Nairy

Best of luck trooper! You look great!

Hello Elmer! Welcome to FISD and congratulations on your approval!

Hello Paul and welcome to FISD! The feature on Netflix is awesome, and it explains exactly what we do and what we are about! Many go with the OT Stormtroopers, and we have a lot of detailed build threads of those particular customes, which I suspect you've had a look at already? Is the extra levels of accuracy something you've been looking into, Expert Infantry and Centurion? The first step is already done, and that's the hardest one - just picking one custome to start with! I know the excitement that you feel and the excitement you have ahead of you, so we're really looking forward to see your journey unfold! Congratulations on finding your way here, and for taking the decision to join the best community in the world that gives so much joy to so many!

Wohooo congratulations Torben! #1085

Welcome to the FISD trooper! That custom santa hat is awesome!!!

There needs to be a CRL first, but if you're there one that we base the CRL on (a.k.a the first approvable costume) then the CRL would first be created and once it is, you send your images to your GML as usual

Hello and welcome to the forum Alvaro! Glad to have you here! We currently have a few people building the Enoch! I would also suggest going here to check out some of them to learn more about it! https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/266-cpt-enoch-build-threads/

Nice one! I'm sure it will look great!

Hello again James! Just checking in, how is everything going with your Enoch build? Do you have any updates for us? I've seen your build thread and it looks good so far!

Hello Mark, and welcome to the forum! Thanks for sharing the picture, you're probably very productive in your office now that you have a Stormtrooper making sure that you're working? Must feel awesome!

Wow that's so awesome! Congratulations TK 30455! Welcome to the ranks trooper!

Awesome to hear David!! Will you start when you get back from overseas in the end of January, or do you have your kit with you over there?

Congrats Justin!!! Looking great!

Hello Felix, just checking in - how is everything going?

Hello again Torsten! Did you get something from RS now that they had deals in November? Excited to hear how it's going!

Hi Katana! How's it going with your Phasma build?

Good morning Ed! I've been curious to see your progress, how is everything going?

A bit late to the party, but: Hello James and welcome! Starting to look good!! How is everything going?

Amazing work!

That's a great document John! Thank you for sharing!

But don't get discouraged! There is no stress, and doing it in your own tempo is always the best when it comes to these things. I must just add that I'm not a Deployment Officer either, I just pointed out some things that can help with the look overall! Regarding the painting of your tube stripes, you have done the arches a bit thin! You have painted them the correct distance from the cheek, so that's great! But did you use two pieces of tape (one above the paint area and one below)? The ends of the lines are straight (an effect of removing masking tape from the paint area), and they are usually a teeny tiny bit thicker! It would really help with the look of the helmet! Painting them with masking tape is much easier than without it! So that considered, very well done! The tape (I feel) makes it easier to do more even stripes since you can be a little less careful with it! They lean the wrong way a little bit, see the reference below! The tops of the stripes lean more forwards than the bottoms, the closer you get to the front of the helmet!

Just to have it mentioned: Here is a comparison to your helmet (also an ATA kit), and it looks like your ear sits a little bit low? EIB thread for comparison The bottom of the ear sticks out! It also looks like your trim is a little bit on the round side compared to what we usually see! EIB thread for comparison

Hello Tom! Awesome to see you apply for Expert Infantry! Great job so far, you look like a Stormtrooper! Some suggestions on what you can do to make it look better! It looks like you've left too much return edge on many of your pieces: The bottom "lip" (return edge) of your chest could use a ltitle more trimming! The button plates could use a trimming, and the buttons could use a touch up as well, making them rounder and cover a little more of the bumps (not all the way down though) The vocoder could use a touch up Cut out one more hole for an additional tooth as per the base requirement for 501st approval: A total of 8 cut outs in the teeth area of the frown are present. I must just say, great attention to detail regarding the teeth paint though! They look awesome! Just extend the pain and cut out one more tooth and you're good there! Dab some white paint on that rim! Correct Aerators/Hovi-MIX tips are present. Screens used shall be of a wide type mesh, with the rim of the mic and the inside white or painted white. Don't forget to close your shins! Looks like your butt plate is sticking out!

Great work! Welcome to the ranks!