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Just completed my first troop event at The 14th Annual St. Baldrick's Shave-A-Thon in Livonia, MI on Sunday, Sept 22d, 2024 There were approximately 300 people who passed through while I was there. The event has raised over $101k for childhood specific cancer research, not sure how much more came in for the day. https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/metrodetroitbaldricks2024 My volunteer page is here: https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/tk18635 I will be changing the strapping on the side shims and shaving a little off the forearm for comfort.

Troop 137: 9/21/2024 - CouveCon - Vancouver, WA (305th troop overall)

None of us have claimed to be an expert, most of our CRLs are hard armour and that is most of what we know yes. However rather than coming and throwing insults at us, participate. The CRL thread is here : Please post your images there and we can discuss it.

Talk with Giovanni Rodriguez from Crowprops to have same as mine, he is aware that this modified boot is now in the CRL reference. He sent me some pictures of the instep with padding while progressing through the fabrication. Here is one below :

Here's another RWA for comparison (approved at EI). 1 large tab and 4 1/2 small tabs on chest.

Some references to guide you Thigh ammo pack For the Shoulder Bridges The most common position is to glue from the large tab plus 4 or 5 tabs towards the shoulder.

Replaced the TD screws. 🫡

yep, confirmed with gio so alls good. ill put those on order now and thats two parts of the build tehcnically done and away with

Great initiative and what a nice first troop Michael! You must have been burned out by the end? So many people!

The point so far is that like 5? Ppl who probably never worked with fabric and or leather themselfs worked on this crl because it's a rare costume. I am the one who made the leather parts and belt and if you go to the underworld detachment or the rebel legion where actually fabric and or leather are the Main Parts of costumes they will tell you the same. It took me one Minute to figure out what materials to use. So far I have made 2 close to screen accurate costumes from Ahsoka (Shin Hati and great Mother Klothow) and helped make the Qira CRL plus World first Rey Skywalker with 7 other beautiful Reys (not including a screen accurate Maul with two different leatherbelts (the underbelt exactly glued like enouchs belt) . So I guess I have some experience not only in making costumes but making costumes for the official clubs. I am pretty sure you know more about return edges and how to trim Abs but leather and fabric are just two completly different things. For the tabbards we are talking about thinner leather (i used calf since goat is to small for the big panels) which gives exact the same texture you got in the promoshot but has the exact stiff movement when walking. Shin hati for examples has a silk kama with a untypical heavy silk (woven raw silk) but it flys while moving. The same happens to all fabrics if they are not made stiff like phasmas cape or kylos sleeves with some additional waxing or coating. I attached you shots where you can clearly see that this kama has to be heavy plus the Enhanced promo shot where the typical leather/leather like Material is 100% certain without a doubt. Meaning I challange the choice of fabric for kama and belt. Also the belts edges are glued around like started before not sewn. No visible seam and the classic Look of leather clued to each other. Can take a picture of the Maul belt I have made with the exact Look. Promo shot for the Material: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13O3f-q1xGg6D4YXmRltthyPrV5K8KcPW/view?usp=drivesdk Movement shots: https://drive.google.com/file/d/137LgMUifLssMPlkGwPGmhqI_5JLTNyfX/view?usp=drivesdk Episode 6 when thrawn arives There is also a shot were he Turns which I could find in the screen caps pictures because it's a short second https://drive.google.com/file/d/130tdZ9Tsz-mu8YrVkABT-d99XevqPHeY/view?usp=drivesdk Those folds will not happen to fabric. Good back view with another "leather crinkle" https://drive.google.com/file/d/137tYoNw_E-5w0CPQqCFk8w2VP0Yd-yhl/view?usp=drivesdk If you want to challange the leather choice please show me one single fabric (which is not leather like pleather) that has the texture plus the Movement. And sorry for mistakes, i am not native English speaker and its sometimes hard to explain.

There are still a few places that look to be on the gums A toothpick is a good tool to remove any excess paint

Well another 6 hour day down , I am ready to start fitting all the big pieces. The past few days I’ve done nothing but trim the armor, today I wanted to change the pace and do something different. I installed the lenses , I used the ones that came with the kit. I forgot to take inside photos. But I mounted them to the top ear screw on the inside. I decided to rework my ears some more and for my first build , and spending hours on hours on them. I am content. I also laid down some paint , for not being an artist , and never doing this, I am pretty happy with how it came out. I still have details to do, and to paint the ear caps, but this is what I was able to accomplish today.

Yeah im not entirely convinced they do have the padded instep. But they did reply back to my email and say they are made like that so I’ve gotta take their word for it really. I do want to go for centurion and the boots are the one complex component of higher accuracy since of the two venders. Crowprops is the only one who physically can add the padded look. But we can’t confirm if it actually is done by default. And it doesn’t really look like they’re padded on the pictures on the website. So I might hold out actually just to be 100 percent sure.

Troop 69 London, Ontario September 15, 2024 London Comicon Day 2 Day 2 was a bit quieter, but was again a lot of fun. We are lucky to have Roger Christian living in our area, so he comes to a lot of the local events. He was a guest at the lightsaber booth next to us and was happy to tell stories about working on the films and posing for photos. He is really a great guy and is very happy to share his experiences. I passed him my blaster for the photo, as without him, we would have a very different blaster to carry around.

Troop 68 London, Ontario September 14, 2024 London Comicon Day 1 This is a smaller con but fun just the same. The morning was spent in my Darth Maul costume but the afternoon brought out the TK for blast a trooper and photos.

Troop 67 Toronto , Ontario September 13, 2024 Sick Kids Hospital Virtual Troop This was a first virtual troop for me. We were asked to go I. On a zoom call with a very sick young Star Wars fan. He was very weak and could barely speak, but with the help of his dad, found out that he likes chocolate chip cookies, so there is a chance we may be able to lure him to the dark side. Hoping this little guy has a speedy recovery.

Hi Felix, In the top right corner is a menu, chose profile. From there there is an edit button also in the top right that will allow you to fill in your profile.

So here are some fitting test pics: To-Do's: Shoes (arriving on tuesday) Getting Velcro on the gloves (once they are fully dried) Strengthen the attatchment of the lower legs (any ideas anyone? at the moment its just velcroed on the front and thats not enough) other neckseal (I got some more to test here) Belt(s) and holsters Shoulder belts (still unsure what to do)