Costume Reference Library Stormtrooper

Model: TK-2918, Photo by: Brian Robinson

Description: Stormtrooper - Heavy Weapons Trooper
Prefix: TK
Detachment: First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment
Context: Star Wars Battlefront
Heavy Weapons Troopers (aka Imperial Shock Troopers) are specially trained and equipped for adverse environments and hard targets.

Costume components:

01. Helmet: White fiberglass, ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), or HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene). The ANH Stunt helmet is distinguished by the following details:

Traps (trapezoids on dome of helmet) and tears (area beneath the corners of eye lenses) are gray.
Rear traps and tears have vertical black lines.
Lenses are a flat green sufficiently dark enough to obscure the costumer's eyes.
The gray "ear" bars have four bumps, with a black outline.
Frown is painted gray and does not leave the teeth area. Eight total teeth on the frown are cut out.
Tube stripes are medium blue, numbering between 9 and 15 per side with the curve bends extending backwards.
Vocoder (vertically ribbed chin detail) is painted black
Aerators (cylinders on either side of the vocoder) are black.

Note: While the FX helmet is considered to be deprecated (to be avoided) it is acceptable for Legion acceptance.

02. Neck Seal: Black with horizontal ribs, fitted to the wearer, and extending from the base of the neck to the top of the Adam's apple.

03. Shoulder Straps: Securely mounted in front and free floating in the back.

04. Shoulder Bells: One on each shoulder with little or no overlap of the bicep armor. The shoulder bells are considered effectively symmetrical; they may worn interchangeably on the left and right shoulders.

05. Biceps: Biceps are fully closed.

06. Forearms: Forearms are fully closed.

07. Hand Plates: Roughly pentagonal in shape, the hand plates are mounted securely over the back of the glove. As an alternative to plastic, these may be made out of latex or latext-like material.

08. Gloves: Black rubber, nomex, leather, or leather-like material, with no visible straps or logos. The fingers are enclosed, non-textured.

09. Chest: Chest plate overlaps the abdominal plate.

10. Back: Back plate contains a "O II" design with little or no overlap of the kidney plate.

11. Undersuit: Black non-textured material, either one-piece or two-piece construction with no visible zippers or logos.

12. Ab Plate: The ab plate has a button area that matches the color pattern shown (3 blue + 6 gray); buttons are approximately 7/16" in diameter. The ab plate and kidney plate should match together at the sides with no gap, just a seam line.

13. Kidney Plate: Kidney plate sides should line up with the ab plate leaving no gaps, just a seam line. The top of the kidney plate should abut the bottom of the back plate.

14. Butt Plate: The top of the butt plate should below the bottom of the belt, with minimal gap between it and the kidney plate.

15. Belt: The belt consists of two parts:

Belt face is made of plastic (TK ammo belt). There should be three square buttons, one centered in the middle and one on each end.
Belt proper is made of canvas, canvas covered material, leather, or vinyl, 3 to 3.5” wide. The color is be white to off-white.

16. Thermal Detonator: (a.k.a. O2 canister) attaches to the back of the belt. This is a gray cylinder 2 to 2.5" in diameter with white end caps and a white control panel pad, with controls closest to the right end cap.

Note; The thermal detonator may be omitted from this costume when a pack is worn.

17. Thighs: The thigh armour is closed in the back. The ammo belt is installed on the bottom of the right thigh.

18. Lower legs: Greaves close in the back. The trapezoid knee plate is affixed to the left greave.

Note; Diamond knee plates or the absence of a knee plate is not canon approvable.

19. Boots: White leather or leather-like, above ankle height, with a flat sole, and small U-shaped elastic sections on both sides of the ankle with no buckles or laces. Jodhpur-type boots or an equivalent style.

Note; Elvis or Mariachi boots are not not canon approvable.

20. Pauldron: A black, orange, or white neck ornament made of leather or a leather-like material, worn over the right shoulder.

21. Ammo Pouch: Black leather or leather-like German MP-40 style ammo pouches. There must be two minimum : one pouch on the left shoulder and one on the right hip. A third worn on the opposite hip is allowed.

22. Back Pack: Styled after the ANH sandtrooper packs or a simplified pack as seen in the game.

Costume Accessories:

23. BlasTech DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle: Based on a real or replica MG-34 machine gun. A DTL-19 is an MG-34 with T-racks on the barrel, ejection port cover added, and a small disk on left side.

24. BlasTech T-21 Light Repeating Blaster Rifle: Based on a real or replica Lewis Mark I machine gun. For this prop the magazine disk and bipod of the original gun are left off. A ribbed length of tubing is installed over the front of the gun barrel.

25. BlasTech RT-97C Heavy Blaster Rifle: Based on a real or replica MG-15 machine gun.

26. Minimag PTL Missle Launcher: Hand-held missile launchers designed to take down Rebel vehicle brigades. As seen in the Star Wars Battlefront video game series.

Construction Notes:

27. Helmet Details:

Precise ANH Stunt Stormtrooper helmet details include:

Flat green lenses.
Ears should have three screws used per side, one above and below the ear bar and one at the base of the helmet.
Ear bars should have four bumps only, not three.
Correct 'hovi mic' aerator tips.

28. Armor Details:

Shoulder straps should not be attached with rivets, and should free float in the back rather than being permanently attached.
Armor side gaps should be closed. This should be done by adding a shim or shims of material that must be of similar material and color as the ab and back plate. Shims should fit flush and may have seams. Ideally they will be seamless if possible to the ab and/or back plate, resulting in a single seam between the ab/back rather than extra seams for where the shims are joined.
Thermal detonator should be attached via metal clips approximately 1 inch wide, and should be all gray without silver stickers or silver paint.
Belt drop boxes should be closed in back.
Hand guards should be latex or latex-like, painted white, affixed to rubber gloves in lieu of plastic hand guards.
Rivets on the left side of the ab/kidney plates: a total of six rivets with three on the ab and three on the kidney plate, equally spaced out along the depth of the armour and about 10mm from the edge. They may be painted white, or not.
Belt should be canvas or canvas covered instead of leather or vinyl.
The cod may be separated from the rest of the ab plate, but this cut line should not be visible from the front.

*Some costumes sold as licensed costumes may require modifications for approval into the 501st Legion. Please see the First Imperial Stormtrooper Detachment for rules on modification of these costumes.

Last Updated: Wednesday, 20 October, 2010 1:37

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