CRL Standards for the Imperial Gunner

hbrika · Last edited by hbrika on Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:47 pm; edited 8 times in total

IMPERIAL GUNNER/ENGINEER
An Imperial Gunner/Engineer must have the following:

• Imperial Gunner Helmet – Altmann’s, Custom, based on the WWII Navy Mk II Style helmet. The helmet is black to match the flight suit with a darkened visor that hides the wearers facial features while still allowing for visibility.

• White Cog – centered on front top of helmet. Silver is acceptable. Approximately 2.8 inches in diameter but must be proportinal to the helmet

• Commlink Box – left side of helmet
• Square Blue Button – top front of commlink, plastic material
• Round Red Button – bottom front of comlink (plastic screwcap style)
• White Button – side of Commlink (plastic screwcap style)

• 2 Black Snap Covers – above white button - plastic material
• 2 Silver/White Square Buttons – top of Commlink - plastic material
• Antenna – top rear behind 2 silver/white buttons
• Black Cloth Neckseal to cover visible skin on the neck

Uniform:
• One piece Black Jumpsuit with pockets. This can be a military style flightsuit or black work coveralls. If armor is not worn the front zippers must be invisible.

OR

Black Leather Jacket - quilted texture– ANH

Body Armor:

• Soft Armor - Black Pauldron (storm trooper style) – draped over front chest
(Black Strap wrapped around back and fastened to front sides of pauldron)
OR
• Black Chest Armor – there are 2 styles of hard armor for the gunner

- Stormtrooper style chest armor – Stormtrooper chest and back plate pieces
along with the ridged plastic straps that fit over the collar bone.

- Non TK-style chest armor - similar to TK chest and back plate but with 4 indented
grooves on each side of the front near the strap area. The grooves are diagonal
and get longer as one moves down the piece. The back plate itself is flattened
without the TK detailing like the TIE backplate.

OR
• No Armor - with the Black Leather Jacket– ANH

OR

• No Armor - ANH (this gunner as shown wore no gloves or boots and had a jumpsuit)

OR

• No Armor - ROTJ (this gunner as shown wore both gloves and boots)

• 2 Black Leather or leatherlike gloves , Guantlet style, nontextured, enclosed fingered
- No buckles, straps, decorative stitching, etc.

• Belt – approximately 2 inch wide made from black leather or leather like material
- up to 3 inches wide is acceptable

• Buckle – silver brushed metal or metal like material
- The size should be 2 5/8" (66.7 mm) high and 4 1/8" (104.5 mm) wide with 0.5" (12.7 mm) radius rounded corners.
- canon buckles have slightly curved corners
- the buckle has an "Imperial Code Disk" greeblie in the middle

• Imperial Code Disk greeble :
- consistes of 3 disks stacked on top of each other
- The bottom disk is 1" (25.3 mm) the middle disk is 3/4" (19.1 mm) and the top disk is 1/2" (12.7 mm.)
- There is an indentation in the center of the top disk about 1/4" (6.4 mm)

• Boots – black laceless calf high boots
- with either a buckle at the top or buckle less
- free of other decorative ornamentation
- German Jack boot style are most canon
- Equestrian style and other similar boots are accepted
- for the non-armored gunner black laceless shoes are worn

An Imperial Gunner/Engineer should have the following:
(These are recommended, but not required)

• 3.5" White Imperial cog patch on black on each shoulder (silver accepted)
- placed about 1 inch (25mm) below the shoulder seam

An Imperial Gunner/Engineer may have the following:
(These are optional. They are accepted, but not required)

• Black Balaclava - to cover face and neck areas from view
• Helmet Fans – small fans for cooling the helmet. Must be hidden from view

• 2 Code Cylinders – silver chalk holder style, located in top left shoulder pocket. The top dome of each cylinder is coloured blue

• 2 Utility Boxes – silver, vertical on both sides of buckle
- Dimensions are about 2 1/2" (63.5 mm) by 4 1/2" (114.3 mm) by 1" (25.4 mm) thick.

• Blaster – E-11, DH-17, DH-44 or other Imperial issue of sidearm.
• Holster – Black or Brown leather/leather like material constructed to fit the chosen side arm

• Voice Amplifier for intelligible communication

• Lighted com box buttons (as long as they are the same colors as described in helmet description above)

Here are a few pictures that I will crop the backgrounds out of .
I have high res versions of these pictures

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hbrika · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2009 2:12 pm Post subject:

Okay the CRL is blasting along and they are asking detachments one by one for reference shots

Thomas hasnt asked me yet but I am gathering pictures here for the day he does

Variants so far
1. ANH - Jacketed Gunner
2. ANH - Gunner with no gloves, armor or boots (beside super laser beam)
3. ANH - Jacketed Gunner with pauldron
4. ROTJ - Gunner with soft armor - pauldron
5. ROTJ - Gunner without armor
6. Gunner with hard armor - action figures and other EU sources

Helmets - screen used

As you can tell there were variations in this rare helmet called the beetle helmet when on set

On the fun side I believe that second helmet is the one used by Grant McCune - the gunner with no gloves and no boots who ducked when the super laser fired in ANH. The commbox has fallen over

Jacketed Gunners - ANH

Gunner with no gloves or boots shots along with belt boxes - Grant McCune - ANH

AND a jacketed gunner with a pauldron = another variant!

Gunners from ROTJ

Gunner with no bib
POTF Gunner with screen shot from movie

Trilogo Gunner with screen shot from movie

Screen shot from Wookipedia

ROTJ shot

ROTJ Gunner with bib

Boots

As you can see it looks like the boots have the buckles

Look closely at the red circled area. It looks like the area where buckles would be.

To further add to this, the Tie Pilot exhibition display also has them:

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hbrika · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 4:19 pm Post subject:

A few points that Paul noticed:

The blue button looks rectangular and should be listed as such in the CRL

The jackboots can have buckles. Jack boots may also not have buckles, I have seen them for sale that way too

I will bring these up when Mark is done formatting the CRL.

Elections are over soon, Mark will be getting an email from me then Wink

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hbrika · Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2009 1:25 pm Post subject:

Okay the gunner CRL is up.

http://www.501stlegion.org/crl/ig_imperial_gunner.php
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hbrika · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

A little update. The Legion took down the CRLs a bit ago but are now working on them again

I added the optional boot buckles and the gunner variant without armor (but with gloves and boots)

Accept this document as a tentative CRL. It is still very helpful though Smile

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hbrika · Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject:

Quick update: I’ve been asked by Thomas to provide a link to this post for the CRL project.

We are moving ahead troopers! Smile

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Fight the Good Fight!