[*done* TD-2833 Requesting Deployment]

Full Name: Jason Melton

501st TD ID: 2833

LOG IN NAME: Aideon

GARRISON: Star Garrison

[Binders on belt?]

That's a pretty sweet looking binder holster.

[My binooculars]

Those look super!

[TK-2833 (soon to be TD 2833)]

I have a new respect for how hard it is to weather a set of armor and keep it looking good and not *too* dirty.

[TK-2833 (soon to be TD 2833)]

So, a while back I sold off my FX kit and I decided to get an ATA kit. I was *originially* planning on doing another ESB trooper for the EIB status with FISD, and then somehow I got a bug up my butt about being a sandtrooper, and went about getting everything together to make it happen.

Got my armor about two and a half weeks ago, and I've been working on it off and on, doing a little weathering before work, between doing work around the house, etc. Tonight, in South Texas we had an armor partyand my goal was to have everything ready for 501st deployment, since I wasn't going to be 100% ready for MEPD Deployed status (but I'm close!).

Patterned after Davin Felth, backed off the filth a little so I fit in with the other sandtroopers in the area. Pics ahoy!

I've got a little too much ochre in the pauldron, so I've got to rework that and make a little strap to hold the pauldron away from my neck on the snap side. Backpack is assembled, I just need to weather it and it's done. So, what do you think? Not bad for coming from an FX kit, if I do say so myself.

[[CLOSED] MEPD V2 Challenge coin]

I'd be interested in two.

[ATA armor/weathering question]

I find myself asking the same question as Goshawk. Does anyone know of a good commercially available polish in the US that works well with the wet-sanding method?

[Hasbro Binoculars]

I have a pair somewhere around the house. They are tiny little things, not quite to the scale of the Simrad binocs. If I can find my pair in the next few days and there aren't pics, I'll post some up.

[Request 501st or Sandtrooper Section Access]

TA-2833 requesting access.

[Mesh for Lenses]

I've seen someone do mesh up close on a Royal Guard, and I don't think it looks very good at all. You can really easily tell it is mesh, and can see through it pretty easily.