The Mandalorians (our Costumes)

Callista said:
Your codpiece pattern looks rather threatening....like the eyes butterflies have on thiere wings to scare predators away.....is that pettern there for that reason:confused ;)
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I could make a very out o taste joke about keeping girls away from my ravishing looks, but i will hold my tongue in check for now...

I asked the painter of my armour to help create a symbol for me, and he asked my permission to do his own thing on the codpiece to stop it from looking plain. And here you see the finished product. I love it because it looks nasty and threatening in a tribal kind of way
 
Kantis Nolef said:
Is there anyone else that has done a desert scheme for their armor?
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I have an army mate over here in aus that s doing an aus pattern desert camo mando, and its lookin really really hot. he is going for the desert sniper look, ill get some pics when its looking abit more up to scratch
 
Why have desert Mandos? wouldn't they just be infantry who happen to be stationed in the desert? Our soldiers in Iraq are called Marines, not Desert Troopers. Police Mandos also seem to serve no purpose in the Mando'ade culture.
 
I'd hate to think of myself as a "criminal Mandalorian," perhaps a scoundrel would be better as I walk that razors edge between good and bad...Even the classification of scoundrel hardly describes me as myself and my clan does everything from assassinations to helping provide weapons and ships (that we steal from all across the galaxy) for the Rebels during the Rebellion, to coming to Boba Fett's call during the Vong war-and that's but a bit of what my clan does...So how would one classify my Mando?

 
GCNgamer128 said:
Why have desert Mandos? wouldn't they just be infantry who happen to be stationed in the desert? Our soldiers in Iraq are called Marines, not Desert Troopers. Police Mandos also seem to serve no purpose in the Mando'ade culture.
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I call mine "desert" so people will know why I chose the tan colors, just as Darth Valcar calls his a "jungle sniper" since he's using the basic woodland camo. I agree with you that we don't call them "desert troops" but we do have different uniforms for different climates. Using a title like that also makes a conversation quicker when explaining your costume;

"What are you?" "I'm a desert Mando" "Ah, cool"

instead of

"What are you?" "I'm a Mandalorian" "Why are you tan colored?" "Because I'm from the desert" "Ah, ok"
 
This is my 2 different color schemes for my Assassin/Bounty Hunter Mandalorian

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Kantis Nolef said:
I call mine "desert" so people will know why I chose the tan colors, just as Darth Valcar calls his a "jungle sniper" since he's using the basic woodland camo. I agree with you that we don't call them "desert troops" but we do have different uniforms for different climates. Using a title like that also makes a conversation quicker when explaining your costume;

"What are you?" "I'm a desert Mando" "Ah, cool"

instead of

"What are you?" "I'm a Mandalorian" "Why are you tan colored?" "Because I'm from the desert" "Ah, ok"
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that may work in conventions and events, but you guys are talking about military and such.
 
Well if it works at conventions and events, then why even critisize it? That's really all we do in these costumes. You aren't going all Clam Lord on me, are you? :p
 
I think that no matter what we dress like, be it Sniper, Army, whatever..... we al look good..... and most of all each to there own...... Mando's R Mando's........
 
I didnt say anyone didnt look good, you guys are trying to classify us all in a military type of thing, so in the military people dont call themselves "Desert Troopers" or "Water Troopers" if they go for a swim now do they?

I didnt say anyone didnt look good, NO IDEA where you got that one, and I can critisize it if I choose so.
 
They're basing a made-up military structure on the real world military sturcture. They're not copying it. It isn't constrained to the real world military, it's made up.

Also I didn't say you couldn't critisize. By all means do.
 
I say desert because when I finish Jango my custome will have a life support pack with a special helmet filtration set up similair to the "predator" mando.
 
Cylrul Pbz said:
I didnt say anyone didnt look good, you guys are trying to classify us all in a military type of thing, so in the military people dont call themselves "Desert Troopers" or "Water Troopers" if they go for a swim now do they?

I didnt say anyone didnt look good, NO IDEA where you got that one, and I can critisize it if I choose so.
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Then remember that this is also Star Wars based, where we have Scout Troopers, Snow Troopers, Storm Troopers, Sand Troopers, etc. Sounds to me like people are using the traditional Star Wars terms with there own twist, which validates them as they are making Star Wars based costumes.
 
GCNgamer128 said:
Why have desert Mandos? wouldn't they just be infantry who happen to be stationed in the desert? Our soldiers in Iraq are called Marines, not Desert Troopers. Police Mandos also seem to serve no purpose in the Mando'ade culture.
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Why would you say Police Mandos would serve no purpose?
Are you implying Mandolorian culture in anarchist?

I don't know too many civilized cultures that don't have laws - and therein - some way to enforce them. Anarchy and anarchism doesn't work in large social environments - ever. Heirarchies form. Ruling bodies form. Then rules are made. And someone ALWAYS rises who enforces the rules. Its the standard order of human society. And while yes - we're talking "other worlds" scenarios --- one could if not should presume a natural order would likewise arise out of chaos and anarchy.

Maybe "police" is too defining and restricting a concept. Maybe it'd be much better/dramatic for dramatic effect to have a class called: "Mandalorian Regulators".

Maybe they are the "Judge Dredd's" of the Mandalorian culture. Empowered by the ruling bodies. Clan leaders. Elite descendants of Mandalore himself. If you do something dishonorable to discredit the Mandalorian name, or your clan's name - under the "Uniform Mandalorian Code of Conduct" or system however loose it is - and face the possibility of being hunted, captured, prosecuted, and even perhaps terminated by said "Regulators". Maybe they'll just strip you of your armor, your rank, and your clanship --- or maybe they'll send you to serve in a Hutt compound.

Either way - you break the code - you face The Regulators.

I'm just free-styling here with the thought pattern...
I'm just saying --- there would likely be SOME form of "behavior control / legal enforcement" of Mandalorians one would think.
 
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