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Looking good, unfortunately Paul you will have to remove your UKG tag from the shoulder bell, this has come up quite a few times in the past, some have a second shoulder bell for this reason. Or tape over the decal, carefully lift each corner and peel off with the top tape, then add back on when your photos have been taken "Here is just one post in an application by a DO asking for it's removal, again there are more and this has always been the case since I've been a member, most will seek L2 and L3 approval and once approved just have decals applied again,"

Evening Troopers, I would like to resubmit my armour for your consideration with Garrison branding removal. I also made a few adjustments to the butt plate by removing excess return edge as kindly pointed out by Joseph the risk of splitting. Full body Action shot Shoulder bridges Cod/butt plate return edge removal Thanks to all for the feedback & support I've received throughout my application, looking forward to hearing back from the team here at FISD. Cheers Paul

Thanks for the quickly reply! The suitcases with separate helmet bags as mentioned in that thread is also a good option. I’ll do some measuring tomorrow to see what would be our best fit.

Great to hear you are still on track

Hey !! Great to know you're on target Trooper !! Keep it up. “Retreat, Hell! We just got here.”

Hey! Sorry about dropping off there for a bit. I've just been readjusting to working full-time after taking the summer off to relax and get unpacked from my cross-country move. Since starting the job I've not been able to get in as much exercise time as I'd like, but I'm on my feet all day so I'm definitely getting my steps in. I'm about 29lbs from my goal weight and it looks like I may be on track to reach it by February if I'm lucky. I'll be sure to try and find some more time to post updates now that my work schedule seems to finally be figured out. Keep up the great work, everyone!

hi everyone- great new I got my TK number will post on the other forum. Thank you everyone for your help - what amazing group to work with!! right now have to get the fans installed in the helmet. Otherwise armour is fantastic! thank you everyone!!!

VERY nice, Paul, and GREAT job on those fixes! As Glen mentioned, the UKG decal will have to be removed (at least temporarily) . Since you have to get kitted up for a replacement photo, please take one of the back as well as the white elastic strap on your right shoulder has come undone and needs to be re-tied. Thanks!!

8. 16 Oct 2022 - Wedding Surprise Troop

Noted thanks, Glen.

[34] Fan Expo San Francisco 11/26-27 Emily Swallow- The Armorer

Troop 6 - November 26, 2022 Hamilton Retrocon This was an absolutely awesome troop. We were lucky enough to have Garrick Hagen (Biggs), Angus MacInnes (Gold Leader) and Roger Christian (Set Decorator and Production designer) From A New Hope. They were all very friendly and happy to share stories of their experience working on the original episode. Roger is the person that made Luke’s lightsaber, the E-11 blaster that we all love as well as the other blasters and even R2 D2. We raised money for the local Children’s hospital and 4 of us had the honour of escorting the trio into their evening panel discussion to the Star Wars Theme song. That was truly the highlight of the day. Some shots of our group during the con: Photo ops with Garrick and Angus: Also picked up a jacket from one of the other garrison members that he was no longer using that had an FISD patch on the shoulder and the large 11” 501st one on the back. The escort of the guests into their panel.

Good Luck Paul

Looking good trooper, best of luck!

When this one appeared from today's troop, I couldn't help myself. I had to follow Morgi's lead.

Hey Troopers!! @CountCunning @revlimiter @jsilvius How fitness things are going gentlemen?

[33] Crush Comics Halloween Fest 10-29-22

[32] Head for the Cure 5k 10-22-22

7. Singapore Garrison Coin Challenge Video 2021 - 25 March 2021

Wook1138 and Tarok, many people have the same thing and I believe you all are correct. Daetrin, cool, thank you. Morgul702 and ukswrath, in reference to the thigh strapping, I am unaware of anything known for under the armor. What we can see is the two (presumably 1” black nylon) straps that come down on the side of each leg. Speculating, it looks like they have a black plastic side release buckle on them that is covered with black elastic. I infer this because this is a common practice to cover the buckles with elastic in the tactical webbing community on slings. Here is an example of a sling with the elastic covering a buckle and a hook. The side release buckle being mounted here would ensure easy donning of the armor as well as provide a method to adjust the height of the thigh armor. I built my ROTK strapping with this method in mind. As for a belt, who knows? I built my kit with a belt but ultimately mounted the top of the thigh straps inside the abdomen. Since this has already gone beyond the original topic and deep dived into how the ROTK is constructed and after some time working on my Shoretrooper and reviewing Mr. Pauls FB page (total grunt) I see a lot of information that is evidence with the Shoretrooper that we can assume but not prove for the ROTK. The Deathtrooper, Shoretrooper, Tanker, and ROTK have a lot of similarities and one would expect that most of the processes and manufacture of these costumes are the same. So, here is some food for thought. We know that the ROTK uses the same shoulder bell metal supports as the Shoretrooper. Here is your evidence, and yes, I still maintain that the elastic is black. Notice the “D” shape under the elastic. From Mr. Paul’s FB page here is what the metal supports look like. Here they are mounted to the chest plate of a Mr. Paul built Shoretrooper. Next here is another Mr. Paul built Shoretooper chest plate with the shoulder strap and metal supports. And here is a pic from Mr. Paul’s Shoretrooper where I have “roughly” outlined the metal support. Lastly, here is a Deathtrooper (from celebration I believe) and we can also see the snap support inside the shoulder bell. Next, there was a discussion back in 2018 in the CRL thread about (as stated) the two tabs on the bottom of the kidney pad. This was one response with arrows of what the responder though the op was talking about. However, knowing now what I do I think the op was referring to the two tabs on the bottom of the back plate that you can see just above the thermal detonator. Although these appear to be shorter in length, I believe what we are seeing is very similar to what Mr. Paul did with his back plate for the Shoretrooper. In this pic you can see how the Shoretrooper back plate attaches to the back hard belt. I believe the TK back plate does something similar; however, it does not actually attach to the belt as we can see in the pic from the CRL thread, it looks like the tabs end just before the attachment hole. On the topic of soft goods, here is a pic of a confirmed Shoretrooper undersuit. Notice the specific mesh in the arm pit, the full-length zipper down the front, Velcro (presumably to assist in supporting the abdominal plate) the distinctive ribbing on the sleeves and the thumbhole at the end of the sleeve. The Shoretrooper also has a separate neckseal/ bib that hides the zipper and has distinctive horizontal ribbing. I am not saying that the ROTK uses this same undersuit but we can assume that many of the features were most likely incorporated in the ROTK undersuit. Lastly, we have seen this pic of what looks like a screen used ROTK abdominal plate with a suspension system. From this image we can assume that the ROTK used this suspension system as well as the corset zip closure that is velcroed in the back. What is not as evident is if the ROTK abdominal plate uses the connection tabs along the bottom edge like the Shoretrooper. It is hard to tell from this pic since there is a white belt with Velcro around the bottom of the abdominal plate. Also note the black strap protruding from the bottom and along the side of the abdomen plate. This is most likely the attachment strap for the thigh armor. Also, there is some sort of secondary suspension system (similar to a back belt for Warehouse workers that sits under the primary suspension system. Perhaps this provide some padding but otherwise I see no need for it. So here some pics of Mr. Pauls suspension system from his Shoretrooper and we can assume that the ROTK uses a very similar system. Ok so that is all I have for yall at this time. Let me know what you think.