Thanks Boss! Everyone in the MWG and FISD has given me a ton of help. Its my way of giving back.

Hang in there, man. Your luck will turn around.

Thanks, SL. I am happy to report that I've broken the threshold for the armor order! But before I do I want to get together with gazmosis. He lives near me and has offered to give me some pointers before I get started. I hear he makes a really nice holster. Chills First, let me start by saying your...

Thank you for your response. I have joined the FISD Board as advised and plan on reading everything I can. After reading a few thread I can up with a few more questions right off the start. Sorry I tend to ask a lot. One in particular advised to contact a local garrison and get involved with other ...

Anovos is a great deal for armor, much less expensive than other makers. However, as you mentioned, the wait time is long. That's an interesting theory about some members wanting to sell their TK in favor of building TFA stormtrooper armor. I have only been doing this for 6 months, but I haven't see...

Hi Chris, and welcome to the board! Good choice for a first costume. Of course I am also a TK, so I'm biased. Have you signed up for the FISD board? That is where you'll find everything you need to know about building TK armor. As for a mentor, there are many of us on the board, here, that would be ...

Hi Steve, and welcome to the board! I finished my TK about a month ago, so I'm not an expert, but I would have to say that helmet doesn't look like it would be approvable. Some of the curves and lines, especially around the bottom, don't look right. I could be wrong, so I hope one of the more experi...

Hi Alex. Welcome to the board! It looks like you posted this a few weeks ago, how's the costume coming?

So you are former US Army? Same here. Did 8 years, 3 MOSs, and now a happy civilian.

LOL, oops. I read that as June and not July. Well that's plenty of notice. See you next month!

Hi Peggy. Welcome to Chicago! (rainy cold windy stormy, you'd think we were in Seattle LOL). I'm rather new, so I don't know if anyone is a UC alum, but there are quite a few of us in the Chicago area. Tomorrow night is the Weird Al concert, and a number of TKs and TSs will be there. Not sure if tic...

Welcome to the board, Jason! Trying to decide which costume to build can be tough, but don't overthink it. Which one really stands out as something to you? Which is your favorite? If you can't choose, remember you don't have to have one costume. Most people on here have numerous suits. Once you deci...

Looking great, Chris.

Hey, it was cool meeting trooping with you last weekend. Hope things went well at the ballgame.

Hi Brian. I'd recommend that you head over to FISD (First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment) at whitearmor dot net. There are lots of threads about which armor is best for bigger guys. Plus, all the info you need when it comes to the build.

Best of luck!

I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but I think that the detachments aren't giving a definite "yes" or "no" for 501st acceptance. I think a lot of whether the armor will be accepted depends on how it is built and whether or not the builder is following the CRL. I am quite optimistic that the costum...

Thanks iceberg. I'm in!

It sounds like you have your goal set, and I know once you overcome these obstacles and reach it you'll be one of the most appreciative 501st members out there! You were in Joliet? So was I, in my TK armor. I was the right hand TK escorting Han Solo in carbonite; then I spent much of the time after ...

Hey Josh, welcome to the Midwest Garrison! Which TK armor maker did you go with? I recently finished my TK build and was accepted into the 501st. Are you on FISD? There are some great folks over there, as well as here.

Cool choices. Have you done some research as to what's involved in sourcing parts for each? That might help you pick between the two.

I built an ANH Stunt TK. The reason: to most people the different TKs look the same, and stunt is the most common and has the most references in FISD. So I had plenty to look at while building. Like you I felt a bit overwhelmed when I started off. But there's a lot of good info on FISD and plenty of...

Hi. I was wondering if I could also get access to the events forum.

I'm a newly minted stormtrooper. I was accepted into the 501st this week: TK 51114.

http://www.501st.com/members/displaymem ... erID=18911