Tilheyra

Welcome! Great to see someone from Kansas City! I grew up on the Kansas side of the Kansas City area (but I didn't join the 501st until well after I moved away). Your local garrison is the 70th Explorers, which covers Kansas and most of Missouri: https://www.70thexplorers.com/ You should be able to find local help as much of their membership is clustered in Kansas City (and Saint Louis as well). The FISD forum here is great to explore, do lots and lots of research, and ask questions about your build. I highly recommend creating a build thread here so you can post all of your progress photos and ask all the questions you have. However, local help is always great, especially if you are working on a complicated task.

Do you really want me to give the lecture on sampling techniques versus a census?

The belt should be made from nylon/cordura or nylon/cordura-like material. From the TK Shock Trooper CRL: The soft belt proper is tightly woven nylon/cordura like/style material or material with a tightly woven nylon/cordura like/style covering. Size must be 2.25" (57mm) to 2.5" (64mm) wide. The color is to be white to off-white.

To prevent bunching of the bib on your neck seal, put on the neck seal prior to putting on the undersuit. That will keep the bib underneath the undersuit and not out where it is free to bunch up. Padding on the inside of the thigh and lower leg pieces can be used to pull the sniper knee outward and prevent contact with the bottom of the thigh piece. Put some padding on the back side (of the inside) of the lower part of the thigh piece, and some padding on the front side (of the inside) of the upper part of the lower leg piece. That padding will act to push the sniper knee forward and the bottom of the thigh piece backward.

Woohoo!!! Ten troops!!!!!!!!

And feel free to show off your awesome trooping photos, too!

That is one of the things that did make me nervous beforehand. I have survived cancer myself, so I was putting it in my mind that I may choke up or shed a tear if one of the kids was having an especially difficult experience with cancer. Seeing how happy the kids were is what really made me relax! It's rare to be visited by stormtroopers! I bet the travel distance is a difficult part of garrisons that are so geographically spread out. Many big events in my new garrison are a 5 hour round trip (Nashville, Tennessee) or further (Memphis), so I've found myself having to be choosy with what I may attend. At least events in Knoxville are frequent enough!

Troop #23 An Imperial presence brought joy and excitement to the East Tennessee Children's Hospital! This was my first hospital troop, so I was a bit nervous because it seemed a troop like this has a bit higher stakes, but everything went well and my nervousness went away shortly after we started! The children and teens there were very excited to see us, and it was very touching to see how much joy and excitement we brought to everyone we encountered at the hospital.

Yep, that's my bad. I thought it was just a screenshot, but it appears the link is embedded in the image.

Troop #22 The Tennessee Theater in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee had a matinee showing of Return of the Jedi, so naturally, the Empire was called to maintain order at this showing! We were posted out in front of the theater, so both ticketholders and the general public got their chance to take photos with some of their local troopers!

You'll need to include a link to your member profile, rather than the screenshot you provided in your second post. The first post in this thread provides instructions on how to get the link.

Make a post in this thread with your request for detachment access: Make sure to follow the instructions in the first post as you will need to provide a link to your 501st Legion member profile.

Hi Chip! You have Legion access, according to the icon below your username. However, as you have an approved TK, you may want to request 501st Stormtrooper access.

Congratulations on your completed build and approval!