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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!

Welcome to FISD David! Congratulations on finally becoming a 501st Stormtrooper! We don't see a lot of ESB troopers, what an excellent choice! Are you happy with your build? Would be awesome to see some photos!

Wow that is really night and day compared to before!

Awesome application!!!

Congratulations #1084!!!

Welcome to the ranks, Centurion #535!

Enjoy your new banner @KorbenDallas

Joseph is not on the forum anymore!

I think you look fantastic, the details so far are amazing! The only thing I thought of was the positioning of the leather fabric details, if you could try and get the angles we see? Bad image from he here, but something I thought of: to move out the starting point of the diamond-stiched pieces to create a larger gap as we see in the image, the same with the two pieces under it (move them out a little from each other, and have more of an angle that makes them go more straight down), and possibly a sharper V in the center piece It lookes like it can help with the look as well if you had larger biceps, both a bit wider but mostly longer, since the gap between the biceps and forearms is a bit more than what we see on screen! (alternatively larger shoulder bells, in that case you should just be able to move the biceps down a bit) That's the only thing I saw (although I of course agree with the R1 shins overlapping the other way around, I didn't think of it at first), and you should really be proud of what you have done so far!

Didn't see anything regarding the ab plate mentioning R1, but isn't it just an R1 ab?

Would this work? I drew it like it's seen from above Plate Velcro strip Direction The blue arrow would indicate that it could go flush with the left side! Some velcro strip on the backside of the printed seam on the left (which it looks like you have already?) If you are able to bend it a bit it should be able to close up! If you don't want to have a strip going all the way along the right side then maybe a small portion in the top and one in the bottom (where it is the most bendable)

Enjoy your new banner @JBar

This sounds weird but I'll just say it anyways to have it said: Shouldn't the print close up exactly where the cut next to the big strip is?

Oh a Vader, most impressive! Out of curiosity, how tall are you?

Bad image but I think you know what I mean

You could add a strip on the inside of the side that doesn't have the strip attached to it! Just put velcro under the strip and some velcro on the strip you added! Do you think that could work?

Sorry to hear that! Great thing to clean up those teeth, it's a really easy and quick and satisfying job to do, I think so at least hehe! Do you have EIB in mind perhaps?