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Shadow Stormtrooper Description
Topic Started: Nov 30 2009, 01:15 AM (1,961 Views)
izzi
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I've had a ton of people in the garrison ask about Shadow Stormtroopers, so I thought I'd write up a description and post it on my garrison forums.
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SHADOW STORMTROOPER (a.k.a Stealth Trooper; Black Hole Trooper)

BACKGROUND:
Shadow Stormtroopers were first created by the Imperial agent codnamed Blackhole. Instead of plastoid their armor was cast with stygian-triprismatic polymer, to provide sensor stealth and make the armor black in color. After Blackhole's disappearance during the Galactic Civil War, the Shadow Stormtroopers found their way into other imperial groups. Most notably as part of Carnor Jax's private army.
In the Legion a Shadow Stormtrooper is given a TX prefix with the rest of the EU “Troopers.”
More information can be found at the 501st Special Ops Detachment: http://s11.zetaboards.com/501st_Spec_Ops_Det/index/

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SHADOW STORMTROOPER ARE:

BODY ARMOR: TK style with the following differences:
Black, glossy professional-quality Stormtrooper body armor. This may be made of ABS, HIPS, Styrene, or Fiberglass. Buttons must be black in color.
My First choice would be to find an ABS/polystyrene armor that is a natural glossy black, you'll save your self the headache of painting and later touch ups after a few troops.
Second would be a matte black ABS/polystyrene armor. Though you have to paint it, if the paint wears, you probably have some time before it's noticeable.
Last would be painting white ABS/polystyrene. It is important that your armor is always is always black. Any part of the white showing at anytime is not acceptable.
I haven't worked with fiberglass as of yet for armor, so I can't rate it. I would avoid plain styrene if possible as it seems to be a bit brittle and in my experience can tear easily.
If painting the armor, an excellent store bought spray paint to use is Rustoleum Professional Gloss Black. It gives an excellent glossy shine that nearly matches a natural glossy black ABS pulled armor.

HELMET: TK style helmet with the following differences:
COLOR: is to be black in color to match the body armor. Refer to the body armor for material and or paint suggestions.
CHIN: May be Black or Silver in color.
FROWN: Acceptable colors are battleship gray in color (like TKs), Silver or Black. Four “teeth” cut out and backed with black screen on either side
TUBE STRIPES: Acceptable colors are Black or a very dark Navy Blue.
CROWN INDENTS: Acceptable colors are battleship gray or black.
EAR-CAPS: The body of the ear caps must be black. Acceptable colors for the vertical stripes may be Black, Gray, or dark Navy Blue
LENSES: Either opaque flat or bubbled helmet lenses are acceptable. A may be Black, Smoke, Silver, or Dark Green in color. A spectator must not be able to see your eyes through the lenses when the helmet is worn.

UNDER THE ARMOR: TK style with a bit more freedom:
BODY: A Solid Black or dark Navy Blue under suit is required. This may be either a one-piece or two piece, Non-textured, non-shiny material. Wide vertical ribbing is permitted, not required. Commonly used items for this include dive suits, dance unitards, and “UnderArmor” or “Starter” warm-up suits. UnderArmor type two-piece suits are what I find to be the easiest and most comfortable.
NECKSEAL: TK style in Matte black.
GLOVES: Black gloves with no ornamental/decorative stitching is permitted. Preferably a leather material, but may be made of rubber rubber or of Jersey-style cloth
BOOTS: Must be a Glossy Black, "Chelsea-style," ankle high, lace-less boot. No ornamental stitching is allowed. Boots may be made of leather or vinyl, preferably with small U-shaped elastic gore on either side of the ankle and up to a 1” heel. They must closely match the TK standard.
I've found an eBay or Google search for “Bass Amsterdam” brings up an excellent boot for made by Bass for TX use.

BLASTER: May be an E-11 or BFG. They may be a modified toy, scratch-built, resin cast, hyperfirm/rubber, vacuum-formed, a Master Replica, or a demilitarized gun. They may be weathered and must never be able to fire any sort of projectile.
E-11s: The TK standard issue E-11 blasters. An E-11 holster should be worn per TK standards when carrying an E-11. Armor must include Drop boxes and the Thermal Detonator.
DLT19 (MG34): These troopers continue to wear drop boxes and a thermal detonator. An E-11 holster is never worn while carrying a BFG.


OPTIONAL MODIFICATIONS:

ARMOR MODIFICATIONS:
Armor may be slightly weathered, showing silver, grey, or black scratches. But armor must remain glossy (never matte black, ever) No LEDs/Lighting of any sort is permitted.
AB PLATE: Hinged cod for added mobility.
BACKPLATE: Hinged lower back for added mobility.
BELT: Black matte canvas or leather belt as an alternative to the plastic belt is permitted per FISD Elite standards. Trust me, a nice black leather belt will be so much more comfortable, and is incredibly easy to make.

HELMET MODIFICATIONS:
FANS: Helmet fans and helmet cutouts for ventilation. Any cutouts must be backed with black screen so a spectator cannot see your face inside the helmet.
FROWN: 5 ANH-style "teeth" holes on each side of the frown on the helmet. Holes must be backed with black screen so nobody can see through them.
Voice amplifier and/or voice effect board w/Static Burst.
Black Hovi-Mix styled “tusks.”

COMLINK: ANH Stormtrooper-style ComLink, but Black in color.

BLASTERS:
LEDs/sound effects (for firing effect) are permitted in blasters.
E-11: Resin E11 modification kit is recommended for the Hasbro E11, to include Hengstler counter, cylinders, and spiral black wiring from counter to cylinders.
Edited by izzi, Dec 14 2009, 05:07 PM.
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Some changes have to be made

"EAR-CAPS: Acceptable colors for the body of the earcaps are: Battleship Gray and Black. Acceptable colors for the vertical stripes may be Black, Gray, or dark Navy Blue"

Ear caps are in fact black, not gray

"BFGs: The following are accepted BFGs for legion status are:
DLT19 (MG34)
T21 (Lewis Gun)
MG15 (unnamed in SW galaxy).
TD-style ammo pouches are recommended but not required when carrying a BFG, in this instance no drop boxes or thermal detonator is worn, per TD specs. There are however references to support “clean-TK” style Stealthies carrying a BFG without ammo pouches. These troopers continue to wear drop boxes and a thermal detonator. An E-11 holster is never worn while carrying a BFG."

So far the only documented weapons are E 11 ans DLT 19, no ammo pouches and the thermal det is not optional

"RANK PAULDRON: The shoulder of the pauldron may be Black, Grey, Orange, or White in color and must be made from vinyl or leather. Blue or Red are not acceptable colors.

AMMUNITION POUCHES: Black leather, Vinyl, or Canvas MP40, MP38, or similarly styled Ammunition Pouches are acceptable. These are worn on the left shoulder, and also on the belt and may ONLY be worn when carrying a BFG.

MACRO-BINOCULARS. Styled after those used in the Special Edition films, but must be matte black in color."

None of those are accepted


Please do not misunderstand me, I think you did an incredible job but Thomas has been really emphatic about this issues.
Any recruit with those accesories in his armor will be rejected until he takes it all off, so, better safe than sorry.

They can use pauldrons and ammo pouches in non canon events but for approval please take the pics with just the stabdard armor




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Sweet. That's why I posted here first! I was just going off the sticky CRL that was voted on awhile back. Is there a more recent one posted that I missed?

Anyways, I updated it, if you could make sure I understood and edited the information correctly that would be great. Funny thing is, I was accepted into the legion with gray earcaps. :D

Thanks for your help on this.
Edited by izzi, Nov 30 2009, 02:16 PM.
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Nope, there is none, but even if we voted just as you posted it, the LMO asked for visual references for all those deatails , since we were unable to provide such references, the CRL has been modified. (Democracy? NO! it is an EMPIRE!!!)
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Sweet. I'll post this over on my garrison boards then. If we don't have all this info in one place here, maybe we should sticky it here too. and just make it a living post that gets edited as the requirements are changed. Might help new stealthies that come to the forum for info.

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Hey, would these be considered a source to have a silver chin?

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http://cgi.ebay.com/Medicom-Star-Wars-Shadow-Stormtrooper-12-Action-Figure_W0QQitemZ290380757337QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item439c0ab959
Edited by izzi, Dec 14 2009, 01:12 AM.
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It can.
Plus you can add the RAH TX
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Okay! I guess I better add that as a color option to my description!
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It is in fact accepted (just as the silver lenses)
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Just ensure you use the CRL specs we voted upon here so it remains accurate. I do like what I see. :)
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Just ensure you use the CRL specs we voted upon here so it remains accurate. I do like what I see. :)
I used those, but was told there had been some changes, mainly regarding weaponry and pauldrons. Is there an updated CRL posted somewhere or just the sticky where the vote was? Does anyone see anything that I'm missing?
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The current LMO has an issue with pauldrons and weaponry, even though it is common sense and documented rank. When he's gone, we'll re-engage.
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So this is a good presentation of the current description? Any pointers or things I should add?
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