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Hello, I am an approved member of the 501st with two approved kits. I purchased some WTF armor and am working towards basic approval. My brother is a GML helping me get it all together. I look forward to joining armored members!

I always recommend I trimmed armor to anyone who is considering getting any. My reasons are as such. - commissioned builds take longer and cost much more - commissioned builds don’t always fit properly and fit is part of approval - untrimmed teaches you how to build and manage armor so that you understand how to make repairs later (which will be needed at some point) - untrimmed allows you to build it uniquely to yourself - untrimmed allows you to learn as you share through a build thread. - untrimmed leaves plenty of leftover plastic so you can make abs paste for repairs later. I’ve seen good commissions before, but in most situations those reasons are why I say to build it from an untrimmed kit Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

NEW In Memoriam Detachment Leader Merchandise Officer Hall of Fame FISD Meme's Around the Detachment Competition 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 Newsletter Editor Staff List 2023 Follow FISD Richard "Ryath" Rowntree (TI-9632) was a member of Atlantic Garrison, and sadly moved on the morning of April 9th, 2023. Richard was a fan of life as well as many pop cultures, especially Star Wars, which especially translated over to his Legion Family. If there was an event, Richard could be found in the middle of it, helping others kit up, manning the booth, or seeking out the latest swag to trade. Richard loved his legion family and always made time to talk with current members, sharing memories, or speaking with prospective members, giving advice on where to get costume and prop items or who to talk to, to get build advice. Condolences to his garrison, family and friends "Buckets Off" Dominik Rehm (CT-32723) was a beloved member of German Garrison who started his journey with the 501st Legion as a dedicated cadet supporting the German Garrison, such as the time when he helped to distribute water to troopers at Legoland 2018, or by covering booth duties. He joined the 501st Legion in May 2021, and his first official event was Cosplay Days in Speyer. His debut as a clone of the 327th Star Corps was a smashing success! The German Garrison got to know Dominik as a dedicated member who put his whole heart into Star Wars and the Legion. He built and wore his Clone armor with great passion and enthusiasm. Like many other 327th Clones in Acklay Company, Dominik came to his costume and to our hobby via an Armor Party. He had been looking forward to throwing a big Armor Party at his home in 2022, which would have been the first one after the pandemic. Condolences to his garrison, family and friends "Buckets Off" Greetings and welcome to the July FISD Newsletter! Lots happening again here at FISD HQ with merch runs, competition winners and CRL work continuing. Personally i have been investing my time in building the new CRL's mentioned in last months addition. One of them is currently with the LMO office awaiting feedback for any small changes then hopefully green lit so we can officially add it to the FISD costume roster. As to our newest costume, Imperial Commando or imperial super commando, there are more vendors coming on line with various parts. Looks like 850 Armor works will be the first to have ABS armor kits available, and we are looking forward to seeing their test kit assembled and complete so we can review it. Sheev's Emporium is reworking their under/jump suit with the extra detail garnered from the recent Disney Gallery show release, and one of the 3D vendors has just announced he has the Riot shield files now available for purchase so the accessory list is growing. I will be updating the vendors list in the coming week as I am waiting for some more info from these vendors. Watch this space. Don't forget to check out our new section of the forums dedicated to this new costume. https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/257-costuming-and-builds-the-mandalorian/ If you haven't already, best jump on our pre interest threads and open merch runs so you don't miss out. More details in this edition but currently we have 3 lots of merch going on. FISD Shield Pin OPEN FISD Sheild patch standard and large back patch style Pre interest thread FISD Sheild stickers OPEN What a great time to be a Stormtrooper and member of our mighty detachment! GET ON IT!! I hope you enjoy July's Newsletter, until next edition, see you on the forums and our socials! With Unquestioned Loyalty Andrew Franke TK-11469 "Sly11" Detachment Leader Greetings Troopers! The FISD Pin Run will be closing soon! 16 July 2023. We currently have less than 100 pins left available for sale! Check the run thread here for more information. We also had a member help us with setting a PR Mech Item! If you've been looking for FISD shield stickers Tony can setup you up, check out the PR Merch thread here! Or you can just order now via the website at: www.assassingraphics.co.uk Password: alienLV426 thread here I'm also working on doing a patch run. I opened a thread to just get an idea of how interested the Detachment was in patches, and I'm hoping to find a member or two outside the US that might be willing to help distribute them once we do the run to see if we can cut down on some of the shipping cost to our International brothers and sisters. you can find that thread here Hope all are and getting out to events! More Merch to come soon! With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer Cooling down for a while, Chaos Division style! Please welcome TK 66744 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, June 2023! @Morgi Troop log can be found here. Congrats on the badge! Many more to come! Other HOF recipients can be found here. With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Curator Hall Of Fame A few of Morgi's favourites Thank you to Luca "Morgi" TK-66744 for starting the FISD specific meme thread, you can find it here New Era Pauldrons A little research on the new era pauldrons covering Rogue One, Solo, BOBF, Mandalorian, Obi Wan, some subtle differences between versions. You can find the thread here Celebration Picture Contest Winner Thank you to all of you who entered, staff have been polled and the winner is Birgit TK-71384 "Swoby" Image manipulation by Jonatan TK-23592 "Nairy" You can find the competition thread 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 June - July TK-42085 "mamaking" Helen- - - - - - TK-82611 "rzill" Ron - - - - - - TK-20177 "Cybergrunt" Bill 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. 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. 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 June - July the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: Justin "evnltr" TK9921 EIB 1066 Alex "Alikh" TK31701 EIB 1067 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: None this month - 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! 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Yeah that’s more what I was intending in my previous comment is that the notch wasn’t necessary.

Also, note that these are all for fun. I hope no one who sees these will misunderstand or get their nose out of joint.

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@TKSpartan awesome. Thanks for the clarification! I do straight across shims.

June 19.... what....

CRL L3: Cut-out notches at the bottom of right and left sides of the Kidney Armor are optional. Hi, Every armor maker has some details that make easy or difficult to achieve de more accuracy, I would suggest to add the shims with no cut-out notches As you can see, the cut out is Optional . You can ,(we hope you will do) apply for EIB and Centurion with out it.

Nice work Tino, all updated.

You need to add a link to your membership profile, have a read of the first post in this thread

I’m not sure exactly which snaps you’re looking at, but I used Tandy leather snaps. For pretty much all my internal rigging I used Line 24 snaps which are sturdier and heavier duty. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

All it takes is one children’s hospital troop to bring into perspective why most of us really do this. Congrats! Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Looking for some help and suggestions for my ab to kidney plate fitting. I've already figured out I need to add about 2" per side with shims (I thought I was thin!). The notch on the kidney doesn't line up correctly to the ab. Any pointers would be appreciated.

Progress for the week: Left side rivets installed and did a bit of interior bracing (sadly, it looks like the placement of the brace shifted a little while it was curing; oh well) Working on interior rigging underway Trimmed up the shoulder straps some more and adhered them This week's goal Complete interior rigging system & elastic connectors Test fit torso Order belt, holster & neck seal

Clamps and magents are the way to go, make small adjustments, I find using bolts rather than rivets helpful as you can adjust the bolts, rivets you are pretty stuck unless you carefully remove them. Although not a requirement DO"s suggest this for ear placement: The "ideal" ear placement is as seen below, where the screws line up with the rear angle of the trap right above it. Because some armorers design their helmets differently or send them pre-assembled this is not always possible to achieve, but it is suggested that you try to get as close as you can. Note: Top ear screws should ideally be located directly below the rear of the trap. A great thread on fitting ears, making the notch on top of the ear can be of great help reducing gaps