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If all else fails, there are a lot of decent wigs out there! Generally there are fewer short wigs, much to the dismay of anyone who cosplays male characters, but I bet you could style the spikes out of this one and trim down the widow's peak to the correct level:
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8 minutes ago, Tentayena said:
I'll wear Horrible Clashing Line Officer Thrawn and people get a kick out of it. And I can be ridiculously offended at the color combo. It's a good time
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...
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At my first meetup with Garrison Titan, I was strongly encouraged to pursue a non-human Officer build - it was implied that there's a bit of a rivalry between a few garrisons for who has the most aliens. I think a lot of that focus is probably on the Saber Guild side, where it makes more sense, but I felt encouraged all the same!
Though my partner keeps saying, "You know you really just want to be Thrawn," and they're not wrong...
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3 hours ago, Vengeance said:
Straight from in game. I had a friend rip it for us great thing about the games is the ability to grab the models. Figured we should use our best references if we are to make this character come alive.
Is there any chance your friend could grab the generic FO officer image as well? I would love to see the images side-by-side without lighting interfering with the colors and textures!
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I don't have a horse in this race, but it strikes me that the Hask configuration might be sort of the "Hero" version of the uniform and the player character is a lower-detail model designed for complicated multiplayer settings, not cutscenes. The additional details like heightened leather shine and cylinder clips really add a lot to the aesthetic and I have trouble imagining that the player version looks intentionally worse for aesthetic reasons alone.
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I think you could probably wrangle a CRL out of the Imperial Cadet uniforms in volume one, as those seem a little different from the ones shown in Rebels!
I doubt, however, that the officer's uniforms in the later volumes will differ enough to warrant a whole CRL just for Vanto, especially since he never seems to graduate out of the olive drab.
The very best and most exciting possibility is that the subsequent books deal with the Chiss Ascendancy and are also adapted to a comic book so we have a visual on what that uniform looks like. That would be a truly amazing opportunity.
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I'm building my first 501st costume as an Officer. I've made a few more casual Star Wars costumes (my BB8 Resistance pilot is cute and 100% not approvable by anyone) but I've always wanted to approach the Officer. It looks like a precision tailoring exercise, something to really nail fit in a way I've never done before, and something that will help me step up my construction game for future projects. There's also a wonderful androgyny in the design that's very appealing.
It also is incredibly appealing as a garment and an ideal. I've always found lawful, methodical evil the more interesting of the villainous subtypes - an evil that rewards adherence to rules and regulations, that functions as a crisp machine. I've always found rules comforting, even if the comfort is in finding ways to subvert or evade them - I was a much more productive artist in college because there were expectations of me. Trying to create without structure or standards can be lonely and fruitless.
Also I had a crush on Tarkin as a youngling.
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This is perfect. You are perfect, Thrawn is perfect.
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I just love how bad Thrawn really does look in the olive drab. Yikes.
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I would love to see feedback from someone that actually has an approved officer's jacket - I'm curious about a few seaming details. (The pockets in particular, as that's the biggest alteration from the existing pattern.)
That being said, to my eye the seams all look like they're in the right places, as the original pattern has the princess seams on the back. The ease in the shoulders drawn into the original pattern concerns me, but I'll take a look at the finished coat we managed from it and see if it has that puckering. If not, the sleeve and/or shoulder can be reshaped a little to eliminate it.
I'm going to make a muslin mock of this either this weekend or next, depending on when my hard copy of the pattern gets here.
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I'm completely thrilled to find this - thank you so much for all of this incredible work!
We used that pattern for a Westworld costume last year, and had some pretty good success modifying it then. I've already ordered a second copy and was going to start diving in and making alterations once it arrived - but this is going to save me some headaches!
I was initially confused by how you have the pockets set up, but I hadn't noticed that some of them were specified as lining. I wouldn't have thought to line the pocket in addition to the garment, but I guess that's the only way to eliminate topstitching! And it will make it feel a lot more like a real uniform and less like a costume.
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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.