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22 minutes ago, Backpacks Got Jets said:
That green is awesome
Camera doesn't do it justice but it's the perfect feldgrau. I kept walking between my garage and the sunlight to watch the Gray-to-Olive transition haha
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Day two of making this thing... I cut the hole in the bucket for the rivet. I think it gets painted (unlike the snowies) so I'll leave it in there.
I also glued on the little circle thingies.
Eyeballed marked and drilled the spots for the disk greeblies which I'll add on after painting.
Blew the belt pieces nice and wide open for my thick Officer belt to pass through and buckle underneath
For the rivet covers, I figured out that the Rebel push button insert found parts I have laying around work pretty perfect. I put cap rivets under them and CA glued them in place. The cap rivets will go through nylon or elastic or some crap when I'm ready to bridge the shoulders.
After a good long thought about the chest box and how to do the little vertical lines, I came back to my FAVORITE modeling material ever to use; TOOTHPICKS!
I've also been thinking about the little buttons. And it dawns on me they look exactly like a pill capsule. So I took one of my fiancee's vitamin capsules and emptied it out (please don't tell them) and turned it into literally the smallest mold I've ever made.
Meanwhile, nice day out, time to get some painting done. I gave a flat gray prime to both the chest and the back
Then I used this paint that I got from some miniature tank nerds to make a proper feldgrau color with
printer is still printering, so we gotta wait to finish the helmet tomorrow. I also managed to bend the absolute sith out of a piece of aluminum from before, but I don't love it. Gonna come back to it with a replacement that's cleaner later in the build but for now it will get me past the post of approval. -
Okay, this box of plastic has been sitting in my garage too long, and the con starts at the end of July. Time to build an AT-AT Veers.
So I bought a set from MonCal a while back. The top and bottom of the helmet are glued together, but everything else is up to me (Because I just asked for the ABS plastic... no vacuum former yet or I'd be making my own molds there too lol).
Step one, I need to make the stupid metal rangefinder piece. The spearhead requirement say it has to be metal. And also painted. Why? Who knows, but I guess I'm making it out of metal.
I got this scrap aluminum laying around, it'll work to start
My calculator says 1.5" diameter means approx 5" diameter, so approx 5" I'll cut it
Gonna band saw it down to size and bend it into a circle... but first, I gotta make the little greeblie pad.
Twelve Dollars plus shipping???? To OnShape I go...
(2 hours later)
That looks right enough for government work. Off to the SLA printer he goes.
Also making the belt thingie mabobber
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Big thanks for everyone who came to the event today!
As a lesbian seeing this kinda support from people in the garrison (allies and fellow LGBTQ ppl) is awesome and means a lot to every single person at that parade.
Y'all rock.
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We're being moved. Stack street division 4 area
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We got Marching Orders finally!
QuoteThe Middletown Pride March will kick off at 1:00p.m. SHARP on Saturday, June 3, 2023 at the corner of Spring Street and Main Street.
There will be a check in tent outside of MacDonough School (on the Spring St side). ONE member of your group will check in and you will be directed to your line-up street. We will have volunteers at each intersection to make sure you get to where you need to go.
FORMATION OF THE PRIDE MARCH WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:
Barricades erected in North End..................................................................................... 11:00 PM
Vehicles and Large Floats arrive ……………................................................................ 11:30 PM
Marchers arrive ………….…………………………………………………………….. 12:00 PM
March starts…………………………………………………………………………....... 1:00 PM
Parking is available in all Municipal lots during the day of pride at no cost. PLEASE NOTE: Parking is not readily available in the March area as these are residential streets.
Melilli Plaza Arcade Lot (Dingwall Drive)
Russell Library Lot Off Broad Street
Marino Lot AKA Kid City/Washington & Broad Street Lot
DO NOT PARK IN THE METRO SQUARE MOVIE THEATER LOT- they have been known to tow vehicles at the owners expense.
The march will be assembling on five streets: Spring St, Rome Ave, Pease Ave, Stack St, and Grove St depending on your assigned marching division.ASSEMBLY AREAS:
Pride Division ………….………………. Spring St at Main St Intersection
Rainbow Division ……………………… Parking lot - Stack St @ North Main
Division 1A …………………….............. Rome Ave
Division 1B …………………………….. Pease Ave at Spring St Intersection
Division 2 ……………………………… Spring St at Pease Ave Intersection
Division 3 …………………………….... Pease Ave at Stack St Intersection
Division 4 ……………………………… Stack St at Pease Ave Intersection
Division 5 …………………………….... Grove St
Please review the map attached. Plan your approach to the assembly area so that you can pull into line. Proceed north on High Street.
Pride Division: Turn right on Spring St and proceed to the corner of Spring and Main.
Rainbow Division: Stay on High Street to North Main. Turn right onto North Main, turn right on to Stack St
Division 1A: Stay on High Street to North Main. Turn right onto North Main, turn right on to Stack St, then turn left onto Rome Ave.
Division 1B: Turn right on Stack St. Turn right onto Pease Ave.
Division 2: Turn right on Spring St and proceed to the corner of Spring and Pease Ave.
Division 3: Stay on High Street to North Main. Turn right onto North Main, turn right on to Pease Ave.
Division 4: Turn right on Stack St and proceed to the corner of Stack and Pease Ave.
Division 5: Stay on High Street to North Main then turn right onto Grove St, Proceed to corner of Grove St and Stack St.
Rally points for larger groups: Group who are meeting on-site, can use these areas to assemble before moving into Pride March order. Assembly only – do not park cars in these areas. Drivers dropping off participants should use High Street and Stack Street to enter the marshaling area.
- MacDonough School
Please note:
1. Self-powered vehicles and wagons or trailers longer than 10 feet or wider than 8 feet must enter the assembly area at 12:30 p.m. Large vehicles will not be allowed into the assembly area after the streets are blocked for assembly at 1:00 p.m.
2. Only march unit vehicles are allowed in assembly area.
3. Do not throw anything to spectators. This is a safety issue. Small children tend to run after these, regardless of vehicles.
4. Units with animals are required to clean up after the animals. This is a public health issue.
5. At the end of the Pride March, marchers should proceed directly into the Pride Rally/ Pride Fest on the South Green. Large vehicles must turn left onto Union Street.
Middletown PrideFEST 2023 will take place from 12:00-10:00 p.m. in downtown Middletown. The event will kick off with a march down Main Street beginning at 1:00 p.m. sharp from the northern end of Main Street. The March will conclude at the end of Main Street with participants entering the South Green area and vehicles continuing on the route down Union Street to park their vehicles.
Once the march concludes, we will host our second annual Pride Rally on the South Green from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m.
See attached PDF for maps and stuff.
We're DIVISION 3 (CT 501st Garrison). We're BEHIND the Connecticare and ahead of the CT Cosplay Alliance. That means we organize at Pease Ave at Stack St Intersection.
Pride March Orders 2023.docx (3).pdf
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They're *REALLY* dragging on those, so I'm gonna make up some stuff. Subject to change:
We don't know where we are starting and won't know until day of.Expect step off to be at 1pm, so you should probably park and start dressing between 11 and 12. The roads do close off for a bit so plan that.
Last two years I parked at the lot right next to Eli Cannons. We usually end up forming somewhere near the side roads over there.
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Looks great Jerred, awesome job! Welcome to the TK ranks!
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Still waiting on marching orders, but it's coming up!
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Hey all, you may have notice in the past few days our forums have gone to sith. Our web provider had a major crash of their MySQL server resulting in various bad things; we lost tables of data.
To mitigate this issue, we restored a back up to April 16, 2023. As such, any forum actions (Posts, events, topics, sign ups, etc) that occurred between April 16 and April 21 are lost to the abyss. You'll have to recreate them.
Sorry for the downtime!
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Still no marching orders or anything, we probably won't hear anything until end of May. I assume it's roughly the same as last year though.
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I'm actually in potentially for two
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On 3/10/2023 at 1:46 PM, Capricorn Scout said:
Going to try to make this. What’s the actual address
2031 foxon road North Branford
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I'm spoken for that day, but I hope everyone has a kickass time!
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21 hours ago, Ola Raas said:
Bring him on over! XD
www.mandalorianprotectors.com has all the info you need.
Applied lol
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16 hours ago, Ola Raas said:
In fact we do.
JODO KAST IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
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Big update happened over the night! We jumped almost a full minor version to 4.7.7
User Facing Interesting Things:
Custom CTG Side:
- User "ranks" now exist, with little badges under user profiles based on Imperial Officer badges.
- You earn points for posting on the forum, starting topics that engage members, and posting event pictures to our gallery.
- Retroactive content earns points.
Example Ranks:
Cadet
Major (200 points)
Grand Moff (1,000 points)Technical Side:
- We're now on PHP 8.1
- Tons and tons of other changes (we were on 4.6.x before): https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes/
As always, if you notice bugs or encounter any issues, reach out to me or post here please!
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1 minute ago, Rocinante said:
Hi there!
I’m a Rebel from Alderaan Base, and I’ve been hoping to go to this event for years!
I’d like to go as Din Djarin but I understand if the local one had already signed up. Problem is I can’t find the costume list, could someone point me in the right direction? I have others as well just in case but would love some pics of Din next to airplanes and the like
I’ve never trooped outside my garrison so I am totally new to this, apologies if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes!
Hey John!
We don't have a costume listing. Just folks posting here or on the event itself if they're going as a face character. I assume @Feliz will be a Vader. @CTdadalorian20 is our only Din I think, so if they're not signing up for this one I think you're okay to be Din Djarin!-
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7 hours ago, Swiftcloud said:
I have joined. Not quite sure I understand the purpose. Lol
but I’m cool now, at least.
Just a different communication medium for folks, similar to our facebook group
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By popular demand, I've set up a simple Discord server!
You can join here: https://discord.gg/gVAb5J5z
Please post after you join who you are so I can set your role
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I'm in as an Imperial Officer!
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Do y'all support canon armor characters of dubiously Mandalorian nature?
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Sign up so I can get a head count please!
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General Veers
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Print #1 completed. They came out pretty well too!
I painted up the "aluminum" backing to the helmet. Yeah yeah, it's gotta be ACTUAL aluminum for Spearhead.... so this one fits well, once my metal stock comes in, I can lathe it in actual metal. But for now, this will do with some tapped holes in the back of the helmet.
Now for the chestplate... I think these that I found for $3 will work great for the buttons!