PillowFire said:
1.I didn't realise they had enough to make an army, AND WERE organized enough to do so, AND create parades and marching bands....
2.however, our armor is much more complex, and from what it looks like, they are probably mass producing kits for each of their members to have that many troopers with such identical looking armor
3.our armor is hand-crafted, much tougher to make, and reflects on the fact that a few of us spartans can take out their entire armada of storm troopers
4.if we can get at least 50 spartans all organized with HIGH-QUALITY hand crafted stuff that is in a standardized patteren, we can match them easily.
5.What is more impressive, especually today after the constant storm trooper parades, 50 amazing looking spartans with ID numbers, and different helms and colors to reflect the type of spartan (cqb, eva, ect) all marching organized with matching weaps, or an army of storm troopers with identical white, mass production copy armor.
6.Add to that our female members whom we can dress up as different female AI, and put them in female spartan costumes that make people know they are female somehow, as well as a few vehicles and we will be pwning
In response....
1. They have over 2,000 members all over the world. (501st)
They have garrisons, and detachments, and a forum for each garrison/detachment/squad/armor type...etc...etc
EG: Bikerscout.net,
http://imperialgunnercorps.netfirms.com/,
http://501stacd.com/ ..etc..etc
2. While Spartan armor is very complex in comparison to stormtrooper armor or clonetrooper armor. It is generic just like the clonetrooper/stormtrooper armor. All the spartans are the same as well. In shape and type. Other than color...
The clonetroopers make up for it with painted ranks and such. EG: 41st Elite, 501st Legion, Parjai troopers..etc...etc
3. Here's the difference, our armor is one of three different types.
Slushcasted Armor, Vacuum formed armor, or Pepakura armor. Our armor must be molded piece by piece.
Stormtrooper armor and Clone Trooper armor is vacuum formed, and therefore can just be made quickly - Piece by Piece
EG: Vacuum form 10 hand plates at a time, Vacuum form 4 thigh pieces at a time...etc...etc
Stormtrooper and Clone Trooper armor come in the form of kits and are assembled like "lifesize" model kits..
Stormtrooper and Clone Trooper armor comes in three types, HIS - High Impact Styrene, PVC - Plastic, and ABS Plastic.
It is formed in .60 and .90 mm plastic layers.
4. It is VERY difficult for everyone's pepakura armor to look the same, so a standardized armor set would be very difficult, unless we made kits we could sell to the group here for them to assemble it...
That is why the 501st has armor "vendors" - guys responsible for the "kits" that they "give out" and that is how the armor is standardized..
They have abbreviations for their armor "vendors" so that they don't get in trouble with lucas...for propmaking...selling..
For example Stormtrooper armor - FX, RT-Mod, AP, TE-2, TM, AA/SDS, or even MFX, the FX can be modded for elite status, but is a real pain in the butt, the TE-2 is made out of the same materials as the real suits from the movies so has a crisper pull than the others, but needs to be painted and trimmed extesively, and is one of the hardest if not the hardest armors to assemble..but the TM is a top notch original concept of the ANH suit, so if you were to do an Elite ANH I'd go TM, but an AP, TE-2, and RT mod have been tweaked into having a more ANH look to them, but it all depends on your body type, your budget, time, and the level of accuracy you are shooting for.
5. You have to realize...there's less of a Halo fanbase, versus the size of the Star Wars fanbase. So...it's a guarantee that whenever you see a stormtrooper...or any actual GOOD costume from the Star Wars movies, you will be in awe.
While 50 spartans would be impressive....not everyone would know the spartans..
The stormtroopers on the other hand are well known. And it's an arguable point, but that's my opinion.
6. And on the female side...there are female clonetroopers, stormtroopers..
This...proves my point :
Oh and Christi, by the way..I think I'm gonna get you a fem stormtrooper suit for your birthday
