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Hello all, I’m from the Atlanta, ga area and I have started 3D printing and building my first, First Order Stormtrooper suit this year. I’m about 90% done with the helmet, but I have a long way to go printing the rest of the suit. It has become a dream of mine to join to the 501st legion and meet other Serious Star Wars fans like myself! I also would love to participate in events and someday maybe even make it into one of the Star Wars films as a stormtrooper! But anyways, glad to meet everyone and hopefully this is the start of an amazing life-long journey with you all!

Force is strong with Brisbane cricket fans, Queensland Australia About The Holsh Experience In 2017, eighty friends celebrated a 40th birthday at the Ashes test in Brisbane. All were dressed in Stormtrooper kits designed specifically for the Aussie summer. The birthday boy, Holsh, was dressed as Darth Vader. They called themselves the Gabbatroopers. Four years on, the army of Troopers is more than 500 strong and 15 other characters have made guest appearances. The group has grown organically, growing through the word of those that have experienced these magical days. Wonderful people creating 'larger than life' memories. https://www.holsh.com.au/gabbatroopers2024 https://www.facebook.com/gabbatroopers/ The 6th year anniversary of the Gabbatroopers is upon us in 2024! And what better way to celebrate than at our first ever Gabbatroopers pink ball day/night test! The Gabbatooters and all your favourite Star Wars characters will be there! DATE Friday 26 January 2024 10:00 AM - 9:30 PM (UTC+10) https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1064163?fbclid=IwAR2My7yl46d-6HZ6cXWh47wM-SYyMZAzJSZNc5GDfuheDZWXmXJT-aaUbNQ What is the Gabba? What is cricket? What is Aussie Rules Football?

A major benefit of teaching college/university courses in communication is the relative ease of connecting the subject matter to what we experience in daily life. Although this results in thinking of my academic discipline a little too much during my off hours, I (and my students) benefit from bringing lots of cool and interesting ideas into the classroom to enagage course concepts in various ways. Working through this habit, the question arose: How can I connect being a professor and a stormtrooper? The series Social Science with a Stormtrooper grew out of this question. These are supposed to be short videos of up to a few minutes that connect a specific concept in the social sciences (mostly within Communication Studies) to Star Wars. The most relevant and believable context for these videos is an academy for stormtroopers, with me playing the role of an instructor who helps stormtroopers with their abilities in interpersonal interaction. In these videos, I try to use plain language to avoid the lecturing and academic-speak common in college classrooms (not sure if I hit the mark). I hope these videos will eventually be a teaching tool for the classroom, but I thought it would be best to show some of the videos here first. I've also thought about posting these videos on Instagram for public consumption. This video (helmet hair and all) is a test to see what I did well and to determine what needs improvement. I had created a basic script and worked from memory during the recording. Clearly, I need to improve the video quality the next go around. I am also thinking about how to make the video itself more engaging, because the plain background seems pretty dull. Given all the flaws, this video is currently unlisted on Youtube, so it can only be accessed through the link here. If anyone is interested, give it a watch and let me know what you think!

Hi everyone, TK68071 here from the UK Garrison, wanted to be part of the FISD.how could I not?. I'm an ESB TK.

Ok! After talking it out with my son, the butt stock is the only option for the speaker that I had from the Grevious blaster. This is going to be a fun gun for trooping and not 100% accurate so why not! After seeing @gmrhodes13 scratch build, I feel confident enough that if a ruin the stock I can replicate it with wood so I'm going for it.

Thankyou so much for all your words of welcome,it's an honour to be here.

This is extremely helpful. Thank you. I've already started the sizing/trimming process and was worried I was taking too much off. My arms are a little bigger so I'm having to thin out the edges quite a bit to get a comfortable fit. Looking at reference photos online when I started were a good start but the ones you just provided give me a lot more confidence with what I am doing.

Hi Empire, Depends what ‘look’ you would like. PVC is usually associated with the ‘idealistic’ look as it’s sparkling white and doesn’t discolour over time. Downside to PVC is that it’s more prone to cracking than ABS. In regard to ABS, this is the original plastic used in the film, more flexible (although can still crack) and what you would go with for the ‘accurate’ look. Downside to ABS is that it will disolour over time. I’m my opinion, accurate look is what I would go for but hope this helps. Tim Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Welcome! Here's the section of the forum where you can find lots of information on the First Order stormtroopers! https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/222-costuming-and-builds-first-order-501st-approved/ Also, if you have not yet done so, here's the website of the Georgia Garrison where you can contact others in your area who may be able to provide local assistance: https://ga501st.com/

Probably the most accurate esb armour available to be honest .

Lol... Yea, guess you're right. We'll see....