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Congrats on the new baby! I have been thinking Centurion. Love the positive feedback on your kit! I just keep hearing great things!

I am very much looking forward to seeing what Dave did! I have just heard amazing things! I just moved from Georgia to Kansas about a year ago. I was in the Duluth area.

As always, thank you! I hadn't seen that thread before! Great stuff. And yes, going for gold with Centurion.

I just know myself and will want to unbox as fast as possible and start building. Then have to make 17 trips to the store because I didn't buy the right tools.

BBB Day is three days away! This is such an amazing community and everyone has been amazingly helpful! My goal is to be able to build a costume for the 501st that will allow me to participate in events, especially if there are opportunities to visit sick kids. Amour: Dave's Darkside Depot (BBB day!) E-11 Blaster: Marc Connor at Troopacoola (On order) Helmet Audio: Stormtrooper Audio System w/Voice Modulation from Ukswraths (Received) Finally had something I could build out in my basement. Built this just to do my first TK build. Ordered most of the supplies here and using the Google Sheet from Ray (Dieltski) listed in the post. I did add a few more columns for tracking. I need to finish it and add all my documentation. Here is my build-out supply checklist. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LOfNO20CF8w3b36twZNMajLuX4hGyP3I3V2AG4kuztA/edit?usp=drive_link Most everything, shelves etc were laying around the house. Because I am old and can't see, I had to get a bright LED for under the shelf. Had an old laptop, monitor, and soundbar I hooked up just to do this build. (The insane wiring to the left of my build station is the"Heart" of my home. It had a cat5 telephone system when I bought the house. And an old audio system. I kept it because there are ethernet drops around the house I use for my access points. I mainly use the "heart" for my router and my Raspberry PI with my home automation running on it. But that is for a different thread on a different forum. ) More to come....

LOL - ok fair point! I will look at the build threads more!

Ok folks! It's getting to be go time! My kit is in the mail. Thanks Dave at Dave's Darkside Depot! I am fortunate to have an entire basement area to do my build. What is the one thing you wish you had during build out! I am not really talking tool's as I am pretty much following the recommend list from here. I am talking about things for your build area. Was it a mini fridge to keep your beverages? A fan to keep you cool? A tv to watch SW movies during the build!?!?!?! I have shelves to store my kit during the build. A work bench. I was waiting on my kit before I purchased any type of storage for parts etc. What would have made your life 100% easier during the build. And saying locking your spouse and kids out of the room isn't an answer. Thanks so much in advance!

It was, and I am happy. I did just edit it as I said he was professional. He was the most unprofessional any business owner has ever been. Just thrilled to move on and start building!

And update to this. I posted pretty much the same objective review from above on TrustPilot. I was trying to get their attention to get a refund and it worked. The owner personally called me, and he came out swinging with the most unprofessional conduct I have experienced from a business owner. I will give him credit; he did refund me my money. I won't go into details of the conversation but the negative reviews seem in alignment with what I experienced.

Let me start off and say I am new to all this. I want to share my experience researching costumes. I didn't know about WhiteArmor.net until a couple of days ago, unfortunately. I started researching costumes and saw a few websites, but then I came across stormtrooper-costumes.com. I certainly wasn't impressed with their website but nothing else seemed to make sense to me, and their website indicated they would contact me after purchase to get me the right size of everything. The cost was upwards of $2000. I did make the transaction. I then learned about this forum and was quickly pointed to the post below. My heart sank as I started reviewing feedback on stormtrooper-costumes.com and Jedi-Robe. I don't know if they make good or bad costumes, and I won't disparage them about their costumes. I will say that I was taken aback that the negative feedback I saw on this forum was going all the way back to 2012! And it wasn't just one or two bad experiences. Also, of course, stormtrooper-costumes.com Jedi-Robe was called out as specifically a bad vendor. Since they never followed up, granted, it's only been three days to get my measurements, and with the negative feedback I saw, I requested them to cancel the order and a refund. I have not seen a response to any of the emails I have sent them. I would certainly follow the advice of this forum and the many, many, many negative reviews of On stormtrooper-costumes.com Jedi-Robe. One of the goals of this post is to make it a little easier for new folks to find this and hopefully not make the same mistake as I did. On a positive note, I was able to connect with Dave from Daves Darkside Depot and purchased a costume from him! I was very impressed speaking with him and can't wait for the costume to get here! It's like Christmas, only 10x better!

That's actually a great point and something I never thought of!

I will be honest. I was a little skeptical, at first, when I saw people using FB as their storefronts. Or just using Etsy. To me, it just didn't seem as legitimate as having a web presence with a traditional website. But clearly, I was wrong. And I was even more surprised when Dave from DDD called and spent 30+ mins on the phone telling me about everything. I ordered my Audio System w/ Voice Modulation yesterday from UKSWrath and was pleasantly surprised that it had already shipped out this morning. I am starting to see commonalities with the people involved in Star Wars costuming. Everyone is willing to help and support each other and everyone wants to see others succeed. Maybe that is me being naive as a new person to this. However, it's nice to see. From the folks on the forums, suppliers to my local GML. Good stuff and excited to get more involved.

That's everyone for the responses. I spoke to Dave at Dave's Dark Side Depot yesterday and he is going to help get me squared away! This forum rocks!

I am just learning about all this whole world. Thanks to this forum I may have dodged a bullet as I ordered from Jedi Robe. One reason was I couldn't find a full costume and the other reason was they could accommodate someone 6'5. I am seeing some of the other vendors saying up to and around 6'2. Would I be too tall for costumes? Thank you! Dale

Oh man! I just gave them money yesturday and learned about this forum this morning!