looking for Royal Guard info

[stormraven]

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

[Deimos]

Hey dude,

welcome to the forums, Muppet can help you with the costumes

What day did you go to Auscon?

[Jaggered]

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

[redpaint]

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.

[Deimos]

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

[Jaster]

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

[The Scotsman]

Welcome Bryan,


Always good to have more Guards.

[APOK]

Welcome aboard mate. Where abouts do you hail from?

[muppet]

Welcome Bryan

As Redpaint said, sign up on the Forcepike forum, as that is the 501st detachment forum for guards.

Ken

[TheWolf]

Welcome!

[Phantom]

Welcome along....chat to muppet and as redpaint said check out the website.

[stormraven]

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.

[Rents]

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

[Doc]

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!