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The rivet in the cod piece is a brass split rivet with an M4 brass washer that holds a black elastic strap in place. The rivet has an 8mm head with 6mm legs.

Hi Gabriel, First of all welcome and thank you for your interest in joining the MEPD´s finest and becoming a deployed officer. Application Review: Part 1 Name: Gabriel Leroux 501st Legion ID: TKID-62899 MEPD Forum Name: IronBronson Garrison: Star Garrison Helmet a. Green lenses: check b. Paint color of traps / tears: check c. Correct number of teeth: check d. Mic tips: check e. Vocoder color: check f. Tube stripes: check g. Rank bar on ears: check h. Brow: check i. Side screws (ears): check j. Weathering: check k. no mesh behind teeth: check RESULT ON HELMET Checked & Cleared Armor details a. elastic straps shoulders: check b. neck seal: check c. black undersuit: check d. shoulder bells: check e. biceps: check f. forearms: check g. pauldron: check h. chest / back plate: see comments i. kidney / butt plate: check j. ab plate / side rivets / cod: check k. strapping system: check l. thighs: check m. shins / calves: check n. sniper plate: check o. boots: check p. gloves: check q. hand plates / guards: check r. ammo belt (waist): check s. ammo belt (right knee): check t. canvas belt: check u. pouches: check v. weathering: check *additional comments* I miss the picture of the chest where you can see the screws that simulate the original strapping RESULT ON ARMOR pending Backpack a. details: check b. weathering: check RESULT ON BACKPACK Checked & Cleared Weapon: E-11 a. details: check b. weathering: check RESULT ON WEAPON Checked & Cleared A nice presentation and if you submit the one picture later, nothing will stand in the way of being promoted to police officer. One more small question: What purpose do the holes in the rank bars serve? Best Regards, bigwam

Hello, TD 6115 respectfully requesting 501st/detachment access. I was just reactivated after a 9 year hiatus. Man it feels good to troop again. https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=7931&costumeID=2

Glad to be here. Look for updates on new swag coming

- From the Desk of the D.L. - Meet the Command Staff - CRL changes (proposed) Hello to my Dirty Brothers and Sisters, I am hoping to bring this tradition back this year. I love our newsletter as it is where I got my start on the MEPD command staff. If anyone has an idea or topic they would like for us to cover here in future issues, please message me. Also, if you have a submission for the newsletter, we are open to others sharing their work. The MEPD is also in need of a new Merchandising Officer. Our new PRO is Darth Mout. Our former PRO, Quinnzelle, has moved to the newly created Detachment Diversity Officer Position. The Legion has also added 2 additional detachment positions this year, Detachment Archivist and Historian and Detachment Costume Advisor. If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in stepping up and joining the MEPD Command Staff PM me for a discussion. I appreciate everyone trusting me with another year as Detachment Leader and I look forward to a great year. It seems that troops are starting to come back even more this year. We are seeing a gradual improvement each year as we move farther away from 2020. Stay Dirty, Punisha Quinn Brown (SandEEQuiNN) TD-91197 Detachment Diversity Officer Former PRO Hello MEPD, I wanted to take a little time to introduce myself and tell you a little about me. I am a single mom of a wonderful 12-year-old daughter, who is a Sandy in the Galactic Academy. I was born just outside of Philadelphia. I grew up in Pennsylvania and Florida. I now live outside of Richmond, Virginia. I work as a sushi chef. In 2014, I met our DL, Punisha, at a convention and saw how cool the 501st costumes were in person. I first joined as Asajj Ventress, which I hand-sewed. My second costume was the Sandtrooper. I am the local Rebel Legion Base CO and XO of my local Squad. I am happy to be a part of the greatest Detachment in the Legion. Quinn Brown (SandEEQuiNN) I know we started this topic on the forums already, but I felt this would give it more attention and more eyes on the topic. I have revised my original post here to include ideas and additions already shared with me on the CRL updates thread here in these forums. If you have ideas to add to this discussion, go here: https://forum.mepd.net/index.php?/topic/18089-things-id-like-to-change-this-year/ I would like to make a couple of changes to the existing CRL. I am interested in your thoughts. As always, this will not affect those already approved. You are grandfathered in. This would only be for new applicants. Currently, the CRL reads, “For basic approval ribbed shoulder straps are acceptable but discouraged.” I would like to remove the ribbed shoulders option, as only special edition troopers have those and that is a separate CRL in progress. I would like the CRL to read, “TK style ribbed shoulders are not acceptable.” The next change is a similar change in thought. The current CRL reads, “Left side Abdomen Armor has a minimum of three, and maximum of four painted white buttons.” I would like the CRL to read, “Left side Abdomen Armor has three white buttons." (Credit to BadBatch for the edit) BigWam and Airbourne trooper also added these ideas. The first involved the helmet lenses. The current CRL reads that helmet lenses are “flat green or smoke.” The change would read that helmet lenses are “flat green.” Their next idea was to remove the shoulder pouch requirement when not wearing a backpack. The current CRL says “Black in color, made of canvas, leather or leatherlike German MP-40 style ammo pouches.” The change would read, “Black in color, made of canvas German style MP-40 pouch or leather or leather like Stolla Wien ammo pouch. If you do not wear a backpack, you do not need the shoulder pouch.”

I am not familiar with a list of found parts. My pack is from CrookKnight. He is closed and sold all of his pack stuff to Dave' s Darkside Depot. The pack I have is 3D printed. My pack has elastic straps to hold it in place. the straps are hidden by the pauldron and armor mostly and blends with the undercut. As for the weathering, the CRL moderately weathered. I'd interpret the as the weathering should be noticeable but not excessive.

Torsten Hallmann Chest Protector. The Sandtrooper Pauldron.

You and I have actually talked about this topic on the legion forum. It was also brought to my attention that you posted this to Instagram is well, saying this isn't approvable. This costume is approvable at level 3, SWAT. So, it is in fact approvable. This rule is in place for the very reason you stated in the post. The MEPD does not want to be the place people take old, yellowed TKs without any upgrades. For level one approval, you will need to add pouches and a pauldron. If you wish to approve as a higher level, you will first need to approve to level one and then you will need to pause the film and copy the armor style and weathering pattern exactly to the character you have chosen.

Bucket time! I attached the helmet and tried to get the brow height to look as close to the Davin Felth original as possible. For my built I decided against rivets and went with screws... I'm not sure if this will hold up to trooping, but it seems sturdy enough. I now know why people say that attaching the ears is the most difficult step in building a helmet. It's good that RS propmasters give you two pairs of ears to work with, because I definitely trashed one pair in the process. But I think in the end it turned out alright and I'm happy with them for now. Because I am replicating the Davin Felth helmet I tried to add some of the little flaws as well. In the original helmet the left ear seems to be positioned slightly lower and you can see a bit of the underlying HDPE-plastic "semicircle" peak out on the top. I made sure to get the same effect in my helmet. Oh, and I made a cheap helmet stand as well. It's a PVC pipe with a cheap toilet plunger (A fresh one!!!) shoved inside of it to cradle the helmet. It's actually super effective, and you can easily reposition the helmet on the plunger. Because it's rubber it nicely grabs on to the plastic of the helmet. Maybe not something to display it long term (Especially because there will be stuff inside the helmet later on), but for painting it works great! Yep! I will try to resin-print a mold and cast the cheesegraters myself. Not sure if it will work, but maybe worth a try.

Who's got 2 thumbs and offers complete Sandtrooper Backpack Kits? This guy! I know this is an old post, but just in case future sandtroopers are looking for a kit, hit me up! Charlie

@Medicineman @xvostik done

TD20505. Mission Avenue Elementary School. 05.04.2023.

TD 10743 - Special Olympics New Mexico - State Summer Games May 20, 2023 https://imgur.com/a/BaBcFma

TD41274 Troop #1 - Pre May the 4th Parade - Andenne May 3rd 2023

7.Troop 20.05.2023 - Wedding in Dassow

TD-75392 Law Enforcement Appreciation Day in Richmond, VA on May21, 2023 Troop #3

Hausi/TD 21027, Fantasy Basel Switzerland, 19 May 23

20.05.2023 Benefiz Konzert Günzburg

TD-75392 May 20, 2023 Goochland Day Parade and Table Setup- Goochland . I am on your left. Troop #2

Thank you. I’ll share that wit our garrison.

TD9841 Fundraise for kid called Ahmed

TD9841 Star Wars symphonic concert Foto:

Nice, I especially like the pic of you troopers just hanging around and looking cool.

73. Sommerfest/ Grundschule in Rain am Lech. 13.05.2023

Sommerfest an Grundschule in Rain.

Great pics!!

TD9841 Children's day at Baseball stadium

Holy Crows, I never got my full access lol.. Ben Frahm TD 5908 https://www.501st.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=7932 Ive been trooping for 10+ years as a sandtrooper, but never realized I didnt get full access to this ( and a couple other) detachment boards Thanks!

TD-34575. Saskatoon Entertainment Expo. May 5 to 7, 2023.

32. Charity collection 06/05/23

04MAY23 May the Fourth Ponte Vedra Beach Lodge (Jacksonville)

Two small videos from the latest release. One of them might be good. https://mega.nz/folder/1igjSKoQ#EnN6stKqJFNQ5PtjU05PaA

@TK7892 done

TD 72822, troop number 2 - Supanova 23rd April 2023

Just ordered my cards. Thanks again, Angela!!

Hey everyone, this is just for fun: I can still remember seeing this picture and I always loved it, although the Tusken Raider as a character was never that appealing to me, but when a friend of mine who is also a member of the MEPD and our little Rancor Hunters Squad, Markus Zeitvogel, started making his own kits, I wanted to try it... and man do I appreciate this character now. Building the helmet was so much fun. I am not going to do the full costume but now I have a helmet should I ever want to do the Sandtrooper in Tusken Raider disguise. I have actually tried to build this helmet emulating the Hero Tusken portrayed by stunt coordinator Peter Diamond. Here´s a pic of most parts of the kit: Here´s a screengrab: And here´s my finished helmet: And here ist the Sandtrooper in disguise (I should have added some kind of robes too but I could still do that): Cheers mates

Hello Alex, As I already mentioned: - fix the right shoulder bell - Abdomen higher - Belt higher and fix it - Tighter at the bottom of the thighs - shorten the Mortar Tube - for a better look, change the shoulder Pouch against a canvas pouch and the left Pouch of the Hip against an accurate one. Regards, Thomas

Hi Hausi ! thanks a lot for the comments i will adjust all of this and will post more pictures shortly this was the second try but definitely still have some adjustement will try the police officer once everything is done properly warmest

Hi Alex and welcome to the dirty side. I really like your weathering, looks great. At a first glance I would recommend shortening the inside strapping from the chest to the abdomen, the abdomen should sit a little higher up inside the chest. I think your armor suits you well but the thighs should be more tapered towards the knee to follow the natural shape of your leg. Cheers mate and have fun browsing the MEPD forum, heaps of great info to be found here.

Return of the Jedi 40th Anniversary Showing (Jacksonville) 28APR23

@Gklair08 done, welcome! @Ju Stonewall done, welcome

This is mine: Datei von filehorst.de laden

Hope it works, this is the Video of my son heroma97 (TD-22997): Datei von filehorst.de laden

Hi Julien, welcome to the sandpit, good to have you here. Don't worry about your English, it's great. Many of us here actually come from different countries, English not being our mother tongue. You will find heaps of valuable info in the different threads here, so take your time to browse the forums and have fun. The Sandtrooper also wasn't my first costume but I knew from the beginning that I wanted to be a Sandtrooper once. Cheers mate!

6. Troop - 22.04.2023 Outpost One in Dassow

Awesome, thanks for doing this! Just emailed you my photos and details.

Awesome, I've been meaning to get my first set of cards made so now's the time

"Genuss Atelier" Eröffnung, 22.04.2023

Hello, can anyone answer why tapatalk isn't working with us anymore?

Hey! Great to see more that a couple replies in a thread! As stated by everybody, lets hope that the wheels keep turning and we can find a way and a moment for the MEPD, the forums and the members to come back with excitement, participation, ideas, discussions and much more. Take this community back to life and much more! Saludos