LTCAlex

Unfortunately the lighting didn't cooperate so I put a green line where the space is near the bottom. It's not too much from looking straight at it. I just measured the visual - where those green lines are - with a ruler and, on both shins, it's half an inch from the bottom of the guard down to the bottom of the plate on both shins, going on a strictly visual "looking at it from the front" basis. (Hopefully this all makes sense.)

Will do!

They do not, however, the shins sit really high on me so I was thinking I might have to trim some off the bottoms anyway. I'm gonna try them on with my boots and see how they sit before I do anything though.

Attached the fronts to both legs! Next up: attaching the respective top pieces after any trimming/sanding. After that is waiting for the rubber straps/clips to arrive.

No gluing yet but that's only because I'd totally forgotten about all the sanding I had yet to do. So. Sanding. Boring but necessary. Also I hate every second of doing it. Tomorrow I'll finish up this leg and do the other and then...gluing. Dear Cthulhu I hate sanding things so much and can't wait to be done with it. 🙄 But also, in all sincerity, thanks for all of your cheerleading - you guys are keeping me going, along with the encouragement I'm getting elsewhere. I really appreciate it. A little bit at a time seems to be all I can do so I will just...keep doing it. Along with wait impatiently for all my mailpakidges to arrive. ❤️

I know it's not that exciting but depression's been kicking my ass lately so I consider any progress on this front good. Today I forced myself to do some minor sanding on the edges of these shinguard thingies. Tomorrow I'm gonna try to force myself to finish up the sanding and attach them to the other leg armour. Recording this here as motivation and accountability because dang, I really do wanna be a shoretrooper. They's so pretty. 😊

My sexy shoretrooper gloves arrived today! Tried them on and they fit...well, like a glove. Did a tiny bit of trimming yesterday on the shinguard thingies for the leg armour. Just need to sand their edges and glue them on and then after that I'll do the top attachments.

Will do and that would be awesome!

The helmet's already been shipped. He sent me a picture of the printed label. I think it's too late to contest or get a refund. I think I'll have to take my lumps on this one and just find a new (and approvable) helmet to get. Sigh. Ouch, my wallet.

So I was just browsing the Shoretrooper Fam group on Facebook and saw a post that was quite disparaging towards the Etsy person I bought my helmet from. It hasn't arrived yet but I wish I'd seen that post before I'd ordered and now I'm pretty damn paranoid I just burned a whole lot of money on a helmet I won't even be able to wear. I guess I'll have to see? I don't really have the cash to be burning on mistakes like this. Sigh.

Sorry for the wait for the latest update but... Pants and kama are finished and in the mail! Woot! Still waiting for other ordered parts to arrive. And...fit test! Not the best pic (will try to get a better one soon) and yes, those are three nuts/bolts, because God hates me. They should be covered though, and I'm anticipating possibly trimming some off the bottom? And yes, I still have a metric ton of trimming/sanding to do of course.

I did a SUPER hot parade troop a few years ago as my TIE pilot - without a fan in my helmet because I'm an idiot and haven't installed it yet - and at the end we all nicknamed ourselves the "Inferno Squad" because we survived it. 🤣🔥

Gloves ordered from Endor Finders!

😂🤣#truth

Yup, EF is where I plan to order my gloves. It's just that shipping and exchange are so stupid right now that, having ordered the armour parts I need, I need to wait a bit for more money to come in. Blech! Yeah, I might resort to that. My sewing machine is temporarily unavailable (as my usual sewing area is occupied at the moment) so looks like I might have to do it by hand. Yuck. Yup, we have Michaels, and I didn't even think of that - thanks! I'll be sure to check 'em out.

FINALLY was able to order the parts I need to finish this build - now I just need to get extra strong magnets and some more glue and I should be set...mostly. Still need to get the proper gloves and a belt sorted but that can wait a bit for my wallet to recharge. @_@

Me waiting for all my shoretrooper stuff to arrive in the mail:

Jodhpur/kama update: have asked Steven Walker (from the vendors list on Shoretrooper Fam on FB and recommended to me by Garrison-mate Christina) to make me my jodhpurs/kama! Woot!

Blaster update: might be able to get a Garrison-mate to print it out for me. Casting out feelers right now and seeing who bites. Did a bit of minor trimming of the shin-guard thingies last night, planning on doing some more tonight. Will take pics whenever I get around to it! In order to do more gluing will have to wait until I can order rare-earth magnets and some more E6000. Will just keep trimming away at whatever until then I guess. 🤷‍♀️ [Edit: Garrison-mate has added my E22 to his queue! Blaster lined up. :)]

Thanks guys - I'll look at 3DPropsNL!

Will do!

Will do - thanks for the advice! [Edit: Fired off a message! Waiting for response.]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/891302981/live-size-32-inch-e-22-blaster?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=shoretrooper+blaster&ref=sr_gallery-1-4&organic_search_click=1&frs=1&variation0=1590689536 Back on track, I think I've found my blaster. Will buy when I can! Plan on doing some more trimming tonight.

Thank you so much for this. I really needed to hear it. When my clone trooper got put on kinda-sorta indefinite pause due to covid my confidence in that costume really sunk too. Thankfully the Garrison-mate helping me with that has reassured me he's here until the end so that buoyed me up a bit, and your message has really helped too. ❤️

Today's progress: shoes arrived (and they fit pretty well, woot) and one shin-guard-thingy trimmed (hopefully not too much. I don't think I could handle it if I did it wrong. Taking the rest of the night off because I'm depressed and scared I'll mess up. Confidence has taken a hit. Sigh.) [Edit: Forgot to mention that I've confirmed I'm on Geeky Pink's Phantastic Gaskets list for a shirt/neck seal. I had a name recommended to me for the pants so I'm gonna fire them a message ASAP.]