Next steps?

[f3tt4l1f3]

Hey all!

I began working on my ROTJ Scout Trooper build way back in 2019.  Things were moving along pretty well, and then COVID happened, and I kinda lost interest for a while because getting together and trooping just wasn't happening.  When COVID hit, I had pretty much completed all of the armor parts, and was just ready to start working on the soft parts. 

Fast forward to 2022...

At the beginning of this year, I had made myself a tentative plan to try and get everything completed by May the 4th, so that I could wear it to our local comic book shop's big Star Wars day celebration.  As usual, life got in the way, and that date came and went.  So, I set a new date...  Halloween.

This time, I stuck with it, and just went down the list working on each part.  From the beginning, I've been building everything using the Lancer standards (even though I haven't really decided if I'll try for that level, just yet).  It went down to the wire, on Halloween afternoon, and I "finished" my build at about 4:30 pm.  I say "finished" but actually mean that I had a costume that was "wearable".  I didn't get to actually finish adding all of the much needed Velcro, etc., to help keep things in place, but all of the parts were "there".

I suited up for the very first time, and was amazed at how comfortable the costume is.  While I still need to add Velcro to keep certain parts in place, I was very happy overall.

Here's a pic that was taken:

As you can see, things are all over the place, but now I just need to go back in and do some fine tuning.  Spending the entire evening walking around, I have a MUCH better idea of what needs to be done where.

The day after Halloween, I came down with Influenza A, and haven't really feel like doing anything.  But, I'm now beginning to feel better and I'm ready to get back to work finalizing the last bits.

After finishing up all of the fitting issues, and "dirtying things up" I guess my next step is to contact my local 501st chapter to see about getting accepted as a member?  I see that you're supposed to fill out an application, but I wasn't real sure if you're suppose to submit photos with it, or wait for them to request them, or what?

I want to do this as smoothly as possible, so any advice from the experts here would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you all, in advance, and I really look forward to becoming part of THE best group in the 501st!

[Chopper]

Hi Jeff, if you're in Iowa, then you're in the domain of the 501st Central Garrison. I believe Iowa would be under the Korriban Squad.

Each 501st Garrison can have a slight variation on how they want candidates to submit their photos for approval, and the review is handled locally by the Garrison Member Liason (GML). Our job as detachment is to help with build advice, though that can happen locally as well in some cases.

I would start with getting registered on the Central Garrison forums, here, and from there you can determine how they want you to handle it: http://www.centralgarrison.org/

 

[f3tt4l1f3]

Thank you for the guidance, @Chopper!  I will follow that advice.