Description: 501st Clone Trooper
Prefix: CT
Detachment: Clone Trooper Detachment
Context: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
The 501st Legion, later known as "Vader's Fist," was an elite unit of clone troopers commissioned by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine during the Clone Wars that later became a stormtrooper unit. The 501st fought in many battles, such as the Battle of Teth and the Battle of Coruscant, becoming one of the most well-known legions. It was the 501st that was led into the Jedi temple by Darth Vader and helped destroy the Jedi there. In 19 BBY, the 501st became Darth Vader's personal unit as he led them during Operation: Knightfall, in which the clones helped take down the Jedi, whom they believed to be traitors to the Republic.

The 501st approval requirements are listed in black.

In the page below, items listed in blue are recommended features that will improve the quality of the costume. Items listed in red are intended to further enhance the finished costume.

For 501st membership only the requirements in black need to be met.

IMPORTANT: Effective June 1 2012, the 501st will no longer be approving realistic interpretations of Clone Wars CG characters. The armor sculpt must match the character being recreated. See this thread at clonetroopers.net for the differences between the sculpts.

The following costume components must be present and appear as described below for approval .

• Episode 3 style Clone Helmet - Fanmade bucket. Some "name brand" helmets may be unacceptable.
• Visor - Black Visor.
• Helmet mohawk on dome.
• Starting on the nose of the helmet, there is a blue stripe about 1 inch wide going from the vents to the vocoder. From the middle of the two centermost vents to half an inch off the center eye curves, the area in between should be painted pale blue. Continuing from there, widening out to 3 inches from center of the mowhawk, the pale blue stripe continues. It then thins to 4 inches in the rear of the helmet squared off in the back, ¼ inch above the grey helmet wrap.
• Vertical stripes on each side of helmet cheeks that are dark blue in color.
• Helmet frown is charcoal grey in color. Wire or plastic mesh is utilized inside the helmet to cover the open pieces of the frown.
• Primer grey stripe around back of dome.
• Ear caps are painted a dark grey.
• Helmet has the appearance of a neck ring.
• Helmet may have an optional enclosed complete neck ring that seals the helmet to the neck.
  

• No additional requirements.

• Helmet must have a full neck ring.

• Neck seal to be black in color with vertical ribbing or being smooth in appearance. No logos or labels are to be visible. If the seal is not incorporated as part of the undersuit, a balaclava or other similar covering is acceptable.
  

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

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Yellow command stripe. Front part of the stripe is painted like any other command stripe. The rear part of the stripe should be placed in the center of the bell. This is a forward facing stripe.
• Shoulders should be tear drop in shape with all rounded edges.
  

• Shoulder bells should not be symmetrical. The Shoulder bells should slightly curve back at the bottom of the shoulder.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Yellow stripe starts on the hard outside edge of the bicep and goes to the middle of the outside bicep. It is not the same as the EII command stripes.
• 2 smaller white ammo boxes are attached to the right bicep on a grey strap.
• Should have a dimple on the lower area of the back of the arm. The outside of the bicep should have a hard line edge at the front that turns in. The inside of the upper arm should be rounded.
  

• Armor should be seamless. No visible traces of how the armor was assembled should be shown.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• There are two elbows. On each elbow on the outside of the body near the connection point of the elbow strap there should be detail slots that look like an equal symbol on both elbow pieces.
• Both elbows have strapping. The straps should have a raised detail line at the top and bottom of the strap.
  

• Elbows should be mirror images of each other with a notched area on the outside of the elbow above the detail marks.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• There is a two inch Yellow stripe on the top part of the forearm. On the right arm it would cover over the compad. The com pad should be left white. This design should be matched on the left forearm. Acceptable options for the left arm would be to either add a second compad, in paint, leave an outline of a compad, or leave just the stripe.
• Both left and right forearms should be mirror images of each other.
• Right forearm should have a compad that has 8 small buttons,1 Large main button, and 1 slightly smaller rectangular button.
• Forearm tops should have a flattened triangular area that have a ridge that comes to a point at the top of the forearm.
  

• Compad has detail antenna on its left.
• Instead of a hard edge the top of the forearm has a bone ridge.
• Armor should be seamless. No visible traces of how the armor was assembled should be shown.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• There is a two inch Yellow stripe running down the center of the hand plate.
• Hand plates are mirror images of each other.
• Hand plates have a top curving ridge that come to a point over the index or middle finger just past the main knuckle of the hand.
  

• Black over the wrist gloves made of leather, nylon, or other low pile fabrics. Gloves must not show any labels or logos once the armor is on and cover any exposed skin.
  

• Pauldron should be Episode III style.
• The mantle over the left or right shoulder should be colored in the command color burnt sienna.
• Right shoulder mantle and panelling on the remainder of the pauldron shall be all black.
• On the right side of the Pauldron, a ammo belt is strung down to the belt.
  

• 3 white ammo boxes are attached to a grey strap on right side of chest.
  

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Yellow command stripe approximately 2 inches wide marked center vertical from neck to lower return curve.
• Two detail slots on right breast.
• Chest and back plate should match together at the sides with no gap, just a seam line.
• Shoulder straps should be placed underneath the chest to connect to the back.
  

• Shoulder straps should be slotted into the chest into the detail ridges of the top connection points.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Rear tank has detailed area that contains 4 circles. Under the circles at the left side of the back there should be two parallel lines and the the right of the back there should a be a squared detail.
• Chest and back plate should match together at the sides with no gap, just a seam line.
• Shoulder straps should be placed underneath the chest to connect to the back.
  

• Shoulder straps should be slotted into the Back into the detail ridges of the top connection points.
• Highly detailed resin insert should replace softer details.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Four 1/4" diameter holes per side on indents of ab plate, eight holes total.
• Ab section should wrap around the wearers body and be sealed at the sides or at the back.
• Ab section should be completely contained under the chest and back armor.
  

• Ab section should be seamless at the sides and close in the back. A detail plate should cover the seam line and hide all work.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Cod and Posterior armor should connect at the hips.
  

• Hips should be connected via a snap with the correct detailed shape of the armor at the connection point.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Ammo Belt with boxes and detonator.
• Detonator is centered on the back of belt.
• 8 boxes total, 4 on each side of abdomen and attached to the belt.
  

• Belt Boxes should be notched and fitted flush with the details of the belt.
• Left Rear belt box should have two square buttons in the top left corner and and equal symbol detail at the bottom right.
• Right Rear belt box should have a bar with two small cylinders centered with and equal symbol detail on the bottom left.
• From the rear two belt boxes the belt should have a ribbed detailed appearance.

• Kama should be kakki or tea brown color.
• The Kama should not be lined with matching color fabric.
• The rear of the Kama has a split that denotes it as a two piece .
• Kama should start at the front belt boxes.
• Kama should be from a heavy material like canvas or a tight weave burlap.
• Kama should flow to the bottom of your knee armor.
• There are two straps from the kama that connect to a command buckle centered to the front of the belt.
  

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Front of thigh armor should have a flat triangular area near the knee. From the top of the triangle a ridge line should go up the front of the thigh to the top.
• Rear of the thigh should have an indention.
  

• Outside of lower portion of the thighs should come to a point and inner lower end should be rounded.
• Armor should be seamless. No visible traces of how the armor was assembled should be shown.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Knees should have a Yellow stripe that starts at the top and runs vertically down to the bottom of the knee.
• Knees should wrap around the front of the leg. From top center a raised detail line should be present.
• Knees should be strapped to the leg via a white strap with a raised center area that wraps around the leg and connects on both sides of the Knee.
  

• Center strap should be primer gray.
• Connection between the knee and the strapping should have a detail clip.

• Armor should be painted matte or satin white.
• Lower Legs are mirror images of each other. The front of the armor should have a triangular detail at the top of the leg and a hard ridge line down the front of the shin.
• Back of the lower legs should have an indentation just under the calf the follow down to the ankle.
• Calf can have an access area on the inside of the leg. The outside of the calf should be closed.
  

• Calves should be seamless and have a trap door access through the indent in the rear of the lower leg.

• White, ankle high or tall enough to cover the ankle and eliminate any black undersuit visible at the ankle area in armor.
• Boots must be lace-less and have flat soles.
• The boots have armor detail to include a natural seam at the toe and a strap that goes over the top of the foot with two protruding disks at each side of the strap.
• This strap should be painted Yellow.
• Across the shoe just in front of detail strap another thin stripe painted Yellow should also be placed on the boot.
• There should be no markings or labels from the shoe makers. The shoe soles should be gray.
  

• Hung from the belt and rest at the hip on each side.
  

Items below are optional costume accessories. These items are not required for approval, but if present must meet the guidelines below.