Imperial Navy Troopers [Star Wars] [A more canon approach]

Hello!

Nice cobbling together and repaints of all the pieces. It’s funny, when I read Imperial Navy, I was almost imagine aquatic guys — something we haven’t seen yet (as far as I know) — guys who can swim underwater/or be propelled by jet packs underwater. You would think on water-worlds that’s something Lucas would have thought of.

Theboo-bomb -- they look great, and so much better than the original version. I also like the heads you used. I've had the same idea, and used the same items on other bodies. Ever the stickler for detail, I was bothered by the use of the imperial cog emblem on these uniforms (they appear on jumpsuits, not on tunics like these), so tried to remove them (while preserving them for use elsewhere) and the pockets; and even though it looked ok, I always knew it wasn't quite right. Lately, I've replaced them with Count Dooku tunics from the HT set. Hollowing out the Hasbro naval helmets was an excellent idea; I've been meaning to do the same, but never quite gotten to it.

You can see some of my versions here (among other characters) :
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1076-star-wars-christmas-revised-edition?highlight=star+wars+christmas

Stryker2011 -- How could you say we haven't seen aquatic guys!!? Go, look, and repent!
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t909-star-wars-new-imperial-unit-aquatrooper-part-two?highlight=aquatrooper

Haha! What I meant, Guv, was with all the money at the disposal for the filmmakers, instead of having some adventures on a water-world, they went back to the same places we’ve seen already. George had a very limited imagination after he did the OT. Aquatic Troopers who became canon would have been interesting. But I do stand corrected — we have seen underwater Troopers. I repent!

Stryker2011 wrote:Nice cobbling together and repaints of all the pieces. It’s funny, when I read Imperial Navy, I was almost imagine aquatic guys — something we haven’t seen yet (as far as I know) — guys who can swim underwater/or be propelled by jet packs underwater. You would think on water-worlds that’s something Lucas would have thought of.

Thanks Stryker, I too find it a bit weird that the guys up in space are called navy but that's their name. I'm unsure if Lucas ever came up with a diver trooper like concept, most of the early stuff is based around knights, even stormtroopers where more like knights than soldiers. That said there have been a few different diver trooper versions, some look like standard stormtroopers but with deep sea diving suits and armor, others use the helmet but a different suit, however my all time favorite version is the one that looks like scout troopers.

Here's some pics of them.

GubernatorFan wrote:Theboo-bomb -- they look great, and so much better than the original version. I also like the heads you used. I've had the same idea, and used the same items on other bodies. Ever the stickler for detail, I was bothered by the use of the imperial cog emblem on these uniforms (they appear on jumpsuits, not on tunics like these), so tried to remove them (while preserving them for use elsewhere) and the pockets; and even though it looked ok, I always knew it wasn't quite right. Lately, I've replaced them with Count Dooku tunics from the HT set. Hollowing out the Hasbro naval helmets was an excellent idea; I've been meaning to do the same, but never quite gotten to it.

You can see some of my versions here (among other characters) :
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t1076-star-wars-christmas-revised-edition?highlight=star+wars+christmas

Stryker2011 -- How could you say we haven't seen aquatic guys!!? Go, look, and repent!
https://onesixthfigures.forumotion.com/t909-star-wars-new-imperial-unit-aquatrooper-part-two?highlight=aquatrooper

Thanks Gubernator, I was going to remove the cogs but my experience removing these iron on patches has been hit or miss, not wanting to damage the uniforms I decided to leave them alone, tho I could have just painted over them now that I think about it. Your diver trooper is excellent, if it where to me it would be canon, shark and all!

Stryker2011 wrote:Haha! What I meant, Guv, was with all the money at the disposal for the filmmakers, instead of having some adventures on a water-world, they went back to the same places we’ve seen already. George had a very limited imagination after he did the OT. Aquatic Troopers who became canon would have been interesting. But I do stand corrected — we have seen underwater Troopers. I repent!

Lucas might not have had a lot of imagination but neither do the people under disney, while the movies are for the most part enjoyable (at least to me) they are still more or less done the same, all fights are on land, not even in space that much either. It would be fun to see a water world in the movies, with boats and what not but I don't think we will get that, it's easier to make a desert or wasteland than it is to make a sea. Additionally, all this talk about the sea and divers makes me want to make up some imperial or rebel sea navy personnel, could be fun.

Somehow nearly missed this. I think they have cool authorative vibe, for some reason they remind me of South American special police forces, like Brazil's BOPE unit.

About those underwater worlds, there also was that Battle on  Admiral Ackbars home planet from that old, weird, over the top but still charming animated clone clone wars miniseries. And later in the animated one, hinted by boos pics.

Ovy wrote:Somehow nearly missed this. I think they have cool authorative vibe, for some reason they remind me of South American special police forces, like Brazil's BOPE unit.

About those underwater worlds, there also was that Battle on  Admiral Ackbars home planet from that old, weird, over the top but still charming animated clone clone wars miniseries. And later in the animated one, hinted by boos pics.

Black in star wars has always been a very authoritative color, the villains wear black, and most of the imperials we see in the OT who are not stormtroopers also wear black, it's the easy way of asigning who is evil and who isn't.

Most of the depictions of water worlds in star wars have been of Mon Cala, the mon calamari world tho they also showed Rodia the Rodian world but since never as a water world, just as a mostly water covered world.

Great work, as always!