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Since I'm stuck inside because #corona, I decided to follow this tutorial and make one of a belt for the ANH Stunt. Now I can swap out my belts easy! A few addition from my learning this afternoon: Drilling the center of the snap really wasn't as easy as I thought it was going to be. I had to do it slowly, for what it's worth. I wish I had a more stable way to secure the snap. Have the right sized pop rivet! I was struggling for a bit fitting the rivet through the snap that I drilled w/ the 3/16" drill bit. Turns out I grabbed the wrong rivets. Doh! Fixed that and it was easy sailing. I did have to take a snap setting tool and smack the interior a few times. This is a visualization of "step 2" from Brien's instruction above - "placing your snap on the inside of the belt facing armor and push a pop rivet through the opposite side" Thank you, Brien!

Technically, SE-14R has been an option for ANH Hero for a while now

2019-12-20: WFAA Good Morning Texas We had a chance to join the local TV ABC-affiliate WFAA to do some promotion for The Rise of Skywalker! Here I am helping out with the weather report. 2019-12-22: Dallas Sidekicks 12/22 Game For the last troop of 2020, we escorted Mike Quinn (Nien Nunb) during the Dallas Sidekicks game.

Video embedded here for posterity. From left to right: TK-77520, TK-13911, TK-9727, TK-51453.

2019-10-29: Star Wars Reads 2019 - Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children This was a great event. We got to visit the Texas Scottish Rite in Dallas to hang out with some kiddos who are staying there. 2019-11-09: HAF's Annual Dallas Gala The keynote of the event explored the intersection of Hinduism with Star Wars. Neat stuff! 2019-11-24: Leo's Make-A-Wish Reveal We had a chance to be part of Leo's Make-A-Wish reveal! Not only did we reveal his wish, we also presented him with an honorary membership to the Bounty Hunters Guild, as well as a special message from a special bounty hunter in The Mandalorian! 2019-12-07: Dallas Holiday Parade Loved doing this parade last year, so back at it again! Love having all these TKs together! 2019-12-14: Dallas Mavericks 12/14 Game This was a very long troop. Highlight - we hung out with game attendees, pretended to be statues to scare Mavs players (ended up on ESPN, almost half a million views on Facebook!), and made our first TikTok video!

Hello there! Like others have said before, the place to go for Sandtrooper resources is the MEPD forum. http://forum.mepd.net/index.php The builds are of course similar, and I've seen people doing their build threads both here and there, so starting a build thread on here is probably a good idea. For all tips on weathering though (and the Move Along Captain is so iconic!), def hit up the MEPD forum. Also, there are no Centurions with MEPD - level 3 equivalent is SWAT where you emulate an on screen trooper (like what you want to do!). Good luck with the build! It'll be loads of fun.

Thank you for the update! Excited to see the progress. How was the experience pulling the helmet together?

Looks like you might want to request detachment access here https://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/16-501st-trooper-status-requests-include-link-to-your-501st-profile-in-your-request/

You can find Paul here https://www.facebook.com/TMProps/. He's often on the board as well (@troopermaster)

Love the historical context!

2019-10-05: MDA Muscle Walk of Dallas 2019 This is a great troop that I did last year (see troop 12), so naturally I trooped it again this year! Got to the venue bright and early, and saw hot air balloons take off nearby - super neat. We had a chance to take pictures with the families there for the walk, firefighters, as well as the local marching band / cheering squad! With this troop, I hit 50 troops with my garrison, and 35 troops as a TK!

2019-09-28: Dallas Autism Speaks Walk Just me and a Jedi hanging out at the Dallas Autism Speaks Walk. This woman wanted to paint my bucket blue! Fun aside - it's always hilarious to share changing rooms with other folks ... we shared a changing tent with the SONIC Cherry Limeade and Coney Dog mascots. And Chester # 7 (apparently there are ten of them?) from Cheetos.

Jessy - feel free to give me a ping, I can connect you w/ the folks in TW as well if you are planning on visiting! Just hung out with them a few months back

Yup, same here!

2019-08-31: Texas Rangers Star Wars Days 2019 This is the last year the Texas Rangers will play at the Globe Life Park in Arlington, so of course we had to come out for Star Wars night! The crowd was great as usual, and we had a chance to get on the jumbotron a few times. We didn't track down that many photos, but here's a shot of all of us at the getting ready area.

2019-08-30: Dallas Symphony: Empire Strikes Back It's been a while since the Dallas Symphony has requested us to appear, so this was a special one! It's one of those screenings where they show the movie and the orchestra played all the accompanying music. We took pictures with concertgoers as they walked into the building. What a great troop!

2019-08-15: SW Under the Stars: A New Hope The Alamo Drafthouse hosted an outdoor movie screening of A New Hope. This being August in Texas ... was a ridiculously hot troop. We had to wait until the sun went down and cooled a bit before we started walking around taking pictures with folks. Representing here in this group photo!

Since we're just playing catch up for now, I'm going to put all the photos in this giant post. Will then post photos and descriptions from other troops as they happen 2018-02-25: Kasin's Make a Wish Reveal 2018-03-24: Sherman Celtic Festival and Highland Games 2018-04-06: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 1) 2018-04-07: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 2) 2018-04-08: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 3) 2018-04-14: Sarah and Tyson's Wedding 2018-04-21: March for Babies 2018 2018-05-24: SOLO opening weekend at Alamo Drafthouse 2018-08-17: Frisco RoughRiders Star Wars Night 2018-08-25: Dallas Comic Show's Fantasy Festival 2018-09-22: Order 66 Toys 8 Year Anniversary 2018-09-29: MDA Muscle Walk of Dallas 2018-09-29: Big Brothers Big Sisters 12th Annual Big Picnic 2018-10-13: Lone Star Rattlesnake Days 2018-10-19: Dallas Fan Days 2018 (Day 1) 2018-10-20: Equest's Ridefest 2018 2018-10-20: Dallas Fan Days 2018 (Day 2) 2018-10-21: Classic Car Trunk or Treat 2018-10-27: Susan G. Komen Dallas Race for the Cure 2018-11-03: Cowtown Geek Fair 2018-11-10: Circle Ten Xperience 2018-12-01: Dallas Holiday Parade 2018-12-20: McKinney Christmas Parade of Lights - Streetside Showers 2019-02-09: Dance Strong to Cure JM Dance Party 2019-02-23: Frisco ISD Librarypalooza 2019-04-12: Christopher Clark Live (Day 1) 2019-07-27: Galactic Swag Expo (Day 1) 2019-07-28: Galactic Swag Expo (Day 2) 2019-08-04: Screening of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope at Majestic Theatre

TK-77520, requesting the 25 troops badge! Thank you

Alright! With the new award system, it's time to keep track of a troop log! Good thing I was already keeping track on our garrison forum, so this was an easy exercise . What I will do is use the first post to keep track of the troops, and post photos in the following up posts. Troops as a TK: 2018-02-25: Kasin's Make a Wish Reveal 2018-03-24: Sherman Celtic Festival and Highland Games 2018-04-06: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 1) 2018-04-07: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 2) 2018-04-08: Dallas Fan Expo 2018 (Day 3) 2018-04-14: Sarah and Tyson's Wedding 2018-04-21: March for Babies 2018 2018-05-24: SOLO opening weekend at Alamo Drafthouse 2018-08-17: Frisco RoughRiders Star Wars Night 2018-08-25: Dallas Comic Show's Fantasy Festival 2018-09-22: Order 66 Toys 8 Year Anniversary 2018-09-29: MDA Muscle Walk of Dallas 2018-09-29: Big Brothers Big Sisters 12th Annual Big Picnic 2018-10-13: Lone Star Rattlesnake Days 2018-10-19: Dallas Fan Days 2018 (Day 1) 2018-10-20: Equest's Ridefest 2018 2018-10-20: Dallas Fan Days 2018 (Day 2) 2018-10-21: Classic Car Trunk or Treat 2018-10-27: Susan G. Komen Dallas Race for the Cure 2018-11-03: Cowtown Geek Fair 2018-11-10: Circle Ten Xperience 2018-12-01: Dallas Holiday Parade 2018-12-20: McKinney Christmas Parade of Lights - Streetside Showers 2019-02-09: Dance Strong to Cure JM Dance Party 2019-02-23: Frisco ISD Librarypalooza 2019-04-12: Christopher Clark Live (Day 1) 2019-07-27: Galactic Swag Expo (Day 1) 2019-07-28: Galactic Swag Expo (Day 2) 2019-08-04: Screening of Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope at Majestic Theatre 2019-08-15: SW Under the Stars: A New Hope 2019-08-30: Dallas Symphony: Empire Strikes Back 2019-08-31: Texas Rangers Star Wars Days 2019 2019-09-28: Dallas Autism Speaks Walk 2019-10-05: MDA Muscle Walk of Dallas 2019 2019-10-29: Star Wars Reads 2019 - Texas Scottish Rite Hospital For Children 2019-11-09: HAF's Annual Dallas Gala 2019-11-24: Leo's Make-A-Wish Reveal 2019-12-07: Dallas Holiday Parade 2019-12-14: Dallas Mavericks 12/14 Game 2019-12-20: WFAA Good Morning Texas 2019-12-22: Dallas Sidekicks 12/22 Game 2020-01-26: LSWO presents More than Star Wars: The Music of John Williams 2020-02-01: Pop Culture Art Con 2020-02-10: Scottish Rite Amputee Ski trip send off

This might be of interest to you. I did a bit of research on this a few months back, too, and had this bookmarked: http://www.blizzardforce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=3290&p=24947&hilit=Blaster+difference#p24947

I got mine from @justjoseph63!

Looks right. This is the same site I used to get my dusters.

+1 on TM. Paul is absolutely fantastic and will get you what you need.

I'm 5'8" and 185, TM fits great on me. You'll love it!