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Hi Chris, We will get together to get this sorted for you. Please be patient & we will have you sorted as soon as we can arrange the meetup. Thanks

Sounds good. Thanks for your understanding.

We will working on it! Please be patient!

After emailing 850 and having to put my foot down, i finally got the shipping notice that it’s on the way. Hopefully it’ll be here next time in time for the 501st armor party I’m attending

Hi Dennis, thanks for the feedback. It's definitely important to give people as many options as possible while staying true to the references, so that's what we want to do with the vest too. I fully agree that the weave on the vest is slightly wider than that in the flightsuit. Just a quick reminder of the new text we currently have in draft form: "The tactical vest and its pouches are made of black fabric similar to the flight suit material. Heavy black canvas is recommended. " It's important to note that we're not saying that it has to be the same material as the suit, just that it has to look quite "similar". As you show in your picture above, the Cordura already looks extremely close to canvas, so would be 100% acceptable for both basic and Level 2 clearance under the newly proposed text. I wouldn't like to specifically name the Cordura brand as a possible option in the current text, just in case people get confused and think the flightsuit should be made from that material too. However to make it even more flexible, what about the following small tweak? "The tactical vest and its pouches are made of black fabric similar to the flight suit material. Heavy black canvas or similar fabrics are recommended. "

Ok. But I would also add Cordura 1100 as fabric option as said most of the real world tactical Vests are made of this fabric. Here's a reference. Looks close to Canvas. Could you may post pictures of your Vest from Jim? Would really love to see it. Thank you.

Hi Tom , yes, please do. That we we are all one big, happy Emperium. Kevin, now I can UNSEE it. I think I got the vendors last pair of gloves. A reall shame. Want to start glove production???? Handl plate and glove change log 1.1 Hand Plates Hand plates are mirrored and symmetrical. Roughly pentagonal in shape, the hand plates are mounted securely over the back of the glove. ANH style hand plates are not acceptable. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): The front of the handplate features a recessed slot the width of the raised detail. Gloves The base material of the gloves will be a black synthetic material similar to Lycra, Spandex, Elastane, or Nylon. The fingers are enclosed, non-textured. Palms of gloves shall be shiny black fabric or leather or leather-like material. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Gloves shall have the correct leather pattern along the fingers/palm.

I just got my vest from Jim Triipon, its his prototype new style like yours, made of heavy canvas. It also has the dropped pouches, leather, etc. Its a departure from how he used to make them and he had to send it back to his crafter a couple of times to get it right. I had him add the vertical stitches, which I feel can be an L2 item. For edification and transparency here is The original topic disucsion. There were a LOT of PMs going on between myself Anton and Maxime. They had quite the argument over the vest material and both were very stronly opinionated on its makeup. I knew absolutely noting of the character at the time, so I was going by what they were sorting out when I wrote it. Our current verbiage allows heavy canvas , here is the finished text.

It is something we'll need to do on the backend via the Holocron. I'll get with @Dropkick and @BlacXabbath to show them how to do it. We were supposed to do it a month ago but my wife passed away, so Legion kind of took a back seat.

Here's a picture of my heavily modified Flyye Vest and a comparison to the ingame Screenshots. It even has the two seamlines on top of the Ammo Pouches so the Flyye Vest comes with most details that are shown in the game. I completely removed the ammo Pouches and placed them lower to match the ingame reference and i also removed Molle straps and replaced them. Only thing that is missing are the vertical stitches which I will add for my Vest soon as they are now required and to stay as accurate as possible. So to me the Flyye vest it still a good base if modified.

Update! I was able to repair my back plate using mold-able epoxy putty and even get back some of the lost details in the corners. It is definitely not perfect but I'm thinking it should hopefully be good enough at least for basic. Also, my assembly of the shins has seemed to work out pretty great and those are now almost done (aside from the bottom flaps). I also went and painted almost everything in gloss black, except for the thighs which I am still assembling. Almost all the bits are painted now and currently drying/curing. Then I can go in with the metallic black on the details. I will need to decant some into a bottle so I can brush on the fine details like the grooves and such. I have started getting things strapped as well. The chest plate goes together in four places with velcro at the armpits and shoulders by the collar, which I think is looking good, what do we think?

@tipperaryred I'm ok with all the updates for the basic stuff that could get used by both departments for approval. Really nice work. The only thing that feels a bit nitpick is that the Vest should be the same fabric as the Suit. In real life tactical vests are made out of codura fabric and so people get forced to get a custom made vest. Many people using the Flyye Law Enforcement Vests as base and customized them to get them accurate which wouldn't be possible anymore with this restriction. So feels a bit like Gatekeeping somehow as for basic approval as the attendant needs to get a custom made vest which are not easy to get in many regions. How do you guys see it? In this screenshot you can see that the weave of the vest is not as fine as the one of the suit.

@Blackwatch, would you mind if l adapt your text for the ISB Tactical (for the 'Heert armour' component), for the purposes of writing the IOC ISB Marshal CRL? Cheers, Aes

Oh sorry. Was on vacation and had much to do. I'll have a look at it and respond soon.

This will be sorted soon. Please bear with us while we arrange a meeting (3 different time zones) to get this sorted. Thanks for your patience.

Well, I was approved today! So my 5+ year build has met basic approval. I have a few things I need to fix to submit for Specialist, but I'm happy to have this approved for basic. I need to finish my new TK, and then I will start working on finishing my Shadow Trooper. Thank you to everyone here for you help along the way.

The gloves are the new era style. First seen in Rogue One, used by Stormtroopers, Shoretroopers, Tanktroopers etc. This style glove has been made available by EndorFinders and KeepTrooping, that I know of. There might be other venders too. Mix of black cloth and leather materials.

Yes the recessed pill /slot is on the front return edge, where the raised detail running along the top plate stops and meets the return edge near the fingers.

Ill pm you Matt, I want to keep this topic on track. We will develop a vendor list. Theres only a couple I know of .

What makers are doing the gloves as when I checked vendor finders they are still out of stock

Thanks Kevin I had already purchased a set of gloves for my own build, too bad there arent many makers for then. Took a while to get them. Im not seeing the pill slot detail on any of the reference pics we have posted. Where did you note them ? Its listed as an L3 item for the R1 troopers, is it on the return edge at the front? Also, cast, cast in latex like OT era or cast in some sort of resin? To me it looks like regular pulled plastic. Im borrowing heavily from the R1 trooper CRL, this is change log 1.0 Hand Plates Hand plates are mirrored and symmetrical. Roughly pentagonal in shape, the hand plates are mounted securely over the back of the glove. ANH style hand plates are not acceptable. Gloves The base material of the gloves will be a black synthetic material similar to Lycra, Spandex, Elastane, or Nylon. The fingers are enclosed, non-textured. Palms of gloves shall be shiny black fabric or leather or leather-like material. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Gloves shall have the correct leather pattern along the fingers/palm.

Forearm description sounds great! And to move down the arms… the hand backs are the new era Stormtrooper and gloves with the same design and detail palm pads like seen in Rogue One. The hand backs or hand guards are cast not vac-formed and have the recessed oval pill slot detail in the center front near the knuckle area on the Left and Right hand guard.

After another time away from this project, I've got more to show at last. First I've managed to get that indent m the backplate done, what kept me was cracks kept appearing when I thought it was done. Everything else has been painted with 350U. Frontplate Backplate Respirator with added darker grey tusks Goggled with brass addition Redone shoulder bells Biceps Shins I'm guessing the next step is applying the grey paint 433U. Could I get confirmation if the grey covers the green completely or lightly applied?

My Shadowtrooper shows Expired in the 501st Holocron, it is still a valid costume I do use. Can this be corrected? Thank You Chris Feehan (CureMode) Charity Officer for the 501st Legion's Empire City Garrison TK-6744 / SL-6744 / TB-6744 / TI-6744 / IG-6744 / TX-6744 / DZ-6744 / BH-6744

The link for the Spec Ops CRLs is https://crls.501st.com/so