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Description: General Weir
Prefix: TX
Detachment: Spec Ops Detachment
Context: X-Wing: Rogue Leader
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For 501st membership only the requirements in black need to be met.
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.
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Special Notes:
- The armor parts are gloss black and made from one of these (or similar) types of materials:
- Fiberglass
- ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)
- HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene).
- All striping "flash" is clean and non-weathered.
- Blasters are not required for legion membership per our weapons policy.
This Visual Guide has been reviewed by the detachment staff and the LMO team and is certified for use as a minimum approval guideline for GMLs. GMLs are free to approve this costume type.
- This document is not intended to be a detailed how-to on costume construction; rather a visual guide to be used for 501st costume approval. Details on construction may be found on the respective costume detachment web forum.
- GMLs uncertain about an aspect of submitted costume shall post questions in the appropriate DL/GML peer review section of the Legion forum.
- Measurements given in this document are intended to be approximate and generalized; not criteria for approval.
- Requirements for all 501st costumes are proportional to the wearer in scale, fit and size.
- Text descriptions are only one part of the guideline. GML's and costumers must consider both text and pictures (CRL and Reference) when reviewing the costume.
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| Required Costume Components
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The following costume components are present and appear as described below.
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Helmet
- Scout style helmet.
- Licensed helmets are acceptable with modifications:
- Remove manufacturer logo.
- Replace stock eye lens.
- Replace stock ear bolts with flat-disc "elevator" bolts.
- Replace inaccurate aerator.
- Repaint to match the armor.
- Add proper detailing.
- Helmet may have three black lines on center of forehead area.
- Red or red mirrored eye lens.
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Neck Seal
- Black with horizontal ribs, fitted to the wearer, and extending from the base of the neck to conceal the entire neck.
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Flight Suit
- The undersuit is a one or two-piece black textile suit, such as military flightsuits, motorcycle racing suits, industrial work clothing (Dickies), or similar suit modified appropriately.
- Suit must not have any visible labels, logos, zippers or pockets (including built in flight suit pockets).
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Shoulder Armor
- Shoulders do not have any adornment.
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Upper Arm Armor
- Have a recessed area with a "t-bit" detail attached within.
- Black elastic is used to secure the armor around upper arm.
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Forearm Armor
- Black elastic is used to secure the armor around forearm.
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Gloves
- Black leather and gauntlet length.
- Gloves have no labels/logos, clips or external straps.
- Ribbing is present over the knuckles.
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OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable):
- Suede or faux suede padding on fingers and inside of thumb and correct gauntlet stitching.
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Bandolier
- Crosses over the chest and falls straight along the sides of the back tank connecting underneath.
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Chest Armor
- There is a recessed rectangular area present over the right breast that may be painted matte black or left unfinished.
- The chest armor and back plate are joined together over the shoulder and the gap (if there is any) covered with a loop of black fabric.
- The sides of the chest armor are attached to the back plate by black elastic.
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Back Armor
- The back plate has a tank attached.
- The top of the tank is flat with a detail piece painted matte black.
- The tank may have a matte black stripe detail.
- Scouts may have additional matte black "rank indicators" that are present on the right side of the tank and can number anywhere from 0 to 6 stripes.
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Cummerbund
- Made out of black heavy cotton fabric and closes in back.
- Cummerbund sits from just under the chest armor down to the waist.
- There is no gap between the belt and cummerbund.
- Has a tapered crotch made from the same material and sits between the legs and connects to the back of the cummerbund by a black strap.
- Has 6 ribs of equal width stitched into the front, where two fabric pouches are connected.
- Pouches are black.
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Belt
- Front raised portion of the belt "buckle" is painted red.
- The front and two "boxes" of the belt are made out of plastic.
- The rest of the belt that fastens at the back of the waist is made out a textile material.
- The back of the belt has a rectangular box with short hose for the thermal detonator, which is all black.
- Hanging from the sides of the belt are hip boxes, also made out of plastic. These are connected to the belt by black textile straps.
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Knees
- Black elastic is used to secure the armor around the leg.
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Boots
- Black marine vinyl.
- The soles of the boot are black like the rest of the boot.
- There is a strap that covers the bridge of the foot.
- The calf comes up just slightly underneath the bottom of the knee armor.
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Holster
- Attached to the outside right side of the right boot by rivets, not straps.
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OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable):
- The blaster pistol fits in the holster.
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| Optional Accessories
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Items below are optional costume accessories. These items are not required for approval, but if present appear as described below. If adding in an accessory after initial approval, the item still needs to be submitted to local GML for approval before use.
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Balaclava
- A balaclava is a black head sock/hood that is worn under the helmet and is used primarily to hide any view of the wearer’s skin and/or facial hair.
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E-11 Blaster
Manufactured by BlasTech Industries, the E-11 is standard-issue for many Imperial troops. Light, compact yet powerful, the E-11 blaster is always in high demand throughout the galaxy.
- Based on a real or replica Sterling sub-machine gun, scratch-built, or a modified commercial toy Stormtrooper blaster.
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OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable):
- Folding stock.
- Stock does not need to function.
- A real or replica ammo counter - based off of a Hengstler counter - should be present.
- D-ring mounted on the rear.
- Correct style scope.
- Two power cylinders on the magazine.
- Scratch-built, resin cast, Hyperfirm rubber cast blasters should have a total of 6 t-racks on blaster (leaving the lowest row on the Hengstler side un-covered).
- If using the Hasbro E11 toy blaster, it is modified to have the correct number of T-tracks (6 total), with a lower row of open vent holes on the magazine housing side.
- This is accomplished by covering the pre-existing rows of holes with T-tracks, then grinding off the lower integrated T-track on the magazine housing side, and drilling a new row of holes in its place.
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DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle
Manufactured by BlasTech Industries, the DLT-19 heavy blaster rifle is much more powerful with a much greater range than the E-11 blaster. Because of its powerful, long range capabilities, this rifle is commonly used on Imperial controlled planets with large, clear, open areas.
- Based on a real or replica MG-34 machine gun.
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OPTIONAL Level two certification (if applicable):
- A DLT-19 is an MG-34 with T-tracks on the barrel, ejection port cover added, and a small disk on left side.
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Hold-out Blaster
- Flat black, semi-gloss or slightly weathered.
- The pistol does not have any visible trigger, labels or logos.
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