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To prevent bunching of the bib on your neck seal, put on the neck seal prior to putting on the undersuit. That will keep the bib underneath the undersuit and not out where it is free to bunch up. Padding on the inside of the thigh and lower leg pieces can be used to pull the sniper knee outward and prevent contact with the bottom of the thigh piece. Put some padding on the back side (of the inside) of the lower part of the thigh piece, and some padding on the front side (of the inside) of the upper part of the lower leg piece. That padding will act to push the sniper knee forward and the bottom of the thigh piece backward.

Woohoo!!! Ten troops!!!!!!!!

And feel free to show off your awesome trooping photos, too!

That is one of the things that did make me nervous beforehand. I have survived cancer myself, so I was putting it in my mind that I may choke up or shed a tear if one of the kids was having an especially difficult experience with cancer. Seeing how happy the kids were is what really made me relax! It's rare to be visited by stormtroopers! I bet the travel distance is a difficult part of garrisons that are so geographically spread out. Many big events in my new garrison are a 5 hour round trip (Nashville, Tennessee) or further (Memphis), so I've found myself having to be choosy with what I may attend. At least events in Knoxville are frequent enough!

Troop #23 An Imperial presence brought joy and excitement to the East Tennessee Children's Hospital! This was my first hospital troop, so I was a bit nervous because it seemed a troop like this has a bit higher stakes, but everything went well and my nervousness went away shortly after we started! The children and teens there were very excited to see us, and it was very touching to see how much joy and excitement we brought to everyone we encountered at the hospital.

Yep, that's my bad. I thought it was just a screenshot, but it appears the link is embedded in the image.

Troop #22 The Tennessee Theater in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee had a matinee showing of Return of the Jedi, so naturally, the Empire was called to maintain order at this showing! We were posted out in front of the theater, so both ticketholders and the general public got their chance to take photos with some of their local troopers!

You'll need to include a link to your member profile, rather than the screenshot you provided in your second post. The first post in this thread provides instructions on how to get the link.

Make a post in this thread with your request for detachment access: Make sure to follow the instructions in the first post as you will need to provide a link to your 501st Legion member profile.

Hi Chip! You have Legion access, according to the icon below your username. However, as you have an approved TK, you may want to request 501st Stormtrooper access.

Congratulations on your completed build and approval!

Welcome! You've found the right place as there are a couple of Captain Enoch builds ongoing! We also have enough stormtrooper knowledge on the forum to keep any fan sated for years! Are you looking to have your Enoch build approved for the 501st Legion? @MaskedVengeance above has the thread about the progress in getting Enoch costumes to the point of being approvable (still a bit of a ways to go before that can happen). If you are looking to join the 501st Legion, in addition to the forum you can also talk with folks in the Mountain Garrison, which covers Colorado and Wyoming. Here's their website: https://mg501.com/ Having both online and in-person help is always great!

Nice! Must be relieving to have your GML's blessing on the ears!

Reducing the width of the ear tops should also help with the gap on the front of the ear piece. Once the width is reduced, you may need to trim the rest of the ear piece just a bit to get a closer fit. Having some gap is okay (I have the same), but it is best to reduce that as much as we can.

It may be an artifact of the angle of the photo, but it appears the black brow trim is higher between the eyes than on the outside edge of each eye. It is easier to correct this prior to fitting and securing the ears with screws or bolts, so you may want to make any changes to this prior to securing the ears. As for the ears, what do they look like when overlapping with the joint between the front and back pieces of the bucket? It can be a bit difficult to tell given that the ears are not trimmed to accommodate the curves of the helmet, but it is good to test for an overlap. Overall, in addition to slowly working to incorporate the proper curve in the ear pieces to fit around the curves in the helmet, you will want to make sure the ear pieces completely cover the joint between the two pieces of the helmet. The ears are tedious (as others have mentioned), so expect that this will take a lot of time, and be diligent to do a little trimming, then checking fit, then trimming, then checking, then trimming, then checking, and repeat until the fit is about as good as you can get (and in line with the CRL). Also, as the helmet tends to be a bit asymmetrical, do one ear piece at a time and expect some differences in trimming you will need to accomplish for each ear.