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I'm somewhere between 5'9" and 5'10" and weigh 165 lb and have CFO armor excluding helmet & handplates. I think you can make CFO armor fit you just perfectly

Thanks Maxim, I appreciate it Also glad my suit can be an inspiration to someone. I'm not the best one to tell how to build a TK but if you ever need any info about INC details or how I built mine, feel free to ask. Cheers, Osku

Thanks for the compliments Mark, appreciate them Feel free to link this thread anywhere you wish. Your kit was really great to work with ! Thanks Mathias, appreciate it ! I just try to live up to the high standards of Nordic Garrison After finishing my plasma rifle & a few tweaks & adding a few rivets & fixing a couple of things, it's time for EIB and Centurion apps. Hopefully way before CEII Thanks Michael, appreciate it

Thanks guys, appreciate it David: I bought my ammo pouch from here http://www.epicmilitaria.com/product.php/744/mp40-black-smooth-leather-ammo-pouches UK store so it was closer to me and I didn't have to pay import taxes. I could have bought canvas one locally but I wanted leather.

Osku - 11767 - Nordic Garrison

TK-11767 Requesting 501st access http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=15702 Thank You

And... approved TK-11767 reporting for duty, ready to get his butt kicked for the Empire ! More pics from my first troop later, they are still in a camera. Pretty comfortable to wear from the beginning, 3,5 hours in a row was a no-brainer. Just need a few tweaks to prevent biceps & forearms twisting around like a merry-go-round Next phase, finishing the Plasma rifle, aka Flamethrower. Cheers, Osku

Thanks Todd, that's a huge compliment because it was what I tried to do I know I took at least one project pic of that button and base but I guess I accidentally removed it from my camera because I can' find it anymore. Cfo kit came with quite a lot of excess material around parts, good for me because I then had a lot of stuff for scratch building. The "base" for button was made out of two corner sections from the part you see in next pic. I just cut two of them, made the measurements match the Cfo base, glued (or actually welded) them together and then to the Ab. I used methyl ethyl ketone ( Butanone or MEK ) to weld the parts together. Besides styrene, MEK works well with ABS too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butanone If you look close, you can actually still see the vertical seam in base part, just between Ab itself & button. To smooth the seam areas I used ABS paste. I use the same MEK for that too, instead of acetone. I think I repeated the ABS paste - sand smooth process at least 5 times. I'm rarely completely happy with the work I do (forever-frustrated perfectionist ) but I think I did pretty well this time. The button was made out of excess ABS too. Just took piece of it, heated it carefully with a heatgun and pushed from the inside with a flat end of my hand drill. The rest was, again, cutting and welding and ABS paste and sanding... If anyone wants to do buttons like this, I advice to choose bigger ABS piece, small ones just start to warp from the edges before you can push & form the button. I know, I have several strangely deformed ABS pieces lying in the garage floor

Btw, any criticism and/or suggestions are highly welcomed. I have a long model-building background but this is my very first costume ever. I did repaint the forearm stripes, those in my pic seemed way narrower than ref pic stripes. Cheers, Osku

A small update where I'm at the moment. Still a lot of small stuff to do like weathering parts, securing some parts like belt so it stays where it suppose to stay, finishing helmet ( especially ears ), attaching pauldron so it won't lift the helmet ( couldn't see #%¤& while these pics were taken LOL ). Also a few parts missing from the pic. Red markings are a bit too bright in upper pic, lower shows them about right, at least in my monitor... Flower Power

Like others have said, waiting is a part of this hobby. I got same automated response from RS and that's 5 months ago so they clearly forgot to answer me. ( Got a ATA helmet instead so no big issue or hard feelings towards RS at all ) RS guys are just human and forgetting things is part of being a human. So, I'd say wait a bit more and resend the mail if needed. Cheers, Osku

Great news, thanks Btw, there's still small hick-up in Incinerator CRL. CRL says about the forearm unit markings: "Special unit details in red shall be present in the form of two vertical stripes, running the length of the forearm. One in the front and one in the back (cover strip area)." Ref pics and even CRL pic clearly show three vertical stripes. No big deal for me and this has been discussed earlier. But may cause some confusion for someone just starting. Cheers, Osku

Sorry for nit-picking here Nicky. What you wrote above might give people the idea that mesh behind frown is mandatory. CRL says "Mesh may be used behind the frown to obscure the face of the wearer." For example balaclava does the same thing. I think it's up to the wearer to decide what to use. Regards, Osku

I can also share my vision of Plasma Rifle (based on airsoft AK-47, tubing & parts I can find here in Finland) as soon as I find time to do that. Next 2 weeks are pretty hectic, trying to get my suit ready for approval pics so you have to wait a little if you don't mind. I don't even have time to update my own build thread at the moment. A great example how NOT to do a build thread

What Karin said. ATA and AM both offer ABS kit if you are considering getting Shadowtrooper. Edited: I forget AM in earlier post