loyalImperialCitizen

Thanks. So am I , a lot of the work for this will be in majorly slimming down so that’ll be a feat in of itself. Hopefully we can narrow down a correct red as I’ll probably do the knees and hand plates in the next month. I’ll try and narrow down some spray paints that look like they might be a good match and we can go from there. Am I correct in thinking the best painting route is matte colours with a glossy clear coat or have I fabricated that entirely. I’ve got rustoleum flat grey primer on me and if that is the case then I’ve got 2 rattle cans ready to go

This is where ill document the construction of the captain variant of the IAC, Im doing the same in my garrisons tk wip subforum but since this will be the eventual creation of a whole new crl which will need the input of FISD leadership my focus will be here primarily (mostly cus if were successful here ittl be the standard to which all others are cleared to and so being as in depth on there as well as here probably isnt a fruitful endeavour. this will evolve as we cement the proposed differences and proto-crl. to start it off i thought id go over what we know about the captains seen in the show. the battlefront models for now are functionally the same bar the guns they use and the accompanying holster so ill leave them for the end of this. with the knowledge ill be going for level 3 centurion in mind the base costume is identical. at least from all the images we've got access to. this makes things a lot easier because theres no need for anything new to be modelled up. the only armour pieces that are changed are the shins. knees, vambraces/handplates and the helmet itself. these changes are cosmetic only and include the shins and knees being entirely a red gloss colour. likely as with the normal suit, a matte red with gloss clearcoat, which red is yet to be determined but from the well lit photos it appears to be just a basic red, no complex shade or special colour. the hand plates are similarly entirely red. those 3 components are easy and there doesn't see to be any hidden details we've missed there. the gauntlets/vambraces whatever you prefer to call them have the white paint replaced with red, from screenshots it appears as if every paint colour except the white is still there, there's simply been a swap to red where there would be white, this as well is not a complex change and since all components will be separate as per centurion requirements that should be fairly easy. granted we cannot confirm that the right gauntlet has the grey components as well, but its safe to say they wouldn't have done the one without the other. the helmet is the same as the grunts. but with added red on the whole of the ear sections, extruded ear piece, and into the cheek where the ear connects. the greeblies all remain the same colour other than the large ear pieces. everything else is identical to the existing crl bar the holster. see the fun part about that is that while the screen used costumes were seen with the foundry 3 blaster pistol which mando later takes, which has a slimmer and differently shaped gun holding section, as well as no rifle. the battlefront 3 versions are seen with both the rifle in hand , and the grunt costumes holster and SE-14 inspired blaster. the proposed new crl will be a variant of the existing one and not a separate crl , as per the crl team. and ill be doing my best to replicate franks epic work on the crl model kit , ill be using a mix of his and bigfreds print files. i dont believe the chest is available yet from frank but that's the last bit that ill be using. currently this is what ive figured out vender wise. all my armour is being printed by fellow uk costumer and maker. the shins chest rig and jetpack will be last because im aiming to heavily slim down to do this costume justice. flightsuit-keep trooping gloves- either crowprops or keeptroopings axe wove gloves which i believe is what frank used (crowprops that is) boots- likely keeptrooping to save on immense shipping to the uk, but if his wont pass level 2 for whatever reason ill go with crowprops. soft belt- likely to be made by a garrison member who's not godawful at that like i am holster is yet to be determined as we need to decide on what the crl will require. its very likely we do basic clearance allowing either holster type , with level 2 or 3 clearance limiting it to the screen used blaster and no rifle. but that's to be determined. it'll likely be handmade using modified patterns from franks existing patterns balaclava is self explanatory blaster will be resin printed by the same guy as the armour lighting will likely be something im helped with by a squadmate as experience in electronics is not my strongpoint. excited to get this started and help build this crl. itll likely be at least early january before im able to start the chestrig and jetpack and maybe shins . and im unsure if ill leave painting til everythings ready. but in the meantime we'll be making sure the red is the right red i guess XD

Oh you just had to send that didn’t you though that is an excellent question. I’m not sure if it’s canon so someone will have to correct me on that. But if so then it does seem like we could have base approval having both holster and blaster combos being approvable. And then a level 2 or 3 requirement of that specific blaster and holster. Rifle I feel like we could be fair and say it’s optional. Personally I don’t see why they wouldn’t use them as pistols only go so far and a long range more powerful option would certainly be something I’d use in their place. But I can see the benefit of having a higher level of accuracy restricting the weaponry to just the jango style pistol and holster. depends what people are thinking. Just putting out options as battlefront has been used for a great deal of crls so we probably have to take that version into account

Mmm, so essentially it seems like it’s the v shaped straps but a different gun holding part. So yeah that shouldn’t be too hard to get done. The blaster itself looks more complex than the other pistol but nothing impossible. do you think thats something we’d be having as optional , a choice between the modified SE-14 style blaster or the jango style westar foundry 5 . Or do you think we’re strictly to on screen. In which case they aren’t seen using the rifle the grunt commandos are seen with so that might have to be omitted. in my humble opinion i could see the captain being an extension of the crl much in the same way the gunner has variants which are nearly identical but have maybe a single component different that warrants the modified crl, the captain is for all intents and purposes the base costume with a different holster , and added paint details which would pretty much be the existing crl with some points modified to be red instead of white. I don’t know if it’s distinct enough to really warrant a separate crl. however I also see the argument that the shoretroopers are all functionally identical except for a couple components and slightly different paint scheme to denote rank. So I can maybe see it being its own crl , but using pretty much a modified version of the existing crl this is primarily a place to get opinions and I welcome them , I’d love to get this crl made eventually and the best way to get that done is group consensus 😊. And of course my blood sweat and tears getting it done. I’m also planning on getting it done to centurion levels of accuracy so we’ll have to see if there’s anything that warrants additional level 2 or 3 requirments (I don’t think they will but this is a place for opinions so bring em on 🙃👍) I’ll be starting up a wip when I’ve got some things to actually show, the helmet hand plates and bicep plates will start being printed next week with everything but the main helmet body being resin printed. I want all the detail

Might have just been going insane then, it happens. 😂 That does seem to be the only physical difference between it and the normal variant. Everything else seems to be paintwork

Going off those screenshots it does appear that there’s a variant of holster. The question being now I guess is are all the captains wearing it or just a couple. From the screenshots I’ve seen it seemed like at least a couple were wearing the normal holster but I might be wrong. It seems like The holster itself is the same up until the blaster so the actual design probably only needs a tweak there to match the blaster im planning to work on the captain variant . As I’ve already been planning a normal version I thought why not take the time to research the other variant and maybe get a crl up for it eventually.

In prep for potentially doing the captain variant of the imperial armoured commando. ive gone over all the best screengabs ive found relating to the red variant of the costume. and to open up a discussion about creating a new crl for the costume. given what ive found i do not believe it should be a separate crl in its entirety, but a variant of the crl. https://imgur.com/a/i3vUkNQ to succinctly lay out what ive written under that collection of images, for those only passing by. The helmet remains identical to the base costume except for the ear section which has both the extruded detail piece and main ear section in glossy or satin red, my bet is its matte red with glossy clear coat as with the rest of the costume. the white greeblie remains white and the other greeblies remain their base colour in the crl the chest armour in its entirety remains the same as the base costume. shoulder detail and jet pack are additionally unchanged the belt and holster are unchanged as are the physical pouches. ab section is unchanged undersuit is unchanged, boots seem to be the same as the normal crl, and the gloves do not appear to be changed as can be seen in previous screen gab. holster is visibly white in all examples of the officer variant. shins are same red as the rest of the red components. boots are white, knees also appear to be red in all examples visible. thigh plates are unchanged finally the vambraces. as ive outlined in the main gallery of pics posted in a link at the top. the white on the vambraces appears to be red instead, the red lighting remains and all the detail pieces remain the same colour as the base costume. this applies to both sides as the grey details on the left gauntlet are visibly a much lighter and whiter colour than the red around it. while not great lighting one can assume that since those details are grey on the base kit, that they remain grey. the missile pod on the right seems identical. as do the mettalic elements and keypad at the front. the detail between the rocket and keypad is visibly the same colour as the missiles metallic components as can be seen here. with regard to the weaponry , i couldnt find any clear examples of them being any different to the base trooper but if im wrong and theres examples id love to see them and obviouslly thats just more to build or modify the crl. im looking forward to this journey

out of interest is there any other way to make the ab section, as im in the midst of prepping for this build but am not sure id be able to cast flexible abs in my home right now