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501st Troop: 45 FISD Troop: 16 Event: New York Comic Con 2024 (Day 4) Location: Javits Center, Manhattan NY Date: 10/20/24 Encountered the TRUE Dark Lord of the Sith!

[27] 31.10.2024 - Scary for the palliative care unit at the university hospital / Göttingen Trick or Treat? After a long time, we had an official 501st. troop in Göttingen again. We were invited by Gruselhaus Weende to collect donations for the hospital's palliative care unit. You can't see it in the pictures, but later it was so dark that I couldn't see anything under the helmet. This is what happens when you take too many sweets... Happy Halloween!

Greetings from a future member in-process. I purchased a set of WTF ANH armor from its previous owner and will be joining a build party in two weeks. Did a test fit a couple days ago and lost my freakin' mind when I looked in the mirror. 7 year-old me thought it was the coolest thing ever! I've read a lot of good advice in the forums over the past few months and made specific purchases to make my trooping easier. A little about me personally. I'm an AEMT and work in the ER in Sacramento. Been a volunteer in Search and Rescue for 14 years and studied martial arts for 30 years. Looking forward to taking orders from Vader...

Looking back I mentioned that you may want to move your belt over so that it's centered on the raised edge of your lower ab armor. Looking at some other builds many troopers out there have it centered on your ab plate buttons as you have here. You might be ok not adjustting your belt after all. However it does still appear to be off to your right (picture's left) by looking at the dropbox locations. If anyone has any alignment opinions I'm curious to know your thoughts

The red line was a suggested cut line of your AB, since the AB is at the moment not completely straight with the kidney plate! The rivets would go just about here Do with that exactly what you want! If you don't want to cut your ab plate, then you can just reposition the rivets on the surface that you have, like that (ofc this is a 2 second mock, but just measure and you'll have it correct)

Halloween ComicFest/Trick or Read, Sioux City, IA; 10/26/2024

Kool-Aid Days Grand Parade, Hastings, NE; 8/19/2023

I wanted to wait until the 25th troop. Just like with the Supporter Batch

I just punched a hole through the shoulder elastic with regular line 24 snaps. That should be pretty standard

Thanks for all the advice and the images, really helpful! I might do the cutting and repositioning if I decide to go for centurion. But then I'm also gonna try and polish the old spots as much as possible so it's as invisible as it can be.

I thought you'd never request that Field Exercise Award Torben Thank you for sharing!!!

Trooping the Old Market, Imaginarium; Omaha, NE 9/4/2022

It shouldn't be a problem for Expert Infantry if we read the CRL: OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Any gap between the abdomen and kidney armor is no more than 1/2" (12.5mm) wide. Any shims used to achieve this effect are of a similar material and color as the abdomen and kidney armor. Shims fit flush and seams are allowed. A split (bifurcated) or single cap rivet is present on the lower tab (cod area) of the abdomen armor. Rivet does not need to be functional. Rivet on must be brass or silver in color, approximately 5/16" (8mm) in diameter and is not painted.

Yes haha I didn't do enough research when starting the assembly of this suit 😅 I'd love to put together another one with all of the knowledge I have now! I imagine this might be an issue when trying to ask for EI approval if I keep the rivets the way they are now?

Don't worry about the already existing holes too much, as you can create ABS paste from any off cuts that you get, so the color will match! Here's the tutorial that @gmrhodes13 linked earlier:

Perfect thank you! They look very close together, indeed! I'm not sure if you've cut too much off from the front for them to be moved! I think that ideally for the fitment of the AB/Kidney that we'd first have to straighten out the AB like this Then we have this diagram showing how they should sit:

Does this work ?

Hello and welcome to FISD

Welcome aboard Craig! We have some very helpful members in Cali, hopefully you meet some of them at the upcoming armor party. Definitely the best way to get help if you need any resizing or strapping adjustments done. Good luck with it all, and hope to see you as an approved TK in the near future.

Is your backplate overlapping the ab plate? Because it either looks like that or the rivets are placed very close to the edge of the ab!

Nerf Gatling guns? And I thought the automatic Nerf guns the Canadian Garrison uses could be ridiculous. (Fun, but ridiculous)

What do you say Daniel, should we take some EI photos this weekend at Comic Con? LET'S DO THIS!!!

501st Troop: 44 FISD Troop: 14 Event: Walk With Us to Cure Lupis- Intrepid Museum Location: Intrepid Museum Pier, Manhattan NY Date: 10/19/24

Requesting 25 troops badge.

[25] 26.10.2024 - Birthday party for a young Star Wars fan / Wolfsburg This was my official 25th troop for the 501st. Actually, I'm not a big fan of children's birthday parties because you spend longer changing clothes than you're actually in the costume. But here it was something different. The children were very happy with us. When the children had eaten, we of course took the opportunity to test out the playground. Remember, Tie pilots don't let you get off the seesaw.

[23] 23.09.2024 - Science Fiction Meeting / Speyer The science fiction meeting in Speyer is an annual event that is a must for me. There were over 22,000 visitors there. Unfortunately I don't have many Stormtrooper photos from the science fiction meeting, these are the best ones I have. TK group photo from Saturday managed by TK-71384 This is our German Garrison group photo. [24] 23.09.2024 - Science Fiction Meeting / Speyer It was only when the Emperor wasn't there that I noticed how comfortable the throne was. Hopefully he won't see the photo TK-66744 took a few pictures of me. Thanks again for that I hope I can go there again next year.

Troop #72 Forge Market Parkhead Glasgow It's been a busy weekend for our Troopers starting with the Science Centre on Friday, followed by the ECHC at the Gyle Saturday and Sunday making an appearance at Forge Market. Photo op with event promoter

Troop #26 We were back for round 2 of Boo at the Zoo at the Knoxville Zoo! The Knox Eisley Squad had a good mix of different costumes, with five 501st detachments represented! It was the clone troopers first troop as well!

Troop #71 Edinburgh children's Hospital Charity bucket collection at the Gyle. Fun troop meeting shoppers at the Gyle for photos and high fives.

Troop #70 Science Centre Glasgow Halloween Party This event was my first ever troop back in 2022, pleased to troop here for a 3rd time. Meet and greet with families celebrating an evening in fancy dress.

Troop #25 Today was the Fall Festival at the Blount County Public Library in Maryville, Tennessee! The event consisted of different games and activities for attendees, many vendors selling various food and other goods, and (of course) everyone's favorite Imperials! We also helped out with enforcing policy! This troop was also meaningful because I have now met my goal of 25 troops within my first year in the Legion! The only reason 25 was the goal is because it seems like a good number. Nevertheless, I have met my trooping goal for my first year! There are at least a few more troops for Midsouth's Knox Eisley squad before year's end, so plenty more fun adventures to come!

I had the same problem. I ended up cutting the tips off and drilling two new holes. It didn't take as long as I expected and now the "donut" faces outward instead of upward Before: After:

Troop #69 Summerlee Industrial museum BrickM8 Lego event

Columbus Days Night Parade, Columbus, NE; 8/9/2024

Dream Night at Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha, NE; 7/12/2024