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Hey everyone, It's been a bit since I've posted, so I wanted to provide an update as to where I'm at. I've been hard at work applying the shims to the backs of my thighs. After a bit of trial and error and even having to start from scratch, this is what I've got so far: After following some instructions on the forum, I applied ABS paste to the gaps between the original plastic and the shim pieces. After drying, I sanded it down with 80 grit sandpaper and incrementally worked my way up to 2000 grit, beginning wet sanding at 1000 grit. I decided apply some ABS paste on some air pockets I discovered in the sanding process. Once dry, I'll start the process over again by starting at 80 grit and working up. This has been a pretty long process, and while it's come a long way since I started, I still think I have a ways to go before it's as flush as I would like it to be. As always, any advice or words of encouragement are appreciated!

I would trim a little more from the bottom sides of the back plate Comparision

Boots Reference 3 lines across top, side zip inside, wedge sole

I saw someone who glued snaps in all chest & back pieces and then used elastic/snaps to attach them to each other. Can't find the link right now.

Personally I prefer not using the bracket system, you can get cracks between the bolt holes as well as the adjustment is limited. I have seen some just add brackets without elastic so it appears original. That said there are no requirements all the way up to L3 to use brackets so many don't even bother and go for a general strapping

NEW In Memoriam Detachment Leader Merchandise Officer Hall of Fame FISD Meme's Costume Totals Around the Detachment Competition CRL Updates INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS FISD Tri-Fold Brochure Common FISD Acronyms and TK Glossary Pre Approval Forum 3D Section Field Exercise Award Imperial Attaché Program Master Armorer Award Fire Teams EIB & Centurion: What do these terms mean? Need Help Ask the Deployment Officers Advance to 1500 Advanced Tactics Awards Social Media Newsletter Editor Staff List 2023 Follow FISD Dan "CableGuy" TK42911 Funeral 07 June 2023 - Dan Branton's Funeral Not a troop you ever want to need to do, but when the call comes you do and you give it your all, we put to rest our friend Dan Branton, TK-42911. Our role was that of a guard of honour. 10 Stormtroopers from the UK Garrison, followed behind the hearse on his final approach the to the church. On arrival we then carried on past to form an honour guard along the entrance as the attendees, family and finally Dan entered the church. Our job completed we retired to change and join the end of the service and complete our goodbyes. It was a privilege to take part in the days events, and I only hope Dan would approve. Thank you to all that attended online, Tuesday was surprised to hear how many of you there where, and how far away. Good bye Dan. We will miss you. Thank you to the following: Adrian Tegg - TK-14957 - CrewAnthony Nobbs - TK-19036 - CrewBarry Hibbett - TK-19981 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntBrett White - TK-9593 - Stormtrooper: ANH HeroChris Moxey - ID-24246 - CrewChris Pearson - TK-10911 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntConrad Prince - TK-30412 - Stormtrooper: ANH HeroDan Wray - TI-15978 - CrewDave Fredericks - TK-18034 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntJim Lee - TK-19060 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntKris kobus - TK-33633 - CrewMichael Cullen - ID-50451 - CrewNick Wooderson - TK-27875 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntRichard Hutchins - TK-19742 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntRowan Read - TK-12111 - Stormtrooper: ANH StuntTony Lee - TK-51007 - CrewWilliam Lennox - TK-12529 - Stormtrooper: ANH Stunt Condolences to his garrison, family, friends and the whole Stormtrooper community "Buckets Off" With Unquestioned Loyalty Chris Pearson TK-10991 "themaninthesuitcase" Provost Marshall Greetings to one and all! Our June Newsletter is packed with information as we have plenty happening, so lets get into the update. New CRL and new section of our forums. In May the LMO team took a vote on where the Imperial Commando costume from the last two episodes of The Mandalorian Season 3 would live. Turns out FISD is the new home for this very cool looking costume. As usual we try and put as much as possible into the research and development of CRL's and as such we built a new section of the forums to house this costume which is a slight depart from the traditional mostly "Hard Armour" costumes that live within FISD. This new section has a gallery, section for build threads, a research area and much more. The plan is to continue to grow this section, fleshing it out with more vendors, hopefully some behind the scenes info and of course that good ole support you have come to know and love about our forums. Ultimatley, we will have a solid CRL, and already have a member 3D printing the armour and planning his build. There are more details on the new section further on in the newsletter, so please come take a look. While on CRL's, Pyre is almost complete. The CRL is written, just a couple more important photos to come from our builder, and off to the LMO office it goes for final approval. We are all very excited to add this shiny, gold clad TFA TK variant to our roster so watch this space. Some fun stuff to come Not only do we have a new merch run launching, some of the staff had a little in house design comp to come up with a few FISD Wallpapers for your laptops and home PC's. These will be available to all members only through the forum, and in a simple download format. Keep an eye open for the first release launching soon. The 1500! Each month we launch a catch cry as we move towards our goal of hitting 1500 members approved at Expert Infantry level. keep an eye open for these and announcements on how we are progressing plus there will be merch! The 1500 Strength in numbers! Until next month, happy trooping, building and helping others! With Unquestioned Loyalty Andrew Franke TK-11469 "Sly11" Detachment Leader Greetings Fellow Troopers! The Coin and Patch runs are finally complete I'm ready start the FISD Shield Pin run, the run is now open for a limited time, 10 piece limit, you can place your order here Run will close on 16 JUL 2023 or when the supply of pins is exhausted. I have contacted all the members that submitted on the interest thread (Thank you to @MaskedVengeance for the assist in sorting them out). And I have opened the run to everyone! There is a cap at 2500 pins, This run will be open until 16 July 2023 or once we sell out of pins. In other FISD merch news. If you are a newly approved FISD member, and you are interest in one of our most recent FISD/Legion 25th Anniversary coins, I saved a few extra coins for new members only. Send me a DM or email me for more information. Also, we do have a several other merch items in the mix and we are excited to see how they will do, so keep and eye out for an interest thread or two in the next few weeks as well. With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer Two troops in a day keeps the Emperor away! Please welcome TK 88222 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, May 2023! @tdurden Troop log can be found here. Well done trooper and congratulations! Two in a day is quite something! Keep this up and you'll have earned that badge in no time! Other HOF recipients can be found here. With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Curator Hall Of Fame Thank you to Luca "Morgi" TK-66744 for starting the FISD specific meme thread, you can find it here Currently as of 11th June there are 32,735 approved costumes in the legion, out of these under FISD there are 5,305 which is 16.2% of all approved 501st costumes. This percentage has been dropping steadily for the last few years, the larger the legion costume totals grows the smaller amount of TK's there are. As a comparison when I started we had just under 25% of all costumes in the Legion, that was almost 10 years ago. Some may have seen that we have just lost top position of detachment with the most amount of approved costumes, JRS has just passed FISD with 3 more, you can find a thread on the subject here It is still quite amazing that there are so many FOTK's compared to say Hero's or ESB's, many don't realize these version costumes can be achieved quite easily with only swapping out a helmet and a few other items, you can see which items in this comparison PDF Info can be found on the legion holocron New Forum Area and Costume We have now officially opened the newest section of our forums to house the Imperial Commando. Referred to as "Gideon's' Stormtroopers" by the makers of the costume, IronHead Studios, they are seen on mass in episode 23 and 24 of The Mandalorian An Eye For Detail I am always surprised of the level of detailing some members will go to and this is especially true with this build, Dave's "Helotech" TK98695 3D Helmet Interior is one of those builds, it is outstanding and deserves to be highlighted this month. His build started at the end of May 2022 and has just been finished (but are we every truly finish ) Well done Dave the finish is a credit to you. If you'd like to have a look at the rest of his build the thread is here Two new threads have opened up in the Vader's Valkyries help center if you are in need of help or can offer advice please post in these threads or send a private message to Vicky "Vicky_Velocipanda" TK50893 Valkyries help center: WEARING TK armor & Valkyries help center: BUILDING TK armor Celebration Picture Contest How do I enter? You need to be an approved TK. You can submit up to five pictures, which have to be taken at SWCE 23. You either need to be on the photo or have taken the photo. Every photo needs to feature at least one 501st Stormtrooper. All pictures should be of a reasonable quality, so please don’t upload them directly to the forum. Instead you can use a secondary platform like Imgur. You need to have the rights to the picture(s) and consent to having them shared on FISD Social Media. The contest is open for two weeks. Once the contest is closed, Staff will vote on the winner. Therefore, Staff will be excluded from the contest. What can I win? We are giving away one of the FISD Sweatshirts (size M), one of the 25th Legion Anniversary FISD Coins, and one Star Wars Celebration Patch to the winner. Additionally, the winning picture will be turned into a SWCE Badge Design, of which you will get a digital copy. Since we’ve all spent enough money on Celebration already, shipping will be covered as well. Full info here The contest will close on the 19th of June 2023, 12:00 GMT. CRL's Currently Under Construction Please see below the links for four CRL's FISD currently has under construction and discussion. If we managed to get any more under way, they can also be added to the active WIP list. It is awesome to see that we have members working hard towards some exciting new additions to the detachments roster that will aid in further growing and enticing members to our friendly home. These are what we have, and if you have input or can assist these members in bringing their dreams to reality, please feel free to participate in the build threads. Commander Pyre almost at the finish line https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/49850-wip-realistic-commander-pyre-supported-by-the-voice-liam-mcintyre-himself/ Artillery Trooper almost at the finish line https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/52825-honey-mustards-artillery-trooper-build-thread/ Imperial Commando (The Mandalorian) build in progress https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/53372-pyros-imperial-armored-commando-wip/?do=findComment&comment=763801 Lt. Gauge (games based character) built to realistic vision, build in progress https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/51427-tk-stormtrooper-tales-from-the-galaxys-edge-last-call-first-order-lt-gauge-crl-development-thread/?do=findComment&comment=76430 Captain cardinal TBC builds had been in progress https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/228-captain-cardinal-build-threads/ Updates here INFORMATION & AWARD PROGRAMS For a full list of FISD awards programs head here. *Now Available in Swedish* Want to spread the word about FISD?, you can with our FISD Tri-Fold Brochure. Originally these were done in a limited run by the member who created them, but nowadays, we have moved this to a print your own service making them accessible to all countries around the globe. Files are available to all full 501st members on request by contacting our DL Andrew @Sly11 , you can find more info here Currently Available languages: English - Spanish - German - Swedish Are you new to the FISD and wondering what the heck all those abbreviations and strange sounding terms mean? To help you @justjoseph63 has started a list of the most commonly used ones that will give you some insight. If you have ANY questions about a particular term that is not listed or suggestions for new ones please contact Joseph. You can find the list here. Pre Approval Forum allows future Troopers the opportunity to submit photos of their completed build to be reviewed by the Staff, Imperial Attaches and others in preparation for forwarding it to their GML for approval. Any and all advice/suggestions given will be specific, constructive, helpful and respectful. Please note that this program will NOT take the place of your local GML, as Detachments are not chartered for costume approval and can not override a GMLs decision, but is instead a peer review program designed to help you look your best and offer guidance and positive feedback. For more information on this program, please visit the link here. Don't forget to visit our 3D section when next surfing the FISD forums, there is plenty of useful information to potentially help you on your next TK adventure. You might be feeling may generous and share with our community a new TK related 3D file and maybe win yourself a 3D contributors award so check out the details below and be part of the in house 3D community. Here is a link to the FISD 3D Contributor program. Don't forget to create a troop log here on FISD and get awarded for your adventures The list of accomplished troopers keeps growing, so get on board and register your troops today Simply start (or update!) your troop log, keep the running total in the title, and post (at least!) a date and name for the official 501st event where you wore your TK! Once you've hit a milestone count, go over to the "Field Exercise Awards -- Post your milestones here" thread to request your profile be updated! Simple, right? Also if you would like your troop photos shared on our social media channels please add the following to the first post of your FISD troop log: I give permission for FISD to repost my photos on social media in an appropriate fashion. Award Recipients May - June TK-11672 "Sidius" Carsteb - - - - - TK-82278 "iSmileBak" Tyler - - - - - TK- 31139 "LVLAsion" Kenzo - - - - - TK- 12953 "jsilvius" James - - - - - TK- 66744 "Morgi" Luca - - - - - Are you an approved TK that spends more time on the boards than the average Trooper? Do you enjoy using your knowledge to help out future and existing Troopers? If so, we would like to invite you to join the Imperial Attaché program! Members of the I.A. team are chosen to help out not only those here on the boards, but on a local level as well. Our aim is to have at least one in each and every Garrison, Squad and Outpost in the entire legion to be the eyes and ears of the FISD on a local level. For a complete list of Imperial Attaches, go here. Some of the benefits: Access to exclusive Attaché merch., including patches, IA patch and IA Rocker You may also be in the running for an Imperial Attaché Award Imperial Attaché Award for those attaché's who have gone above and beyond [minimum 1 year of service]. You can find a list of prior recipients here. Attaché Ambassador Attention all Attachés! If you haven't already seen it, please take a moment to review the 2023 Attaché Announcements and Kickoff thread. It contains what I hope is helpful information for all of you, as well as a reminder to sound off on the current Check-In thread if you haven't already done so. A reminder, too, that we are always looking for new attachés, especially for units currently without one (or two) as shown on THIS LIST. If you know of a trooper who you think would serve the post well, encourage them to apply for Attaché status HERE! With Unquestioned Loyalty Caleb Mask TK-73692 "MaskedVengeance" Attache Ambassador The FISD Master Armorer program is an optional, detachment only incentive award to recognize individuals who have directly helped another 501st stormtrooper to achieve Expert Infantry status. Some people spend countless hours helping others, and want to reward their results as well as incentivizing new people to help as well. To register a “win” in the program, the assistance must have provided hands-on help trimming, building, and/or fitting of said armor for the person who was awarded Expert Infantry status. More information can be found here Want to setup a "Fire Team? the Fire Team program is completely optional, and is intended to help form a common identity and spirit of camaraderie among 501st Legion Stormtroopers in the same geographic area/garrison that troop together. Fire Teams are not officially recognized by the 501st Legion nor the FISD, although they will be able to access a Fire Team sub-forum on the detachment website. You can find more information here. Let's all give a warm FISD welcome to our 72nd Fire Team: Name: Scary Looking Nerd Herders Region: Swedish Garrison, Trinity Squad (Trinity area) Logo: For those interested here is the original discussion on the creation of Fire teams here With Unquestioned Loyalty Mark Ryner TK-4584 "captsafe66" Fire Team Relations So what exactly are and levels? These programs were designed for those who choose to take their armor above and beyond the minimum requirements for basic 501st Legion approval. It gives you the chance to show a level of dedication and pride that takes your armor closer to being as "screen accurate" as possible, without as much extra work as you may realize! You can find more information on the programs here. For those unaware it is possible to achieve extra awards at Expert Infantry for each additional version costume you have approved, additional awards are not issued with another Expert Infantry number (you are only issued 1 Expert Infantry number) but you will see a star above the award on your profile and the thread title will show [APPROVED] 2nd, [APPROVED] 3rd, [APPROVED] 4th and so on. Multiple EIB award recipients and info here NOTE If you are approved with a "2nd Version" of a particular costume that you are already approved with you do not receive an additional award, there is only 1 award issued for each costume version ie: only 1 x Hero, 1 x Stunt, 1 x HWT, 1 x ESB, 1 x TFA and so on. If you have a second/additional version costume approved you will see "2nd Version" and [APPROVED] added to the thread title, no additional profile stars (more info on profile awards here) For those of you who have a particular issue (or issues) before or after submitting for Expert Infantry / Centurion level approval, in order to get you an answer faster you can now privately contact the entire Deployment Officer team at one time! Questions about fitting, repairs, CRL standards/requirements or anything pertaining to reaching Levels 2 and 3 are not only welcomed, but encouraged. Keep in mind that no question is too small, and that your queries will only be seen by the D.O. Staff. We are here to help in any way we can, so please feel free to send us a message by clicking on this link: @Deployment Officer Team and we will get back to you A.S.A.P.! The 1500 Strength in numbers! This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both. FOR May - June the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: Sean "Sean TK" TK21103 EIB 1062 Tyler "iSmilebak" TK82278 EIB 1063 Kris "Kris B" TK15129 EIB 1064 Marcel "TK 26476 - Marz Elson" TK26476 EIB 1065 GREAT job on your approval, now on to Level 3! Request your free EIB certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. Multiple EIB award info here Expert Infantry Honor Gallery here --------------------------------------------------------------- Centurion Badge Award: Dan "KaiserintheHood" TK80419 Centurion 2nd approved ANH Outstanding job on reaching Centurion, Troopers! Request your free Centurion certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. If you see any of these Troopers around your Garrison or Squad, be sure to congratulate them! It's June! For us in the Northern Hemisphere Summer is about to start and we're all out and trooping. So, please, keep all those wonderful troop pictures coming, because we're loving them! If you were at Celebration and have some cool TK pictures, don't forget to participate in our Celebration Picture Contest, where we're giving away some amazing prices to the winner. It's open to all approved TKs who were at Celebration -- even those not in armor, so come take a look! There's still one week left to submit your entries. In other news, Pride Month has started and we're looking to share the colorful side of our troopers. From TK-421 himself to our troopers marching in Pride parades all over the world, the LGBTQ+ community has always played a part in who Stormtroopers are. If you have some pictures of your Trooper in rainbow, you marching in a parade, or you're part of the community and want to show off your armor, please submit your pictures to our DPRO team. You can find the thread HERE With Unquestioned Loyalty Luca Hahn TK-66744 "Morgi" Social Media Relations Another bumper issue, if you have any interesting articles or stories please reach out to me. For anyone interested in having a look through any of the older newsletters they can find be found here. With Unquestioned Loyalty Glen "Q" Rhodes TK-85421 "gmrhodes13" PRO, Newsletter Detachment Leader (DL): Andrew Franke (Sly11) TK-11469 Detachment Executive Officer (DXO): Joseph Pedigo justjoseph63 TK-10963 Chief Deployment Officer (DCA): Mario Reyes (TKSpartan) TK-48117 Deployment Officer (DCA): José Mª Sánchez (Chemi) TK-30173 Deployment Officer (DCA): Tony Jobe (ukswrath) TK-10116 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Steven Sheades (starsaber25) TK-10466 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Tim Waychoff (DarkCMF) TK-51878 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Chris Pearson (themaninthesuitcase) TK-10911 Special Unit Director-Valkyries (DCoG): Teresa Nuthall (Soulart) TK-41307 Provost Marshal SM Platforms (DCoG): Christoph (Danny) Lauber (Ripper_L) TK-55550 Fire Team Relations(DCoG): Mark Ryner (captsafe66) TK-4584 Merchandise and Brand Officer (DMBO): James Silvius (jsilvius) TK-12953 Trading Card Specialist (DMBO): Eric Ho (Hoda) TK-77520 Personnel Officer (DPER): AC (NoVATie) TK-5597 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Adam Wolf (Revlimiter) TK-89400 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Jeff Salt (Wingnut65) TK-50297 NEW TO STAFF Content Editor Support (DPRO): Jonatan Östling (Nairy) TK-23592 NEW TO STAFF Content Editor Support (DPRO): Vicky Mandlmaier (Vicky_Velocipanda) TK-50893 NEW TO STAFF Social Media Relations (DPRO): Luca Hahn (Morgi) TK-66744 NEW TO STAFF Newsletter Publisher (DPRO): Glen Rhodes (gmrhodes13) TK-85421 Attache Ambassador (DPRO): Caleb Mask (MaskedVengeance) TK-73692 NEW TO STAFF Systems Administrator (DWM): Eric Brager (Darth Aloha) TK-9674 Systems Administrator (DWM): Mathias (Locitus) TK-2959 Detachment Founder (DF): Paul Hoeffer (Daetrin) TK-8020 Facebook: www.facebook.com/whitearmor Facebook Group: 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment (FISD) Official Twitter: www.twitter.com/FISD501st or @FISD501st Instagram: www.instagram.com/fisd501st Discord: https://discord.gg/FmQZ2qW8gx On behalf of the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment Command Staff and the Imperial Propaganda Department

The classic strapping pack came with the kit and I was thinking about using that one as it may fit the kit well. But I was also meaning to ask, would there be a benefit to using another strapping method or is it just preference?

I've updated the Boots currently stating they are being worked on by a vendor and will update once available.

Thanks for the feedback! I do plan to fill in the gaps in the lower ridge. I purchased some Sugru and plan to use Joseph's method in filling them in. I plan to do that when I'm done with the shims.

Awesome! I’ll make sure to trim a little more off. Thanks!

Troop 35 out of 110 - a very cool event. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here are my screenshots taken directly from the source (not a snapshot of a screen). Dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/veei7qc2bgjangf/AABFmtQcgE03U3C9QnOgvV4Ga?dl=0 Hoping we can get an official declaration of the colors.

Hold on to your butts as I trimmed the posterior and added the snaps. Snaps are placed 15 mm & 35 mm (to center of snap) from the edge of the posterior.

Minor update...

Thanks hahaha! You just save me a lot of future pain.

Getting there. You need to round the end of the cod or I'll hear you scream every time you walk at a troop. Keep up the good work

Waiting for cover strips on the shins to finish glueing. In the meantime, I trimmed the torso and will probably tackle the chest plate either tonight or tomorrow. I left at least 8 mm on the top for the screws and 1-1.5 cm on the sides. I left a little more than 5mm around the cod piece area but could trim more off easy.

Gio from crow props is currently making me a pair from the limited screenshots that were about.

Adding a L or R with marker inside of parts can help My lower insides of the shins are trimmed a little more than the outsides, makes it easy to tell which is which

Did a test fit with the arms (minus the shoulder bells) and the legs with the boots on to see how much mobility I had. The arms feel good and there’s a good amount of mobility. The legs seem pretty stiff because the thighs and shins seem just a little too long. I think the thighs are up high enough, if not let me know and I can do another test fit. Thank you!

Doesn't hurt just to check how it's all aligning

I would recommend to wait to the finale test fit to see if there is some issue when walking around.

Using clamps, LOTs of magnets and tape during the drying process will help. It also helps to keep an eye on the seams, checking them periodically to make sure things haven't shifted out of place. I know it's a pain in the posterior plate to remove pieces once glued, but in this case I would suggest taking another stab at this one and lowering the cover strip about half an inch. The bottom of the strip should ideally touch or be very close to the top of the ridge. I would also recommend gluing in a small scrap of ABS on the inside (behind the gap) to cover it. If you want to go a step further, you can fill in the top with ABS paste (kind of a pain) or white Sugru. I have a quick tutorial here on using Sugru, and if you live in the U.S. I will send you (no charge) enough to take care of all the gaps on the front and back. Screen used thigh- front Rear You may want to trim down a bit of the return edge on the outside to match the inside after gluing the interior scrap.