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Mickey this is awesome and so glad you are the detachment leader. Look forward to a very exciting year.

Glad to hear it.

Great job

That's awesome. Thank you

Congratulations trooper.

Nicely done brother. Congratulations

Congratulations Lancer. Welcome aboard.

Happy New Year brother.

Congrats Lancer.

Congrats Joe, that is beautiful looking armor.

Congrats brother!!!!

Awesome Mickey. Congrats

Congrats Trooper and welcome

Jason, I agree with you, I like the shape, sharpness and size of the RS helmet as well. Plus on the inside it just gives you more breathing space. And you may be right about painting the armor vs the helmet hahaha As far as the reinforcement, trust me do it anyway, because the notch is not what necessarily causes the stress point, it is the way the chest is build on all of them. The whole line down the chest body causes a stress point. I highly recommend the reinforcement. It is super easy. Take you less than a minute to do and will save your armor.

Hello Corey and thank you for such a wonderful compliment. Means a lot brother. Jason, I agree with you. The shape of the RS helmet is awesome. To be fair, I measured and sized everything on my kit as close to possible against an RS kit as well as against an original scout helmet. One thing that I did to cheat the look a bit, if you notice is kept a bit sharper edge on the lens cut out. It gave it a more aggressive look the way the RS helmet is. And I kept my helmet as shape as close to RS as possible, given the structural limitations. Same with the body armor. The one thing that I could not change was the sharpness of the RS nose section with the Greeblie as compared to the more rounded edge of the Studio Creations. If you like your RS helmet, you could strip it down and tape it and have it painted to match your Studio Creations armor. The issue with distressing is that it still wont match the base color. Look forward to seeing what you do with it. On another note, one thing I highly recommend, that I have seen on a few scout armor and it was an issue on the originals as well, take two strips of 2mm abs and shape one for the top and one for the bottom inside front of the chestplate. If you look closely at mine, there is a diamond shape cut out on the top and the bottom like the originals. Some were larger and some smaller. I chose to do the smaller ones like a friend wore on ROTJ. But because of that, and even without that, just by nature of the chest and the way it is built, you risk splitting the armor. So reinforce it right from the get go. If you look at my Lancer submission you will see the reinforcements I put in. Corey, thank you again for the recognition, I am honored. Jason, if I can help in any other way, let me know. And that RS helmet is amazing.

Congratulations trooper

Absolutely brother

Congratulations brother. Can’t wait to troop these together. Awesome work as always

Hey Stephen, so the sole you see up top on Dennis' boot is Perfect. That is stunning. I looked at god knows how many photos of the boots out there and that is dead on accurate. So there are a few variants that I have seen. So I made my cuts on my IB boots to the most common one. In all honesty, if I would have seen that example of Dennis' boots I would have done that. So that is an awesome photo example. Most of the boots are some form of work boot that is then converted to a scout boot, like the originals. The IB boots are a straight forward boot. Since I literally have over a dozen boots that I live in professionally as a horseman, I preferred to go with an actual boot. That is the only reason why I chose the IB boots, or else I would have made them as well. What I did on my boots is used a standard Xacto knife and very carefully did my wedge cuts. The wedge cuts are also cut in a common pattern, but then I added the cut outs above the lowe cut outs around the front part of the boots. I just liked that look better and it is closer to what Dennis' cuts are. I made my cuts deep because I wanted them to stand out a bit and I used a little tiny bit of distressing paint inside the cuts to make them pop a bit more. Also, you have to paint the upper part of the soul to match the sole. You will see that there is one dark later and it just needs to match the soul. Standard Testors tan pain is a perfect match. Now, I also putt a bracing bar on the inside of my boot against the holster to stiffen it up a bit more. And probably should add a thin layer of leather or vinyl on the inside to reinforce the leather shaft for weight of the blaster. Finally, the dogbone on the boots, while they are accurate, they are too big in that they should not run over and down on to the sole. so I took mine off, which you need to do carefully and replace it with new dogbones with the double stitch. Easy way to do this is to have the dogbone cutouts, double stitch them and reglue them back on. I had mine stitched on to the boot. If you go with IB, that is the way to do it. Finally, be very very very careful with the blade so you don't in to yourself. It can easily happen. It is a ton of tedious work hahaha but just be patient and you can get it done pretty quickly. Just don't rush it because that is when you will make a cut that is wrong and or cut yourself which would be even worse. Finally, I would recommend, like you see, draw out the pattern on the sole. The pieces that need to be cut out, lightly darken them with pencil or something so that you clearly know what you need to cut out. If you just draw lines, you may by accident cut out the wrong box. So make sure they are distinct, the ones that you are cutting out that is. Hope this helps. You can see the teeth have just a heavier and more biting look to them, which is what I wanted especially for videos and photos. Also, again on the front teeth, you can see there is a long bar and then a short bar with small cut out above it. I didnt like that empty spot above the short bar so I added the extra cutout above it to make it look more like Dennis' cut. Most just do the alternating short and long. But what Dennis has up top is dead on what it needs to be. Had I seen that, I would have done that. So this is my adjustment to match that.

Thank you and honored to be here.

Thank you

Thank you

Thank you. Appreciate it very much.

Thank you very much for the encouragement and support. Honored to meet the qualifications and will do my absolute best to represent and uphold this privilege to the highest standards that i am able to. Thank you again for the amazing support and encouragement.