[General Veers CRL]

For the same reason already mentioned: Veers isn't different than other officers.

[Approval Party]

That's awesome. Congrats!

[Official IOC Rank Guide]

10 hours ago, ethanlanis said:

When I built my ANH staff officer, I used one blue tile as the rank of "cadet", but no longer see this rank on the chart. Will that cause a problem?

According to the CRL:

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There are only four choices of rank bar for ANH staff officers

• One row of four blue tiles.
• One row of four blue tiles and two amber tiles.
• One row of two red tiles.
• One row of three red tiles.

So yes, unless you're already approved.

[Poncho Question?]

I believe on set they only had black ones. They wanted to make olive ones, but just didn't have the time so went with black.

[Possible inspiration for General Veers]

My guess is, in the film/script, he was just a competent officer. But because of the armor, and the fascistic look of the Empire, later authors took that and ran with it, working bits of Rommel's real life into Veers' character history.

[Do you know why the OT hat disk is better than the RO disk?]

Because its top notch!

[Level 2 & 3]

I believe you can but expect extra scrutiny. @tristanuk I think mentioned to me that they look for something to improve with each submission.

[Official IOC Rank Guide]

Lost Stars has quite a lot of references to the two principles (who are officers, and TIE pilots primarily) working shifts as bridge grew and even naval troopers, iirc.

[A Very Special Day]

Congratulations!

[Thrawn: Treason Excerpt]

Just finished the audiobook, it was really good. More akin to the first than the second novel.

[Our photoshoot we did!]

That's amazing!

[Favorite Star Wars Video Game?]

TIE Fighter (naturally):

 

And Jedi Knight Academy:

[Officer - Mimban Lieutenant CRL Update Proposal]

1 hour ago, Steven said:

This is a good question because the CRL says:

 

Collar may have a brown fur (or faux fur) collar lining. 

 

There is a "may have" in there... so to me this sounds optional.

Right. I mean I'd like one anyway, because it looks cool, but not requiring it makes it that much easier for me to get the coat made.

[Officer - Mimban Lieutenant CRL Update Proposal]

With the changes, am I reading this right that the fur collar is now optional (for L1 at any rate)?

[Star Wars Ink]

Some day I'll have the courage to get the secret order tattoo from TIE Fighter on my wrist in UV ink....

[favorite star wars book]

I'm not sure I could pick. All of the new ones I've read/listened to have been really good.

 

My (apparently very) unpopular opinion is the original Thrawn trilogy is not actually that good, it was just better than most of the other stuff that came out for the EU. Thrawn himself was just too good. I really like the new series, mostly the first one, as I feel they kept his brilliant mind and tactical sense without going too overboard.

[favorite Imperial officer? canon/legends]

On 6/28/2019 at 3:38 AM, Cosmic said:

I'm going oldschool with Piett, Veers and Jerjerrod.

Oh and that officer in ANH, the first Staff we got to see discussing the Senate problem with Vader on the Tantive IV, what's his name??

It's funny, I almost always say Tarkin is my favorite when I'm bringing it up, but I saw the topic and my mind immediately went "Piett!" So I guess really it's Piett.

 

Hard to pick just one, though.

[Incoming Transmission from Mimban....]

That's awesome.

[Officer Boots]

I don't know that I'd trust an eBay store that uses some anime foot fetish image to explain measurements....

[Need an opinion]

I think the back stitching is fine, my concern would be the height. I'm fortunate in that my Soviet jackboots go almost to my knees, so they were approvable, but that's not always the case (and I bought better ones later anyway).

[Meet General Pryde, E9]

I kinda dig that kimono/robe look, whatever you'd call it.

[Officer - Mimban Lieutenant CRL Update Proposal]

Just a head's up (since it should probably be added to the CRL at some point), Matt Nelson (owns Blockade Runner Supply) makes the proper strap greeblies for the goggles, (in case you don't want to find the very specific Uvex goggles), and should have the metal bands that go over the lenses very soon.

[Navy Trooper CRL Update]

Just to keep this up to date:

 

The vinyl patches on my flightsuit have started coming off, so I've ordered new ones. Hopefully I'll have them by this weekend. The weather is also improving (although not today so much), so I'll be able to take good, clear photos and move this forward.

[Boots trouble]

I got some Soviet boots that had the heel bit crushed in a bit from shipping. I just put a boot stretcher in it for a bit. If it's really bad, you get the leather wet first.

 

Or like Kris said, take it to a cobbler.

[Line Officer costume sources?]

If you could find a tailor who could work without a solid pattern, that's also an option, maybe between 1 and 2. But while I understand that armor seems like it should be more expensive, there's an economy of scale there. Also, plastic is cheap, proper fabrics are not, and it's a lot more work-intensive to sew a uniform than to pull plastic (especially when much of the labor on the plastic armor is done by the purchaser, not the seller).