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Honestly, I have zero issues with them and outside of charging the battery a couple times a year they have worked great and were super easy to install. My lense will fog up if they are not on as well. The fans definitely prevent that as well as just help with air movement in there. I have fans in all my helmets and honestly couldn't imagine trooping without.

Dang Sorry guys. My bad on not getting back to you. So, I printed it once and honestly, I'm not 100% happy with it. I took it to a local prop maker to inquire about making rubber versions of it. He's 100% down but I need to bring some details out from the designs. I haven't gone back to do so. Let me dig the files out and get it update and shared. Sorry again and thanks for your patience.

Congrats! That's amazing!!

Pretty much, I went with “skinny” dickies pants and a Tesla black compression shirt. Both from amazon.

Hi Jorge! Welcome Welcome!

I second this bin. I have 4 the oldest being 6 years old. No issues with them. They are right in the middle of the larger commonly used totes and the smaller fit everything but the helmet totes. I drive a scion XD and fit two in the back with the seats down. I purchased all of mine from Walmart incase the link above isn't available for you.

Congrats! Well deserved!!

Buckets off.

That thing is amazing! I need one! LOL

Thanks for all the encouragement! I really appreciated it.

Thanks so much for everyone who took the time to comment, like and support this journey. I have been approved today adding this costume as my 3rd in the 501st but already my favorite out of the bunch. Can't wait to wear it out and proudly represent the Pathfinders Detachment! Thanks again!

So I got some feedback from my GMLs and totally agree. It may have been in my “late night stupor” but the lines are definitely too thick and as pictured in the CRL should line up with the bottom of the red symbol. Also, the decals that came from Walt for the traps have a black outline. The CRL mentions the traps being gray but no mention of black outline. No big deal for either. I painted the traps with some gray enamel paint that had and re designed and cut a new barcode decal. Looking back at pictures when I got the armor, originally I thought I lost the decal but it looks like I never got them. Oh well. New pictures sent up last night. Sooo close. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Ok, the barcode (thanks@chopper for letting me know what it was called) was really bugging me. I cut some new vinyl, made it thicker this time and went with@chopper’s suggestion of just sticking with a line. After referencing some material, it appeared the top of the barcode is lined up with the top of the symbol on the right. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Alrighty, here are my submission pictures. I know we need to wait on elections to wrap up but figured I should just get them out of the way. and the inspiration to do this - Wish me luck and thanks for cheering me on! Can't wait to be officially part of this detachment! It's a pretty cool bunch!

Ok, last pics before I suit up. So, I ran into some issues when I was doing final assembly on the helmet. Two things really, one, the epoxy on the gray visor discs gave way. I went back and applied a good amount of E6000 and they are glued in place and feel firm. The second issue was once I installed the visor. I could not close or open the front of the helmet. At first, I thought it was the glue, after cutting some of the excess away and still not working. I took a closer look and the only thing I could figure out was, for whatever reason, the extra material thickness added by the visor was enough for the top of the helmet to hang up on when trying to open or close the helmet. I am assuming at this point this could only be from mounting the face plate to the visor too far back. Currently my face mask lines up flush with the back of the visor. I am wondering if it needed to move forward a 1/4 of an inch or so. At this point, not much I could do, so decided the easiest thing would be to move the visor forward, away from the helmet itself. I was able to do this by drilling new mounting holes in front of the old/original holes. It definitely accomplished the desired effect. The only downside from this is I now have this gap between the visor and the helmet. While I am not expecting most to notice it does let a bunch of light into the helmet. I may see about filling the gap with some flexiable craft foam down the road.