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looking for Royal Guard info - stormraven - Thursday 5-May-2011
Gday all I have been interested in Star Wars for 30 years and have seen your work for a while but after seeing some of you at Auscon on the weekend I would like to get involved with the 501st.
As for costumes my first preference would be for Royal Guard, second choice is a Spec Ops scout trooper. Can you give me some pointers/links on where I can get started.
Cheers Bryan
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Deimos - Thursday 5-May-2011
Hey dude,
welcome to the forums, Muppet can help you with the costumes
What day did you go to Auscon?
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Jaggered - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome to the forums Bryan & the RBG.
PM Muppet, he's usually the first port of call & hope to see you around the way.
There will be a AP on the 28th of this month on the GC, look in upcoming events if your interested in attending.
Jag
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - redpaint - Thursday 5-May-2011
Gday mate,
For the royal guard it would help to sign up to the forcepike forums as well.
http://www.forcepike.net/
I have a guard and they are fun to wear but get very hot with all the robes.
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Deimos - Thursday 5-May-2011
Also Bryan you might want to book mark this thread I started. It is a list of abbreviations, when I first joined people were chucking them around and I had no idea what they where talking about, So I went searching and found this list. We have added more on to it and are adding to it when we need to.
Glossary of Abbreviations
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Jaster - Thursday 5-May-2011
Well Bryan you've come to the right place, you never find a more wretched hive of... oh sorry meant great bunch of people. :P
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - The Scotsman - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome Bryan,
Always good to have more Guards.
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - APOK - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome aboard mate. Where abouts do you hail from?
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - muppet - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome Bryan
As Redpaint said, sign up on the Forcepike forum, as that is the 501st detachment forum for guards.
Ken
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - TheWolf - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome!
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Phantom - Thursday 5-May-2011
Welcome along....chat to muppet and as redpaint said check out the website.
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - stormraven - Friday 6-May-2011
Ok guys thanks for that, I was expecting that I would need some more armor rather than just the helmet but sounds as though wearing velvet cloak in QLD may get a bit warm - I may just attend air conditioned venues.
Just a few other things about myself, I was at Auscon all 3 days playing with WW2 minis, that and ninjitsu have been my main hobby focus over the years. Im Born and bred in Brisbane - I did spent time in Mt Isa and Toowoomba but not for too long. I have always had a few friends into reinacting ( mostly Knights and American Civil War) and more recently Cosplay, but have never quite jumped into it myself. But of all the groups Star Wars has been the one that I keep coming back too so I though I'd give it a try.
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Rents - Friday 6-May-2011
Most of the outfits we wear are hot & uncomfartable, if they werent, we'd probably wear them all the time
The royals not too bad, you actually with a breeze around get good ventilation under your robes, & when in aour you'll always suss out were the ventilation vents are & where you can stand to catch the draft, troopers intuition
Welcome to the Redbacks
And remember, once you go black you'll never go back
RE: looking for Royal Guard info - Doc - Saturday 7-May-2011
Hi mate, yeah agree with Rents, if there is a breeze around, it helps get a bit of the hot air out, besides when the red cloaks start to flow in the wind its looks awesome! Go thru the forums on forcepike, i looked at them for ages before i decided to go the way i did with mine, just research research research!