plaidvader

Some things should go without saying, but we live in an age where we do have to say things. I will cross post this in the Officer's Mess too.
 
At no times will this detachment be a home or accepting to people that are friendly to or espouse the ideas behind fascism, Nazism or any totalitarian ideology. We dress up as fictional space bad guys. Conflating any of the above with doing that is not only morally wrong, it puts at risk what we do here in this detachment and the legion as a whole. We will not allow such a risk.
 
I have spoken to members who have belonged to reenacting groups that have had those ideologies come into them. That will not be permitted here, not under this administration. And if that day ever comes that it would be allowed, I would hope you would join me in finding another hobby.
 
There will be no litmus tests for members. If you are a reenactor, I hope you enjoy doing it and I hope you keep the ideology out of it. There is no conversation over re-enacting that you cannot take private. And if you are an open adopter of the ideologies listed above, no one wants to hear it...ever. If you see something in violation of this, please contact the staff and we will deal with it promptly.

As this is a generic and is a specific character, I am ok with getting more specific.  I would hope to keep such specificity to higher levels (2 or 3) to not create a barrier for those that want to do this while allowing the highest costume standard possible.

Excellent job showing your work there.   You showed your sources. 

Kalani,  is it possible to allow the correct shade of grey as a level two or three requirement? I worked in print production and to get corporate logos exactly correct we always deferred to the Pantone color chart. Pantone colors are available for fabric swatches, (at any fabric store, even Wal-Mart.) Just for the sake of argument, say we agreed the color is light grey and this acceptable for  level two or level three approval. Couldn't we help folks out by tracking down the proper Pantone number for them? We could use light grey as the starting point and go from there. (My source from the show also confirmed the color they used is light gray.)

The only reason I'm digging my heels in on this one is the issue of screen accuracy. If we pride ourselves on getting the details right, white is white and grey is grey. ISB officers come in different colors now. But, the Andor ones we are trying to write the CRL for now are not white. It's just not accurate to say they are. As costumers, I think we're all slightly obsessive about details. If we want people to use the correct shade of grey, tell them the exact numerical shade to use. It takes the guesswork out for the costumers and the GMLs.





 

In regards to the color question, yes every film today is color graded but with that being said, if the color grading was affecting her tunic that much there is no way the pole beside her in the attached shot wouldn't also be affected.
 
https://imgur.com/a/GwvYIq3

It's a light gray ... that's so light it appears white.  I am familiar with non-color corrected raw source material as well, which is far as I go without messing with my NDA.
 
From a CRL perspective, if we call it gray, no matter how light, people are going to go GRAY, and we end up getting into fights with GMLs over... shades of gray.
 
I think we still need to call it white, else we get into No True Scotsman areas.

If you want to use "white with a hint of gray" for your tunic, no one is going to say boo about it.

In regards to the color question, yes every film today is color graded but with that being said, if the color grading was affecting her tunic that much there is no way the pole beside her in the attached shot wouldn't also be affected.
 
https://imgur.com/a/GwvYIq3

just received word minutes ago that the LMO has approved this costume to move forward.  We look forward to the constructions we see here.

I think I found our photographer who will do the big group shot.

The photoshoot will be held on Saturday, May 28th at 10:30 AM at the convention Staircase.