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Imperial Army Trooper
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ok- so, total crap print on my old Ender thats not in the least dialed in. let me throw this on the Bambu tonight as well. This is 90%. Im thinking of brining it down to about 87% on the Bambu.
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im running it on my old project Ender in PETG. I sized it down to 90% as a test.
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Imperial Army Vendor List - boots updated
Blackwatch replied to Blackwatch's topic in Imperial Army Units
Updated for December 2024. We need a solid resource for IAT patches and for green covealls. Continue to search Amazon/ Ebay for boots, they are out there! -
i got mine from Crow in Ecuador but getting them was a nightmare and they are too loose. I wont be ordering there again. not sure what I will do, no one else makes boots THAT big, custom at other plces tops out at 11 medium.
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Matt's IAT Aldhani Build WIP
Blackwatch replied to TreeHuggerMatt's topic in Imperial Army Trooper - Andor
man you are SOOOOOO lucky... mine got held / detained by DHL they put me on some terrorismn watch list, I had to send ULTRA high quality scans of my drivers license to the guy in Portugal that ws handling my case. I had a garrison mate look all this up- i was way too angry. She confirmed its a real thing and if you fall through the cracks as i did you get put on DHLs worldwide block list. Took a few weeks to clear it up but I finally got my boots and they are VERY loose! -
Thank you Jef!! ok, lemme go print one of these out. Once I get my printers working. i have heads off of three of them! GRR. Parts on order......🤔
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following up , ive been off forum for a while. we do need to circle back but the last two, two and a half years have been consumed with Andor and the security troopers. Develoing CRLs alsmost becomes a full time job. for a straightforward IImperial Army Trooper we used a lot of off the shelf resources, and those real word resources change. Either for fashion/style reasons or for production/ need reasons The coveralls I used were Elbeco / Los Angeles Sherrifs Dept covealls, which LASO no longer uses, so the company stopped making them. you listed a CDCR suit, im sure it the same I have but I didnt pay nearly that much for mine from Elbeco but that was several years ago. I do the reviews for the Specialists and I have not knocked anyone back for pocket shape since I have BSG style pockets and Im L2. Another option is dying a pair of regular covealls and adding pocket flaps from fabric. Walt still makes all the trooper helmets as far as I know, as does intergalactic supply, whom i reviewed in the forums here. Theres lots of vendors on etsy makeing code disks, i was on there last night. Another option is to print your own especially if you have a resin printer. If you match the setup on the CRL photo, you will never be wrong. We will also be looking to replace all those photos once we get a new CRL model photographed. I will be looking for long straps to be removed and no buckles showing for L2 approval. Nothing like that shows in the source art. Im not a huge fan of that big triple pouch but we have allowed it. i am in talks with WampaWear to make coveeralls but that is a VERY long term goal Once prototypes are made at the facotry and you go through several rounds of getting the product right, you place your oroder for your run, and wait your turn on the facotry floor I have a history working with WW on this, and know this routine all too well I have spoken within the week to HeroTecX. They have suspended orders until March 2025 to cath up on product. Wampa makes the hat in olive green, its made of suiting so its going to match their green tunics and jodpurs. You may talk to 20eyesdesign on Etsy shes made me a on of stuff in the past She does not offer them in green , but its worth talkign to her and see if she can do it. The boots have been an ongoing issue. That style of boot fell out of favor and was decorated up with a ton of stitching to appeal to the public. Talk to your GML to see if they would be willing accept a pair of simple engineer boots with round toe cut down to the correct 8 inches for IAT. Im kind of getting lost in the back and forth as you describe differnet costumes, so bear with me as I sort through this a seperate WIP for each would make tracking much simpler. You mention Andor. The IAT and the IAT / Andor series costumes are completely different. I do not have a Andor costume, so my build is Imperial Army Trooper ONLY, not the Andor/ Aldhani version. regarding additions, we only recognize items that were seen used in the series. There has been discussion of a rewrite, but thats going to take pivoting our (my) resources to that for an extended length of time as we deep dive and investigate each and sort it out in a CRL rewrite discussion. Im going to go edit the resource list. Real world resources not specifically used by costume communites come and go.
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the bottom link isnt working. The colors are all over the place, super common in star wars and pretty much all film franchises. Thats why we need to pick a color and stick to it . The yavin hangar scene had two sets of troopers wearing tan coveralls but due to lighting they appear both tan AND grey int he same shot literally 8 feet apart. In the RL we called it the great grey/tan debate until we found out what color they actuallly were when a real one was found. every bit of reference we have is posted to the crl creation topic. There are websites such as starwarscreencaps.com where most fo those were harvested from, as well as people capping them off their own monitors.
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Imperial Army Vendors. Parts resource list
Blackwatch replied to Blackwatch's topic in Imperial Army Units
November 24 update I have been in contact with Wamawear who has a long history of proviing acceptable flightsuits to the clubs. I have worked with the owner for years on his product line, and I have the "first made" on a bunch of his stuff. He has been provided fabric samples for color, texture and weave, as well as correct pocket and collar layout. This is not a quick process to get things into production, but in time we will have both black and green coveralls avaialble for ordering. -
Going back to this original question, for L2 I would want a strip of fabric covering the original button holes. L1 approval with visible button holes would be up to the GML. I have been on the line with Wampawear this morning to get the olive green (and black) Army coveralls started, but that WILL take time, and a factory time allotment, plus shpping time from overseas. Anyone who has watched the Wampa prototyping/ manufacturing/shipping process knows that this is not quick.
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oh you meant the rim that goes all the way around it. Ive used rubber stripping on my other similar helmets in the past (ATST, Army trooper, Sapper, Veers)
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Nathan are you talking about the helmet liner inside the helemt?
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Per the CRL zippers are permissable for L1 as long as they are covered and Crow boots are covered. . All of my boots have zippers, they have to. I cannot get my foot back out IF i can get it in there without them.