CT - Clonetrooper (ROTS)

Grand Army of the Republic : http://www.clonetrooper.net

For help with this costume, please contact: CT-2501

This page deals only with the basic "grunt" clonetrooper. For details of speciality troopers such as the airborne trooper or clone commanders, please select the relevant entry from the menu on the left.

A ROTS clonetrooper costume MUST have:

Undersuit

  • A black one or two piece. Commonly used items include “Underarmour” or “Starter” warm-up suits, dance unitards or diveskin.

Gloves

  • Black, gauntlet style aviator gloves.

Neck seal

  • A TK neck seal acceptable and / or a black turtle neck Dickie or balaclava is acceptable.

Helmet

  • Episode 3 style clone helmet, either a modified MR bucket or a fan-made bucket with the following details:.
    • Visor: Black welding shield above grade 5
    • Black aerators x 2
    • Blue tube stripes on cheeks
    • Grey stripe around back of dome: Primer grey or standard Rustoleum grey
    • Charcoal gray for frown / teeth area
    • Black comm greeblie
    There are quite a few fan made helmets that are more accurate, often cheaper than the official MR, but as with most clone parts, limited in availability.

Armour

  • Consisting of:
    • Chest: With 2 detail slots on right breast
    • Back
    • Shoulders
    • Shoulder straps
    • Upper arms
    • Forearms
    • Elbows: With 2 detail slots on the outside area of both elbow pieces
    • Elbow straps
    • Handplates
    • Ab plate with 4 indentations or holes on each side of abdomen.
    • Butt plate
    • Cod piece
    • Thighs
    • Knees: With 2 detail slots on each side of knees
    • Knee straps
    • Lower legs
    • Compad: Mounted on right forearm

    Note:

    * All armour should be matte white or satin white (NO GLOSS) and weathered. Painter's touch white primer and Rustoleum Plastic Primer are recommended matte white paint choices.

    * Black wash is an example of an acceptable weathering technique.

    * Exposed rivets are not acceptable.

    Most armour comes uncut, straight off the vac-table, which means you will have to trim all the parts, using either power tools, such as a Dremel, or small saws and exacto blades for the finer details. When assembling it, you will also need some sort of powerful plastic adhesive, clamps to hold it together, nylon straps, snaps and a bit of velcro at least.

    A lot of inspiration and guides on how to put the parts together can be found over at the clone trooper detachment boards.

    Prices for uncut armour starts at about $400, but can go much higher the more accurate the armour gets. If you go for the deluxe versions with all the bells and whistles (rubber parts, accurate thighs etc), you could be spending more than $1000.

Ammo belt

  • With boxes and detonator. The detonator is centred on the back of belt. There are 8 boxes total, 4 on each side of the abdomen.

Boots

  • White, ankle high or tall enough to cover the ankle and eliminate any black undersuit visible at the ankle area in armour. Boots must be laceless, flat soled boots. The boots have armour detail ("toe" armour, a strap that goes over the top of the foot, with two protruding disks at each side). There should be no markings or labels from the shoe makers, ie no Nike swoosh symbol.

A ROTS clonetrooper costume SHOULD have:

Blaster

  • A DC15 short rifle and / or DC15 long rifle.

A ROTS clonetrooper costume MAY have:

Helmet

  • Metal posts on the comm greeblie

Armour

  • Seamless lower legs with spoon insert or ankle trap 
  • Chest and back plate should match together at the sides giving it a united appearance
  • Correct verticle ribbed undersuit
  • Correct vertical ribbed neck seal
  • Limit or eliminate the use of metallic silver weathering
  • Button clip connecting butt and cod piece
  • Back plate detail kit
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