A number of years ago, I contacted the Tyrannus legion in Virginia to start work on a Clone Trooper. I was set up with a kit from

So where does that leave me? Well I got my kit back out, but I'm still 5'6", so the Galactic Marine build seems to be less reliant on height in terms of armor scale. I'm aware that it uses some pieces from the CT kit, however I'm tempted to do a ground-up GM whenever I can afford it and use the existing TC kit for a non-Canon midget ARC type build or something closer to Galac-Tac.
My budget right now is basically zero thanks to 2x kids in daycare, but I want to start researching and planning things out now. It seems like I could use the existing arm parts minus the right shoulder bell, but with so few parts transferring over might as well just get a new kit.
It also made sense that I was a Marine, so why troop anything but a GM?