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Either wipe down after a troop, or do not sweat at troops!

Hey FISD! Like many folks I was among the crowd that ordered a FOTK kit from Anovos back in 2016 and never received it. After emailing Denuo Novo last month however, they said they'd honor the purchase and ship it to me. Eight years after I bought it. I was appropriately skeptical. Imagine my surprise and delight when a gigantic box showed up at my door! Finally, I can get started! This is my first stormtrooper build, but not my first build. I'm a fairly experienced maker already, but this is a new one for me. Here we go. Most of the armor, helmet, neck seal - Denuo Novos Various pieces of the armor - DIY Boots - Keep Trooping Gloves - Endor Finders Gaskets - DIY, but I'd love to pick up some extra real rubber gaskets from Thorsson if he's still making them. Still waiting for a response. If you know of anybody that's still making legit rubber gaskets please tell me! F11D Blaster - DIY Since this is my first stormtrooper build, I'm shooting for centurion, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there. Since a lot of this build so far has been doing A while waiting for B, the progress is probably going to be fairly disorganized for now. There are a lot of parts of this I haven't documented because I've been so busy working on it, so I'm actually farther along in some areas than is shown here. Firstly, cutting the armor out of the vacuum pulls. You're all familiar enough with the way Denuo Novo/Anovos' kits look and how this process goes. Days of checking, measuring, double checking, cutting, thumbs hurting from the little scissors, you know the drill. Started by using one of my inking microns, then moved on to trimming, praying I wasn't going to cut off something essential and have to patch it later. What a mess. I'm eventually going to put some electronics in the bucket to facilitate hearing and speaking, so I soldered together a little proof of concept circuit with an electret microphone. Fortunately, I'm no stranger to creating my own circuitry. Worked like a charm! I'll get back to the helmet in a little bit. For now, the rest of the armor is more important since it's occupying valuable real estate on my living room floor. Starting to glue up the armor pieces with E6000. Those are rare earth magnets I'm using for clamps. The rags zip tied around them are to keep them from exploding and shooting metal shards into my eyeballs if they break. So far it's been really effective, my eyeballs are still metal free. Unfortunately since I have a very limited supply of clamps and magnets, and e6000 has a very long set time, this process is one of the parts of this build that is taking the longest. Well, more of A while waiting for B. Considering the fragility of abs sheets, my goal with the strapping is this: If a piece is hard, it has to mount to something soft. That way if a component comes under torque or stress from my body moving, the soft component will flex, not the hard one. I had a high quality spare belt laying around already, so I picked up a very basic cheap harness for internal strapping. The original harness, pre modifications: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09VPMLC26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 Started by sewing together some straps and buckles for the midsection. These have velcro sewn in so they're very adjustable, and will remain 100% stable after the suit's been sized. Starting with the snaps. These are belt mounts for the thigh straps. Also started on ye olde abs slurry mod. Against my better judgement, I went too heavy with that first application of abs, and as the acetone evaporated, it left a few little bubbles that were revealed as I started sanding. I filled them with my second and third applications. Currently waiting for the third application to dry, then I'll probably be able to wrap it up with the 3000 grit. As of right now, it looks almost good! Getting the greeblies and boxes all painted. Also printed out a bunch of F11D parts and got them all sanded and painted up. Half of the gun is assembled at this point, only a couple more touches and I'll have that part wrapped up. I prefer the version of the F11D with the stock, but I'm not going to be dressed as a heavy trooper. Is there a regulation somewhere that says I'll need a rifle without a stock if I'm your normal, run-of-the-mill FOTK? Getting the midsection strapped. I opted for Ardeshir Radpour's technique of building a separate fabric piece with a zipper for the midsection back. The fabric piece connects via velcro, meaning that the midsection sizing can be adjusted if I get fatter. Thanks Ardeshir, that was a fantastic idea! I also added a zipper pull using a shoelace and some shrink tubing. I've tested it, and can undo the zipper quite easily, even while I'm in the suit. Also shout out to YKK zippers, they're the best. Never gets stuck. Thermal detonator and backplate. Painting this thing was fiddly, particularly that white stripe around the cap. I've got the TFA TD version that's all one solid resin piece. Now that it's all assembled, I can see why TLJ and TROS versions were hollowed out, this thing is quite heavy. Is there an allowance for a TFA trooper to swap the solid resin one out for the hollowed two piece construction? Or would that negate any shot at higher approval levels cause it's not "screen accurate?" In this instance, one could make an argument that the two part construction is more universe accurate, even for a TFA trooper, and to me, that's more important than screen accuracy. Anyway, the Denuo Novo manual claimed that the backplate is supposed to be velcroed on (no), while other builders here tend to use an abs clip. The clip seemed more secure to me, especially considering the weight of the full resin TD, but I was kind of stumped on how to attach it. I started by epoxying in some eva foam backing to fill out the piece a little more, then I made an abs clip out of some scrap by heating to 250 in my oven. I discovered with my first attempt that the abs sheeting likes to curl up like an arthropod when its heated like this, and once it cools it's rock hard and impossible to uncurl. It also cools very very quickly, so once you take it out of the oven you've got about 15 seconds to shape it. I pre creased a couple sheets of scrap cardboard so that I could quickly bend them into a U shape, then laid a piece of abs sheeting between them. To keep the piece from curling up while it was baking, I placed a 2.5 lb weight on top. Since the weight was pure metal, it kept sucking the heat out of the abs, so I had to leave it in the oven for a good 30 minutes for the abs to get pliable. The cardboard jig worked well, and gave me a rock hard abs clip. I opted to use epoxy putty to hold the clip in place, but I was concerned that it wouldn't hold without some kind of mechanical connection. It needs to support quite a lot of weight while I'm walking after all. I added a couple m3 screws to be encased in the epoxy to give it a bit more strength, then lined the clip with canvas fabric to make sure the clip slides on well and doesn't scratch up the back of midsection. Feels solid as a rock now. You're all probably aware how stupid Denuo Novo/Anovos' long belt pouch is. It's a full inch shorter than the plate that's supposed to attach to the front! What the hell were they thinking? Anyway, this pouch sucked, so I made my own. Eventually I'm going to print out some rigid resin boxes to slip inside of these fabric pouches to keep them crisp and square, but I haven't had the time yet. Now on to the fun stuff. With a few of the suit parts, I've found that parts I manufacture myself are better than the provided suit parts, so I ended up replicating and replacing them entirely. Fortunately, I work as a lead 3d tech artist at a game studio for my day job, so replicating these pieces digitally was pretty straightforward for me. Basically just a few extended work days. I remade the hand plates in 3d from scratch, and printed them in resin. The sharper ones are the ones I made. I modeled in a pocket behind the pill shape so that I could mount mesh behind it. The abs copies were ok, but I figured since my endor finder gloves look so nice and I'd likely be touching my hands a fair bit, why not make the hand plates really premium? These turned out really nice; they look great in person. I remade the forearm boxes from scratch too. I placed grooves on the underside. I found some long rare earth magnets and will be epoxying them into place here. I'll put magnets on the inside of the forearm under the box to keep things in place rather than velcro. Here are the forearm prints, fresh out of the alcohol. Crisp as hell! Here's the print next to the Denuo Novos abs version. Once mine gets painted, it'll look much nicer. I also made a mold for the arm rail greeblie. In order to hit centurion I'll need to cast the arm rails in flexible material so the forearm box can move. I've noticed that a lot of people complain about certain pieces of their FOTK armor cracking and breaking when they try to get in it. Most notably the back/yolk piece around the shoulders, and the calf pieces. The reason for this is clear: many components of the suits used in the movie were made from a flexible polyurethane, and the armor was designed around this fact. The calf for instance, is designed to be pried open to get your leg inside. The problem is the shells that Denuo Novo produces are vacuum pulls made out of thin, rigid abs, which is not supposed to bend like that. I tried gluing up one of the abs calves I've got, and ripped half the epoxy off when I tried to get in it. Not great. That got me thinking. I'm scrappy, I'm a maker, I can do better. I wanted to replicate these pieces as accurately as I could, and unlike the pieces above they're difficult to measure with calipers, so first I wrapped my back/yolk and one of my calf pieces in painters tape to prep for a photogrammetry scan. I ended up drawing a rough topology mesh over the back/yolk piece to provide more accurate registry points. Photogrammetry doesn't do well with featureless shiny objects, thus the tape. I should have taped the leg up more thoroughly, but it worked out ok in the end. After a boatload of processing, this is what I got out. It may look like a hot mess, but it was pretty much exactly what I was expecting. Unusable as-is, but a lot of the waypoints were there. I remodeled them from scratch based on the measurements I got from the scans. These are about as accurate as you can get. I modeled the clip greeblie into the leg because I wanted it to flex with the rest of the calf, rather than being glued onto the outside and have the potential to pop off. After I modeled these, I inverted them and engineered some slush cast molds. This part was tricky, particularly with the leg, because I wanted the leg to only have one opening on the inside, and be seamless on the outside. That meant that I needed to design a roto cast mold with overlapping walls on one side; essentially a spiral. Then I had to puzzle out how to get the cast out of the mold, not an easy task considering I had to model in return edges. Eventually I landed on a mold design that can be disassembled into a few pieces after casting. I also had to split everything up into sections that would fit on my build plate, then epoxy them together and sand everything smooth after the fact. An annoying step, but necessary. The chunky bits on the outside of the mold are screw mount points that hold the assembly together. I've done a little bit of slush casting and fiberglass mold making, but that was a very long time ago. Naturally, I bricked this first cast because I used the wrong mold release for polyurethane. Whoops! Lessons for next time! I did another test today using only a single piece of the calf pre-epoxy to prevent any further tragedies. I've still got a lot of mold pieces to print and assemble. Don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it don't spill it I added some white. It came out ok! That greeblie turned out really nice. The rubber is still a little too floppy for my taste, but I think that's either poor mixing (I was trying to pour only 25ml out of two gallon buckets--I would not be surprised at all if I screwed up the ratios), the layer is too thin due to it only being a test, or maybe it's too bendy because it hasn't cured fully. Apparently it takes 7 days for this stuff to fully set up right. Or it's probably all of the above. With a full proper cast I'll get it right. EDIT: I just went and picked up the test piece, and it has hardened up quite a lot. Still flexible, but not floppy at all anymore. Perfect! Here's the polyurethane version next to a sheet of Denuo Novo abs. Pretty close! Hit it with some paint and I'll be good to go on the color. I'm excited to cast the full leg!

Oh my gosh! These are pictures of the inside of my armor after it was sitting in my Box 3 hours after my troop. Disinfectant wipes for the win. You new folks probably don't realize how much we sweat when in our kit. a good practice is to clean the inside of your armor with some disinfecting wipes or something similar. So much sweat! This was my kit after sitting for three hours in my tote once I got home! YUCK! Btw, that's a transducer I have mounted in the back for trooper chatter from an MP3 player when I want. Point is. Clean your armor after a troop!

Its so humid here that I usually wipe down and disinfect my armor and my box, letting them air out for a while. If not, my armor would be disgusting.

Many mics are actually directional underneath the little puffy foam cover, so ensure it's actually pointed towards your mouth and not outward. I have mine literally almost touching my lips when I use it and that helps quite a bit. If you're using a wireless mic or voice modulator, you can usually turn down the mic pickup sensitivity as well. Good luck!

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96. Orange County Light The Night - Irvine, CA - Sat. 11/9/24 (ANH-S #66, FTE #75) As a Hodgkin's Lymphoma survivor and a grateful beneficiary of their services in the past, this event supporting the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society was a special one for me. Attendees received lanterns that indicated if they were a supporter (red), survivor or current fighter of blood cancer (white), or attending in remembrance of someone who was lost to blood cancer (yellow), and they had a full program of fun activities at a local park. It was tough to see so many kiddos who also had white lanterns, but it was nice to be able to share my story with our host and a few attendees, and for them to see that the Empire supports them in their fight!

Putting something inside your helmet to help with dampening the sound (making it not bounce as much) could help. When it comes to the fan air blowing ofc a puffy mic protector will help, and lastly changing positions of the fans (alternatively lubricate them or swap out to quieter ones), that's all I can think of

Always wipe down after a troop

Troop #27 I was able to make my way out to the Music City Squad's territory for a smaller con named Music City Multi Con. The Midsouth Garrison was situated with the Corellian Base of the Rebel Legion, and close to the Bes'uliik Clan of the Mando Mercs, the Sith Dynasty, and the Defenders Detachment was there as well! Saturday was the busiest, but we did have a showing on today (Sunday):

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The recent issues have highlighted we've aged out of our current platform and could use an upgrade. I have been working with the Legion team to get an idea of what we need to do and how we might go about doing this. There are a few options but as things become more concrete we will let you all know. Hopefully this will move quickly once we get started and it would be great to have this in place before the election season kicks off in the new year. On a more cheerful note, the Sheild logo challenge coins have been landing on doorsteps all over the world. It's been great to see these and seeing what people think of them. The team worked hard on these to make something we are proud of. Thanks to the team for the design work, quoting, production and then also all of you who are now receiving them and sending them on to troopers. There is still a small amount of merch to go out this term so keep an eye on the Merchandise Officer update, and also the forum for updates as they come. With Unquestioned Loyalty Chris Pearson TK-10991 "themaninthesuitcase" Detachment Leader Hey all, it's your friendly neighborhood.......ummm, nix that!! Greetings fellow members, ahhh that's more like it. Don't forget, we have the interest thread open for another week or so on the first piece of campaign merch in Advance to 1500! Open to all 501st approved members, this key tag is available with a limit of 20 per person. Once the sales thread goes live, group orders will also be accepted, as it is generally the best way to keep freight costs lower. Our aim is to get the word out that we are on a mission to have more TK's approved at Expert Infantry level. A total of 1500 is our target, currently sitting at 1088. We have no time limit on this campaign, and there will be various merch available as we hit milestone on the way to the big number. Interest thread LINK With Unquestioned Loyalty Andrew Franke TK-11469 "Sly11" Executive Officer Merch Update Time Old Business EI coins are still available. To be eligible, you have to have an approved EI costume and you can not have ever bought an EIB coin. EIB coins are a once and done coin. If you have this one and would prefer one of the older versions, I may have an option for you so please dm me. EIB v11 coin run is open FOTK patch run is closed. I have shipped more than half of the orders. I'm still waiting on shipping payments from members. So please check your email, or contact me if you can't find the shipping invoice. 2024 FOTK Patch Run "Official FISD Standard Logo Coin" The coin run is closed. The order has been placed. I'm still waiting for Sold Out Swag to let me know when they are complete. I will notify everyone once they are shipped to me and the distributors. There are 6 distributors for this run EU, UK, Australia, New Zealand, parts of Canada, and Everything else comes to me. You will receive shipping instructions from the member that is responsible for your region, once the coins are in their possession. More information can be found on the thread. Standard Logo Coin New Business The Standard Logo T-shirt/hoodie an hoodie run opened on 14th Oct 2024 and will closes on 29th Nov 2024. There are some details in the forum, so please read everything carefully before ordering. Standard Logo T-Shirt/Hoodie run Advance to 1500 Keyring - Interest Thread We are posting an interest thread to help us gauge numbers for the Advance to 1500 incentive Key Tag which will become an eventual run. This is a non-branded merch item, so it does not take one of our limited slots. We are still finalizing a vendor, so no solid price yet, but numbers will also affect a final price. As usual, item price will not include shipping and that will be determined by destination and package weight. We will update this information as the supplier provides us more information on costings. Please post an approximate quantity of key tags you would consider ordering. We are going to place a maximum limit of 20 per approved 501st member. Please keep this in mind when doing Group orders. These key tags will be woven so the details are sharp. There is only one variant, the design above shows both side of the tag. Interest thread here As always, questions, comments, thoughts, suggestions, please feel free to reach out. With Unquestioned Loyalty James Silvius TK-12953 "jsilvius" Merchandise & Branding Officer You came in that thing?! You're braver than I thought! Please welcome TK-12953 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, October 2024! @jsilvius Troop log can be found here. Congrats James, and congrats on an amazing 50th troop in the white armor! 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 Star Wars MP3's - Background - Games - Droids - Soundboards - Displays Blast-A-Trooper Finally after many years of asking the Blast A Trooper files have been shared on the legion forum, sharing here for anyone who may have been looking for them https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_W3-wBM3Gsp5EN_juDwPSCVYhLcpv_MD *NOTE* unfortunately for those of you Down Under due to our PLI (public liability insurance) restrictions we are not able to run Blast A Trooper events as the insurer do not allow the firing of projectiles at our members (I know right, foam darts, ouch ) Thread here Request Edited Signature Banners/Profile pics/Fire Team Logos Troopers! I want to help out the community and the people that doesn't have the time or have the necessary tools or skills to create a cool Signature banner or have the background of your Action Photo removed, or even if you have a request for a certain Profile picture! I don't know how popular this will be, or what requirements I will need, but we will learn as we go and if it turns out to be popular and it gets too much for me - I'm sure that we can find a few more that are willing to help out! Thread here With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador 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 LFL Retail Moratorium Lift For most of the year we are under an embargo from LFL and can not attend retail locations unless prior approval has been given by them. At certain times of the year this embargo is lifted, generally around Blu-Ray / movie releases, May 4th and Force Friday, the recent correspondence from LFL outlines the lift of the embargo: Lucasfilm has informed LEC that the retail moratorium is being lifted December 1-31 at retailers selling Star Wars Related merchandise for the holiday season. 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. 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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 Chris @themaninthesuitcase 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. 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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 Greeting everyone! I'm pleased to announce that we have done a lot of work in the Attaché department, and increased our coverage in the world - filling out 12 vacant positions! Give a warm welcome to the following Attachés in the extended FISD staff: ARIZONA Dune Sea Garrison Jundland Wastes Squad Scott @Hesikaya ARKANSAS Diamond Garrison Bryan @Kagamaru CALIFORNIA Southern California Garrison Inland Empire Squad Eriberto @TK Cowboy CALIFORNIA Southern California Garrison Channel Islands Squad Brian @mikidymac FINLAND Finnish Garrison Tommi FLORIDA Florida Garrison Everglades Squad Tarkan @TookBreaker ILLINOIS Midwest Garrison Dan @KaiserintheHood KENTUCKY Bluegrass Garrison Derby City Squad Darin @Darin Ennis LOUISIANA Bast Alpha Garrison Shane @Shanester NORWAY Norwegian Garrison Even @Bobafett75 TENNESSEE Midsouth Garrison Twin Sun Squad Terry @dblcross TEXAS Star Garrison South Texas Squad Helen @mamaking Keep up the great work out in the field! Troopers helping Troopers! With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador Master Armorer Program - 2024 Relaunch FISD has many wonderful programs to help members build and submit costumes for our detachment, whether it be a classic Stormtrooper, a First Order Stormtrooper, or even one of the new Imperial Armored Commandos. While our Expect Infantry and Centurion programs get most of the attention, FISD staff wants to relaunch the Armorer Program (Currently called the Master Armorer Program). What is the Armorer Program you ask? Well, it is a program designed to recognize those troopers that go above and beyond to assist themselves and others in getting costumes built, submitted, and approved. One of the goals of all the detachments in the 501st Legion is to help members build and submit costumes that meet and hopefully exceed the minimum requirements of the Legion’s CRLs. Currently the Master Armorer program has the requirement of helping a minimum of 5 members achieve Expert Infantry status. The member must have spent at least 30min physically helping another member with cutting, gluing, sizing, etc, just because they want to help (no money exchanged). The definition of an armorer is “a maker, supplier, or repairer of weapons or armor”. So while we certainly love the feedback that members provide to others on the forums, and the extra steps some do by having video calls to help walk people through issues with their builds, this program requires hands on work. The new program will have the same physical help requirement, but we are going to move from a “wins” system, (where a win was help an individual for 30 min or more) to a points system, and we aren’t limiting it to only Expert Infantry builds. While we are pushing the Advance to 1500 to try and achieve 1500 Expert Infantry members, we recognize that the goal of the detachment is to get FISD members build, submitted, and approved. So we will be awarding points for Basic builds as well. Currently there are 3 levels of the award, FISD Armorer, FISD Senior Armorer and FISD Master Armorer. The new program will add a 4th level at the beginning called the Apprentice Armorer. The point scale will be as follows. 5 points - Apprentice Armorer 10 points - Armorer 20 points - Senior Armorer 30 points - Master Armorer The Armorer candidate would earn points based on what level the member costume they assisted with achieved. If you help with a basic build, you get 1 point, if you help with a EIB build you get 2 points. So a person to basic you get a point, help them again to get their EIB earning another 2 to a total of 3. The thought again here is that we want to help build as many stormtroopers as possible. If you love building armorer and love helping fellow members get their costumes built, then this is the program you’ve been searching for. We look forward to awarding more members with this award as we know how much we all love Troopers helping Troopers. More information can be found here Armorer Rocker Patches Rocker patches are now available for the Armorer Program, there is currently just the one patch, and members are eligible to receive two of them once they reach Level 2, "Armorer". 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. 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.! More info here This area lists all those who have gone above and beyond basic approval toward screen accuracy and obtained EIB or Centurion or both. FOR October - November the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate the following. Expert Infantry Badge Award: No recipients this month 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: No recipients this month Outstanding job on reaching Centurion, Troopers! Request your free Centurion certificate here. You can find a list of multiple award recipients here. If you see any of these Troopers around your Garrison or Squad, be sure to congratulate them! 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 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 PMF) 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 Imperial Propaganda Machine (IPM): Brian Long (Tilheyra) TK-47933 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

I enjoy going for walks too to see if I can attract some attention back to the booth or whatever we happen to be there for. I've been accused of going awol a few times from where I was supposed to be. Bart

A nice clean application, good luck with approval

Looking good Terry! Did it rain??

13! NF (Neurofibromatosis) Strong walk Had a great time. Got to do my "walk out to the road and attract folks to come check it out". Had a lot of waves and one stopped just to get a photo. My wife's view as she was finishing the 5k walk. I excused myself from that to guard the pizza and hotdogs. The Stormtrooper was the finish line. I did a good bit of walking around in my kit and was getting hot so I decided to change into my racing shirt to help pass out awards for completing the race.

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70. 2024-11-01, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero, with Space Pack, DLT-19) 71. 2024-11-02, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero) 72. 2024-11-03, Comic Con 2024, Stockholm (Hero) Some additional images by the great @ackehallgren With some editing, this turned out to be my absolute favorite one!

Hey thats my AP linked! Happy to chat if you have any questions about experiences with the AP kit!