A concept...

I caught the costuming bug and having my own Stormtrooper armor has been a dream for a long time. As the over-thinker that I usually am it started as a fan fiction delirium. In those crazy writings I would picture a post-Order 66 Imperial trooper that tries to experiment with different ways of wearing his armor. Time went by and as I started trooping as a Biker Scout with the 501st Legion it came to me that I could make my own sort of experimental trooper outfit, and see where that would go.

But costuming however, and especially within a big community of hardcore Star Wars fans, is more limited than writing or drawing. First there is the budget, then there are skills that need to be acquired - or hired - and there is the ton of peer pressure met during the entire development of said costume. Needless to say that the final product of this enterprise will not be 501st-approved, nor do I intend it to be. So, if you're essentially looking for a costume that will get you an easy TK-ID, please move along, move along...

The key elements of my Stormtrooper:

- Gray shoulder pauldron (no official rank assigned to this color in canon sources)

- Kama of gray and/or black leather-like material that we will call "combat cloth" (thank you C-13)

- SE-14r blaster pistol

- Weathering / battle damage