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I just wanted to thank you guys for pushing this out the door! So many of us have or will have very similar costumes ready, so the changing of words to allow for basic approval, really helps. Thanks! Hopefully we will get a model soon!

I've updated both the belt and the skirt sections. If anyone has any comments let me know.

RS propmasters is a great option if you go with them. I personally enjoy the process of building my own, as I learned so much about the costume that way. But everyone has different levels of time and experience. In the end go fro what you think is best and let us know if you have questions. Welcome

Congrats! Amazing job

...and if that doesn't answer your questions, drop me a PM so we can chat or run a phone call. This way you can ask many questions and get immediate replies.

Thanks for the info on the German section since I really haven't noticed it. I will have a look at it.

I really have no memory of that, and honestly I think it's wrong as well. Looks like it's closed (as in the fastener or buckle) at the front. I am going to claim it as a typo 🫠 I think the best route is to simply remove that line and let people use reference so it looks correct and not worry about forcing it any specific way. Regarding the skirt, I've not had a chance to go back and watch yet due to work and other issues taking my time. Perhaps the simplest solution is to amend the wording to remove the word "fabric". Then if some one has made one in either fabric or leather so far they are going to be able to get cleared. Looking at the images there just is not enough detail right now to make a 100% decision. The motion might help but even then we don't 100% know and might not ever unless this ends up on a stand at Celebration or similar. We can always add it later as a level 2/3 requirement once we know for sure.

Census completed! Hope to see many Troopers at Celebration Japan next year!

Event: # 29 Event Name: Academic Discovery Fest Suny Old Westbury Location: 223 Store Hill Road, Old Westbury, N.Y. Date: Oct 2, 2024

Update! https://www.facebook.com/share/p/s6Lks7CngZSoCTeG/ We are more than 1000 confirmed members (Imperials, Rebels, Mandalorians, support people....). I think it's going to be amazing...

Confirmed: WARMACHINE TK-10343 ANH Stunt 1pt - Confirmed. Firehazzard TK-15587ANH Stunt 1pt - Confirmed. Slouch TK-70384 ANH Stunt 1pt - Confirmed. Dragon_a TK-72822 HWT 1pt - Confirmed. TKSithspit TK-74377 ESB 1pt - Confirmed. TK-99398 ANH Stunt 1pt - Confirmed Current total 6 points. Congratulations trooper on your new rank as Apprentice Armorer!

Congrats John, now updated.

Matt Sawa TK-13239 Centurion Letter Chemi Way to go, Matt https://www.whitearmor.net/eib/certificates/13239-centurion.png

Blast a Trooper all donations for Macmillan Cancer charity.

September 29, 2024 - Walk to End Alzheimer's Shelburne VT

Troop 85 Event Name - Jimmy Carter's 100th year Celebration (and Movie Marathon) Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum Atlanta, GA

62. 2024-09-27, Bokmässan Göteborg 2024 (Gothenburg Book Fair), Göteborg (Hero) 63. 2024-09-28, Bokmässan Göteborg 2024 (Gothenburg Book Fair), Göteborg (Hero) 64. 2024-09-29, Bokmässan Göteborg 2024 (Gothenburg Book Fair), Göteborg (Hero) Update! We attended Sweden's by far largest convention! The Gothenburg Book Fair attracts a lot of famous people and from all over the country, and we're breaking new ground here by showing up here where we met people we wouldn't normally get to meet, since this isn't a Sci-fi convention or anything like that. The reception from the people at the fair was amazing, and we could tell that it was most of the people's first time seeing Stormtroopers in real life! Normal and famous people alike, they acted like children around us and donated a lot of money to our cause, which was the Children's Cancer Fund! We stood on the space stage, where they blasted Imperial March in the speakers! I had a little private spot all to myself in the dressing room Peek-a-boo I surprised our trooper @TK 17229 that had been there the day before I arrived! Reunited! Watching our Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt on the space stage Of course he got to meet some real space people! He has joined the dark side, he'll do anything to get back into space! We got arrested, apparently - Empire laws don't apply on this planet... We had a new recruit to the Emperor's cause! Arresting famous people is awesome! This guy was a children's television show host for 20 years and is like Sweden's sweetheart! Me and @TK 17229 I'm not in the following picture, as I stood guard at the other side of the room, but we had this hilarious segment. A loud reading by Chewie, and then interpreted by Luke, so that the children could understand what the story was about! It was a story inspired from other children's stories that a member had cooked up which we called "Three Little Troopers". It was a huge success and extremely fun to be a part of!

Mison 24 28/09/2024 - ILLESCAS (TOLEDO) - IX MERCADILLO SOLIDARIO FUNCAVE

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Alright guys, found the perfect shoes at the world famous Oktoberfest the other day! just kidding of corse, big thanks to my friend @Action Jackson for handing me over his spare pair of FO-TK boots Also, have a good look on our sweet SESQ-Merchandise (the lederhosn 😁) designed by the fantastic @Laubi I tried my very best to get all I gathered on knowledge of the costume into the CRL thread. All I was able to collect was based all on the screenshots we made ourself or screen caps (but they only have one picture per second, first world problems...). I never ment I am using the Hot toys figure as my reference, but in my eyes it was kind of good to see they also interpreted it the same way I did, as they surely had better pictures or the costume itself to work with. Badly I haven't got he luck to know the production team, so all I collected was from the various sources seen above. Maybe it would also be an option to leave suggestions in terms of material choice out, as long as it has the matching look it has the matching look. What about setting the material choices free to go on lvl 1 and the suggested materials from lvl 2 or higher? I mean gold leaving and cracks are lvl 3, in my eyes painted on gold color destroys the look so much more than the choice of the material as long as it goes with the look also I recolored the gloves as just matting it down didn't quite please me, mixed it to be as close to the kama as possible to keep the overall look the shinier undried part is the mixed color, just need to make good pics of it Also it was quite a struggle to get all details of the gloves and hide the remaining stitches, but as long as you are not looking with a microskope it will stand its look. Don't worry, this is the old color last but not least for now present the probably ugliest undersuit trouser I have ever seen...Its a pair of XXL sweater arms sewn onto a leggins 😁 not pretty like that, not pretty worn...but as soon as hard parts go on it's perfect! (I know the color looks off, thats the lightening of the shop together with my camera) Tonight we'll keep on with the belt, prepare for minor corrections in the pending CRL here as well from me 🤐

TROOP #8 - Dallas Heart Walk 9/21/2024 A few of us troopers attended the Dallas Heart Walk on Saturday! This event raised over 4 MILLION dollars for the American Heart Association - incredible! We took pictures with families before the walk started, and then joined in on the post walk celebrations. They had us draw the raffle winners on stage which was fun. Edit: The snowie in the pictures is also my approval day buddy! So it was cool to meet and troop with him for the first time! Before the walk They asked up to pose for the photo booth And as usual, I ended up dancing, while we we were waiting to go on stage. https://i.imgur.com/cuO53wF.mp4

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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.

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[79] 2024-09-18 Hahn Elementary School Walkathon Rohnert Park

Troop #33 (161) Flower City Comic Con Gates, NY September 14, 2024

2020/2021/2022 76) POAC End of Summer BBQ, Brick Township, NJ - September 4, 2021 77) FCBD The Comic Crypt, Eatontown, NJ - May 7, 2022 78) Arts for Autism, Port Monmouth, NJ - September 17, 2022 2023 79) Jersey Shore Blueclaws Star Wars Night, Lakewood, NJ - August 4, 2023 80) Walk for Hydrocephalus, Bradley Beach, NJ - September 10, 2023

94. Orange Public Library Comic Con - Orange, CA - Sat. 9/14/2024 (ANH-S #64, FTE #73) It's the Crocs and the confidence for me

TROOP #7 - Dallas Stronger 2gether Parade 9/15/2024 Another Parade, and a Pride one at that! Having missed out on June Pride stuff (I was finishing my armor) I was excited to bring out the "Bi-Trooper" for the first time! The weather wasn't as nice as Labor day (It was back to the usual Texas heat) but it was so worth it to see how excited people were when they saw us there to support the community. Representation matters, and there were multiple people who specifically were excited to see the Bi-Trooper. Next time, I'll even get the pattern right on the armor! The flagpole has already paid off as an investment, can bring it to all the parades! I already had this flag, and I have an Empire one of course!

I'm pleased to see that our detachment is leading the way in droid hunting! Please welcome TK-11198 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, August 2024! @camroc13 Troop log can be found here. Congrats Cormac!! Give our regards to those pesky Sandtroopers will you? With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador

Donated! Long live the empire!

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Thank you for the kind words @Sly11. I do my best for the best detachment in the Legion. As always, if you have ideas for Merch or ways to improve the process, my "door" is always open. Feel free to drop me a dm, an email, even in person if you happen to have the chance to troop with me. I do read all the notes everyone makes and I'm always humbled by the kind words everyone offers. I also try to answer any questions or provide input on any suggestions. With Unquestioned Loyalty, TK-12953 aka James Sent from my SM-N981U1 using Tapatalk

Troop #165 Martinsville - Green Top. Elementary School Spring Fling - 4/14 edited

On to the armor bin. I wrote up a bit more about this one: Building the Armor Bin: High-level tips on this bin: - There is such a thing as TOO MANY GREEBLIES. Greeblies -those little found objects and things that make a thing look like it has some utilitarian function of some kind. If you cover every spot, it loses something. Star Wars objects look best with areas of flat, and then areas of detail, with asymmetry being key. - I used a lot of fasteners, and getting them one at a time at the hardware store can get expensive. There are almost no Phillips style fasteners in Star Wars, so I needed a non-standard bolt. I found a good kit of small nuts and hex hole bolts that were all M3 size but in many different lengths. This allowed me to not only know every hole was my 1/8" bit but also I could find the perfect length of bolt, to minimize the protruding end INSIDE the bin. I also capped every bolt with a small cap, glued on with E6000, or hot glue on my vents. I really want to avoid any chance of scratching the glossy white armor. - For the wiring, test it all first before mounting, and use quick-connect wire connectors so you can assemble it all and test it, and then take it apart, run them through holes, and hook it all back up. Run any switches to the outside of the bin, so you can roll up to a troop, and then turn them on when people will see them, without having to open it up and do some switches every time (save battery power, and the buttons add to the look). - Roughen with sandpaper all parts before gluing. But also, all greeblies and knobs are also bolted on. I have seen glue fail so many times, and on a bin that gets knocked about, everything should be secured with a bolt if possible. - Because things get stacked on a bin, any greeblies on the lid should be secure, and tough, and not go above the top edge so that things could rest on top of it. The build: It started as a Husky 45 gallon tote. On my very first bin years ago, so much of the spray paint chipped off in that first year. It was like the plastic was resisting the paint. Later as I was washing off some cast parts to prep them for painting, it hit me. Like ALL CAST PLASTIC, bins have a mold-releaser spray residue on them when they come out of the factory. So a super important part of my bin painting process is the wash all parts with warm soapy water before starting. I did this one in the shower (with dish soap), but my bigger husky bin I washed in the driveway, like a car wash. Painting the bin was straight-forward, a few coats of primer, letting it cure for more than a day. So many painting issues, especially in winter, come from not letting the primer fully cure. Then some coats of white glossy paint. I usually do the weathering before the clear coat, but after applying some vinyl decals, in a few spots they started peeling off the paint. Not everywhere, but enough that I didn't want to risk more. I painted them back to white, and then did a satin clear coat to help the paint all stay. I used satin because gloss is really hard to paint weathering on, it has no "tooth", so I did a gloss coat after the weathering. Next I wanted to try and do the light panel thing, so I did that first. I go over it more in my previous posts, but the basic idea is I created a matte black decal using my new vinyl cutter, and applied it to a rectangle of translucent plastic. To get the red, I used a square of 3M self-adhesive brake light repair film behind it. You have to have some black area to cover the overlap, as the red light will "bleed" out a little, and you want to cover that transition. The light is a battery dimmable night-light thing with batteries and two LED strips. I opened it up, took a red wire from the batteries, and soldered in a quick release cord, and soldered the other end to a toggle switch. That way I could cover the dimmer switch (it's in the center) and leave it "on" but the switch is now on the outside of the bin controlling it. I mounted it to an aluminum bar to keep it about 5 mm away from the plastic, so that the light diffused enough to make a more even panel. For the frame, I had been saving a few of these diaper wipe lids that had a cool shape. I trimmed off the lid piece, and the part you see is the bottom, where it has a flat area they glued to the package. For the two small lights, I found these great 8mm indicator lights, basically a 5mm LED light with a metal mount around it, and pre-wired with resistors. I wired them in parallel to the 9v battery and with a toggle switch. After looking at the specs, I figured out the hole size, and had these custom laser-cut aluminum hex plates (with my 1/8" holes) to give them a cooler mount. Their 9v battery case is velcroed into the corner for easy removal to change the batteries. I used a lot of the quick-connect wire connectors to do my circuits, because there were a lot of parts that had to go through the walls of the case, and those allow you to do all of your soldering on a table, and assemble it, rather than try and solder in the case. All of these wires could get smashed and caught, so I found a white two-piece pencil case at a dollar store that was the right size, and made a cover for all of the wiring, held on with acorn nuts and wing nuts so I could remove it without tools to change the batteries. For the vents, I had been looking for years for good small vents for Star Wars projects, and this time, I realized I could just use an on-demand metal cutter site (I used SendCutSend) that I used on another project to cut some custom vents. I made the shapes in Adobe Illustrator like I used for the viny decals, and they came out really good. They have the same 1/8" hole that my bolts all use, and I backed them by the denser Phifertex Plus mesh, glued on the inside with a hot glue gun (and I hot glued over the bolt ends at the same time, so that is another bolt protection solution). I added some greeblies from @Jettsonable which were painted with a sort of hammered finish spray (his last one came as a clean print), so I used filler primer to even it out, and then painted them white. I ended up glueing, but also adding two bolts to them to ensure they stayed put. Other greeblies were some old stereo knobs from a random lot I got from Ebay. Finally, for the trooper look, I had an extra belt piece that I glued to the top with white E6000 (and also bolted, the top flexes a lot). Vinyl decals finished it off. One area where the vinyl peeled off the paint on the lid, I had to cut a new rectangle of ABS, and glue/bolt it on, and apply new lettering (the area with "FISD" and "Imperial property" in Aurebesh). The reason I use the white paintable E6000 is because the seep out spots can be painted with the weathering. For weathering, I did my usual technique of painting with mostly black acrylic, wiping off with a rag, painting in, wiping off with a wet rag, back and forth a few times, until it looks right. Lots of gunk under the edge of the rim where all of those chambers are hard to clean, and less in the open areas. Grime near buttons where fingers touch. Mud spray from the wheels up into their cutouts. Just do it with intention and though for HOW it got dirty. Finally, a glossy clear coat, being sure to tape over all screens, lights, knobs, vents, and buttons to keep the spray from affecting those areas. All in all, I love how it came out, and I had few setbacks. I can't wait to roll up to a troop with this! Parts: Husky 45 Gallon (170.3 L) Latch and Stack Tote with Wheels Battery powered dimmable night light panel. 3M High-Strength Red Lens Repair Film Diaper wipes lid piece (Aiden & Anais, no longer made, but others are similar) M3 hex bolt set white dollar store two-piece pencil case custom Laser Cut aluminum vents Phifertex Plus black mesh Hot Glue white paintable E6000 8mm indicator lights 9v battery case velcro 1/2" wide aluminum bar (1/8") Round Toggle Switches Rustoleum white primer Rustoleum Glossy white spray paint Rustoleum satin clear coat Rustoleum Gloss clear coat Liquitex Basics Acrylic black and raw umber paint Antique stereo knobs from Ebay custom vinyl lettering decals stormtrooper belt plate I made this diagram for someone following my build. My LEDs came pre-resistored, but if yours aren't, you will need to use an Ohm's Law Calculator to determine the different resistors (white and red use different volts). I hope I didn't forget anything, but I am open to answer questions! I look forward to more people making in-universe transport cases!

I just got my Stanley tote and started putting my emergency repair kit together for it. So far I have included: white duct tape black & white industrial velcro (left over from build) extra elastic snap strips (from build) - for various places in armor, as well as a pair of white elastic to connect chest/back super glue old tube of E6000 pair of 3/4" clamps scissors exacto knife (and spare blades) foam pieces double sided tape alcohol wipes zip ties I also have a pack of gum and bottle opener, and will probably find an inexpensive multi-tool/leatherman. It all fits in a gallon ziploc which sits in the tool tray that comes with the Stanley. I'll also put together a checklist (like the one posted above) along with an emergency contact/medical info list.