TK-39701 requesting ESB EIB Status [RS] [906]

[GIZA87[TK]]

TK-39701 Requesting ESB EIB Status [RS]

 

Trooper Info

• Name: Pascal Gutfleisch
• FISD Forum Name: GIZA87
• Legion ID: 39701
• Garrison: German Garrison
• Legion Profile: http://www.501st.com/members/displaymemberdetails.php?userID=23509
• Height: 5'10" / 178cm
• Weight: 153 lbs / 69kg

Costume Information

• Armor Maker: RS (RS Propmasters) / PVC kit
• Helmet Maker: RS (RS Propmasters) / PVC kit
• Neck seal: ImperialSaemstress
• Belt: RS (RS Propmasters) 
• Boots: Imperial Boots
• Holster: Selfmade by garrison member 
• Blaster:  E-11 Resin/Rubber Selfmade by garrison member 

[GIZA87[TK]]

Trooper Details:

 

 

Edited March 13, 2019 by GIZA87

[GIZA87[TK]]

Helmet Details:

 

[GIZA87[TK]]

Blaster Details:

 

[Ripper_L[Admin]]

Looking good! Good luck my friend.

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

Nice work, you may want to add a little glue to your drop box straps as the boxes are not aligned with the end of the belt in some of your photos.

 

TD screws should be pan head style

 

 

You could reduce the paint on your ab buttons, they are quite large

 

 

You may also want to add some extra photos.

 

Thigh ammo strip attachments/rivets inside and out

 

Sniper plate attach met front and both sides.

 

Also D ring

 

Positioning of your ab buttons looks little off, sides should match up

 

Good luck with approval

 

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Looking good Pascal. Looks like Glen has you covered on a few suggestions. Good luck trooper 

[Digz Graavz[TK]]

My thoughts, for what they are worth:

-A bit of overspray on the teeth - There shouldn't be any paint on the "gums". 

-Belt is sitting a bit low

-45's on the belt don't line up with the cloth.

-Blaster - It looks like you've used brass paint on the whole blaster.  The scopes were brass, the rest of the gun is more of a steel/gunmetal (other than the T-Strips which are flat black rubber and should show no weathering)

 

Nice job and good luck!

[GIZA87[TK]]

Thigh ammo strip 

 

 

Sniper plate details:

 

 

[GIZA87[TK]]

D-Ring E11:

 

Deto:

 

Armor:

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

2 minutes ago, GIZA87 said:

 

 

Screws are not correct, should be "pan head" style, they have round corners, not sharp edges like your screws.

 

 

[gmrhodes13[Staff]]

5 hours ago, GIZA87 said:

Thigh ammo strip 

 

 

Sniper plate details:

 

 

Could you please post photos of both sides of the ammo strip thigh rivets.

 

Also

 

From the side sniper plate like the following so the angle can be seen from the sides:

 

 

 

[shashachu[TK]]

Hi Pascal, 

 

Thanks for your patience. @gmrhodes13 is correct that the TD screws will need to replaced for us to continue with your application. Could you also post some close up shots of your gloves and hand plates? The ESB L2 CRL states:

 

• If rubber gloves are worn the hand plates are affixed via an elastic strap over the palm.
•  
• If silk or satin gloves are worn, the hand plates have the correct visible stitching pattern using black cotton, with a five point/star pattern, equally spread out with 2 on each side and 1 in the middle front, and needs to be double stitched at each point.

So I just want to check the material of your gloves as well as how the hand plates are attached.

 

Thanks!

[GIZA87[TK]]

Thanks a lot for your feedback . 

I‘m currently still looking for the right screws.

 

details of my gloves from RS and hand plates:

 

[shashachu[TK]]

Great, thanks for the glove pics. We do have a couple people who sell the correct TD screws through the forums, but I believe they're all US-based, so it's likely much cheaper and faster for you to find them locally. 

[GIZA87[TK]]

New screws:

 

 

Thanks at my friend TK-55550 for the new screws

[shashachu[TK]]

Awesome! We'll be with you shortly. 

[shashachu[TK]]

Hi Pascal,

Thanks so much for your patience. We'd like to request a clearer (and ideally lighter) photo of the frown. It's difficult to tell with the black paint, but it does appear that you might have some overspray on the teeth:

 

 

Per the CRL: Frown is painted black and does not leave the teeth area.

 

If you agree there is some extra paint, you can clean it up and post updated photos. Otherwise, if you can post some clearer photos showing the paint doesn't leave the teeth area, we can proceed.

[GIZA87[TK]]

On 3/29/2019 at 7:06 AM, shashachu said:

Hi Pascal,

Thanks so much for your patience. We'd like to request a clearer (and ideally lighter) photo of the frown. It's difficult to tell with the black paint, but it does appear that you might have some overspray on the teeth:

 

 

Per the CRL: Frown is painted black and does not leave the teeth area.

 

If you agree there is some extra paint, you can clean it up and post updated photos. Otherwise, if you can post some clearer photos showing the paint doesn't leave the teeth area, we can proceed.

 

Thanks for your feedback. On this view not really overspray on the teeth. 

 

 

 

[shashachu[TK]]

CRL and EIB Application Requirements

Thank you for making the corrections on your TD screws. All required photos are now in and, after review, we are pleased to welcome you to Expert Infantry rank. On behalf of the DO team and myself, many congratulations!  

 

Other-Armor Fit/Assembly

In this area we review observations made by your fellow troopers and the DO team. Some observations may lead to suggestions to improve the overall look of your armor. 

 

Note that in this review I will do my best to use ESB troopers as reference images, but since ESB armor was mostly re-used ANH armor, I will be using some ANH reference images.

 

Starting from the top, your decals are a bit small for your helmet. You might want to look around to see if you can find a decal set that fits the RS helmets better.

 

 

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Moving along, your bicep pieces seem a bit large for you. It it's possible without damaging your armor, it would clean up your look if you sized them down a bit.

 

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As was already pointed out, the paint on your ab buttons is a bit large. It looks like you've already corrected the small button panel, so it would be great to fix the large button panel to match.

 

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On the back, you have quite a large gap between your back and kidney. We're recommending you try to close that a bit, and hopefully this should be a relatively simple fix of tightening the strapping connecting the two.

 

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Continuing on, your left side ab/kidney is overlapping a bit and tends to get misaligned while you're wearing it. You could consider adding a bit of padding to prevent the overlap and try to keep things in place. Also, it looks like they might be connected with elastic, so you could also consider swapping them out for nylon.

 

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Ending on the lower limbs, great job aligning the sniper knee. It might just be the photos, but it does look like there's some extra return edge that could be trimmed off:

 

 

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Centurion Requirements

In this section we prepare you for Centurion. More photos may be requested in the future that allow us to make better decisions on possible adjustments. If there are any areas of concern they will be discussed here.

Because Centurion photos show much more detail than EIB, items to pertaining to Centurion might be seen there and not here. We try to point out all that we can from what is seen, but the final accuracy is the responsibility of the trooper.

 

The L3 CRL states:

• There should be a minimal gap between the shoulder armor and the chest/back plates.

 

Your right shoulder has a pretty visible gap at the top, and it looks like there is a small gap on the left. This should be a relatively simple fix of shortening the shoulder bell strapping, or if needed moving the snap on the shoulder elastic in further.

 

 

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Moving onto the belt, the L3 CRL states:

 

• Drop boxes are vertically aligned with the end of the ammo belt with minimal gap between belt and box.
• The corners of the plastic ammo belt shall be trimmed at a 45 degree angle that that meets the outer edge of the cloth belt.
• The top of the ammo belt should sit at or just below the bottom of the central and vertical abdomen button panels.

 

As Glen already said, the drop box alignment is probably just a matter of putting a drop of glue on the drop box elastic to keep them from wandering:

 

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For the belt corners, it looks like you should be able to trim a bit of the plastic off the ends of the belt to get the corners close to the edge of the canvas belt:

 

 

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With the belt alignment, the CRL language is a bit unclear, but your belt is sitting a bit low. It should be touching or slightly overlapping the ab buttons:

 

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And that's it! Congratulations again - it's a really beautiful build. Get out there and make the Empire proud, and we'll see you at Centurion!

[ukswrath[Staff]]

Congratulations and welcome to EI Pascal, great job 

Edited April 1, 2019 by ukswrath

[GIZA87[TK]]

Thank you Sha Sha for the many tipps to others improvements for the centurion approvel. 

 

And thank you very much for my EI approvel.

I‘m really proud of my first home-made TK armor 

[shashachu[TK]]

11 minutes ago, GIZA87 said:

Thank you Sha Sha for the many tipps to others improvements for the centurion approvel. 

 

And thank you very much for my EI approvel.

I‘m really proud of my first home-made TK armor 

You're welcome! And thanks for being my first ESB armor approval.

[TK-42134[TK]]

Congratulations on your EI approval.

[Shanester[TK]]

Congratulations trooper!