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Wow! Your perseverance really paid off! Congratulations! Do you have anything else you obsess about that you hope to find out about, and if so what is it?

To everyone that sees this! The forum is alive and buzzing because of you! Happy holidays! I truly believe that our community is one of the best, ever! So supportive and engaged! To the people that are keeping an eye on members and especially the mini life updates A.K.A. the troop logs, and keeps commenting on them, making sure we are still feeling encouraged, even long after their build processes are over - thank you!

I wouldn't say that it is unhealthy! I love being in this amazing place of knowledge, feeling like I'm being a part of the research and preservation of the best costume ever made! Just by learning the details and sharing your own tips of achieving them helps us preserve the truth and bring an even deeper connection and feeling for the people we show them to when we are out on troops! I remember when I was waiting for my BBB. I spent to much time here and got obsessed and looked at so many EIB and Centurion applications that by the time I received my BBB I had already planned out a schedule and a list of details I needed to fix to reach Centurion! My feeling is that if you're already a nerd and you're doing research and loving it, why not go all the way showing your dedication! I still cannot help going on here about 10 times a day just refreshing the page to see what the people I follow has commented on, or look for new messages from people such as yourself! Another thing for me was an obsession to create cool signature banners with all the correct garrison logos and the achievements and stuff to look even more cool on here! I now help others with that but I still get the same feeling! Best forum I've ever been a part of! Welcome and keep the obsession alive!!

It seemed in the picture where you have your back turned towards the camera that at least the left thigh is a bit too twisted to the left! Ideally, if possible, the cover strip of the thigh should be in the middle of the leg! I think that the right thigh might also be twisted too much to the right, but it's hard to tell with images that small!

Hello Hugo, nice to have you here, congrats on the approvals! Looking forward to follow your journey here on the FISD!!

Welcome Marc and thank you for the great introduction! It gave me all the right kind of feels! When you build a costume yourself - you usually don't need to spend an unrealistic amount of money, and it sounds like you really want to do it! To start with, we can just take a look where we are... The FISD! One of the best places I know of - such a nerdy, helpful, active, engaging and rewarding place to be! Some people drag the build process out over some years and others do it in just a few weeks. There is only one way and that is your own way, and which ever way you choose, we will be here for you! Getting into the whole progress sharing with the community is such a quick flow to get into as you've already started by making this post! And thank you for that! If you would get to the point of starting to build an armor, everything would be asked and answered in a build thread and the ball would be rolling onwards after that! Regarding what armors to get, in the Swedish Garrison at least, it is pretty much split 50/50 between RS and TM (Troopermaster), and we have at least one SDS armor that I know of but we do not recommend those kits, as will the people buying those kits tell you since they have to do much extra work to get approved. Just to get a taste of what you would eventually be getting into: Imagine that you finally get to kick the legs up onto the couch at home after hours upon hours of waving, high fives, fist bumps, dancing, marching, taking images with people, feeling like a celebrity, people giving compliments on your armor thinking you look sooo cool, hearing sad stories and feeling great at heart after you realize you've made their day, collecting money for charity, meeting new friends that are just as passionate and nerdy as you are, sharing tips and helping troopers, put someone's shoulder bell on and be loved forever, getting compliments on your armor by troopers, and in the end knowing you have stood on a row as 1 of 10 TK's that has made a crowd speechless. This is currently what I'm thinking about as I've just arrived back home from a troop! I'm looking forward to follow your thought process and journey! Welcome to the FISD and initiating the first steps of one day hopefully becoming a TK!

Grats Luca!!!

Hello Keith! Just reach out to your local GML!

Welcome Brent! Now that some time has gone, do you know what the most likely build for you will be? Excited to hear your thought process! There are a lot of different angles and one can take on this like, most common, easiest to put together, the most unique and so on! Here is a list where we can see our costumes within the Legion!

My case was a little too much since you can see my shadow in the very unfortunate lighting directly in front of me, and it is not at all that big in your case! I thought I'd just mention that it could minimize it even more and maybe even fit a little better even just with 1-2mm since it did wonders for my armor Just throught that if it was something that you had thought about it could be a good thing for me to just share, since I too have an RS armor and they tend to extend this particular edge! These comments doesn't affect the application anyway so don't take it as anything else than a tip for the future Excited to see that long awaited Centurion badge under your name Luca!

Looking great Luca! I think it is so cool to see a Centurion application of a kit that has been used for 25 troops!!! Looking shiny as ever! One thing that I had to do was to sand/cut back this overlapping part of the ab plate, since it casted somewhat of a shadow on my images (and wasn't as accurate as having little to no edge). In my case it was quite nice to do so since the fit got more snug! I used sand paper as I felt it gave me more control! I'm not sure you have to do this though! Good luck!

The pleasure was all mine my guy!

Something Yoda said comes to mind!

Hello and welcome Terry! Boy oh boy did I refresh my package tracking page when I was waiting for mine! Amazing that you have taken the first steps! The excitement cannot be measured If you could extract electricity from it then I'd say the electricity for my Christmas lights would have been covered Do you plan on taking it all the way to Centurion? Hint hint nudge nudge In the meantime, here is a thread with very helpful info!

Welcome back Matt! I'm looking forward to see how that E-11 will turn out!

I think I found a VERY close match? https://sidelineswap.com/gear/hockey/hockey-helmets/969157-jofa-wayne-gretzky-signed-helmet

We are on the right track with hockey helmets I think

I searched for hockey helmet interiors and found @dashrazor posted the interior of his helmet, and the pads looks extremely similar to the cutaway

Have you gotten an estimated time on when it will be done? A Christmas miracle maybe?

Do you want to learn Photoshop? I could just go through my files and thought process and the few tools I use if you're interested?

Wow congrats Paul! You look incredible!

Hello! Sorry for the late reply! Sent you a PM!

Pay me in posts on the forum, so that you spread that new banner like wildfire!

Amazing news! Congratulations Arvin! Judging by how good your armor looks, I'd love to see some applications in the EIB and Centurion threads in the future

No problem! Their customer service is amazing and you can also ask for some extra pieces of ABS to come with your order in case you need to cut some extra out or if you need to create some shims to make the ab plate and the kidney plate to line up without any gap! In that case if you have asked for extra pieces of ABS the color and quality will match which will make your life a whole lot easier! Hope to see you as a TK soon!