Airborne Trooper
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@henselmonster got an STL for this? Wouldn't mind printing one for personal use.
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Detachments such as FISD for our squeaky clean TK friends and MEPD for sandtroopers do not provide basic 501st access. For that, you need to contact your local garrison's GML (Garrison Member Liason). Please checkout 501st.com to find out your local garrison. SIgn up on their forum/facebook page. For level 2 and above, you'll contact your appropriate detachment.
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These are old photos when I first submitted for basic approval but here's my MTK helmet:
And here's one of me, same helmet, at my last troop in April of this year
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Welcome, Larissa! Plenty of Florida crew to help you along your way.
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Welcome, Dustin. If you can put together an R2, you can put together armor. Probably for much cheaper too! LOL
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Probably won't be another run until end of the year if at all. Usually need quite a few to get a run going.
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I just sowed nylon and parachute buckles and made my own. Something like this:
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Did you add a sternum strap? It does help take some of the pressure off your shoulders.
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I see no point returning. I need to stop being lazy and migrate my troop log photos to imgur though.
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The shoulder bells are not bad to begin with though. I've seen far worse get approved. If it ends up really bothering you, I know AM2.0 makes larger bells and I think Walt's Trooper Factory does too now. What some guys do is when they glue in the elastic band on the top of the bells, they put them off center so they are rotated forward more. We always try to keep the front of our armor as close to screen specs as possible since that's what gets photographed and seen the most. Stick with close as possible to stock cover strips in the front and go larger in the rear, for example.
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Congratulations! Reviews can happen quickly when all the required photos are supplied and are clear. Great work and welcome to the brotherhood!
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Welcome, Jeff! I was approved with no pack and honestly, I used packing tape to attach my shoulder pouch for the photos because I never intended to wear it without a pack since it's meant to be attacked to the backpack strap. Looking forward to seeing your WIP over in the Armory section!
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Glad it's all worked out, Scott. Trooping is one of those things you get more comfortable with by experience. I still make adjustments and have been in for over 2 years now.
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That is the plan! They go to troops with me already most of the time.
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17 minutes ago, GilFran007 said:
Thank you Jason,
The pouches for now are just the large French pouches. I have an MP40 pouch and small Spanish pouch inbound from Blaster. I will be looking to emulate the infamous Tuck & Roll Captain
I'm studying that weathering as we speak.
Closing the gap in the shoulders is tough. I'm probably putting it into the redline for getting AP shoulders to fit. I saw the tutorial where another trooper steamed his bells and applied pressure to the top of the shoulder, allowing them to "squish and sprawl" out. I wasn't sure how cured e6000 would react to steam so I haven't tried that yet.
It's one of those things where you just try your best and then settle haha.
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Everything I can see in the 2 photos appear to be up to snuff for basic. Since you're getting ready to weather, I would recommend at least loosely emulating a trooper for SWAT. It'll at least give you a foundation to work with going forward. I'll let someone with better pouch knowledge chime in about those. Belt placement is where it needs to be. Top of forearm to bottom of bicep is correct. The only thing that everyone will say and the hardest to achieve is getting those shoulder bells rotated a little forward more to close the gap more.
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It's a quick way to get have rights revoked. Not really sure spamming just so you can post a sale is productive. Maybe become part of the community here. If you're 501st, you can always post it on the legion forums.
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The straps connecting the chest to back sag and kinda bunch up. That's natural. It's also a reason why TKs have ABS straps on top to cover them up. What you can do to minimize the effect is to double up the elastic. By doing 2 pieces or do a fold and sew it together.
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So did you get approved???
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Change of plans... booked a hotel and will do my best to make it. I'll just wear a celebration branded kevlar vest
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Start your own thread here! Looking forward to seeing your progress
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2 hours ago, Raider said:
Thanks for the welcome! I'm the type to aim for Level 2 (or whatever the top tiers are)...but we shall see. Maybe I can convince wife for a new set of TK armor to dirty up and just bypass all thoughts of heading to Chicago for Celebration lol.
Ha, until they have a Celebration in upstate NY or in many years when my kids are much older and my life will let me, I'm not going to see a Celebration. Chicago sounds like an awful place to host this event. Big city, bad traffic, high crime, poor parking, and expensive hotels, no thanks.
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13 minutes ago, Plainsrunner said:
Hmm... I was under the impression that it was aluminum. I guess I need to do more research. I'm afraid substituting resin as a handle will be a major weak point in the gun with the rest of it being heavy metal. I can see where that might go sideways if you carry it around enough.
Well the doopy doos kit is a resin kit. I didn't know they had custom aluminum grips made.
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Not bad! Hopefully you used a template so you're not exactly 100% painting them by hand. Love the RS helmet. I'd love to own one someday.