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Here's a group of images that should be what the costumes will be based on. I'm liking the black Engineers uniforms.
 

As I have always had a love for the Army trooper, from west end games stuff etc, here is a bit of a take of a squad or 2, but I must stress this was for an airsoft game why lots of different guns, and we only got our armour 10 mins before it so needs work etc (hence why I am here but guess I need to find the ACD page again ) 

As it happens, the IOC leadership has little say in the overall structure and formation of the 501st Legion's detachment system.  Any structural changes would need to be proposed, voted on, and ratified over on the main 501st boards, not here.  That's above ALL of our pay grade, and discussions here on the IOC forums about how we each feel things "should" be will accomplish absolutely nothing to that end.
 
There are at least 3 major concepts that can be used to determine where this costume should go.  Which to apply is the source of many battle, as we've seen with the Shoretroopers.  But honestly, IOC doesn't seem to apply to any of them.  Want to put it with similar uniforms, from a construction standpoint?  ACD makes more sense than IOC, since the only IOC feature is the jumpsuit base that applies to many other detachments as well.  Want to put it troopers with a similar job function?  Well, ground pounder Army troops don't really belong in the Officer's Corps.  So how about source?  Perhaps since it's almost exclusively found in the Extended Universe it belongs in the Flagship Eclipse?  Pretty much, we either put it into another detachment where it doesn't quite fit it, or we make a whole new detachment around it.  But we're back to the fact that none of this of these really makes sense for IOC purposes.  IMO, at least.
 
I like the idea of the IAT as a character.  Truly.  I hope it finds a home.  But I honestly agree with others that I don't see how it specifically fits here.  I'm happy to read discussions about it, and learn more about it here.  But homing the costume here just doesn't make sense to me.  The only way to get a new costume off the ground is to start things up on the main 501st forums.  I believe the character would start off as unaffiliated until the people above our pay grade decide on another home for it (after much discussion, but multiple detachments would need to have their say on this, so again, having the fights here makes no sense, they need to be central.  But that's how you can get this costume going.  You've done the research and have the backup (as much as their is, at least).  So why not start the ball rolling on the 501st forums, and let the folks in charge make a determination, if they feel what you have is up to snuff?  That's what has to happen, no matter what, for any brand new costume.
 
If the IAT needs it's own detachment, that's a huge undertaking.  Not that it can't be done (and I'm not saying it SHOULDN'T be done), but someone has to actually DO all that work, and be in charge of the new detachment.  Are you volunteering to build up an entire detachment?  From talking to those who built the IOC and FISD detachments, the amount of work is pretty staggering.  You need someone really dedicated to a costume to undertake that kind of work.  Clearly we've had that, for the current detachments.  You may very well be that guy, for this one, so if you can convince others to join in the party, maybe you can be the newest detachment CO.  THAT would be an impressive accomplishment.

I'm at the point where I have hundreds of images of Imperial Army Troopers or relevant information, so instead of posting them all here and in the 501st official forums, I've uploaded them to an Imgur album with notations and sources under each new one as they are uploaded. Any additional images will be uploaded to this same album. You can find it here or scroll through the linked album below. I just got about 40 new comics delivered to my house, and uploaded a few dozen new images of Imperial Army Troopers in action. 
 
 
 

the numpty officer holding the paper  

As I have always had a love for the Army trooper, from west end games stuff etc, here is a bit of a take of a squad or 2, but I must stress this was for an airsoft game why lots of different guns, and we only got our armour 10 mins before it so needs work etc (hence why I am here but guess I need to find the ACD page again ) 

As I have always had a love for the Army trooper, from west end games stuff etc, here is a bit of a take of a squad or 2, but I must stress this was for an airsoft game why lots of different guns, and we only got our armour 10 mins before it so needs work etc (hence why I am here but guess I need to find the ACD page again ) 

As I have always had a love for the Army trooper, from west end games stuff etc, here is a bit of a take of a squad or 2, but I must stress this was for an airsoft game why lots of different guns, and we only got our armour 10 mins before it so needs work etc (hence why I am here but guess I need to find the ACD page again )