gmrhodes13

Congratulations and welcome to Expert Infantry and the EI Honor Gallery

Hello and welcome aboard, the FOBG area is packed full of FOTK info https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/218-first-order-battle-group/ Good luck with the build

You could add elastic across the front so they can still open/close. On the rear something similar to standard TK's perhaps

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It's also a good idea if you use padding to have velcro glued to it so you can remove and wash it, majority of my helmets have removable padding and it's a godsend after a really hot day of trooping

Hello and welcome. You could reach out to troops in your local area, also if in the UK head to their forum https://www.ukgarrison.co.uk/ On our forum you could start a build thread, great way to get feedback and questions answered https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/forum/80-anh-build-threads/ Also for adding photos many of us use a free online image host as the forum only allows a few attachments Great thread full of helpful info Looking forward to seeing your build, good luck Look

If you use the "direct link" or link with photo extension ie: .jpg, .jpeg, png, ,gif your images will show. Example Another issue I've just noticed is your shins, they should closer outside over inside so the closure can not be seen from the outside.

You will have to add each link of the separate photos to your application not just the album

You will need to add your photos via a free online image host as you will fill your attachment allotment very quickly, many of us use Imgur, open an account then upload your images there, then copy and post the links from Imgur into your post here. How To One other thing, it looks like you may have over trimmed your large abdomen plate, should have a plate around the base

For regular Stormtrooper shins they have an overlap piece which covers the butt join, you may be able to attempt something similar and attach the coverstrip to the raised areas Greaves may utilize a white cover strip over the rear seam. OTTK

I've not had this issue before, I'm only using 5V on my blower fan and only one fan at a time, Aker is mounted behind chest also. I know some have issues with the amp in the helmet with mic/fan feedback. You may be able to try a noise suppressor, not sure if that would make a difference

Always wipe down after a troop

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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. 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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. 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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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Award Recipients October - November TK-47933 "Tilheyra" Brian - - - - - - TK-19525 "Tall_Trooper" Torben - - - - - - TK12953 "jsilvius" James - - - - - - TK17032 "Wompet" Gary - - - - - - TK78808 "robojoe" Joe - - - - - - TK-42085 "mamaking" Helen - - - - - - 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. 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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

Looking forward to seeing the progress

That is the link to your legion forum profile, you need your membership profile, this one https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=33973&costumeID=124

A nice clean application, good luck with approval

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 Blast-a-Trooper Logo HiRes Vector PDF_4x2v6 - no black.pdf Blast-a-Trooper Logo HiRes Vector PDF_4x2v6.pdf 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 they do not allow the firing of projectiles at our members (I know right, foam darts)

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Abdomen Armor 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. OPTIONAL Level three certification (if applicable): Ideally there is no gap between the abdomen and kidney armor. Abdominal and Kidney Plate align horizontally at top. A single visible seam line is present.

As long as it's not seen from the outside you would be fine

Here's one position for adding the hearing assist mics

There is a section in the How To which covers mobile/pads, not sure if you have read that but many of our members use Imgur with mobile devices. There are other free image hosts out there: First links that came up in my search https://imgbb.com/ https://postimages.org/ https://www.lifewire.com/top-free-image-hosting-websites-1357014

A lot of people add velcro (soft side) to the kidney, or add velcro to the actual clips. You cold also use gaffa tape. Bolts may be in the wrong position as they usually are that far around on the detonator as you can see in this reference

You may not get a response as he has not been on this forum since: Last visited June 23, 2022 @ukswrathsupplies a few kits, one being hearing assist, he also has manuals and info https://ukswrathsspeciality.com/installations-manuals/ and video gallery https://ukswrathsspeciality.com/video-gallery/ I have two squirrel/blower fans, only use one at a time, it's enough to move the are and make you feel like there is a breeze, 5v batteries work well with them