GDMorti

Not sure myself tbh. Was a proposition for the LMO team, decision still sits with them. Why it's blown up into eight pages I'll never know. XD
"it seems to be the same people constantly wanting everything there own way " - my thoughts exactly.

Oooh, thank you for the tip! I've had good luck with Arda in the past, but haven't loved the natural color selection and hadn't found another website that I'd actually liked that wasn't somehow even more anime-style. 
 
I'm always so nervous about cutting wigs and try to do as little of that as possible.

for reference, this is a generic Wig Is Fashion wig cut short, and I cut the back a bit shorter for future wears after this photo was taken, and it only cost about 50$ And they now have a shoulder length navy blue lacefront that would be a decently accurate color for Rebels Thrawn.


Sorry for the double post, the forum was being a butt and wouldn't embed in an edit

yeah Arda is good for specific uses, but their natural tones are just not natural. I use Wig Is Fashion for pretty much everything; a lot of LotR and Marvel cosplay. I wold 100% suggest them for pretty much anything, never had a bad experience with their product. Shipping does take a bit though since its from China

Good luck buddy! Do us proud!

Not sure myself tbh. Was a proposition for the LMO team, decision still sits with them. Why it's blown up into eight pages I'll never know. XD
"it seems to be the same people constantly wanting everything there own way " - my thoughts exactly.

Might not be too much of an issue if the colour is right and you can still cover your scalp beneath? I know that the spray hair colour and the coloured waxes might be good for coverage, unsure how they'd fare on your skin beneath though as that would need to be blue if visible through the shorter hair!

Hey I’ll be there as well, running the FO Challenge (10k Saturday and half on Sunday). My wife and fellow officer will be running the 10k. Do we have any more IOC runners with us? I’m trying to organize a 501st group photo in the mornings before we head to corrals.


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You're running?  I assume something is chasing you. hehehe  I get winded when my nose runs!
Good luck, have fun!!

See you this weekend! 

haha yep, its in progress. I'm 3D printing a clip to hold my webcam onto the bathroom mirror so I can film in front of a mirror, stand by for blueberry tutorial xD

I know the LMO team are working out some of the fine details with the layout, as mentioned above. Lets all hang tight.  

I've not applied the makeup myself however I believe @rattleandburn was gonna do a full/half face Thrawn tutorial!
I can give some very basic makeup tips like use of eyeliner (specifically in the waterline) and contour but it might just be best to scour Youtube and/or wait for Vanya's Thrawn tutorial since it'll specifically cover bodypaint and doing everything in blue. XD

This, tbh!
"Mud Trooper" the hint is in the name. And yeah Woody's character is very likely in disguise (we can only assume) but who knows, we might find out these are officers, and there might be more iterations of this than Woody's character!
That coat is slick! Looks heavier than R1, a thicker kinda rubbery material?

It should be noted that the Confederacy was not soundly defeated, its command and control was smashed.  It’s leadership was decapitated.  But the many of the worlds that made up the Confederacy fought on for years to come.  We will see some of that in the coming Solo film 

A Deep aversion to standing armies or why are rank bars different from before Empire Strikes Back and after.
 

Before the Clone Wars, the Old Republic enjoyed almost 1000 years of relative peace.  The Republic while vast and expansive, was NOT ubiquitous and even well-traveled parts of the galaxy did not accept its currency.  It was only after the Clone Wars that the republic increased more than 25% of its size and territory by acquiring the Outer Rim Territories, Hutt space and what would become the Corporate Sector.  All of these were spoils of war controlled by the Trade Federation, the Techno Union, the Banking Clan and the other conglomerates that made up the Confederacy.  
 
Before the Clone Wars, most military and police protection was performed by local system militias.  The ground and space force of Naboo is an excellent example of this with forces to defend their cities from pirates, but not enough to take on a well-organized military.  The Droid armies of the Trade Federation could be quickly built and this imbalance did much to push the military creation act that kicked of the Clone Wars.
 

Before the military creation act, the closest thing that the Republic had to a military was the Judicials.  These soldiers represented the Republic senate wherever they went.  Clad in the same blue uniforms that would later be adopted by the Imperial officer corp, much of their roots and traditions can be found in this elite force.  Tarkin, Yularen, and Screed were all Judicials.  Orsen Krennic used Judicial Rangers when he rescued Galen Erso.
 
The end of the Clone Wars brought the nascent officer corp into its own replacing the Jedi as leaders of the Clone forces.  The Star Destroyers commanded by these officers were of the same shape as the Jedi fighters of the time, drawing comparisons that the new officer corp was the inheritor of the Jedi legacy.  Still, the same trepidation that had made the Military Creation Act difficult to pass at the start of the war prevented the unification of the entire military under direct Coruscant control.
 
Nominally, the emperor controlled the Galactic forces left over from the Clone Wars directly from Coruscant.  You can recognize these members as wearing double rank bars and often times being referred to as “fleet officers”.  The officers that wore single rank bars reported to the local sector moff and were under the oversight of the sector’s senator.  With 75% of the empire’s sectors being monitored by imperial senators, it is no wonder why Tarkin and Darth Vader were so concerned about word of the Death Star getting out.  

The officers that oversaw the construction of the Death Star were sector controlled, not controlled by Coruscant directly.  But as the sector moffs (and Grand Moff) of the out Rim Territories worked directly for the Emperor and none reported to a local senator since most of these territories were occupied worlds, they were able to operate with impunity and secrecy.  Direct connections to Coruscant control happened only through top admiralty: for example Krennic who was a fleet admiral.  The rest worked in silos, many of which never knew for what the final product was to be.  This was the time that the bulk of the Imperial Military was far from the core worlds and hidden in the shadows of the outer rim.
 

New moffs and admirals were being minted in this time.  Admiral Versio of the ISB is hailed not just for his activities as an intelligence leader, but as the person who brought his home world into the empire.  He was rewarded with a place not in sector politics, but a position in the expanding galactic fleet.  And his world had its military standardized to the Imperial model.
 

The difference between sector fleets and the galactic fleet has a real world comparison to the armies of the United States.  The National guards are commanded by the governors of their respective states, but do have a place in the hierarchy of the US Army in times of emergency.  They are trained by many of the same schools that their regular army colleagues are trained.  They wear the same uniforms for the most part with minor differences to distinguish them.  Most officer uniforms had specific sector insignia for the collars and hats they wore.
 

The elimination of the Imperial Senate removed the senators that provided oversight for the sector militaries.  The regional governors took direct control of their territories and their militaries reporting directly to the Emperor much like the regional governors of Rome took to reporting to their emperors.  The illusion of separation was over and the single bar rank system disappeared as did sector insignia.  Everyone wore double rank bars from then on out until the end of the empire five years later.  The Emperor had direct control of his empire then.
 
 

As I'm planning to revive my legends Thrawn (and do a Rebels Thrawn in the future), can you recommend any tutorials @GDMorti?

We don’t even know for sure what we will see in this movie.  Shouldn’t we be careful of ceding territory?  

For the record, regarding removal:

It won't come off easy, because if you go Endura it's made to stay on. Try not to panic, try not to scrub yourself raw, but it's gonna take some time to come off completely so make time in your plans post-troop for removal unless you're fine being a bit blue after. The advice above of "spray remover, wait, rub", is solid. Even if it doesn't feel like it's coming off quickly enough, it does take time! In your removal kit, make sure you include q-tips (for your ears and inside of your nose XD) and cotton pads for towards the end (paper towels at the beginning for the majority). Also invest in a good moisturiser and rub a good dollop in everywhere you painted blue. Twice later in the day even. Your skin will thank you!

I'm no expert but I was painted blue to accompany a  Thrawn and Ar'alarni as Thrass a few months ago. Endura lasted the entire time (About four hours for me) and there was absolutely no transfer on any of the clothes I was wearing (and my shirt was a crew-cut collar jersey shirt so we had to paint down my neck and onto my chest a bit inside of the shirt, no transfer!)

Also, and this goes for anyone wanting to up their makeup game not just with Thrawn (although for Thrawn and Chiss it makes such a huge, huge difference!), learning to contour will raise your game from "oh hey a Thrawn!" to "oh my god, look at that Thrawn! Wow!" I promise you. <3 You don't even have to fully blue-up to practice. Applying and blending you can do just on your face as-is.  It'll just look very weird. XD

EDIT: while you're practising makeup techniques, it doesn't hurt to get yourself used to having things touching around your eyes and wearing product around your eyes. Desensitising yourself to applying eyeliner or even just brushing clean q-tips around your eyelid area and waterline is going to really help ensure a solid coverage, right up to the eyeline. If the Endura is too intense to put that close to your eyes, work that area over with powders and blue makeups to get it as close as you can without rubbing alcohol paint in there. XD PLUS then you'll be able to apply that red eyeliner and it's another small detail.

For the record, regarding removal:

It won't come off easy, because if you go Endura it's made to stay on. Try not to panic, try not to scrub yourself raw, but it's gonna take some time to come off completely so make time in your plans post-troop for removal unless you're fine being a bit blue after. The advice above of "spray remover, wait, rub", is solid. Even if it doesn't feel like it's coming off quickly enough, it does take time! In your removal kit, make sure you include q-tips (for your ears and inside of your nose XD) and cotton pads for towards the end (paper towels at the beginning for the majority). Also invest in a good moisturiser and rub a good dollop in everywhere you painted blue. Twice later in the day even. Your skin will thank you!

I'm no expert but I was painted blue to accompany a  Thrawn and Ar'alarni as Thrass a few months ago. Endura lasted the entire time (About four hours for me) and there was absolutely no transfer on any of the clothes I was wearing (and my shirt was a crew-cut collar jersey shirt so we had to paint down my neck and onto my chest a bit inside of the shirt, no transfer!)

Also, and this goes for anyone wanting to up their makeup game not just with Thrawn (although for Thrawn and Chiss it makes such a huge, huge difference!), learning to contour will raise your game from "oh hey a Thrawn!" to "oh my god, look at that Thrawn! Wow!" I promise you. <3 You don't even have to fully blue-up to practice. Applying and blending you can do just on your face as-is.  It'll just look very weird. XD

EDIT: while you're practising makeup techniques, it doesn't hurt to get yourself used to having things touching around your eyes and wearing product around your eyes. Desensitising yourself to applying eyeliner or even just brushing clean q-tips around your eyelid area and waterline is going to really help ensure a solid coverage, right up to the eyeline. If the Endura is too intense to put that close to your eyes, work that area over with powders and blue makeups to get it as close as you can without rubbing alcohol paint in there. XD PLUS then you'll be able to apply that red eyeliner and it's another small detail.

Rear vent area on Hask's model, texture stripped away and rotated so we can get a cheeky upskirt, as it were:
 

 
It's more than a slit, there is a large amount of overlap.

@Tentayena

You just need to sparkle more

SEEMS LEGIT 



The master tactician strikes again
 
Oh trust me, It's awful

Thats why, when Thrawn and Eli graduate the academy and Thrawn says "I will endeavor to become an Admiral then" it wasn't just about getting Eli his fair due, it was about hoping to get to a high enough rank to argue about his uniform xD
 

It's just SO BAD! I have had my heart set on the Staff officer uniform, just because, well... black and blue looks rad. Olive drab and blue? Oh... oh no...