. Looking forward to seeing your build thread. Remember, ask lots of questions, we are here to help you succeed

Congratulations Greg. ‘Welcome to the FISD and the Canadian Garrison. ‘Looking forward to trooping with you soon.

Congratulations on your first troop Logan. Looking great.

Troop 37 Hamilton Comicon Hamilton , Ontario September 23, 2023 Day 2 was fun with us getting to do a photoshoot in the Buffalo aircraft. Got to troop with @Wompet today as well. This was also the same troop 1 year ago when I did my first troop. Some other shots from the day.

Troop 36 Hamilton Comicon Hamilton , Ontario September 23, 2023 This was the 3rd of 3 comicons in the past month. Time for a short rest. I have now started trooping in 2 costumes now that my death trooper is complete. Wearing the fibreglass death trooper really makes you appreciate how light and easy to wear the ABS TK kit is. I was a bit late on the booth duty sign up, so missed out on being a target for blast a trooper but still managed to get a spot as range assistant.

Congratulations

My jaw is still hanging down 5 minutes after watching that.

Troop 34 & 35 London Comicon London, Ontario September 16 and 17, 2023 This was a much smaller con than the last one and was a very fun troop. we did morning patrols around the convention on both days and had most of our photo ops there. We came across this heroine person taking a break from fighting crime. He was kind enough to pose with us Next we came across some sort of android type statue. Something about the resistance and futility I think they were saying. Since Lord Vader never lets us pilot the battle cruisers, we jumped at the opportunity to take this one out for a spin. For a moment , I thought these were the droids we were looking for but no such luck. This one definitely was a little short to be a stormtrooper. One convention guest had a completely new spin on driving the AT-AT On Saturday afternoon. We were visited by Brendan Wayne who wears the Din Darin costume on the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal only wears it during helmet off scenes apparently), as well As Lateef Crowder who does the fighting and stunt scenes in the Din Djarin costume and Misty Rosas who is the performance actor that did the motion capture for Kuill in season 1 and for the Frog Lady in season 2 of the Mandalorian. They stayed around our booth for about a half hour doing photos and trying blast a trooper. We made Lateed and Brendan honorary 501st members as well.

Nice job

Starting to look like a proper TK. Not sure if it is on your to do list, but that sharp point at the top of your left thigh likely should be trimmed or it will be digging into you when you walk.

I got my first crack after 33 troops, not a bad run. I decided to try something different, having had to work with fibreglass building my death trooper costume, I picked up some new techniques. Here is the crack in the chest piece at the neck line. Materials used: UV resin paint brush tape UV light scissors Bondo fibreglass cloth sandpaper First, I taped the outside side of the crack to align it and hold everything in place. Next I brushed on a thin layer of UV resin and cured it. Took about 10 seconds Next, I cut a piece of the fibreglass cloth to cover the area . Then I painted on.another thin coat of resin, applied the cloth onto the wet resin and then dabbed another layer of resin onto the cloth to soak it in. Once this was done, I cured it again I then added a few more layers of resin curing them as I went. Finally, I sanded the repair smooth with 11pm grit sandpaper There was a slight edge to the repair, so I sanded it with 220 grit sand paper, then buffed with 1000 the 2000 grit sand paper and finished with Novus polish All repaired in less than 5 minutes

Hello and welcome to the FISD. Looking forward to seeing your build.

Welcome back Patrick

Welcome Marcel. Glad you persisted and it looks like it paid off

Troop 33 Fan Expo Canada - Day 4 Toronto, Ontario Aug 27, 2023 The final day was pretty much the same format as the previous 2. Did a 2 hour shift on Blast-a-Trooper and hung around the set for photo ops with guests. In the morning before the show opened, I stopped by the Disney+ booth that had props from Ashoka on display as well as a cool 360 degree camera video to try. Got some cool screen captures from it.

Troop 32 Fan Expo Canada - Day 3 Toronto, Ontario Aug 26, 2023 We did our Garrison photo before the con opened. We had a pretty good turn out with about 70 members in costume. It was fun to have several TK’s kitted up, so we took advantage of the Tantive 4 set before the show opened.

Troop 31 Fan Expo Canada - Day 2 Toronto, Ontario Aug 25, 2023 Took it a bit easier today trooping the morning and then spending the afternoon with family before doing a short costumed period in the evening. Got to show off my shiny white armour to my brother. We saw ANH together in the summer of 78 at a theatre in California. He cried because he wanted to see “Benji Come Home”. We still do not let him live that one down to this day.

Troop 30 Fan Expo Canada - Day 1 Toronto, Ontario Aug 24, 2023 We had a huge set this year for Fan Expo with a Hoth set, Jabba’s throne room, our droid scrap yard with speeder bike and the Tantive 4 corridor. Also blast a trooper was back in full force. I over did it a bit today with 2 troops back to back spending 5 hours in costume, then took a 90 minute break, then kitted up for another 3 hours. I learned my lesson when my feet rebelled that evening and eased up over the next 3 days. Photos of our sets Oh and did I mention, we had a full sized Tauntaun? Had to take this shots in costume. My son and daughter-in-law visited the booth for a photo op as well.

Troop 29 Fan Expo Canadian Citizenship Ceremony Toronto, Ontario Aug 24, 2023 This was a pre Fan Expo troop in which 91 people were awarded their Canadian citizenship. They posted 2 stormtroopers to stand as honour guard at the door. After the ceremony, we all posed for photos and mingled with the crowd. New citizens were given a pass to attend the Con later that afternoon. Lots of fun and great to see people so excited to get their citizenship. Suited up and ready to trek across the convention centre. Making the trek through the convention centre, navigating elevators and escalators and posing for the obligatory elevator selfie. Next we stood as honour guard and greeted guests coming into the ceremony Grabbed a quick phot with an RCMP Mountie. Post ceremony group shots

Awesome work Adam. A true thing of beauty