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Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
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Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:58:27 GMT
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in article G9Lzsq.5A9@lugnet.com, Joel Jacobsen wrote:

Also faked an AT-AT driver using a Stormtrooper w/ grey arms, white hands,
grey legs, and grey waist... Doesn't look half bad...

DaveE

Hmm..why not just use the Tie Fighter pilot? Aren't they pretty close, too?
And already black and all. My mind's eye is seeing the AT-AT drivers as
being basically the same as the Tie Pilot in color and such.

Huh? ATAT drivers wore gray and white. They had hoses on their helmets
similar to the TIE pilots, but the resemblance ends there.

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  Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
 
(...) Actually, AT-AT pilots wear *exactly* the same outfit as TIE Pilots, except the color scheme. eric (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
 
(...) I agree! Who was it who made the figurines and vehicles in the late 70s/early 80s? Kenner? I forget. Anyways, I had an At-At, with the hand-thingamabob in the body that allowed you to move the head and fire the light-up laser cannons. The (...) (24 years ago, 4-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
 
(...) Well.... yeah. I was actually thinking more of the helmets being basically the same. It's been a while since I last watched Ep5, so I wouldn't begin to claim I have the colors right. I just knew that white didn't seem quite right for the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)
  Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
 
I've madethis point to Dave before, but I'll air it in the open as well. I use the Tie Fighter pilots in my AT-AT, and I can justify it to myself, at least ;) The AT-AT drivers we see in ESB are in gray and white - but, one can also see that the (...) (24 years ago, 7-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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  Re: Custom fig idea- snow troopers
 
(...) Sounds pretty close, to me. Of course you'd need to find white cloth, right? I haven't watched Ep5 in a few months, but I seem to recall they had cloaks as well....? (...) Hmm..why not just use the Tie Fighter pilot? Aren't they pretty close, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Mar-01, to lugnet.starwars)

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