Congratulations!

Good news! After many hurdles and delays, today both of our costumes were approved and we are now members of the 501st! TR-45970 and TR-45971 reporting for duty and ready to serve alongside the Emperor's finest! Thanks for everyone's help and support along the way. It has been very much appreciated...

Welcome

As Sascha_Wilsing suggested, trim the visor opening before you start painting.

Welcome to the Sovereign Protectors forum. PM sent.

Hello Everyone! OK, so I'm working on a ROTS build and I have ordered robes that will be here hopefully by June 1st and I have an idea for my force pike, but I need recommendations on a boot vendor. I need to find women's 8.5 and if I could find an amazon vendor with red boots that would be AMAZING...

Sounds like you are making great progress on your force pike. As for the serrated rasp, maybe plastic pyramid studs will work? You can carefully glue them to a cylindrical base and then paint the entire thing. I'm really surprised someone hasn't 3-D printed the ROTJ Royal Guard's Force Pike rasp yet.

Several fans if you can fit them in your helmet.

I good inner robe pattern that I used was McCalls Pattern M2060.

The red suede (ROTJ) and red leather gloves that they now have pictured don't have lines on the back of the hand. They both look acceptable to me.

Congrats in your Royal Guard approval.