Gladius

I'm wearing day-lenses. One pack of each eye is working out quite long. About a year or even longer. When I troop with my officer and wear them, the eyes become dry quick and I Need to refill eyetears quite often. It even can start to hurt a bit and tire me. Not so in the helmet as there seems to be another climate and aircirculation with the helmet on (I have one fan in the helmet). The sellar of the lenses (Fielmann) did give me quite a lot of opportunities to test different lenses, for free. I dont like having glasses on, neither for helmet nor without bucket, especially withouth bucket, unless it would be something really spacey or starwars like, but in the starwars universe there are no glasses. Putting the lenses on sometimes is a mess. Needs some practice. I enjoy it very much not having to wear that bycicle that I need since teen.

Thank You guys! Did and do my best

Gratulations Paul. With deep respect to guys of older age like us.

Gratulation :thumbsup:

Like the style. Good luck Paul!

Looking good! Good luck!!

Thank You! :-) Well yeah, above 30 degrees, one fan in the helmet - thats how I have it - is not that enough anymore. Been fun though yeah. Got used to heating up while Dressing after the first times. Just take it slow. And be early enough on the location so You can dress on piece by piece and relax.

4) Strasswalchen Austria July 19th 2014 Well.... it was my first experience in trooping with temperatures above 30°.. It started pretty fine in later morning. No troubles with armor or strapping or the gun. 1 Day before I sat in my appartment with only checking and repairing. Good. But well.. It was really hot. A bit too hot. I normally like doing the parade with the friends. But at about half past 15h I was only happy that it had ended. Boiling and glowing alive. After the event we were allowed to go to the swimming pools next to the location for free and have some grilled meat and good salad. In the village there was marketparty, right on foot of the hotel we stayed. Wow 8-) drink drink drink.. Pic by Reinhard Schober:

Can't tell about RS really as I do not own one But I'm quite satisfied with the TM. I had a lot of repairs so far, but only on other Equipment (gun, backpack) of my TD, not so for the armor parts, except strapping.

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I used the strap only once until now, for walking to the gatheringpoint, but only with help of an experienced member, I wouldnt dare to strap it over alone. The T21 I carry often with two hands. One on the grip/handle and one on lower front near where the strap is attached: Or like this: On my first event with it, some parts were letting go or breaking off . Especially these on pic here under the rubberbands, so I had to remember the dangerzones. As I have a 2nd weapon E11 I can change pouches and do another sandtrooper what makes it a bit easier for my arms. Good luck with Your troops!

To me looks very airbrushed. Especially the much important helmet.The rest I wouldn't mind that much. Very pity.

Hi Hideki! Looking terrible..... terrible GOOD : -) Congratulations!!

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3) After the first experiences with trooping and doing repairs I went to that marvellous event with a lot easier feeling, though I haven't experienced yet how it is to troop with higher temperatures, between 20 or 30 degrees. But to my surprise that went a lot better than trooping outside when it is rather cold, about 13 degrees or so. Nevertheless it already started for the first deadline, beeing already a bit on the limit, with other repairs on the strapping, wich turned out funny as all the glue, because it didnt work, remained on the undersuit and on certain parts a helping cool lady had to paint me black.. at lunchtime it went on with repairs so I had to spend about 2 to 3 hours only with repairs & wait for drying, this with an already wet armor from sweat. We had very good time having dinners in the evening with the german lads & ladies. And finally I've met MEPD guys (Micki with Son, Rico from Belgium and Felice) in person when finally having the armor aswell, ready to troop. Friday started with a not starting car, as after all the mess and the troop and beeing tired I forgot to turn of the lights. But the cool helping german guys helped me out. And in the evening I spent some racing session on the motorway, just to fill up a bit the car's battery. On Saturday there were a lot more - in Total 7 - Sandtroopers present, what gave a good occasion to do some patrol and that strengthened friendships. Extremly cool when You troop with Sandies when You do not know who is in the undersuit, and it turns out - when You lift the buckets - that its the same guys You talked to when You were on work-in-progress state or do not even have the armor yet ! : - ) Sadly until the parade we lost eachother, but someone made a cool group foto of us with and without bucket. The parade I found breathtaking and going under the skin. Cool crowd, and a lot of kids reaching out their hands while passing them. Really amazing! Sunday I trooped only half of the day as I got more and more a bit exhausted and wanted to have a chance to see at least some bits of the park This was the best so far! Patrol with Alex Zivny (left) and Thomas Walter (middle), Pictures by SL-11111 Nathan Drake Micki from MEPD SWAT and his son (left and middle)

Just the names, from left Ralf, then Micki, Me, Felix (Felice), Alexander, Rico and Thomas I don't know if all are in MEPD (Rico, Felice and Micki are, I sure know) , but it was a fantastic day

Found some too Walk-In into the arena, other view (Foto from Album Manny Müller, Facebook) (Foto from Album Manny Müller, Facebook)

So geil / so awesome ! Me the one on the foto with bucket off, left from flag Swiss, not german, Rico ,-)

I wear the backpack with the shoulderstaps crossed on my breast under the plate instead of having them straight No digging and not much pain at all. Very comfortable.

2) Zurich There is a comic & filmexhibit in Zurich, every 6 months. As we do not have a lot of big events in the country regularly, it is a good recruiting platform for us and for showing a presence. Right at start I ripped some strap off unwillingly and I was happy to have repairstuff with me like the UHU contact glue wich showed to be best so far for the TM ABS for straps. In a bit of a hurry, everything went pretty cool later and we spent a fine time. The cosplayers were missing as they had a con in another city. Next time again there will be a costume competition. Beeing happy frst that nothing broke or got lost, I made a mishandling with my backpack so it fell on ground and the mortartube broke off, but I was able to repair it. Here some pics: Me & my Honey:

1) Klagenfurt Austria As I was visiting my parents who live in Austria, and I couldnt go to the event in Rome I took the occoasion to visit Klagenfurt instead , what was about on the way home and a good chance meet the austrian garrison friends and also the rebel legion members. As it was the very first trooping with the new finished armor and gear, I was quite a bit nervous and wondering how it will be. We were meeting and dressing up quite some minutes away from the meetingpoint and the city arkaden where we were also going. Kinda glassy modern shopping mile, very very crowded. Well after dressing there was only the puton of the bucket and climbing down "some" stairs. After a short wile I was already steaming inside and I couldnt see anything anymore. And it was only about 15 degrees outside. Only! Well we had to wait a bit and I was wondering how I will stand this the hole day. Took off again the helmet once to clean the eyes, but short after it it was quite as before. Walking along streets with traffic. I was a bit feared.. thank god there was a Leia in front of me with a white dress so I was able to follow a shade at least. But later on all went better and I got kinda used to it. There were some spaces out from the bucket where I was able to see something and later on it all was clearing up. In between we had some rain. All was very nicely and good organized, and in the evening we were having a good dinner and lot of beers. Thank god the restaurant was just at next street 8-). The day after I had to drive home for arround 7 hours back to my place through Austria and Germany by going through Munich. In the end a very good experience for bigger events like Legoland Germany, as there were also some things to get repaired later (T21 misc parts and backpack top bottle). Some pictures: Pic by Reinhard Schober Pic by Reinhard Schober

1) First Science Fiction Day, Klagenfurt Austria - May 3rd 2014 2) Comic and Filmexhibit, Zurich Switzerland - May 25th 2014 3) Star Wars Days - Legoland Günzburg, Germany - 19th/21st/22nd of June 2014 4) 3rd SF-Day - Strasswalchen Austria - July 19th 2014 5) Swiss Fantasy Show , Morges - Switzerland , 11th&12th Oct2014 6) John Williams Concert, directed by Ludwig Wicki - Montreux, Switzerland - 1st Nov 2014 , Auditorium Strawinski 7) Birthday surprise visit, 31st January 2015 8) PLAY Convention, Modena Italy, 11th April 2015

Gratulations to the North : - )

Gratulations! Looking good

Good luck!