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I reached my goal of becoming a specilist with this costume. Now I am looking forward to wearing it at events. I hope that there will be some soon.

I just posted my specialist application. Here are the photos my husband took for it. I put extra padding material into the cargo pockets this time. They look much better now.

I will be taking new photos for the specalist application this weekend. I do not think that the items I put in my cargo pockets billows them out enough.

My Imperial Army Engineer was approved today. Now I just have do request detachment access and apply for specialist. https://www.501st.com/members/displaymember.php?userID=17771&costumeID=59

Thank you Dropkick and IcYTrooper. My husband took photos for my application this morning. I just sent them in. Now the waiting game starts. I hope everything works out fine. I did not know what action pose I should do so I tried the arrogant look, that says "how do you dare question my work".

@Blackwatch Do you think my IAE is ready to send in for approval with my Garrison? I also want to apply for specialist as soon my IAE is approved by GMOs. So please let me know if I overlooked something.

@Blackwatch Since I finished my IAE fight suit /coverall yesterday. I started to work on your Endor Gunner Gaiters and Hoth technician cap this morning.

I have been working on my IAE a lot the last couple of days because I thought I would need it for an event on Saturday. The people organizing the event wanted to have as many different costumes as possible. Unfortunately, we only had a Kylo Ren, two TIE-Pilots, and two Jawas on the list besides me. So my Garrison asked if German Base Yavin could help out. I am a dual member, and my husband is an RL member, so now my husband and I are attending the event as Rebels Troopers.

My husband Ralf dyed the four small pouches and large back pouch black this morning. The weather is nice today, so they are already dry. They look great. The fabric on the right is a leftover piece of canvas fabric I used to make the four smaller pouches. It really looks gray in comparison.

Thank you for the compliment, David. When I started this hobby, I only knew the basics of machine sewing that I learned in school and had not used that knowledge for about 20 years. It was just enough to sew my 501st Legion and Rebel Legion-approved jawa. After that, I got hooked on doing costume research and trying to figure out how to replicate what I found, so I just kept making more costumes. I have been doing it for 8.5 years. I made about 30 costumes and 20 imperial officers' hats. I switched out the rubber band of the goggles. I had to choose between a 1cm wide and a 2cm band. I used the wider of the two. Since the original rubber band sliders were too narrow, I just made it the correct length and sewed it to the goggles.

I finished the coverall pants as far as I could this morning. I will do the waist and fly when I sew the top to the pants so that everything fits together correctly. The package from David arrived today. Here are some photos of the goggles he sent me. I have to check if I have a narrow plain black rubber band in my supplies or if I have to buy one. Thank you for sending me the goggles, David. I appreciate your help very much. Without it, I would not have been able to get goggles for this project.

Ralf dyed my Chinese pouches for my first Scarif Marine and the Czech M-60 I use for my EA Star Wars Battlefront 2 Tatooine Specialist with the same brand of dye that I bought for the IAE pouches. So I am confident that it will work again. I cannot wait to see the ERT pants you painted for Ralf. He has been bugging me about making him an Endor trooper for years. Please remember to give me your head circumference so that I make you a Hoth technician cap in exchange for the elding goggles you sent me.

I added the leg pockets and closure flaps to the pants and sewed the legs closed this morning.

The black fabric dye for the back bag and pouches arrived. My husband will dye the back bag and pouches for me in a bucket. He does not want me to do it because I have asthma and allergies. He cannot dye the back bag and pouches in the washing machine because the canvas is 100 percent cotton and could shrink.

I just realized that I forgot to post photos of the leg pockets I prepared. After seeing pictures of the olive green Imperial Army coveralls, Herotec X is selling; I decided to go with patch pockets instead of gusset pockets or box pockets. There is a good chance that a couple of the nine coveralls I saw are going to members of my Garrison. I think we should look similar, so I am copying their pocket design. I will pull the orange stitching after I sew the leg pockets in place. I use extra colored stitching to keep the pocket in shape. It means that I need fewer pins, which means fewer things can hurt my fingers. https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=Herotecxgermany&set=a.673876171409406