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Good evening members of the FISD, I'd like to thank you for having the confidence in me to fill the role of Detachment Leader. This is not the way any of us would want to be taking this station. Joseph has been an important part of this detachment for as long as I have been here. He embodies Troopers Helping Troopers, and has never shied away from helping others. He was a natural choice for DL. Sadly personal circumstances have made that impossible for him. I wish him the best in this difficult time he finds him self in. Andrew Franke @Sly11 has agreed to step in as XO. His experience is undeniable, and will be a welcome boost as I catch up with this term. Other positions will remain unchanged at this time. Having been thrown in at the deep end my priority is to get a plan for the term up and running. Wheels had already started to turn on a number of projects, though most of which are not ready to share yet. This said I do want to take a fresh look at the year, looking at any carry over from the last term and coming up with a final plan for the year. With unquestioned loyalty. Chris Detachment Leader

Hi Tim, I will be the Deployment Officer overseeing your application. Your application looks great and you have an amazing set of armour. Before we go ahead with the approval however, I just need a couple of things from you. 1. Could you please send another photo of the right side of the helmet? The one you have does not clearly show all 3 screws as the bottom screw is not visible. You just need to grab the photo at a slightly lower angle. There are a couple of minor fixes that we will need you to do as well before we can move ahead with the approval. With respect to the thermal detonator, Your control panel is sitting a bit too high and the round disk is pointing upwards. The CRL for the control panel is as follows: Basic CRL: The white control panel raised ribbed pad faces the rear, with the controls/round washer style detail closest to the right end cap. This is a fairly simple fix. All you need to do to correct this is open up the clip a bit to allow the thermal detonator to roll down a bit. Reference Images The second fix we will need on the thermal detonator is with respect to the placement of the clips. They should be up against the white end caps. You will just need to move them over slightly. If the black paint on the screws gets chipped off while doing this, its a simple touch up with a dab of paint. L2 CRL: Thermal detonator belt clips are positioned with little to no gap between the clips and the end caps. Reference Images

Congratulations Chris! I think it’s pretty clear that the staff are all here to support you, and judging on the Poll for confidence, the membership are too. Joseph, all my love to you brother, we are here for you too.

Congratulations Chris( @themaninthesuitcase)!!! I hope that with our help, we can make this a little easier for you. And thanks also to Andrew( @Sly11), who prefers to be with us instead of enjoying his retirement in Hawaii... I would also like to wish Joseph( @justjoseph63) all the best. I hope all is well, brother.

Let's get this bread!

While I certainly lament the departure of Joseph, and wish him all the best and my love, I'm excited about for this new term under your leadership. We are here to support you and the membership!

Here ya go! That specific photo shows an error I had to correct. As you show in your dashed lines, the ridge in the sniper knee needs to line up more closely with the ridge that you've indicated with the red dash line. I had to cut the glue and move that corner of the sniper knee up a little higher. I was not able to close the gap entirely, but I did get it up a few milimeters, and that was enough to get my armor approved at the basic level. I also cut away more material from the sniper knee plate itself. Here is what my sniper knee looks like now: In terms of your questions, that downward taper (I'm assuming you are talking about the downward curve I cut) was cut in my best effort to match the look of the sniper knee in the reference photos. The reference photos also show the rearmost edge of the sniper knee aligning with the corner of the ridge on the lower leg armor itself. I do, however, see some variation by a few milimeters in the reference photos. I cut the return edge away in that location. Getting rid of the return edge helped me fit the sniper knee to the lower leg armor. Also, I'm glad my build thread was helpful!

Progress!!! I finally figured out a way to glue the wide cover strip to the inside of the forearms! As noted a few posts up, I decided to use wide interior cover strips to increase the circumference of the forearm armor, as well as decided to glue the cover strip to one side of the joint before gluing the other side. I then figured I could finagle things to where the other side of the cover strip would be able to be glued in prim and proper fashion. Welp...the cover strip and the other side of the joint would not line up properly in terms of their angles, so I had to think things through further. Shaping is key in this issue, but I figured it would be easier to shape this cover strip if it were not attached to anything. I decided to cut the glue on one side of the cover strip to free it from the forearm armor. I then put on (the stove) a pot of boiling water and dropped the cover strip in the boiling water for 90 seconds. After fishing the cover strip out of the boiling water, I then put a small curve into the cover strip along the center of its length. This photo gives an idea: Now I had a cover strip with a slight curve, but needed to now glue it to both sides of the joint, all while accounting for the increased circumference that I want in the forearm piece... Spacers!!! I can cut spacers with a width according to the increased circumference (I remeasured and got 2cm)! But how do I keep the spacers in place to do their job? The forearm pieces are rigid enough that I only need a spacer on each end of the cover strip, and I can use the clamps to keep the edges of the spacers aligned with the edges of the forearm armor! Having the claps clamped on the spacer joints will keep everything in line! Here's what that looks like now that I have everything glued (I got a little glue on the spacer, so I'll have to cut that when I remove the spacer): Getting it all glued was a challenge, and the photo below shows that I got glue in many areas I did not want, but I'm not going to mess with it further for fear I could undo all of my work. Only one forearm is being glued right now. I'll glue the other one when I see the results of this forearm:

Me and @Coil finally started painting the 3d print that I got from the people who did my scan! All the shadows as you see them are painted on! Gonna look awesome when it is done!

Ok, so I built Nico's helmet shortly after he released his files around 4 years ago, and I have a build thread that I started back then, and that I only recently updated to show how it ended up turning out. Here's a couple pics of that build. I love that helmet and the sculpt that Nico created. But over the years and with so much new reference material from Solo to Andor and everything in between, I've been wanting to modify a few things to make the helmet a bit closer to what I've been seeing on the screen as well as make it easier to assemble along the way. I started about 6 months ago with wanting to try my hand at modifying the files and make the cheek tubes penetrate into the chin area. That was the beginning of a long journey, ha! I didn't really have any experience with 3D software, other than tinkering with minor modifications on files before. I've been working on a mod in my spare time, with some insight and plenty of reference from Ryder Kinion I've finally got it to where I'm ready to start a build. I ended up lightly to moderately modifying every part, as well as utilizing and slightly modifying David Os's ear and temple trap pieces. The list is pretty extensive, I won't go into every little detail I modified but here's an overview of some of the main changes I made: 1. I slightly narrowed the overall sculpt side to side as well as slightly reduced the height of the dome. 2. Added alignment pegs and holes between almost every piece that attaches together. 3. Like I mentioned, I made the cheek tubes penetrate into the chin and added attachment plates between the end of the tubes and inside the chin piece. 4. Modified the teeth to add the last tooth and added attachment plates to secure them better to the inside of the helmet. 5. Added a slight recess to the regions where the tears, temple traps and back traps sit. As well as cut out a hole behind the tears and back traps for ventilation. I plan on adding a black, breathable fabric backing similar to what has been reported by those familiar with the screen used helmets. 6. Modified the brow trim to look similar to the rubber trim used on screen-used helmets. I may end up trying to use actual rubber trim. We'll see what works best. At this angle you can really see not only the brow trim difference, but also the reduction in height of the dome, the angle of the vocoder and the modification of the point where the cheek tubes penetrate into the chin. 7. Modified vocoder angle and length of some tubes and added additional alignment and attachment points. 8. And for all the fans of the Mimban trooper, I modified the Mimban shield and pins to be more narrow and sit closer to the width of the helmet and increased the height of the brow trim feature on the shield I made a couple miniature test prints along the way which helped me see if my mods were working the way they were supposed to. They also helped me see other modifications that needed to be made. These are the first two I made. They were printed at 35% scale, the one on the left was the my first test print to see if the alignment pegs and keyholes worked properly as well as seeing how the tubes to chin connection looked and worked in real life. Then after comparing to reference and talking to Ryder we both agreed it needed to be narrower side-to-side which made the dome too tall and square. So I slimmed the whole thing down by 3% and reduced the height of the dome. But then after seeing it in real life we felt it was a bit too narrow. So I decided to try it closer to 2% narrower from the original and it finally looked right. So after a few more tweaks to a few details (and after getting a larger resin printer, that I picked up at a great deal), I decided to give it another go at a test print. This time at 50% scale. I finally feel that this is the one! And now I think I'm ready to start my build. I think I'm going to avoid all the heavy post processing work this time around and get the big pieces resin printed with a strong resin, probably from Corellia Creations and resin print all the smaller pieces myself. As I've found from doing miniatures, resin is so much easier to get to paint ready than an FDM print. This may be slow go on my part, as I try to work on it in my spare time when I've got the motivation and energy, ha! But I'm hoping my excitement to see the finished piece will provide me with enough. Wish me luck, I'll post updates as it's coming along!

NEW In Memoriam Detachment Leader Merchandise Officer Hall of Fame FISD Meme's Around the Detachment Costume Totals Trooping Opportunity 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 With heavy hearts we mourn our member Stefan Ofner (ID-23008), who died suddenly and unexpectedly. Stefan has been a member of the Austrian Garrison since November 2016. Not only that he represented the Detachment officer excellently with several uniforms. From 2018-2020 he was GMB and from 2019-2020 GPR. He will remain in our memory. Always open, friendly and ready to do the good thing. He also had an open ear when needed. He was able to inspire many with his drive. Thank you for letting us meet you. Our thoughts are with his family and friends and wish them all strength during this difficult time. Rest in peace, Stefan! We will miss you! "Buckets Off" Greetings troopers! It seems we live in interesting times. You may have noticed that the name of the detachment leader has changed a bit ahead of the normal cycle. To see how we got here please have a read of this post https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/54568-resignation-of-detachment-leader-joseph-justjoseph63/ and https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/54596-message-from-new-detachment-leader/ A familiar face is coming back as the new XO @Sly11 and he will be showing me the ropes. By now most of you should have been receiving your shield patches from the last term. The DMBO team did a great job on these, and I look forward to seeing them on jackets, hoodies & shirts soon. I am excited to show mine off but I am putting off sewing that big back patch! Whilst there have been some changes over the last week, the team had already been hard at work for the new term. Now that legion teams are starting to be ratified we should soon see some movement and hopefully will have more to tell you next month. I have a couple of pairs of large shoes to fill, but I am hoping to rise to the challenge. Before I go I would also like to let you all know about the legion funding drive currently happening. For those of you who are not aware FISD is hosted along side the main legion forum. Whilst we have some of our own costs, the legion covers the majority of the cost of keeping our lights on. If you have not already done so please check the main legion thread on this here: https://www.501st.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=113646 With Unquestioned Loyalty Chris Pearson TK-10991 "themaninthesuitcase" Detachment Leader Greetings Fellow Troopers! I hope all of you are well and are starting to get out and troop here in the new year. The weather in the Mid Atlantic portion of the US is starting to warm up and the days are getting longer so soon we'll be able to get outside and start some of our costume projects that require paint and sanding. On to the Business of Merch! Old Business The #SecretMerch Item is well on the way. The factory in China having been closed for the observation of Chinese New Year for most of February has finally sent us color proofs for approval. I got with the SpecOps MBO and we approved the colors and requested that Manufacturing begin. Pfab tells me that he expects that coins will start shipping late March/early April. I'll post any updates on the Sales Thread located here: Secret Merch Item The Rocker run is closed. @MaskedVengeance has placed the order soon, so hopefully they will be in your hands in the next 6 - 8 weeks. I'm very jealous of those that can wear these. I'm working on building my new AM kit to EI standard so that I can help "Advance to 1500". Rocker patches. The Banner patch run is closed. The orders have been confirmed and we are now waiting for updates from the factory for color proofs. Once I have any more updates, I will post them in the sales thread, located here: Stormtrooper Banner Patch New Business As many of you know we lost a pillar in the community a while ago. We are working to create a Memorial Patch for Terrell Reber of ATA. We have an interest thread running here for those that are interested. It will be closing soon, so please let us know if you would like to participate. We are still working on this years plan for merch. Racing Shirts, Tee Shirts, Baseball Hats, "war" banners, coins, patches and a few other items are on this list of items we are discussing. Look for more updates, interest threads, and a design contest or two coming very soon to the Detachment Merch and Detachment Only Merch Threads! If you aren't already subscribed to them get alerts for new post, you should do so soon! Go here and follow! https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/47-detachment-merchandise/ https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/272-detachment-merchandise-only/ If you have any thoughts, suggestions, comments or concerns about FISD Merch or Branding, my "virtual" door is always open. Hit me up, you can reach me via email, forum DM, or find me on Facebook. Here is to another year of great FISD merch! With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer Now this is how every parade should be, amazing photo Helen! Please welcome TK-42085 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, February 2024! @mamaking Troop log can be found here. Other HOF recipients can be found here. With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador You can find the full meme thread here Trading Card Archives For those with FISD detachment trading cards please consider sending two to Paul @Daetrin keeper of our detachment archives. Address and more info here With Unquestioned Loyalty Paul Hoeffer TK-8020 "Daetrin" Detachment Founder Keeper of Archives Currently (as of 13th March 20224) there are 33,334 approved costumes in the legion, out of these under FISD there are 5160 which is 15.45 % of all approved 501st costumes. This percentage has been dropping for the last few years, the larger the legion costume totals grows the smaller amount of TK's there are. ]] Info can be found in the legion holocron LFL Retail Moratorium Lift While there is currently a retail moratorium on character appearances in effect, it is being lifted May 3-5 at retailers selling Star Wars Related merchandise during the May the 4th fan holiday. We are also happy to allow appearances at theaters screening The Phantom Menace during this time. All fans, costumed or otherwise, can participate with venues of their choice within this window with the restriction that costumed appearances must not be used in the advertising for the event. Although these appearances will be treated like an open invite, we’ll leave it to the fan groups to independently organize around these events as they see fit. LFL will not need to approve or coordinate these. Please note that retail locations should not include restaurants, bars, or venues with no apparent reason to feature Star Wars characters. In the coming weeks, we may send out a list of ‘preferred’ retailers and theaters who would welcome fans to participate at their venues within these event windows, but you are all still welcome to make plans with appropriate retailers or venue hosts of your choice regardless of whether or not they appear on the list. *REMEMBER* Always follow your garrison/squad/outpost guidelines when in comes to organizing Disney/LFL promotional troops, only command staff should deal directly with LFL. 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 February - March TK-10486 "Kingman85" Steven - - - - - - TK-31701 "Alikh" Alex - - - - - - TK-22617 "techdesco" Andres - - - - - - TK-87665 "Stardust665" Angie - - - - - - TK-62257 "MDeliso" Mathew - - - - - - TK-89400 "revlimiter" Adam - - - - - - 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. If you are a 501st approved Trooper who wishes to join the ranks of the Attachés, please get in touch with me and/or visit: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/15252-fisd-attaché-program/ For a complete list of Imperial Attaches, go here. Some of the benefits include: Access to exclusive Attaché merch, including patches. You may also be in the running for an Imperial Attaché Award. An 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. Imperial Attaché patch Imperial Attaché Rocker Imperial Attaché Outstanding Achievement Award ATTACHÉ AMBASSADOR Hello there! My first message to the masses as the new Attaché Ambassador! To start off, I'd like to announce that we have already grown 3 new sets of eyes and ears of FISD out in the field! Welcome @Tilheyra (Bloodfin Garrison), @Sithping (Imperial Scottish Garrison) and @R2Chris (Outer Rim Garrison) to the list of Attachés! For the already existing Attachés that haven't done the Sound off for 2024, please do so! With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché 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 74th Fire Team: Name: Fire Team Tydirium Region: Central Ohio Logo: To Follow - - - - - - Let's all give a warm FISD welcome to our 75th Fire Team: Name: Fire Team Mantero Region: Garrison Tyranus 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 unquestioned loyalty! This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both. FOR February - March the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: Kevin "KFo TK-21921" TK21921 EIB 1073 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: I'm always on the look out for interesting stories or posts, please drop me a message if you have anything of interest. 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): Chris Pearson (themaninthesuitcase) TK-10911 Detachment Executive Officer (DXO): Andrew Franke (Sly11) TK-11469 Chief Deployment Officer (DCA): Mario Reyes (TKSpartan) TK-48117 Deployment Officer (DCA): José Mª Sánchez (Chemi) TK-30173 Junior Deployment Officer (DCA): Gerald J Gyorffy (Doggydoc) TK-96004 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Steven Sheades (starsaber25) TK-10466 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Caleb Mask (MaskedVengeance) TK-73692 Provost Marshall (DCoG): Arthur Wong (giskard8) TK-39093 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tony Jobe (ukswrath) TK-10116 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): Tim Waychoff (Dark CMF) TK-51878 FISD Diplomat (DPRO): 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 (DPRO): Eric Ho (Hoda) TK-77520 Newsletter Publisher (DPRO): Glen Rhodes (gmrhodes13) TK-85421 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Adam Wolf (Revlimiter) TK-89400 Content Editor Support (DPRO): Jeff Salt (Wingnut65) TK-50297 Special Unit Director-Valkyries (DPRO): Vicky Mandlmaier (Vicky_Velocipanda) TK-50893 Attaché Ambassador (DPRO): Jonatan Östling (Nairy) TK-23592 Social Media Relations (DPRO): Luca Hahn (Morgi) TK-66744 Personnel Officer (DPER): AC (NoVATie) TK-5597 Systems Administrator (DWM): Mathias Rodstedt (Locitus) TK-2959 Systems Administrator (DWM): Eric Brager (Darth Aloha) TK-9674 Systems Administrator/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

Thank you Chris and @Sly11 for stepping up .

Congratulations Chris, we are all proud of you sir. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Congratulation Chris. I'm sure you will do an amazing job, and having @Sly11 as XO will only make things easier for you. I look forward to working with you this term.

Thank you for stepping up Chris, ready to serve

Congratulations Chris! I am very confident that you'll do an amazing job for our Detachment as DL, and you have everything you need and more in your DXO, with the all experience and knowledge that Andrew comes with! Let's do this together!

Congratulations guys on your new role

Congratulations Chris and best wishes in your new role.

Congratulations Chris! You are a great person and the right man for the job. We are all behind you!

Make sure you request an update on forum member status (approved) here:

Here is a photo to explain what I am talking about with adjusting the clip. You essentially are just unrolling the thermal detonator on the clip slightly. Let me know if this doesn't make sense.

An airbrush helps when painting figures in this scale. But when painting shadows and highlights it helps to be aware of color theory and not to be afraid to mix in other colors. White is one of the most difficult colors to paint in my opinion. Lil Nairy is a fun challenge.

All good with these Doggy. May have questions about the angle of the TD buttons but will see how I get on first. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks, I understand, I'll give it a shot! Thanks for also finding those reference photos!

Sorry I forgot to edit troop number, I hope its correct now : )

Still working on the shins whenever I get a chance! For the sniper knee, I've searched around looking for what is the proper way to cut the sides. I saw @Tilheyra's post on his build, and he said that there were some reference photos, which I did not find (I think I'm a lousy searcher!). But he has some good photos, and I'm just going to follow what he's got: If there are specific details that are must-have, please let me know. Like does it need to have the downward-curved taper? Or does the end of the plate need to line up with the corner where the shin edge changes direction? Like this? Also, since the shin has to flex out so much when putting it on, I'm thinking of cutting back the return edge as follows, to reduce stress points:

Any BBB photo is a good day

Normally the detachment will see a run every 2 years, hopefully you can get your costume ready and approved before the next run sometime this years.

There will be a run sometime this year. They will only be available for full FISD members, so you need to have an approved TK costume and have one of these icons under your name on your profile. If you don't have one of these, and you have an approved TK, then you need to ask for Full Detachment access.

Can we call this SBB day? My blaster arrived from @Troopacoola (there was also a stand, but have that set aside). I am looking forward to digging into this build once we wrap up the armor. My agenda today/tomorrow is to paint the ear bumps and v-coder (if anyone has tips on getting a clean v-coder, let me know) as well as start my patch jobs on the extra holes in the helmet.

3/9/2024 - AwesomeCon 2024, DC

Troop #44 Day 2 at Acme Comic con Glasgow

2024-03-09, Scouts Pinewood Derby Short troop. Entertaining kids escalated when they had a electrical problem for their hi-tech track system. But the troop leader was a fan of all the recent Disney SW content, so I appreciated the positivity. If there is a winner for theme, this TK car is it! A couple of good-looking troopers: Stay back at least 20 feet: All photo credits to Nommm683

Armor is shipped and will hopefully arrive soon

Full body Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Finally got my prints back from Corellia Creations and they look amazing! The brow came back a bit warped, but once it's affixed to the rest of the helmet you'll never know. But I'm going to experiment with some rubber trim first and decide which looks best as I get into it. The alignment keys worked fantastic and it virtually holds itself together. I did use some tape between parts so I could handle it (except for the brow trim, that's held on with fun-tak). I temporarily attached some test pieces I had made previously, but I intend to reprint them. Here's some preliminary shots of the raw print.

Ah hahahahah

Oh dear god, Ya'll killing my childhood. *Twitch* *Twitch* *Twitch* *Twitch* *Twitch* *Twitch*