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Best of luck with your build. Looking forward to seeing your build progress.

Keep us posted on your build progress.

You are both very welcome to the Swift, Silent & Relentless.

Congratulations on your clearance, Daniel. Enjoy your troops in that fine armour.

Most of us tend to use E6000 glue to bond the ABS together.

Lovely. ?? We can never have enough shadow troopers in the ranks.

Hi & welcome @LondonValient One thing to keep in mind is that all our costumes are built fitted to each member's body size. At you current age, you probably have some growing still to do. So keep this in mind if you are looking to build something that may fit you now & may need to be adjusted in a year or two with any extra growth. My son is 14 & I built a jawa for him as he is part of the Galactic Academy. This costume was made to my height & he wears a belt so the costume fits him & doesn't drag on the ground. As they years go by & he grows, we eventually won't need to use the belt as he grows into the costume. Unfortunately, any costumes built with ABS / resin/ 3d printing will be much more difficult to adjust with your growth. Best of luck with your costume research.

Congratulations on your approval & welcome to the detachment.

Looking forward to seeing you all kitted up.

Thanks for this @crazas. I've ordered some & will let you know if it works.

Hi folks, I have a cleared shadow stormtrooper & I'm working towards my specialist application. I've hit a snag & would like to ask the specialists here what they used to paint the silicone or latex hand guards. The CRL states that the hand guards need to be painted, but what paint sticks to silicone or latex? My hand guards are black already, so either a flexivle gloss black or flexible clear gloss should do the trick. Any help is appreciated. I'm based in Ireland, so anything that can be sourced in the EU would be the easiest. Thanks in advance.

Those finger tip burns after clearing up the loose E6000 can be as sore.

Keep up the great work, Anthony.

Congratulations on the clearance. Good luck with the specialist application

Keep up the good work. ?

I've added male snaps attached to the back of the abdomen & top of the thighs & held them together with elastic witht he female snaps. I hope this helps. I also fixed your URL links that weren't working.

Thanks Daniel for posting this here.

That gold does look awesome. The snaps are simple enough to make. I've glued the male snaps to scrap ABS & then glued the ABS to the inside of the armour. I added the female snaps to either webbing or elastic so the armour pieces held together nicely on me.

I love them skull helmets. Something to think about when I get my shadow trooper cleared.

If you edit your post & remove the [img] & [/img], we should be able to see your images.

Nice one Chris. Keep us posted on your build progress. I got my shadow scout from Chefs Creations too [before Brexit]. I'm very happy with their work. I'd love to have a swamp trooper in the Irish garrison at some stage. It would be great for St Patrick's day.

I followed the build guidelines on the Chef's website for their biker scout build when I built my shadow scout. The instructions were easy to follow. If I remember correctly, the trim lines were quite faint.

First Imperial Stormtrooper detachment. Or whitearmor.net

This makes perfect sense. Thanks a mill @IcyTrooper

Is it OK to have a smaller shim on both sides of the kidney & then add the split rivets to the ab plate & the shim that attaches to the left side of the kidney? Will this work for a specialist approval?