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Summer Trooping in Virginia Beach: Blasters, Armor, and Bikinis – oh my!


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During the summer months Garrison Tyranus does a series of beachfront troops at the Virginia Beach oceanfront at the request of Beachstreet USA, in exchange for a donation to charity based on the number of troops we can support. We try to do 5-6 beach troops during the summer. Typically GT’s charity of choice is the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but this year due to some recent deaths of garrison friends and family members, we designated LifeNet Health as this year’s charity to support.

 

This troop is to me second only to Air & Scare as the most fun in-state troop we do during the year, but for a somewhat different reason as you will see in the photos: ;)

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First up - armor party! This was an opportunity to begin getting one of our newest prospective members started – who found the garrison via the FISD - as well as work on second costumes for a couple of our full members and do some fine-tuning to yet another costume.

 

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Later that afternoon/evening we went trooping at the Virginia Beach oceanfront, an event hereby to be known as “Bikinis and Blasters!†We took hundreds of photos and it was difficult to decide which ones to post – I wanted to post all of them!

 

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Finally, what better way to celebrate a successful troop than food/drink at what is our new hangout in Virginia Beach:

 

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I'll try to get on my pc tonight and burn the pics I took there and give them to Patrick to post. My DSLR photos are massive and flicker still has me on hold for posting too much. :P Oh and Virginia guys that happen to see this join Garrison Tyranus and if you need help building armor try to catch an armor party tkrestonva is going to be at! I'm the guy in orange miming my bucket with fitted arm parts. This guy is awesome! It went like Hey I'm X oh hey the guy from FISD I'm X. Then well looks like we can get your arms done today put every thing else in the box and BAM off like little worker bees we were!! Thanks again! I'm going to start my build thread soon I'm also blogging it.

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Good job - good mix of troopers. I don't think I have seen that many RCs outside of Con pictures...one of those is high on my 'to-build' list...

 

We're lucky in that we actually have a full Delta squad, and they all live within 1-2 hours driving distance of each other. We also have an Omega squad in the making.

 

Unfortunately, Boss couldn't make it out that night - his wife wouldn't let him come out and play. :(

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Love the pictures! Thanks for posting :) So who got more hugs - Vader or the Stormtroopers? It's hard to tell, but I'm thinking RoTJ won!

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  • 2 weeks later...

You forgot to cut his belt corners ;)

 

:lol:

 

He built his kit himself, largely without my inputs. I helped him correct some assembly mistakes after it was already completed, but I'll add that to the list.

 

Also, I'm still trying to convince him to lose the AM helmet. ;)

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