Gotcha! Okay moving along then. Sanded the shoulders and hand plates, then briefly debated making a chocolate trooper before moving on to Sahara Beige. I'm also using liquid latex for the weathering. I went a bit too heavy on the hand plate weathering so ill add some more Sahara beige to it.

??? It's not.  It's fine.  He's just suggesting you post all your progress here so the team can help guide you along.  

Ok looks like it's easy to add pics then. I unfortunately don't see how my thread is different from a standard build thread. Maybe I'm just too dumb for it.

Plenty of examples here: https://forum.501stpathfinders.com/forum/129-shoretrooper-wip/ And you'll need this:  

how do I make it a build thread?