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26. Western New York Toy Show, 27 May 2023 With @Manbehindthemask, @tdurden and @Tk86669 (wearing black for some reason). The folks running the booth that you can just barely see in the bottom left corner came up to @Manbehindthemask, @Tk86669 and me and said "You came to our son's (point at son in his 20s) birthday party years ago!" and pulled up the picture on the son's phone. We all took a look, and once we recognized who was who (it was a 17-year-old photo) told them "Those three people are upstairs at our booth right now." Our booth folks were happy to see these people after so many years, and finally get a copy of that photo. @tdurden and I were done patrolling by the end of the afternoon ... and he still had another troop to go to.

This one snuck up on me . Troop #25 as a TK on May the Fourth

25. Star Wars Library Visit, 4 May 2023 Second May the Fourth troop, an annual event at the Greece Public Library. After troop shenanigans:

24. M&T Tech Conference, 4 May 2023 First of the May the Fourth troops that day. Group shot in front of our new Imperial Transport: This new guy doesn't meet CRL standards ... And the obligatory elevator shot:

23. LibCon Erie, 29 April 2023 Travelled down to where I grew up to support the Erie Library's con with Starkiller Garrison. [hopefully the Starkiller group shot will eventually be here] I hadn't been in this library in over 20 years, but fortunately they hadn't moved things around, so I found the important section fairly quickly:

I might just take you up on that (any interest in an Excelsior or Nickel City coin), but let me try this first:

22. Buffalo Motorama, 26 March 2023 Day 2 Bit less of an initial 501st turnout, but we had a scout and the Rebel Legion join us later: And as the only armored trooper for most of the day:

21. Buffalo Motorama, 23 March 2023 First troop of the year, and first time I was able to troop this event. Guess how I spent most of the day:

Apparently I need to cross the river and troop with you guys more often

Mini-Me's hair is a little longer, and a little lighter above and darker below, but:

Mine took 4 weeks, but I did order it the first day they were available, so I was probably at the front of the line. As @MaskedVengeance stated, they’re $59.99 plus sales tax and shipping.

So this showed up a few days ago: Not the worse likeness (I don't think my nose is that big, though ...)

20. Al Sigi Community WalkAbout; 23 October 2022

This was announced a couple of weeks ago, but I don't recall seeing it here: https://hasbropulse.com/pages/selfie-series I know some of us have gotten custom backing-boards and made custom figures, and now you can get a professionally made Black Series Stormtrooper figure of yourself. Available today in the U.S. (no dates on availability elsewhere unfortunately).

19. Flower City Comic Con, 25 September 2022 What better way to celebrate Mark Hamill's birthday than to spend the day doing Star Wars with friends? Morning group photo: Afternoon group photo (One of these things is not like the others ...): The Scouts had an indoor archery range, which we couldn't pass up: I ran into the new Imperial Medical Droid: And we had a Spaceballs moment:

18. Flower City Comic Con, 24 September 2022

I'm no good at getting screen captures, but the newly streaming "Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return" has some nice, clear shots of the Kenobi-style stormtroopers.

Thanks, @gmrhodes13. You would think that I would have remembered to look there.

Jason, I would go for one of Jimi's undersuits, but for the life of me I can't seem to find his contact info anywhere - here, the 501st forums, RPF, Facebook - I'm having no luck. As for the helmet - that's when Andy said "I'm tired of relaying information - talk to him yourself!" So I didn't get the helmet info before. If I had access to a 3D printer, I probably would print Nico's bucket. But I don't, so for now the plan is the Black Series conversion. If/when I get access to a printer, my priority is your redesigned belt boxes.

Just getting the BBB picture out of the way. I had been thinking about getting a Rogue One kit after finishing up a couple of other works in progress, but some unplanned weight loss has made my ANH-S TK a little loose, and this kit came up for sale on the 501st boards, so ... Armor: 850 Armorworks Helmet: 850, but I'll be doing a Black Series conversion (trust me, it will look better) Boots: Imperial Boots Gloves: Imperial Boots Neck seal: Imperial Boots, but will be replaced with one that fits better ... Undersuit: Still need to confirm Blaster: Came with an Imperial Arms kit, but I have a @trooper96 kit I plan on using instead I haven't done much with it yet. It's already been rough trimmed, which is good - for the most part. The original owner trimmed all of the teeth off of the front belt, so that required a replacement. They also had the forearms and biceps completely glued, which required some disassembly and reassembly on my part to install the velcro. And the shins ... well, see for yourself: At first I thought "Oh, both sets of shins open to the right - I'll have to fix that." Then I realized that they had glued the inner shins together as one set, and the outer shins together as the other. This has been fixed. What else - the cover strips have been added to the biceps and forearms (sorry, no pictures at the moment). I ordered shoulder straps from @BigJasoni's Etsy shop to replace the 850 ones, and bought a couple of ab closure kits as well (more on that later). And one last set of photos from an armor party (my first attending) earlier this month: A little ugly, but I was just getting a rough idea of where everything should sit. Hopefully I won't have to trim anything off of the ab/kidney. And one last thing for this first post - I would like to thank @11b30b4, @BigJasoni, @TheRascalKing, @TerribleBen, @Twelveravens, and @Imperial Valour . The detail that you guys put into your build threads has already been a lot of help.

17. Star Wars Library Visit, 27 June 2022 A previously-traditional troop (before my time) that started-up again this year.

So, what I'm getting from this is that if I want my R1TK build to represent the Stormtroopers shown in Rogue One/Solo/The Mandalorian and Kenobi, I need to buy an extra set of ab parts from 850 Armorworks and not paint the ab window/USB port. Well, if I must I must. @Parquette would you please re-post these blaster and holster shots? As far as I could tell, the holsters were simply ESB-style E-11 holsters, but additional details are always appreciated.

Not to further hijack the thread, but are you coming to the armor party on the 18th? I could bring my ANH-S TK bucket for you to look at. I’ve got @ukswrath’s hearing assist, speakers, and fans in it, with no problems.

Win lottery. Book hotel. Quit job and leave singing and dancing. Finish all the costume builds that I would want to take with me. Look into cost of chartered flight to and from London because #4. Run “Why should I pay for your trip to Celebration” contest. Wake-up, realize that everything above was a dream, and plan for Celebration 2024 (did someone mention Orlando?)