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Description: EVO Trooper
Prefix: TX
Detachment: Spec Ops Detachment
Context: The Force Unleashed
EVO Troopers are a specialized type of Stormtrooper that wear armor designed for extreme conditions.
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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 white and weathered, made from one of these (or similar) types of materials:
- Fiberglass
- ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)
- HIPS (High Impact Polystyrene)
- 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. GMLs 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
- Traps (trapezoids on dome of helmet) and tears (area beneath the corners of eye lenses) are gray
- The only acceptable lens colors are Dark Green, Smoke and Black. Lenses must be sufficiently dark enough to obscure the costumer's eyes.
- Frown and the groove along the side of the helmet is black.
- There is an orange stripe that is offset on the left side of the helmet above the lenses.
- Two black, vertical stripes run along the back of the “cheeks”.
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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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Under Suit
- Black non-textured material, either one-piece or two-piece construction with no visible zippers or logos.
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Shoulder Bells
- One on each shoulder being flat black in color.
- Five holes on both shoulder bells.
- The left shoulder has an offset orange stripe running vertically.
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Biceps
- Biceps are fully closed.
- The left Bicep has an offset orange stripe running vertically.
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Forearm Armor
- Forearms are fully closed
- The left forearm has an offset orange stripe running vertically.
- The left forearm has a tube attached to the inside edge.
- Both forearms have straps running around the circumference of the forearm.
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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 latex-like material.
- TK handplates are not acceptable
- Each finger has two plates with the thumb having a single, longer plate.
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Gloves
- Black in color, made of either rubber, nomex, leather, or leather-like material, with no visible straps or logos/designs. The fingers are enclosed, non-textured.
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Chest Armor and Chestbox
- Chest plate overlaps the abdominal plate.
- Chestbox mounts on the chest plate with a central box and a lower tube.
- Two hoses lead out of the box into the helmet
- A single hose extends out of the tube and attaches to the abdomen plate.
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Back Armor
- Back plate contains a "O II" design with little or no overlap of the kidney plate.
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Backpack
- Styled after the ANH Sandtrooper packs with some minor changes:
- The frame of the pack is in two separate sections; one extends around the sides and top of the pack, with the other section laying below the bottom box
- A hose extends around the left and top side (as you look at it) of the pack.
- The lower box is taller than standard Sandtrooper packs
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Abdomen Armor
- The ab plate has a button area with 8 black buttons and one white button; buttons are approximately 7/16" in diameter.
• A circular detail is present on the right side, just above the belt.
• A hose coming from the chestbox attaches to the left side just above the belt.
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Kidney Armor
- • It is allowable to have a single or separated kidney/butt plate.
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Posterior Armor
If a separate butt plate is used, it should line up below the bottom of the belt with with the ab plate, with minimal gap between it and the kidney plate.
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Belt
- Belt face is made of plastic (ammo belt). It is comprised of 6 rectangular boxes, with two large circular greeblies on the ends of the belt.
- Four rectangular pouches mount on the belt, two on each side.
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Thigh Armor
- The thigh armor is closed in the back.
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Calf Armor
- Calf armor closes in the back.
- Knee plates mount on both legs.
- The right calf has 4 tubes, similar to the forearm tube, mounted on the outside.
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Boots
- White leather or leather-like, above ankle height, with a flat sole, with no buckles or laces. Jodhpur-type boots or an equivalent style.
- Elvis or Mariachi boots are not acceptable.
- There should be no seam on the front of the boot.
- A "dog bone" shaped strap covers the bridge of the foot.
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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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E-11 Blaster
- 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 (does not need to function).
- A real or replica ammo counter - based off of a Hengstler counter - shall be present.
- D-ring mounted on the rear.
- Sterling based blasters have the correct M-38 or M-19 style scope.
- Two power cylinders on the magazine housing.
- Scratch-built, resin cast, Hyperfirm rubber cast blasters shall have a total of 6 T-tracks on blaster (leaving the lowest row on the magazine housing side uncovered).
- If using the Hasbro E11 toy blaster and you cover all the rows of holes, the blaster will have 7 T-tracks total. But, if you want to have the correct number of T-tracks (6 total) with the lower row of open vent holes on the magazine housing side, then you shall cover the pre-existing rows of holes with T-tracks, and grind off the lower integrated T-track on the magazine housing side and drill a new row of holes in its place.
- No ESB/ROTJ greeblies are allowed on the blaster.
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OPTIONAL Level three certification (if applicable):
- Hasbro blasters are not allowed, even conversions.
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