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I saw we did a little work with the gloves aligning them to the R1TK, which is what I'm observing as well. We do have the Imperial Death Trooper text with a similar glove, so perhaps we can do a hybrid of that text with what we have come up with here since it is a different show. I did like the padding addition for L2. Gloves Black in color, made of Nomex, leather, or leather-like material, with no visible straps or logos/designs. The fingers are enclosed, non-textured. The palm, thumb and forefinger are black leather or leather-like. Cuff is made from black elastic or elastic type of material. Extends underneath the forearm armor. The hand plates are attached to the back of each glove with no visible method of attachment. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): There is a curved cut out in the forefinger leather. The palms have 5 raised padded sections that match the reference photos.

Time for the Boots! I like the L2 details on that one, I never even had realized that looking at the images a few times Boots Black, ankle high or tall enough to cover the ankle. There shall be no black undersuit visible at the ankle. Boots are lace-less. The boots have armor detail to include a natural seam at the toe and a strap that goes over the top of the foot with two protruding disks at each side of the strap. There are no markings or labels from the shoe makers. Boot soles are flat. The outward facing edges of the boot soles are black. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): The bottom of the sole is red with a black capital "I” line detail, matching the reference photos. The red does not extend to the edges of the boot bottom.

Oh sweet on the new bells! I noticed in the game that they sit more along the bicep armor and kind of off the shoulder too, it is strange but maybe you want to have them do that too?!

I'm going to tweak that forearm a little more, it was good to note that the location is a bit different. Forearm Armor Painted gloss black. Armor is a two-piece design with a top and bottom. Armor is joined together with visible seams on both sides Both left and right forearms are mirror images of each other. Right forearm has a compad with 8 small buttons and 1 large main button. A second slightly smaller rectangular button sits centered on the main compad. The compad placement is closer to the bend in the wearer's elbow rather than by the wrist. Compad placement matches reference photos. Forearm tops have a flattened triangular area with a ridge that comes to a point at the top center of the forearm. This would make it pretty clear that the placement is special. I think we are good to move to the Hand Plates below: Hand Plates Painted gloss black. Hand plates are mirror images of each other. Hand plates have a top curving ridge just past the knuckles of the hand. Hand plates turn down in a triangular shape that point towards the base of the thumb.

It's what we try to do best I think we'll leave the material out for now and any pending final check on it all when we start putting it into the CRL. We are onto the Lower Leg Armor, woo! I don't see anything here that needs to change on my glance. Lower Leg Armor Realistic style lower leg armor. Armor is painted satin black. Front of the lower leg has a flat triangular detail at the top which transitions to a ridge line that travels down the front of the armor to the ankle. Back of the lower leg has an indented arched area that continues down to the ankle. Bottom of the back side has an arched half circle engraved line at the heel. Armor is seamless, except where the calf spoon connects to the back of the lower leg indent edge. Armor has little to no weathering. Any weathering present consists of grey tones. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Calf spoon inserts connect to the lower leg inside and are secured to keep in place.

Hello! The EFX helmet and boots look to be approvable from what I can see in those few pictures. Is the $245 for both the boots and helmet? If so that is really good and if it is just the helmet I'd say that isn't bad either. Fully assembled Anovos shadow stormtrooper helmets are going for $400-600 online right now.

The Forearm Armor looked pretty good as well, well done on this! Pasting it below: Forearm Armor Painted gloss black. Armor is a two-piece design with a top and bottom. Armor is joined together with visible seams on both sides Both left and right forearms are mirror images of each other. Right forearm has a compad with 8 small buttons and 1 large main button. A second slightly smaller rectangular button sits centered on the main compad. Forearm tops have a flattened triangular area with a ridge that comes to a point at the top center of the forearm.

We'll get to the boot in progression here soon

Pushing into the Knee Armor, almost there! I did remove the reference to the gray center strap on the main strap, I'm not seeing that it is actually gray. With this strap, I think we should probably specify a material for it? However, I ensured that we have "All details match the reference images" in the right spot so that we can push these images to the main reference image thread. The rest of the stuff I did was just a general clean-up. Knee Armor Purge Trooper style knee armor. Armor is painted satin black. Knees have a raised flat area in front and are oriented towards the top of the knee. Knees bend around the front and connect to black detail clips on each side. The black details clips connect to the strap on each side. All details match the reference images. The outer leg side has straight edges from the central rib, and the plate does not extend towards the back of the knee where the clip attaches. From where the black detail clip attaches, the upper edge of the knee plate is a straight cut up-and-down. The bottom edge features a "high-arc" cut in it towards the lower leg armor. The inner leg side of the knee plate has a curved top edge and the plate protrudes further back towards the back of the leg. This side of the knee plate is actually longer than the outside. From where the black detail the clip connects, the upper edge of the knee has a gentle curve in the plate. The bottom edge features a "low-arc" cut in it towards the lower leg armor. A black colored flat strap, about 1⅛ inches (28.57mm) wide, wraps around the back of the leg. In the center of the strap there is a raised ⅝ inch (15.87mm) wide center strap. Armor has little to no weathering. Any weathering present consists of gray tones.

The Elbow Armor looked pretty good too! I made some stuff align to the P2 realistic clone as the elbow strap appears in the references to be the same. Here it is below: Elbow Armor Painted gloss black. Armor has two parallel dashed detail slots on each outside edge of the elbow at the strap connection. Each elbow armor piece has a black rubber or rubber-like strap that is attached to the inner end of the armor and wraps around where the wearer's elbow bends. Each strap has a raised detail line at the top and bottom of the strap. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): The inside of the armor is padded to slightly elevate the armor off of the elbow of the wearer.

I figured as much, I think when the color is put into the plastic it probably gives it some strength...or the additive they use to make it clear makes it brittle. Reminds me of when Lego was having QC issues with the red pieces a few years ago That belt looks great now with the color! Glad you had those 37mm weights to hold that stuff down

Yeah the lighting within the show definitely doesn't help us with the finer details it seems. The Hot Toys display image may be a good backup source in conjunction with the toy itself. I'll PM both of you and include the team so that we can get those images sent over.

I wouldn't worry about the transfer. We'll press forward I hope to review that chest piece tomorrow and a few other things with this.

@smoszer and @dewannawanga I've seen a few other display Purge Troopers pictures (from Japan?) that were being linked. If I provide you guys with a Google Drive folder to upload them to via a PM, would you guys be able to do that? I can then get them added to the locked reference images thread.

Thanks! The Upper Arm Armor looked pretty good! Just a few tweaks on it. Upper Arm Armor Right upper arm armor is painted gloss black that matches the rest of armor. Left upper arm armor is painted gloss red. Upper arm armor must sit underneath the shoulder armor. There is a dimple on the lower area of the back of the arm. The outside of the bicep has a hard line edge at the front that turns in. The inside of the upper arm is rounded. There is a small vertical seam line on the inside and on the outside rear of the armor.

There's a few listed on here: Not sure if you checked it out yet or not.

I agree with @RAIDER on this, even more so after it was brought to my attention there was an additional time I was not aware where this was settled. There was an initial discussion detachment to detachment about a transfer, it was not agreed upon, and now we are where we are at. Certainly, if it can always be countermanded then that'd put a lot of costumes on the table pending any new evidence. This needs to be handled in the best interest of the costumers who are working on the costume and that is the angle I'm coming from. We have members here who have come here based on previous decisions to work on the costume and solicit advise. Playing musical costumes with detachments does a huge disservice to our members.

Here is the updated text. I think this should accurately represent the reference images: Shoulder Armor The shoulder bells are considered effectively symmetrical; they may be worn interchangeably on the left and right shoulders. The armor is painted gloss black. The top center is recessed between the two ridges and runs from the top of the shoulder to the bicep and notches into the lower rectangular area. A raised ridge runs along the bottom along the center recessed area and onto each of the two ridges There is a black 1 inch (25.4mm) strap that attaches shoulder armor to shoulder straps from chest and back armor. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Shoulder bells are padded to give the armor the appearance of being elevated off of the bicep armor. There is a webbed strap that runs down and connects bicep armor to shoulder armor.

Got ya, yeah we can make that a L2 detail if anything in that case. I appreciate the clarification. I was wondering if that was the text part that I was not completely understanding, so that makes sense and I have added it to page 1.

Got it, I tried looking back to see and couldn't find it. Doesn't mean it wasn't there though with my eyes I'll probably need to re-watch the scenes with these costumes again to be safe. I'm wondering if that bullet was added so that the armor moves in unison, like derived from that actual scenes playing out. If it was something that was a behind the scenes feature then I'd say we move that to L2.

Nice and quick! Going to take a quick glance at the Shoulder Armor that you all did. I removed the text for the shoulder being connected to the bicep, was there a reason for that that I missed? The rest of it looked pretty good! I cleaned up a few pieces of text in both L1 and L2. Here is the updated text: Shoulder Armor The shoulder bells are considered effectively symmetrical; they may be worn interchangeably on the left and right shoulders. The armor is painted gloss black. The top center is recessed between the two ridges and runs from the top of the shoulder to the bicep and notches into the lower rectangular area. A raised ridge runs along the bottom along the center recessed area and onto each of the two ridges There is a black 1 inch (25.4mm) strap that attaches shoulder armor to shoulder straps from chest and back armor. OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable): Shoulder bells are padded to give the armor the appearance of being elevated off of the bicep armor.

Depending on the UV light source you may be able to suspend it from something over the armor piece as well.

No worries, friend! Does that modification of the pauldron that I did make sense? Didn't want to get too crazy on the description of it.

I'll check this with the reference photos and see! Not quite sure at the moment other than how the costume is put together and that they have many other Rebels, etc. costumes related to this. I'm not saying that it is going to happen, but that it has been discussed. I'm making every effort to present rationale to keep it within Spec Ops. We should NOT just stop working on it here though, we are still very interested in seeing this completed