TK1066

If it helps any for all of the LFL events that we have done, LFL REQUIRES "Sandtroopers" to wear the following: DIRT Backpack Pauldron Pouches Weapon type is optional (E-11 or BFG) as are the smaller details (handbacks, ab plate mods, knee plate mods). Tim Legion CO

Your welcome, The nice thing about pauldrons is that they are pretty darn cheap (around $20). Tim

Just as a quick FYI - "Official" colors update, the Star Wars dot Com databank lists the following colors and the ranks associated with them. Sandtroopers wear colored pauldrons as a designation of rank. A stormtrooper sergeant's pauldron is white while an enlisted stormtrooper's pauldron is all black. Squad leaders, who lead units of seven troopers, wear orange shoulder pauldrons. Regarding the "gray ones", most folks with dewback prods wear the gray. While we are pretty lax re: who wears what color pauldrons for day to day /informal events, most folks do associate the gray with the "Dewback" rider toy. Tim Legion CO

From what I have heard (direct from Wookie Cantina/Armor FX, the guy who makes them), it was based on the Kenner toy. Tim LCO

Nope, the "Special Edition" troopers were aberations. Technically even Episode 4 has some "odd" Sandtroopers in the Docking Bay 94 sequence (probably to do the stunts/falls more easily). Just my two bits. Tim LCO

Now that the Legion elections are over, I would like to start the ball rolling on a "test" project. I would like to "task" each 501st Legion costuming detachment with creating at least a one page "FAQ" on their costume type. Any thoughts or comments? Tim LCO

Thanks I have put an update on C3 in the secure zone. Tim Legion CO

Never Mind, I posted the info on the MEPD/Sandtrooper Yahoo group. However, if you prefer, we can set up a secure board here for MEPD/Celebration 3 updates/info. Tim SWC3 Volunteer Coordinator 501st LCO

FYI - I have some items for C3, that I need to make sure stay secure. Can we set up a board that only enrolled MEPD members can see? Tim LCO

And you all know how messy being in cut in half can be, yeesshh......

I will try to take some pictures of the prod and post them. Tim

Just waaaayyy too much extra time on my hands on the 12th. Tim

I am going to seriously pimp that the 501st should go for the "501" troopers shot at Celebration 3. I think it could be "doable". In 2002, we had around 800 members and around 177 in the 501st photo at C2. In 2005, 3 years later, we have around 2600 members. So if our current ratio of around 1/5 to 1/4 of our total club show up, we could have 500 to 600 members who attend the photo shoot. Anyway, I can dream at least, but just imagine if we pull it off. It would be the biggest group of fully armored SW Troopers in history (outside of CGI). While I doubt Guiness would be interested, I will try to pester LFL to drop them a line just to see if Guiness might bite that it is a "World Record". They probably won't do it, but we will ask anyway, they can only say no. Tim TK-1066 501st LCO (Drolling over hundreds and hundreds of troopers at C3 )

I don't remember the Legion number it may be the 9th, but he does seem to do Roman also. Tim

For C3, tentatively we are doing the 501st "Grand Photo" on Saturday morning (prior to the convention opening). It would be cool to get as many folks to turn out as possible in Sandtrooper armor for the photo. If time permits, we might be able to stage an MEPD photo once the big group photo breaks up. In the meantime, please contact Sandtroopers and "Sandtroopers in Training" in your local Garrisons and get them signed up here so they can get their gear together. Tim Legion CO

I have all 4 (including Grey), I also have the proper Dewback prod to go with the Grey pauldron. Tim

I currently have a "pack less" set up, ala the Docking Bay 94 assault. I have my pauldron, MP-40 pouches, hand plates and an MG-34 (John Bush) version. I still need to get an AB plate, knee piece. lenses and of couse "DIRT". I also have the tubular pack frame to start my back pack, but for indoor events, like crowd control, I will probalby go packless. I tend to be running things at conventions and I often have to get from point A to point B in a hurry. So by going packless, I would tend to "bump" folks/stuff less (based on wearing my Clone Commando armor with its pack). For times when I am working a stationary spot (like door duty), parades and such, I would break out the pack for maximum effect. Tim TK-1066 TD - Currenty in MOS specialization training.

I always had kind of figured they were all 11B (Stormtroopers and Sandtroopers), but that they had specialized training based on where they were stationed. My basis for this is the US Army. In the Army, Infantry units are stationed and trained in all sorts of environments, Desert, Jungle, Mountain, Arctic. They are all still the same Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), in this case 11B. In the case of the fantasy world of Star Wars, the Stormtroopers seem to kind of function like that. "Stormtroopers" seem to encompass the "Infantry" and are trained and equiped depending on where they will be stationed. From the Star Wars databank So Sandtroopers, Bikerscouts, Snowtroopers, etc are all the same level of MOS (Infantry), they just differ in where they are stationed and how they are equiped. For the Death Star Troopers, they probably were not "waiting" to be deployed, they were probably "permanent party" (i.e. stationed) on the Death Star for internal security. With the size of the Death Star, it could also be reasoned that their could also have been special trained contingents statinoed on the Battle Station for deployement on hostile environment worlds as need. So if the Death Star entered a system with a Desert world and wanted to send down troops, there would have have been a Battalion or more of Sandtroopers available. Also, it is very probably that all Stormtroopers would recieve some familiarization training with the various armors so they could deploy to whatever environment needed. So while they would not be quite as effective as a unit specifically trained and equiped for say "Jungle Warfare", they would know the basics. Anyway, this last part is all just my random musings, but Stormtroopers/Sandtroopers and the other "White Armor" do mostly seem to be only different in equipment, location and some specialized training related to where they are stationed. At the core, they are all still, just like me, 11B, Infantry"!! Hoo aahh. Tim Ex 11B3x (Drill Sgt)

My TK ID storry is not so problematic as Mark's. I first tried to use my birthday, June 10 or TK-610, but it was taken. I then pondered for a while and came up with TK-1066. One of my other long time hobbies is the SCA (a pseudo Medieval Group) and 1066 AD is when the battle of Hastings took place. So it gives a bit of a nod to my other passion for history and it has a pretty good ring to it. Tim TK-1066 501st Legion CO

Actually, for the most part it Scott Hawkins who had double issued stuff or more accurately failed to log numbers when he did issue them. So we had some very simple things like the Yahoo group membership database and I believe also a spread sheet. Things just came to a head as we started getting thing orgnized via a database. Joyce and her team used the old items we inherited from Scott Hawkins when he quit as Legion CO and then tried to kill the club by deleteing the club Yahoo groups. When the then set up the database and did the initial data entry, they could only log what had been entered by Scott. If Scott had not entered a number, it didn't get entered as "taken". So there were a number of entries the folks, like yourself had assigned, but the Legion (as club) had no written record of. Then when the automated system for new memberships was up and running, some new person picked the same number and their membership was approved using it. Unfortunately, this made for "double entires" like yours and we still stumble accross them from time to time. I am very sorry if this is what had happened to you and we hope that by using the database and have a pretty rigourous membership approval process similar things won't happen in the future. Again, I do appolgize and I just ask that folks don't "shoot the messenger" where Joyce is concerned. She (when she was the Legion Membership Officer) was just trying to "fix" problems that happend due to hour previously haphazard way of assinging TK ID numbers. Tim TK-1066 50st Legion CO

I can try to find out if he does. Tim LCO