Dark Trooper - Generation 3 - Mandalorian - CRL Discussion

[Andreas Funk]

Die Frage des Konsens stelle ich mir auch gerade.

Ich werde meinen Darktrooper jetzt weiter nach der Hot Toys Puppe weiter zusammen bauen.

Eventuelle Abweichung können dann später diskutiert werden, und gegebenen falls bei Bedarf geändert werden.

[IcyTrooper[CMD-DWM]]

I think that sounds good for the Hand & Finger Armor text:

Hand & Finger Armor

• Hand armor and fingers are gloss black except where annotated.
  • May be separate from or attached to the gloves.
• The hand & finger armor may be slightly weathered but must be uniform with the rest of the costume.
• The hand armor consists of two distinct pieces; a base piece and hand plate.
  • The base piece which sits over the back of the hand is slightly curved across the back of the hand.
    • May have an outside (pinky) edge which is angled down and wrapped around to the palm.
    • May have an inside (thumb) edge which is shorter beginning just aft of the thumb joint and wrapped to the palm.
  • The handplate is flat and elongated with eight sides.
    • There is a square notch in the fingers end of the hand plate.
    • There are six raised elongated rectangles along the outside edge.
    • There is a raised pentagon on the back edge near the wrist.
    • Raised details are painted metallic black, matte black, or dark gray.
• Fingers are armored in 2-3 rigid pieces per finger, proportionate in size to the fingers, with the fingertips ending in contoured trapezoids. There may be small circles on the fingertip pads.
  • The joints between the pieces are segmented to allow movement and have a circle detail resembling a mechanical joint.
  • Mechanical pieces may be present giving the appearance of the finger pieces being attached to the hand base piece.
• The palms may have flat armor plates attached to the glove’s palm.

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

Next up!

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Abdomen Armor

• Gloss black in color except where noted below.
• Shall be centered under the chest.
  • The outer upper corners are tapered and angled up and out from the center.
  • There are two vertical details that are angled outward and have 18-20 raised horizontal ridges. They are positioned outside a raised center section. Details are painted metallic black, silver, or dark gray.
  • There is a raised center section which has a raised circular ring.
    • There is a half spherical recess in the upper right corner of the center section.
    • There are two small elongated vertical rectangles along the top of the raised center section.
• The Abdomen and Lower Back side extensions, if any, may meet flush at the sides.
• Two pistons may be present. If present, the ends must have the appearance of being attached to the abdomen and extended to be hidden by the belt. Pistons shafts will be painted metallic black or silver.
• Abdomen section may be slightly weathered but must be uniform with the rest of the costume.

 

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[IcyTrooper[CMD-DWM]]

@Chaos thanks for keeping it running. If you are ready (you have been....and I'll be) we can make a mad dash with these  

I checked out the Abdomen Armor and great write-up with this one!

Abdomen Armor

• Gloss black in color except where noted below. May be painted in accordance with the Color Scheme Guide. If used, all armor pieces must be painted using the Color Scheme Guide.
• Abdomen section may be slightly weathered but must be uniform with the rest of the costume.
• Shall be centered under the chest.
  • The outer upper corners are tapered and angled up and out from the center.
  • There are two vertical details that are angled outward and have 18-20 raised horizontal ridges. They are positioned outside a raised center section. Details are painted metallic black, silver, or dark gray.
  • There is a raised center section which has a raised circular ring.
    • There is a half spherical recess in the upper right corner of the center section.
    • There are two small elongated vertical rectangles along the top of the raised center section.
• The Abdomen Armor and Lower Back Armor side extensions, if any, may meet flush at the sides.
• Two pistons may be present.
  • If present, the ends must have the appearance of being attached to the abdomen and extended to be hidden by the belt. Pistons shafts will be painted metallic black or silver.

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

@IcyTrooper since you added a "color scheme guide" I guess we will have to come up with one. The DT is the only costume we have that has one, I think.

[IcyTrooper[CMD-DWM]]

4 hours ago, Chaos said:

@IcyTrooper since you added a "color scheme guide" I guess we will have to come up with one. The DT is the only costume we have that has one, I think.

@Chaos I'm not married to that text for this part, but mainly because we had it with the other ones. We may not need it for every part, what do you think?

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

I actually was thinking about a color scheme guide to standardise the metallic black and silver to align with the DT. If we use a paint code people are more likely to not use what they have sitting in the garage. Let's keep it and make a scheme.

[IcyTrooper[CMD-DWM]]

Aight, that logic makes sense! I agree with that. I believe the DT guide is extremely helpful to GMLs.

[Chaos[CMD-DCA]]

Next up:

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Codpiece

• Gloss black in color.
• Extends under the belt at the top and may be attached to the lower edge of the abdomen.
• Has a general V shaped appearance with three equal distinctive tapered sections with the bottom of the V being a horizontal edge.
  • The side edges are angled slightly back towards the body.
  • The bottom edge has a small section angled back towards the body.
• Has a “U” shaped recess outline on the left of center as worn.
• A black elastic strap, approximately 1 - 1 1/4th inches (25mm to 32mm) wide, is to be used to connect the cod and butt plates between the legs.
• Codpiece may be slightly weathered but must be uniform with the rest of the costume

 

[IcyTrooper[CMD-DWM]]

I think that text looks good, some of it derived from the Death Troopers as I've seen you've done. The only thing I'm a little reserved on is the strap in the middle connecting the cod piece to the posterior. I know we have that in the Death Trooper probably because we had a reference for it, so not sure if we want to have it on this one? I'd imagine it would be there to keep the codpiece from flaring out.

I did the color scheme guide again in the text, which we should probably put in all of the text if we are making the guide. Looking at the middle and bottom picture in the reference circles you made, should we make a note about that "V" shaped piece looking like there are two levels to it (not L1 or L2), which looks different from the Death Trooper? The red lines make it look like there are two layers to it:

Codpiece

• Gloss black in color unless noted below. May be painted in accordance with the Color Scheme Guide. If used, all armor pieces must be painted using the Color Scheme Guide.
• Codpiece may be slightly weathered but must be uniform with the rest of the costume.
• Extends under the belt at the top and may be attached to the lower edge of the abdomen.
• Has a general "V" shaped appearance with three equal distinctive tapered sections with the bottom of the "V" being a horizontal edge.
  • The side edges are angled slightly back towards the body.
  • The bottom edge has a small section angled back towards the body.
• Has a “U” shaped recess outline on the left of center as worn.
• A black elastic strap, approximately 1 - 1 1/4th inches (25mm to 32mm) wide, is to be used to connect the cod and butt plates between the legs.