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A bit late to the party, but: Hello James and welcome! Starting to look good!! How is everything going?

Amazing work!

That's a great document John! Thank you for sharing!

But don't get discouraged! There is no stress, and doing it in your own tempo is always the best when it comes to these things. I must just add that I'm not a Deployment Officer either, I just pointed out some things that can help with the look overall! Regarding the painting of your tube stripes, you have done the arches a bit thin! You have painted them the correct distance from the cheek, so that's great! But did you use two pieces of tape (one above the paint area and one below)? The ends of the lines are straight (an effect of removing masking tape from the paint area), and they are usually a teeny tiny bit thicker! It would really help with the look of the helmet! Painting them with masking tape is much easier than without it! So that considered, very well done! The tape (I feel) makes it easier to do more even stripes since you can be a little less careful with it! They lean the wrong way a little bit, see the reference below! The tops of the stripes lean more forwards than the bottoms, the closer you get to the front of the helmet!

Just to have it mentioned: Here is a comparison to your helmet (also an ATA kit), and it looks like your ear sits a little bit low? EIB thread for comparison The bottom of the ear sticks out! It also looks like your trim is a little bit on the round side compared to what we usually see! EIB thread for comparison

Hello Tom! Awesome to see you apply for Expert Infantry! Great job so far, you look like a Stormtrooper! Some suggestions on what you can do to make it look better! It looks like you've left too much return edge on many of your pieces: The bottom "lip" (return edge) of your chest could use a ltitle more trimming! The button plates could use a trimming, and the buttons could use a touch up as well, making them rounder and cover a little more of the bumps (not all the way down though) The vocoder could use a touch up Cut out one more hole for an additional tooth as per the base requirement for 501st approval: A total of 8 cut outs in the teeth area of the frown are present. I must just say, great attention to detail regarding the teeth paint though! They look awesome! Just extend the pain and cut out one more tooth and you're good there! Dab some white paint on that rim! Correct Aerators/Hovi-MIX tips are present. Screens used shall be of a wide type mesh, with the rim of the mic and the inside white or painted white. Don't forget to close your shins! Looks like your butt plate is sticking out!

Great work! Welcome to the ranks!

Welcome to FISD David! Congratulations on finally becoming a 501st Stormtrooper! We don't see a lot of ESB troopers, what an excellent choice! Are you happy with your build? Would be awesome to see some photos!

Wow that is really night and day compared to before!

Awesome application!!!

Congratulations #1084!!!

Welcome to the ranks, Centurion #535!

Enjoy your new banner @KorbenDallas

You came in that thing?! You're braver than I thought! Please welcome TK-12953 to the Stormtrooper Hall of Fame, October 2024! @jsilvius Troop log can be found here. Congrats James, and congrats on an amazing 50th troop in the white armor! With Unquestioned Loyalty Jonatan Östling TK-23592 "Nairy" Attaché Ambassador

Joseph is not on the forum anymore!