DarthAloha

Well crap. What do you know. I'll try and get on this ASAP. -Eric

Thanks Rob. We've been trying to get someone on FISD with an NE kit to take some side by side comparisons photos with a RS set to provide solid proof of recasting. However, this is proof enough for me. There are a ton of NE builds in process on FISD if you want to take a look. Here are a few http://www.whitearmo...t-build-thread/ NE vs. RS forearms (Thanks Locitus) http://www.whitearmo...r-build-thread/ http://www.whitearmo...ld-wip-finally/ I cannot, personally or as the DL of FISD, in good conscious recommend this armor to anyone. However I'm not and will not turn anyone away on FISD who buys it needs help assembling it, or applies for EIB/Cenutrion. The truth of the matter is that the NE guys are producing inexpensive and readily available TK armor. We're going to be seeing a lot of new TKs sporting NE. Aloha nui my dirty brothers, -Eric

Yeah its real broke. Not sure why yet. I'm working on it. Mahalo for your patience, -Eric

Has anyone been following the Ralph McQuarrie concept armor thread on FISD? A concept TD could be a reality this year thanks to KW: http://www.whitearmor.net/forum/topic/22683-ralph-mcquarries-concept-stormtrooper-armor/ -Eric

Sorry that it took so long for me to execute such a easy request. -Eric

Aloha all, For those of you who I know secretly hide your shiny white plastic.... Based on voting done nearly a year ago on FISD the TK CRLs have been changed slightly. Here is an overview of what is different: BELT ANH Stunt, ANH Hero, ESB, HWT, Deathtrooper: Vinyl or plastic belts are no longer allowable for basic 501st approval. The belt must be canvas. The width specification has been changed as well. "The soft belt proper is made of canvas, or material with a canvas covering. Size must be 2.75” (70 mm) to 3.25”(83 mm) wide and not wider than the plastic portion of the belt. The color is be white to off-white." ROTJ, INC, TKC, SKY: Vinyl or plastic belts are no longer allowable for basic 501st approval. The belt must be nylon. The width specification has been changed as well. "The soft belt proper is tightly woven nylon/cordura like/style material or material with a tightly woven nylon/cordura like/style covering. Size must be 2.25" (57mm) to 2.5" (64mm) wide. The color is to be white to off-white." HOLSTER ESB: New basic level wording specifies that the holster must be on the right side and looped on belt. "Holster is worn on right side of belt. Holster will be made of completely black leather or leather-like material and be worn on the right and affixed via two black loops over the belt (no fasteners)." INC, TKC, SKY, HWT: Holsters are no longer allowed at the base level for these costumes. "Holster must be omitted from this costume." Deathtrooper: Added wording to match ANH belt specifications but still kept as an optional accessory. "Holster may be omitted from the costume. If a holster is worn, it will be made of black leather or leather-like material. Worn on the left side of belt and be attached from behind, with no loops covering the outside of the belt. The holster will be affixed with two fasteners at the bottom of the belt instead of none or four. The fasteners may be rivets, snaps, or Chicago screws." KIDNEY & BUTT PLATE ANH Stunt, ANH Hero, ESB, HWT, Deathtrooper: A one piece kidney/butt is no longer allowable at the base level. "A separate kidney plate shall be present, split from the butt plate." ROTJ, INC, TKC, SKY: These costumes must have a one piece kidney/butt. "A separate kidney/butt plate is not allowed - the kidney and butt plate shall be combined/fused to a single plate/one piece." WHITE U-TRIM ROTJ, INC, TKC, SKY: The white U-trim requirement has been moved from EIB to the base level for torso parts. "A white flexible U shaped gasket or molded lip shall be present around all edges." AB PLATE BUTTONS ROTJ, INC, TKC, SKY: The inverted ab bottons have been moved from EIB to base level approval. "The ab plate has a button area that matches the color pattern shown (3 dark blue + 6 charcoal grey or black); buttons are approximately 7/16" (11mm) in diameter. The three dark blue buttons will be the three buttons closest to the belt. Ab plate button detail shall be inverted compared to ANH/ESB." THERMAL DETONATOR ANH Stunt, ANH Hero, ESB: Metal clips are now part of the base requirement. The size of the detonator and orientation of the control panel are now specified. "(A.K.A. O2 canister) attaches to the center back of the belt. This is an all gray cylinder without silver stickers or silver paint. The cylinder is between 2” (50mm) and 2.68"(68mm) in diameter with white end caps on each end. The white control panel pad faces upwards, with controls/round washer style detail closest to the right end cap. The total length should be approximately 7.50" (190.5mm). The thermal detonator shall be attached via metal or metallic-appearing clips approximately 1" (25mm) wide." ROTJ: Metal clips are now part of the base requirement. The size of the detonator and orientation of the control panel are now specified. (A.K.A. O2 canister) attaches to the center back of the belt. This is an all gray cylinder without silver stickers or silver paint. The cylinder is between 2” (50mm) and 2.68"(68mm) in diameter with white end caps on each end. The white control panel pad faces upwards, with controls/round washer style detail closest to the right end cap. The total length should be approximately 7.50" (190.5mm). The thermal detonator shall be attached via metal or metallic-appearing clips approximately 3/4" (19mm) wide Please let me know if you have any questions. -Eric

ATA makes a really nice bucket at a reasonable price. You can contact him via ATAworks@yahoo.com or PM Supertrooper on FISD. We're all glad you're getting rid of your FX and possibly passing in the less than accurate MRCE. -Eric

I knew Ingrid would come in handy sooner than later. She's the best, no? **** straight. I'll continue to serve as the web host for IOC Mepd sld and FISD Many thanks for everyone's support. -Eric

Aloha kakou, Most of you know me as your friendly neighborhood MEPD web host. Seeing as many of you dirty mongrels also keep a set of clean armor on hand I want to announce here that I am running for Detachment Leader (DL) of the 1st Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment (FISD.) I have been active member of the senior staff of FISD for over a year. You may know me as the FISD Chief Tactical Officer or the web host guy. I have a record of working easily with disparate international groups and I avoid drama through mutual understanding and consensus building. The only approved 501st Imperial Legion costume I own is a TK. I sport an EIB approved RT-MOD kit because I’m too tall to be a stormtrooper. I had never been a fan of Halloween or costumes until I purchased a crappy rubies Vader and wore it with flowery board shorts, flip flops, and a lei. The excited look on kids' faces that Halloween had me hooked from the very moment I stepped onto the street. There was no stopping me from joining the 501st to enjoy a larger community of like-minded Star Wars nuts and to be able to help others while doing it. In my personal life I try to be of service to my community as much as possible. The 501st lets me do that at the same time as being a real life action figure. Beyond ensuring that TKs old and new always look their best, my goals for 2013 are as follows: Continue with the charter to maintain the FISD sense of inclusiveness and "Troopers Helping Troopers" for new and existing TKs. Add more entries to the TiKipedia that houses reference information for every TK armor part in the CRL. Create an incentive program to encourage existing TKs to update their costume to current basic standards. Work with the GMO to improve the base CRL to align it with modern armor construction and availability. Implement a formal attaché program to educate local garrisons about various TK related construction methods and costume requirements. Create a CRL change policy that ensures updates to the TK CRLs are voted and implemented properly and with transparency. Bring back the staff position of Detachment Armorer. Here is a list of my accomplishments while on the FISD staff: Maintained a tutorials database for TK related HOWTOs including a beta of the TiKipedia reference guide. Along with other forum admins, implemented photo reference gallery with 2,400 screen capture and reference imagery Created photo reference checklists for both Expert Infantry and Centurion applicants. Rewrote the Expert Infantry and Centurion application guidelines with photo examples of each CRL requirement. Installed and maintained content management system to allow for mission statement and "about" FISD web pages. Two-time winner of Trooper of the Month for my contributions to FISD. Why should you vote for me? FISD Experience - I was asked to be on the FISD staff nearly a month after my TK approval. For over a year I have been maintaining the FISD website and its forum software. During my time on the FISD staff I have been involved with the inner workings of the detachment and have had my hand in the likes of policy setting and CRL changes. Leadership - If elected I intend to set clearly communicated priorities for FISD. I will create specific goals to achieve those priorities and, when necessary, delegate related tasks to a dedicated group of staff members. Along the way those priorities will be revisited and goals adjusted accordingly. I am a hands-on leader and feel confident in jumping into the role of any of my staff members if need be. In my non-TK life I have been a team lead and manager of technical people for 13 years. I understand that to build a successful team a leader must surround himself with a trusted group of very smart people. Vigilance - As most of you know I am an active member of the FISD forums. For the past two years I have followed nearly every thread and read almost all posts in a daily basis. My contributions are visible not only by the forum features I have added, but my posts as well. Transparency - It is vital to me that the entire detachment knows what our priorities are. Communication must be clear and consistant across the board. Additionally everyone on staff should know what the DL is doing and why. As much as possible information about the running of the detachment must be posted on the forum. Back channel communication for important matters will not be tolerated. Professionally, I operate, test, deploy, (break) and maintain ocean going robots for a living. In past lives I have been a system administrator for enterprise class unix systems, a wood boat builder, and yacht crew. Personally, in my spare time I scuba dive, paddle 6 man hawaiian outrigger canoes competitively and scurry about my wood shop pretending to build furniture. I live on the Big Island of Hawai'i at 3100 ft elevation in the town known to most (except the US post office) as Waimea. I am happily married to a very patient woman. We have a 2 year old boy and a mangy lovable mutt. Mahalo for your consideration. -Eric

Congrats on your drama free election my brother. Much Aloha (not that you need it), -Eric

Rick: If I could... you'd have my vote fo sho. -Eric

You got it boss. Reload and tell me what you think. I suck at making things look good. I put the call sign in parenthesis because many people use their TD # as their forum call sign and it looked weird.... but I can format it any way you guys want. -Eric

Heh well... forum name Which in your case.... -Eric

Oh and do you guys want your forum nickname or real name under your photos? -Eric

I reordered the swat page... it was sorted by wordpress post title... I changed it to sort by date. New are now at the bottom. Cool? Oh and I quickly checked it against this list: TD-252 / ROLF / SWAT OFFICER # 001 TD-3936 / TROOPER1 / SWAT OFFICER # 002 TD-7141 / SMALLY / SWAT OFFICER # 003 TD-2755 / JK007 / SWAT OFFICER # 004 TD-5996 / SIR DAVID / SWAT OFFICER # 005 TD-4401 / DIRTY BOY / SWAT OFFICER # 006 TD-2921 / PHIL65 / SWAT OFFICER # 007 TD-2479 / THE DIRTY TROOPER / SWAT OFFICER # 008 TD-7930 / MIKSI / SWAT OFFICER # 009 TD-7435 / SANDFLEA / SWAT OFFICER # 010 TD-5884 / NICK.BLACK / SWAT OFFICER # 011 TD-7987 / DARTHCHRIDAN / SWAT OFFICER # 012 TD-8800 / ICONOCLASTA_88 / SWAT OFFICER # 013 TD-5423 / DAVEMARS / SWAT OFFICER # 014 TD-8266 / TD-8266 / SWAT OFFICER # 015 TD-10252 / BIGDANE / SWAT OFFICER # 016 -Eric

The view order is in the php code itself. What order do you guys want it the SWAT page to be in and I'll work on it. So I know I get it right.... Who is first and who is last? I can't quite figure out what the order is now -Eric

Yes. Line 24 snap will work for the right hand snap and all your armor strapping needs. Look to Tandy leather for snaps and also buy the setting tool and anvil from them. Stay away from the dritz brand snaps and those stupid pliers. Hammer set is the way to go. Aloha, -Eric

That's the plan All I need is (the funds for) armor. Helmet, pauldron, pouches, pack are all acquired I was being sarcastic about going HWT. Please refer to the prior "ewwwww" comment LOL -Eric

As I've been saying on FISD... EU is pronounced "ewwwwwww" I'm not a fan of the expanded universe stuff or video game characters in general... but the Heavy Weapons Trooper from Star Wars Battlefront I'm guessing was a bit of a badass. I wouldn't know. Regardless of what I think of HWT, INC, TKC or any of the other video game TKs (and I've said this often) I think that FISD will provide the bests tewardship for those EU CRLs. I've got a pack and pauldron. I guess I'm one BFG away from the HaWTness. -Eric

The sandtroopers for sure. I know the TKs are decisively ambivalent

The Heavy Weapons Trooper (HWT is not text message short hand for hawt!) designation is now TK not TD. FISD Announcement Link: It is Official The HWT costume designation is now TK Aloha, -Eric

Yeah I was crapping bricks for a moment I have been ignoring the fact that Tapatalk is now an ipb hook for a few versions. It's is nice not having to remember modify each board index template with a <SCRIPT> tag. -Eric -Eric

I'm an idiot. I fat fingered something. Tapatalk is now back. -Eric

Hmmm the old tapatalk works with the recent IPB patch. I'm using it with a recently patched FISD. I patched SLD, MEPD, FISD and IOC last night but MEPD was the only one I dropped a new tapatalk on. I wonder if the new tapatalk is broken because of the patch. Good point. I'm working on tapatalk now and I'll let everyone know when its back again. Thanks for your patience, -Eric

I broke tapatalk tonight trying to upgrade it. I promise to fix it over the weekend. Thanks for your patience, -Eric