March 16, 2006

Royal Guard


Royal Guard 1
Originally uploaded by urt30.
It is now official. Thanks to the efforts of my good friend, Clark Oliver, I now have a complete and pretty close to screen accurate, Imperial Royal Guard costume. Clark made the force pike from a $15 fishing rod, and he refinished my Don Post helmet. Originally the helmet was a totally innaccurate maroon colour and the visor was too small. Another good friend, Tom Atkinson, made the red outer robe back in 1997 (I think it was '97). There are notes attached to the photo, just click the photo to go to Clark's Flickr page and you can view the notes. Anyway, now I can join Clark in the 501st and the Old Line Garrison. Between us we have a total of five Star Wars costumes. Darth Vader, Storm Trooper, Royal Guard, Rebel Fleet Trooper and Han Solo. Soon we will increase that number to six, as Clark and I are working on an X-Wing pilot uniform. Total Star Wars geek out! May the Force be with you and us.
Posted by Will Burnham on Thu Mar 16, 2006 | Comment on this entry
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I also have an Imperial officer, TIE pilot and naval trooper in the pipeline.

Don't tell Kim.

Posted by: Clark on March 16, 2006 09:05 AM

Well that's a pretty creative use of a fishing rod! Looks good - especially the boots.

Clark, um, I'm pretty sure Kim can read so I'm guessing the cat's out of the bag :-)

May the force be with you guys!

Posted by: tea on March 16, 2006 02:56 PM

Tea,
I don't think that Kim reads our blogs. Too geeky for her.

Clark, guy code is in effect. Repeat, guy code is in effect! Set condition one throughout the ship!

That is all.

Posted by: Will Burnham on March 16, 2006 03:26 PM

B A D A S S !!!

Nice job Clark, Tom, Will

Star-Boy LIVES!

Posted by: mm on March 16, 2006 07:42 PM