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Good Luck Luc! In whatever capacity we see you in, it will be great to have you.
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If you want to do a helmet and be very close to what is doing in the IOC I would recommend an Imperial Gunner. It is functionally the same as a black uniformed crewman, but with a bib, balaclava and helmet. If you want, you can get approved as a crewman with a black hat and decide as YOU want if you want to be a crewman or a gunner that day. It does give you options until you are more comfortable.
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there is an old saying "The clothes make the man". Get one of these uniforms, put on the boots, don the cap, and you might find some of the anxiety will pass.
I know many people that do not like crowds that are transformed when they are in costume. It may be costuming in general or the character they are dressed up as, but I have seen this more often than not. -
The first description of Thrawn was specific in "Heir to the Empire" saying it was the white uniform of a warlord. Everyone jumped on the bandwagon and made the white uniforms one and the same. Grand General Tagge didn't wear a white uniform.
Sloane has every right to wear both since she is the top person in charge of the empire at the end of Aftermath.
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7 hours ago, Dimentex said:
I'd be willing to bet while it's wrong for Rebels, it's not 100% wrong - no way he became a Grand Admiral without passing first as an Admiral. Which that rank bar (6 Red 6 Blue) is.
that is what he looks like in the cover of his new novel. How he ascended from admiral to grand admiral.
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On 3/2/2017 at 1:31 AM, Tizzare said:
I am so excited about the upcoming fight between Ben-Kenobi and Maul! I havent seen any of Rebels yet though, where can I watch it?!
You would have missed that fight if you blinked.
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I have all of the new canon stories. There are a few winners like Lost Stars and I DID like Catalyst (which has a lot of implications for the uniforms here). But most of them I didn't care for. With the exception of the Aftermath trilogy (which is really difficult prose to chew your way through) they don't let much happen in the ways of character development or galactic events. This is by design as they want major events to be handled by other properties like the movies and animated series. Lucasfilm has long stopped stories that hit too close to allowing unique things.
I did like Marvel's Darth Vader series, but their main Star Wars series has been an insufferable bore filled with gimmicks that are pretty common from Marvel comics in general. Let's give everyone a lightsaber!!! Han Solo was married while he was courting Leia!!! None of this stuff could hold a candle to the Dark Horse era stories like X-Wing: Rogue Squadron, Dark Times or the Empire series. If you ever get the chance, read "The other sons of Tattooine" It has a brilliant story about a young imperial officer named Janek Sunbur, also known as "Tank" by his friends Biggs and Luke. -
Brom_Titus by Robert Barker, on Flickr
Brom_Titus_Reklam_Station by Robert Barker, on Flickr
I liked that Admiral Brom Titus was demoted and it didn't change any of his collar devices nor the number or type of code cylinders he had.
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Moff is a political/military leader. In the early expansionary days of the republic, they would absorb a sector and the traditional leader would stay in charge with the title of Moff. As time would go on, the moff would pass and a more democratic government would take over. Chancellor Palpatine resurrected the moff system at the end of the Clone Wars to allow direct military coordination with sectors based there, not just traveling fleets and armies.
Any and all officers should be prepared to don armor if going into a combat situation. The original script for Empire had Piett reporting to Vader on Hoth how many ships had been destroyed. It would have been interesting to see if he would have worn the same armor as Veers for that scene.
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I'll have to go dig it up, but I have from Filoni in the early "The Art of the Clone Wars" his philosophy for the costume and character design choices he was making. He uses the example of a clone trooper from Revenge of the Sith. You have a comparison between the live action, the Tartakofsky designs from the earlier cartoon and what would be used in his series.
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40 minutes ago, Walker said:
The difference only being minuet in that the Code Disc and stud are off centred towards the top of the belt on the Hero Version and the stud seems to be raised more - I only have one question, Whyyyyyyyy?
This is one of those things that we can ask Dave Filoni directly on Twitter (or other places). He is likely to give you an answer too. He started sharing (leaking) the character model sheets after seeing Brian Anderson do Pre Vizula the same month he was introduced in The Clone Wars. He goes out of his way to help costumers.
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I am going to be trying these guys this week for a set of boots. Argentinapolo.com
I was at an equestrian center in Aiken, SC last Friday and they said it is near impossible to find English style riding boots in a size for most men. But Polo being as big as it was in Argentina has a complete industry set up around manufacturing everything you can imagine for playing the sport, including these boots. Their turn around time is pretty quick too. I plan on ordering this weekend. -
I've worn my green one from time to time out and about. The only non-star wars reference I got was if I was able to provide them with french fries. They thought it was a short order cook's hat. But hey, it's the South.
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1 hour ago, Dimentex said:
It looks good Philo, but it's not happening. At least not now. LMO's have ruled, so now it's on to find evidence (if it exists) to back up what we want to claim.
It'll be the same thing with anyone wanting to make a generic Research Division costume instead of Galen.That is a sad story. Making the one he wears in the Couruscant cocktail flashback. I need something to drink in.
Just trying to figure out the rules here. if there are two people in the same uniform it can be generic. If you only see one person in it you have to do that person?
That is a lot of nice work Philo. It could be cleared up with a phone call by the right person to Lucasfilm.
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2 hours ago, captsafe66 said:
Not dumb at all, this may be our only hope.
because there was no difference between ANH and TESB officers. Actually there were with the construction of the uniforms. We are hanging our hats on conjecture here.
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On 3/5/2017 at 9:02 PM, captsafe66 said:
As the LMO said, no matter what text we find in a book or what an actor, director or anyone else states, without a sequence of hi def pics, he won't create a CRL for a Generic General. Do I like that? NO, but the buck stops with the LMO. Our only hope would be production photos or any additional deleted scenes surface.
then our rules and procedures do not serve us for the new movies... and maybe they won't for decades.
You can't make people want to do costumes they weren't interested in when they are focused on something they want to do. rules and procedures serve the membership. and when they don't serve, new ones need to be proposed so that they DO serve.
that does not mean that people don't want the highest accuracy possible. anyone that says that is what this means is mischaracterizing this. In this case, we are not talking about details, we are asking is the one there the same as the one wore by Hux, the one we know the details of. That is a yes or no questions. That is almost like asking "is the stormtrooper in back the same as the stormtrooper in front?" To say "no, we don't have any pictures of the stormtroopers in back" is the response we are getting.
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57 minutes ago, Dimentex said:
Cool.
Most of the arguments stemmed from the believe that the code cylinders indicated rank too - there's an old file out there that has multiple ranks with the same badge, different number of dosimeters. I'm glad to see we're abandoning that garbage. There was zero proof for it anyway.There was lots of proof for it, but at this point it opens too many bags of cats. Governor Pryce and Tarkin have the same rank badge, though there IS a screen accurate rank badge for a simple moff from Revenge of the Sith. The difference is number of code cylinders. Though also Tarkin was appointed as a Grand Moff to look over all of the Outer Rim territories (almost 1/4th of the emperor's domain). He may have just kept the simple rank of a moff on while serving as a grand moff. He was only referred to as "Governor" on screen in person.
Even Krennic's rank of fleet admiral has a different number of code cylinders versus Constantine, Piett or Ozzel, though I would say Krennic towered over them. The difference between Commander and Captain was often code cyllinders (though Commander was a ubiquitous term used for General Tagge, Commander Praji, Commander Iger on Endor - and those are just the on screen call outs!!)
Cylinders do different things. The X-tools hold hyperspace coordinates. The dosimeters are used as keys and data storage.
I don't think it is as much of a deal with Rogue One or A New Hope ranks. With them I really believe there are 6 different rank levels.
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18 minutes ago, Dimentex said:
Can you please notate on it which is which? I've seen some recent arguments on FB that the guid BJ put out is completely wrong because we "know" there had to be other ranks, so they extrapolate out and yell at everyone they're wrong. It'd be nice if we're doing this to have a list of Known from movies, known from comics, and then "possible assumptions."
Working on that right now with citations on where we get these ranks. For example, Colonel Yularen's rank first called "colonel" in the Decipher card game from 1995. It is canon now because of the recent Rebels episode.
I am not just listing ranks, am listing where they come from. For example, Captain Kurghee's rank from ANH is also taken from the Decipher card game. There was no rhyme or reason why these ranks were assigned and while it is what we call them now, they don't make much logical sense in light of Rogue One. The same rank there is a general.I am not making conjecture. I am just listing everything out in every permutation and citing what we do know and where it comes from. If we haven't seen it yet, it is left open.
Shoot me an email and I'll send you the excel file and a PDF of my work in progress. -
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General Hux's uniform is a general's uniform. The implications are this is what other Generals would wear. -
Untitled by Robert Barker, on Flickr
This states here from the guide book that there are multiple admirals and generals at Starkiller base. Which makes sense since the original Death Star had the same and it was many times smaller. -
19 hours ago, nocternus said:
I have mentioned this before awhile back the collar on this one is clearly different its almost like a black version of Colonel Datto's uniform so therefore if that is not the same as HUX what else is different that we cant see?
I am not entirely sold that is a different collar. That gentlemen has a neck, Hux doesn't and that can affect the lay of the fabric.
But I agree now it is unclear. This could be settled with a yes/no question to the right people in the know.
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I would be surprised to see if they are leather (especially for characters that were just in the background). But there was no shortage of mercury bead rain proof material clothing in this film from trench coats to flight suits.