Hello everyone!
For those who may not know me, my name's Ron, and I'm the First Imperial Stormtrooper Division (FISD) Attaché for Cloud City Garrison. My primary responsibility is to help out members of our Garrison who are donning the white armor get help and information on costume requirements and build methods to further the accuracy of Stormtrooper armor in the 501st.
With Anovos coming into the A New Hope TK armor space, there will be quite a few people who are new to assembling armor and will undoubtedly have questions and concerns once the Big Brown Box arrives later this year.
What I'd like to do is get an idea of how many people have ordered the Anovos ANH TK armor and who out of those people are doing this for the first time. Please respond to this thread if you have ordered an Anovos ANH TK kit and are either new to the Garrison or a current member looking for help once the kits start shipping.
There is a base approval for 501st membership, but the FISD has two certifications above base approval for a more accurate armor build. The next level above base approval is called Expert Infantry, or EI, and the level above that is Centurion. Most of the changes between base approval and EI are simplest to do at the initial build stage than after complete assembly. Centurion level has changes above EI that can be done either during building or even after with relatively little extra work.
Because we don't know how Anovos is going to instruct anyone on how to assemble their ANH TK kit, I would like to emphasize the importance of checking in with myself or other members of the FISD community before starting assembly of your Anovos ANH TK kits if you are at all interested in a costume built above the base approval level. There may even be alterations that need to be made to the kit for base approval, which myself and others here and at the FISD forums are more than happy to assist with.
Thanks for your time and attention and I'm looking forward to having a bigger group of TKs in Cloud City Garrison!
Current List of Anovos orders going for TK:
CJ49er (Chris J)
sitpadeshu
JupiterThunderbolt (Morgan)
NavySith (Scott T)
Madighon (Josh M)
Vaughn
Mel
Barclay
Daryl
John Wilnau
Oscar
Rob F.