Holnave (evan_loh)

Just updated the first post with our columns and content titles. I'm goign to an armour party tomorrow so I'll try and get some pictures taken of the Stormtrooper armour. We still need pictures of vader armour and soft parts. And we need headers just for the new titles I added in my first post. We could use the same style as the headers we are already using. They will also need to be saved into the FISD photobucket.

Thanks Tim that's a great idea. We could also get one of the troopers to write a short memoir. lol I wonder if Disney will force the troopers out as only Daniel gets to see the movie. Don't worry about the mid month timeline. I was thinking of taking a break for December. Maybe a nonstandard NL edition for December, is that OK Eric? If we're taking a break then we can release this NL towards the later half of November.

Just place the pictures here and I'll save them in my photobucket and post it in the main post. Thanks!

Thanks Matt and Clint. I'm getting some photos ready so far but it's a busy time and I haven't been able to spend more than a few minutes on the boards each time aside from just commenting a little here and there. I'll start putting up the columns and roles very soon.

This is why i love the FISD. Keeping my eyes peeled to this thread!

Wow you must really have it against the UKG. I haven't heard of any UKG members complaining about this requirement of having a blaster. So what's your angle here? You're not even in the garrison nor have you been oppressed by them so don't make a problem out of nothing. Please refrain from garrison insulting again, we are all fans in plastic armour looking to have fun and do good. We are alike but with different ways of handling each group.

^^^^ Yes left arm

I used to until I got bored of the game. Now with the expansion I'd like to play but can't afford the subscription fee with my new job. But still, wish they had a Stormtrooper/Imperial trooper class (no republic trooper doesn't count cause they're the "good guys")

Try MTK or WTF armour makers. They are here on the boards as well and check if their prices suit your budget and if they ship to you. I forgot MTK's username but here is WTF's profile page. Send him a pm: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/user/16134-walt/

WTF armour for kids is always right there.....

Sent! This website has saved me from making costly mistakes and will continue to do so!

Please check this thread: ------------ Theoretically it's the same with mobiles if you could copy the link to the picture and paste it in your post through the Image function noted in the link above.

I was hoping to capture how one straps, assembles or puts on a vader. For example as a TK we can show how there a thigh pieces that go on first and how the individual pieces are strapped together. In regards to Kylo, I thought we could showcase what progress the members have done in terms of research so far. What kind of cloth they sourced to match as closely to the original is an example.

oooo wow I didn't know kits were already being sent! Can't wait to see more progress on the armour.

Thanks for the notable troop. Now that we have a Sith one we'll start looking for a Stormtrooper one as well.

We'll do ANH Vader and ANH Stormtrooper. I plan to feature all the parts of a TK (although not in detail) and how they all fit and strap together. I will going for original strapping but if anyone would want to voice out that the webbing or snap/popper style is more popular do let me know and I'm more than happy to go along with it. I won't be able to use my photos for snap/popper strapping but we could always use another of our WIP threads. Regarding Kylo we could feature all the research done so far and pictures of the original costume. Would like to see what people have sourced so far in materials (like Kylo's basket weave robe) and how people have made the Kylo helmet. As for FISD we will showcase what our own members have done towards the FOTK. 3D printable blaster and hand sculpted FOTK's come to mind. I was thinking we could use pictures from this gold mine of a thread: http://forum.501stsithlords.com/index.php?showtopic=9082 Maul make up and horn application process is a brilliant idea. Would be great to have some pictures of the process. Maybe to pair with our monthly EIB/Cent awardees you could select a Sith of the Month to go along with it. I would have loved to do a Q&A with Dave Prowse or James Earl Jones but it's a little too late for that. I'll still pop them off an email maybe we could add that to a future NL. Any word on the DO/XO of SLD for giving a few words?

The tears (indents right below the eyes) look like you could extend them further as there is still some whitespace left. I wouldn't say they need to be changed if you're worried about messing up, but if you're feeling adventurous you could extend the grey paint and redraw the black outlines. That being said your bucket looks great and you can paint better than I anytime! You planning on getting the whole armour kit now? Also look into posting photos in your own imgur or photobucket account as accounts here have very little image upload space and you'll soon find that you can't post pictures anymore!

what do they do with the 500 lifesized figures after the event? Send them to us please!

OK. Let's get this up and running now that Oct NL is out of the way. Best time to start is now. The main meat of this NL would be showcasing the basics of the Stormtrooper and Darth Vader costume. To further reinforce the fact that we are good at what we do, which is building costumes accurately, I propose we take pictures of each part of a fan-made TK and Vader and show them alongside screenshots or screen used pieces. As for the FISD we will be reintroducing our picture gallery which holds many pictures of screenshots and screen used suits. And now for the rest of the NL which is equally important. Sections/columns: - TFA: Kylo and the FO Stormtrooper - what we have achieved so far - Word from the Founder/DL/XO - How it's made - an article that features some pics of how one makes a Stormtrooper costume (we'll have to vote on whose thread to pick) and Darth Vader costume. - Notable Troops (let's make this a Darth Vader and Trooper theme) - EIB/Cent awards. Matt does the SLD have any achievements of the like? I know not all detachments have costume accuracy achievements but they do have troop count achievements (JRS/Gunnery Corps) Should the content prove too thin I'm open to more suggestions. So the ones above are just minimum suggestions for a standard sized NL.

Founder's Corner - Road to 500 From the XO Around the Detachment Just for Fun Notable Troops Advanced Tactics Awards Follow FISD Back when I started trooping in 2005 nearly every stormtrooper in the Legion wore out of the box FX armor, most of it bought off of Ebay. Everyone once in a while, you’d run across someone who had AP or TE armor, but these were relatively hard to find. The Legion had just moved off of a Yahoo! group (remember those?) on to the phpBB forum we have today. And, like everyone else I bought an FX kit and put it together. When I went to MEPD to research sandtroopers however, I noticed they had a program called “deployed”. It was a set of optional requirements that one could achieve to make their sandtrooper more movie accurate, such as getting rid of the drop boxes, having a diamond sniper plate, and having 8 teeth in the frown. It meant cutting in to the ab plate to get rid of the TK one too. Your reward? Your picture on a web page and a “kudo” on the forum. Well, that and the satisfaction of knowing you had gone beyond the minimums, and get that much closer to being accurate. For stormtroopers, you ask? Well, there was no FISD… When I started FISD I wanted the same thing for TK’s that TD’s had, information and a path to do more that out of the box FX. The Expert Infantry program was baked in to the detachment charter from the start for that reason. The goal, like the MEPD deployed program, wasn’t strict movie accuracy, but a step in that direction that someone could achieve for a reasonable investment in time and money. The initial requirements seem pretty tame now, things like getting a split butt piece, correct ab plate buttons, and fabric (instead of plastic) belts. Something you could do with $50 and a few hours of work seemed good enough to get rid of the most visible inaccuracies. Again, the Legion was still mainly FX at the time. Little by little the program got going and it was fun for troopers to dial in their costumes bit by bit. Then we hit 100. Then 200. Then 300. Where would it end? We are at 500 Expert Infantry stormtroopers now. Think about that. There are only 456 snowtroopers in the entire Legion. Heck, there are only 700 sandtroopers in the Legion. If all the EI were in one place, it would be the 10th largest costume category on its own. Pretty neat eh? In those 500 are some remarkable troopers, such as the first EI of every TK type which set the tone for others to follow in, or the first female EI, the first EI in the UK, or Australia. The milestones achieved could fill a book, or a calendar (which we did not too long ago). But…let’s look at the numbers once more. There are 3245 TK’s in the Legion. That means that even with 500 EI, they represent only 16% or 1 out of 6 of all Legion TK’s. Compare that to MEPD where 36% are deployed. To match MEPD’s success, we’d have to get to 1000 EI, basically doubling our numbers. The first 500 took nearly 10 years to achieve, but will it really take 10 years for the next 500? What if every EI helped just one other trooper get there? Why, that’s easy is it not? Most kits today are EI ready out of the box, it’s just building them that way. Upgrades have never been as easy or as inexpensive to buy. A dream for sure, but one I think we can all get to. Thank you to everyone who helped make the goal of 500 EI possible, and let’s look forward to the next 500! With Unquestioned Loyalty, Paul Hoeffer TK-8020 "Daetrin" FISD Founder Hi everyone! There are a lot of great changes coming up to the forums, so check-in and check often! In the meantime I just wanted to take a moment, say hello (Hi!), and share a couple tips. Firstly, I want to talk about troop reports (located here). We are troopers and troopers troop. If you don’t love trooping, you’re probably not reading this newsletter, or even a member of the forum. Trooping is the part where we engage the public, strut our Imperial stuff, and shake our credit-makers. It’s where we, the “bad guys“, raise money for charity, put smiles on faces, and “do some good”. I don’t know about you, but I love seeing photos and hearing stories from all your adventures. So this is me, encouraging you, to head over to the Field Training Exercises area and show us what you’re up to! We’re one big family, and damn it, I want to see some family photos! (YOU NEVER CALL!!!) Now, I know some aspects of posting a troop report can be difficult if you've never done it. Most notable of these is how to place images in your threads. So I went ahead and created a tutorial on how to use one of the most popular (and free) image hosting services available, photobucket.com. You can find that tutorial here. Although the tutorial only addresses this one service, many of the principles explained, can be used with most hosting services. If you have any questions, message me. Secondly, I wanted to talk about searching the forum. Lots of people find it rather frustrating, and they’re right. The search function is worthless poodoo. While you patiently wait for the forum upgrades, I have a solution for you. Prepare to have your minds blown . . . - Go to google.com - Type in “site:whitearmor.net <search terms>” example . . . site:whitearmor.net Darth Aloha Genius - Bam! Flood of relevant results. Right?!?!?! Minds. Blown. I will also create a post with this tip, in case some people aren't subscribed to this newsletter. (psst . . . this is how you subscribe) Lastly, with Halloween just around the corner I wanted to take a moment to touch on a more serious subject . . . bad armour . . . All joking aside, imitation is the highest form of flattery, or so they say. So if you see someone in bad armour, let them know about whitearmor.net, and the good work we do in the 501st. Star Wars belongs to everyone. It’s a part of everyone’s culture. You can’t make friends with ridicule, so what’s the point? Open comms and start a conversation. No one likes a bad motivator. Tolerance. Duty. Honour. Empire. Okay, that's all for me folks. Enjoy the rest of the Newsletter and, as always, feel free to contact me. That's why I'm here. With Unquestioned Loyalty, Danny TK-66668 "MechaPumpkin" FISD Executive Officer The First Order Stormtrooper's F-11D Blaster 3D Printing Files Now Available! Here at the FISD we pride ourselves in being the quintessential go-to resource for Stormtrooper armor and blaster building. We also live by the motto "Troopers Helping Troopers". Today these values have been full embodied by one of our troopers: Germain AKA The5thHorseman AKA Accuracy Hag. Combine our values with today's technology of 3D printing and you get yourself a 3D printable The Force Awakens Stormtrooper's blaster rifle (or the F-11D Blaster). Germain has done just that and has altruistically released the 3D files so that we can print them and start assembling our new favorite blasters. Do note that while Germain has given use permisison to use these files, he does not give permission to recast or resell this design. Prints can only be distributed to friends and ONLY recasted for 501st garrisons. In other words: do not sell this blaster. That being said, take a look at these 3D renders: No detail spared... And now the printed parts and complete product! To view the full thread, get involved in the discussion, and download the 3D printable files click on the link below. Free TFA F-11D 3D Printable Files Available Now. With Unquestioned Loyalty, Evan Loh TK-24127 "evan_loh" FISD Public Relations Officer This month’s Memoir of a Stormtrooper is a… For the Memoir this month… No. No, I just cannot. I am going to apologize to all of you right now. I am sorry. Now all of you are reading this, and you are thinking, “What is he talking about? Why is he apologizing? What and where is the Memoir for October?” I cannot give you one, because something has completely distracted me and has consumed all of my thoughts and it ate nearly my entire four-day long holiday weekend less than a week ago, and I’m just hijacking the Memoir this month to talk about it. What was this weekend eating thing? For me, personally, this thing became a blinding reality back in March, when the photo above was taken. You see, I appeared at an LFL event here in Fort Worth during which, for the first time, EA CEO Peter Moore revealed Battlefront footage to people that did not work for DICE/EA. At that time, myself and three other local troopers (Cory Parker TD-2372, David Carter BH-5835, and David Petty TI-1626) were privileged to see and hear the beauty of Battlefront on the large screens that can be seen to the sides of the picture. At that time, I was floored by the attention to detail they’d captured. The E-11, for instance, that was seen in the Endor footage was the correct one. It had greeblies and no counter. The sounds and visuals were just some of the finest that I’d ever seen in a game, and this was in early March. Evan managed to capture several images from the Battlefront Open Beta that took place last weekend and they’re being shared here in case you’d been unaware of it somehow. If you didn’t have the opportunity to play it, let me offer my opinion of the gameplay that we had access to last weekend: For me, the development team at DICE have managed to capture the “feel” of the Star Wars Universe nearly perfectly. Everything from the scattered sparkle of the snow on Hoth, to the sounds of the blasters, and the impact of the blaster bolts were spot-on. Playing as an Imperial Snow Trooper on Hoth, I will admit that hearing the Star Wars music, which announced the arrival of Luke Skywalker on the battlefield, did cause me to immediately find out where he was – because I wanted nothing to do with him. It never ended well if he and I got into a one-on-one engagement. The same can be said of Lord Vader’s appearance while playing as Rebel Scum. The vehicles felt right. The TIEs were insanely maneuverable (and had no shields), the A-wings worked wonderfully as strafing machines, making low passes and powering shields when enemy fire was incoming. The speeders felt slow and less maneuverable, and the X-Wings were fast, and maneuverable – but far less so than the TIE fighters. Running through Echo Base felt like I was in the movie. The look and feel of the game is (to me) just about perfect. What wasn’t perfect? Things like RoTJ Endor Luke being the one that appeared on Hoth is the biggest thing that comes to mind. Of course, if he had been dressed in his Hoth gear, it would have been very difficult to determine which character was him and which of the other 19 Rebels were simply regular Rebel Soldiers. When all is said and done, the gameplay is a tremendous degree of fun, and I cannot wait to begin playing it again. It was just a tease (with only three modes available to players - one single player mission, and two multiplayer modes) of what we’ll be experiencing beginning in mid-November, as the game launches on November 17th on the PC, Playstation 4, and Xbox One. (If you happen to be an Xbox One player, you can gain early access to the game through the EA Access feature. I’d advise you to look into it if you aren’t a subscriber already.) --------------------------------------------------------- Evan here. I thought that it would be nice to display some more pictures of a new trooper configuration the debuted in Battlefront's Beta Dropzone game mode. My first thoughts on released images (before the beta) were that this trooper was some scuba trooper of some sorts. Turns out this trooper didn't go swimming but rather was on Sullust: a somewhat volcanic planet. Maybe the air is hazardous in Sullust thus the need for extra air supply/filters? Despite the unique backpack seen above, this trooper also wears extra shin protection. With Unquestioned Loyalty, Tim TK-51878 "DarkCMF" FISD Amabassador Holden Racing Star Wars Collaboration September 21st 2015 Melbourne Australia The force will be with three-time Bathurst 1000 champion Garth Tander at Mount Panorama this year with Holden Racing Team Commodore V8 Supercar to be decked out in Star Wars: The Force Awakens livery. As part of a sponsorship deal between Holden and The Walt Disney Company, Tander's #2 HRT VF Commodore race car which he will share with co-driver Warren Luff will feature Kylo Ren wielding a lightsaber on one side and a Stormtrooper on the other. Troopers from the Knightfall squad had been organised to attend the special announcement, all details had been kept quiet until the day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-tXXnIeAZ8 Disney Australia announce it's partnership with GM Holden August 26th 2015 Holden announced a multi-year agreement with The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand, in anticipation of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens upcoming movie, attended by troopers of the Knightfall squad.. Holden's First Order car came in 3rd place followed by their Resistance car in 4th With Unquestioned Loyalty, Glen Rhodes (Q) TK-85421 "gmrhodes13" Imperial Propaganda Department This month the First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment would like to congratulate all Expert Infantry Badge achievers for contributing to a huge FISD milestone: 500 members! Also announcing two new Deployment Officers. Please welcome ukswrath (Tony) and Sly11 (Andrew) and give them your support! The FISD staff would also like to thank Gaz for all his effort and stellar work as Deployment Officer and ever raising the bar of Stormtrooper greatness! Expert Infantry Badge Award: 500 and beyond! Bradley Davies "68Brick" TK-21814 Shane Anglin "TK-61214" Oscar Arellano "acetilacetato" TK-28272 Centurion Award: Hans Donovan Cheong "HansDC" TK-88118 Christian Schießl "Saifai" TK-30514 Jaydon "Teekay YYC" TK-74614 Stand tall and be proud of what you have achieved troopers. You will now be deployed into the First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment Advanced Tactics Roster. Make us proud troopers! The FISD is always looking for new applicants for our Advanced Tactics program so please do not hesitate to apply if you meet the standards! Our Deployment Officer and armorers are here to help and guide you through to success! Feel like your armor is up to standards and worth of recognition? Apply for the Expert Infantry Badge Program now! Want to go the extra mile, raise the standards of Stormtrooper armor, and be the envy of your peers? Apply for the Centurion Program now! Note: Applicants need to be EIB approved before applying for Centurion. With Unquestioned Loyalty, Evan Loh TK-24127 "evan_loh" FISD Public Relations Officer http://whitearmor.net/images/newsletter2015/followfisd.png Don't Forget We're on Facebook and Twitter! Facebook: www.facebook.com/whitearmor If you're on FB, stop by and say hi, ask questions, and share stories! Twitter: www.twitter.com/FISD501st or @FISD501st follow FISD on Twitter! Instagram: www.instagram.com/501stfisd With Unquestioned Loyalty, Evan Loh TK-24127 "evan_loh" FISD Public Relations Officer On behalf of the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment Command Staff and the Imperial Propaganda Department, <End Transmission>

Amazing Billygrams are amazing!

Looks good buddy The off center belt is fine to me. The ridge going down the cod piece weren't centered either on the original suits.

That's a really nice bucket. Would be in for making an order should you decide to do runs!

I was terrified on my first build. No DIY experience (should have attending those DIY sessions in school) before, no idea which part went where. I also haven't been to an amour party then. So everything was done slowly over forums. Getting approval to piece something together before actually committing to glue. It turned out alright at the end but I needed lots of patience. Also utilise our photo reference thread especially the RS Suit gallery to see how all the pieces fit together. Some people take a few weeks some a few months. It depends on how much time you spend on it each session? If you decide to build your amour yourself, don't forget to find a local garrison to see if they are having any armour parties coming up. Also do start a build thread here and post plenty of pics. You'll get plenty of help here! Good luck!

plasma blade for Kylo Ren's lightsaber apparently ooo