My Captain Rex

Here's my Captain Rex, both in Phase 1 AND Phase 2 versions.

Phase 1:




and Phase 2:




I also troop a range of optional extras - Jetpack, Deece long Deece short, helmet lamps (great for night time troops!) and helmet macrobinoculars on the Phase 2 helmet.

Excellent work! I hadn't seen the phase 2 version before- Would you have any pics of the helmet lamp & macrobinoculars? I love the variable equipment one can add to Captain Rex!

Very cool! Not wasting any time on the Phase 2 helmet!

Nice Work!

Outstanding! Thanks for the additional pics! The jetpack looks great! So, it hooks to two slots in your backplate-Sounds like a fairly simple arrangement- but if the slots are hidden by the pauldron when not using the JP, do you have a different pauldron to use when you have the JP?

Originally Posted by Bountys Hunted

do you have a different pauldron to use when you have the JP?

Nope. The slots are covered by the pauldron (made by General Fidelis) when no jetpack is worn. When the jetpack is worn most of the hooks are covered (if you could see it directly from above you'd see a bit of the hooks emerging from the pauldron). I'll see if I get chance to take some photos showing details at this weekends troop.

Pretty cool. Yours is the first phase 2 Rex I have seen kitted up. I know some others are working on it right now, but you appear to be the first.


One question though............why is that kid putting his gun in his mouth, I mean it couldn't have been that bad.

LMAO!

Yeah he was licking a sucker on the end of it and trying to shoot the troopers before they shot him. He was a little intimidated and didn't try to shoot me... I beleive I am the first to troop a Phase 2 Rex, was a little concerned it wouldn't get the recognition when out on a troop that my Phase 1 does - people not being that familiar with Phase 2 Rex yet - but aside from being called a Cyberman (robot from Dr Who!!) by one family, everyone knew I was Captain Rex (although a handful of kids called me Commander Rex - don't you just love instant promotions! lol)

Wow, nice work man. Weathering is top notch.

Very nice work man!!!

Originally Posted by dynamic1

Very nice work man!!!

Thanks Although I have to admit that despite the armour and the voice (I use a top quality voice amp and am good with accents), I am not a man... lol

Bummer about the migraine! That SUCKS!! No worries on not getting pics of the JP attachment system- another time! I really appreciate you taking the time to answer my questions!
I've got the Sideshow Captain Rex, which is what I was basing my armor on, save that it has a grey ammo belt...is this the only version with a grey one?

I have the sideshow Rex too and the belt on mine is also grey however - I altered mine a little to be as close I could to it. If you look at the promo images of Sideshow's Rex on their site you'll see it has a white belt with heavy weathering - which goes over the ab plate too. This is what I based mine on rather then the mass produced - cheating - start off grey belt the figures come with - Lucas film would've signed off on the one on the website imho.

Works for me! Good call

Looks Fantastic! Congratulations!!!!!!!

Leo

Here's some images taken at a recent photoshoot we did. In addition to my Phase 2 Rex costume they include a phase 2 Wolfpack Trooper and the worlds first Phase 2 Commander Wolffe, ALL from the upcoming Season 4 of The Clone Wars:

WAu super pics!!!!!!!!

Leo

Couple more for yu.





And because Wolffe is really a grumpy old west-country farmer....


GED ORF MY LAAND!!! (said with British West-Country accent!)

So in order to keep the blue around rex they made him his own helmet so it didnt look like **** thats interesting....I like it thuogh

Those are some fantastic kits. I do love that Rex. The details look great.

Wolffe looks ready to get a little country on some droids with that pitchfork. He's even throwing down a Jango pose with the tanks haha.

Looking good Jo. It always helps to have a few mates around when you're taking clone pic's, after all what's the point in being a clone if there's only one of you?

Look's good man!... sorry but I had to do this:

Yikes didnt even notice that until now. Creepy


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Killer images! Your Phase II Rex helmet looks great!

Was this a scratchbuild? Pep? Kit? I assume it's made of fiberglass.

My armour is a kit - actually several, it's vac-formed HIPs. The helmets are fibreglass. The blaster pistols I made, they are resin. The belt and pouches are a rubber kit and the jetpack is resin and fibreglass, modded by myself from a BFUK pack.

Your Phase II Rex helmet looks great!

Thanks, your helmet on CT.Net showed me it could be done on a realistic phase II lid.

Looking good!

Well new photo's have shown more detail on Rex

So I've added more detail to my helmet:

Awesome! I saw that pic the other day and saw the Neyo aerators too. I am wondering if his face-plate is like Neyo's too. The frown on this new Rex helmet is much more angular when compared to the new Phase-II grunts in the forthcoming Season Four. Looking awesome Orthar

Originally Posted by Replicant Shadow

Awesome! I saw that pic the other day and saw the Neyo aerators too. I am wondering if his face-plate is like Neyo's too. The frown on this new Rex helmet is much more angular when compared to the new Phase-II grunts in the forthcoming Season Four. Looking awesome Orthar

Thanks.
I'm not convinced on a Neyo faceplate. I have one of SGB's outstanding Neyo lids and the frown is considerably different to that on Rex. Even if you take into account the animated styling then compairing animated phase 2 Rex helmet with animated phase 2 Wolffe helmet - which is a confirmed Neyo style - they still look very different. Chances are the difference in the frown comes from the animators trying to fit a phase 1 T-visor into a phase 2 helmet. It's easy enough for us in reality (can speak from experiance there) but computers have an annoying habit of moving one area when you alter another connected point.



Got to count the tallys on the left arm and finish the light blue stripe on the sides of the chest plate

Dave Filoni has said that Rex's helmet is custom. Rex cuts up his old and new helmets and combines them, making his 1 of a kind.

Agreed, I'd say the phase I visor and extra aerators certainly manage a unique "Captain Rex" look.

Great looking Rex! Like the idea of rare earth magnets to hold the macros to the bucket.

Very nice costume!!

Originally Posted by stormtrooperguy

Dave Filoni has said that Rex's helmet is custom. Rex cuts up his old and new helmets and combines them, making his 1 of a kind.

I remeber That At the SDCC panel

thats a sick costume

I'm working on a rex also (animated film version with jetpack). I was wondering if you get a chance could you post some pix of the mounting system you're using for your jetpack. I know you said the mounts are concealed by the pauldron when not wearing the pack but what do you do about the pauldron while wearing the pack?

I'm using OSCS Phase I armor/bucket, GF pauldron, and a BFUK jango arena jetpack.


Thanks :-)

I'm trooping this Saturday to support the Royal British Legion's Poppy Appeal. I wasn't planning on taking the jetpack but I will and will get some photos taken of how the jetpack sits with the pauldron - which is also a GF pauldron.

Here's an image of the hook attachment:



As you can see, the paint cracked but as it only occured on the inside, which is never seen; I didn't worry about it.

As you can see the pack is a BFUK - the mods I did for the pack (it was originally a Boba pack) prompted Rob (BFUK) to make his arena packs. As my pauldron is an Ep3 pauldron it's not as long in the rear as the animated version, so there is likely to be some differences.

Nice. Thank you for responding so quickly! I like the hook attachment. It's got me thinking :-)

Good luck with the troop this weekend!

Love it. I'm hoping to see Fox this season so I can make a realistic version of him. If not, it'll have to be non-canon, cuz I gotta do it.

Hope to see more pics from your Next troops!

Originally Posted by sweeper

Hope to see more pics from your Next troops!

Ok,

Here's a few:

Being interviewed by the BBC:

congrats, Shoplifting will not be tolerated

Just got a copy of Star Wars The Essential Guide To Warfare and found I'm in it!!!


This is my armour (as was)!

I like I said on FB that's so cool! You are now part of the official SW mythos!

That is amazing. really impressed

I Love the funny pics haha the One with the fork is my favorite

ummmm................cool.

Very cool!!!! Nice job!!!

How did you build that phase 2 Rex? That this is awesome. It almost makes me want to stop my boba and start the PH2 Rex. It will definitely be my next build.

Originally Posted by Jc27

How did you build that phase 2 Rex? That this is awesome. It almost makes me want to stop my boba and start the PH2 Rex. It will definitely be my next build.

Thanks, nice of you to say.

Most of the armour is bozotheclone movie clone armour. Most people use animated but I wanted my Rex to look real. To that I added Steelblitz parts - belt and straps and holsters. The pauldron was from General Fidelis from Ct.net and is easily the nicest pauldron I've yet seen, comes pre painted and he really went to town on it. Added to that is a real MP40 leather pouch - my rom/fx voice amp sits in that with the speaker behind my chestplate and the sound effects buttons run down my sleeves to my fingers. The kama I made from black pleather with some iron on blue hemming material to edge it correctly. The pistols I made myself, along with the rifles.
The helmet is from Skip here in the UK, and I modded the visor using P38 - bondo for my American readers. The range-finder array is one of bobamakers - it fits to where I flattened the ear cap, with a couple of small tabs to stop it from moving too far to the front or back. The helmet has the seam line where Rex added his phase 1 visor to it, cut in using a dremel - slightly nerve wrecking!
The jetpack is a Fett jetpack from BFUK that I modded extensively, when Rob saw what I had done to it, he set about making his own version to sell.
The whole thing is finished off with a internal back plate mounted speaker, transmitter and mp3 player that not only allows me to play the 2hr long clone trooper radio chatter I created, on a loop, but also to transmit it to any nearby clone trooper with a radio inside their armour!

That is awesome. I recently was at an event with GF so next time I see him ill ask him about starting a Rex, since he did one already.