Monthly Archives: February 2017

Stormtroopers Guard The Millennium Falcon. Great original work for the STAR WARS collector! This is a one of a kind original painting depicting a pair of imperial stormtroopers guarding Han Solo’s Millennium Falcon. While docked inside the Death Star. Great painting to add to your collection of Hot Toys, Medicom, Hasbro, Kenner or Sideshow Star Wars figures. This is an original painting signed by the artist, not a print. 18 x 36 inches. My paintings follow on the footsteps of exponents of pop art like Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein and work in a style that could be defined as photo- impressionistic. They are the main ground-force of the Galactic Empire, under the leadership of Emperor. And his commanders, most notably. Of the Stormtrooper Corps is unspecified in the Star Wars universe, but its numbers are far fewer than those of the Imperial Army’s regular troopers. Despite this, the apparently high combat effectiveness of the Stormtroopers as well as their harsh reputation serve as the main reasons for deploying the Stormtroopers almost exclusively in most of the military engagements of the Galactic Empire. The Stormtroopers are shown in collective groups of varying organizational sizes ranging from. To Stormtrooper legions, and for some, their Stormtrooper armor and training is modified for special operations and environments. The Stormtroopers’ most distinctive equipment is their white battle. Armor, inherited from their time as. The complete armor set completely encases the body and typically has no individually distinguishing marking (in contrast to the clone trooper armor, which typically had various colorings to denote rank or unit, Stormtrooper armor has no rank affiliation), Liz Moore and Nick Pemberton sculpted designs for the helmet. The Stormtrooper armor designs were based on conceptual drawings by. The armor pieces of the Stormtrooper costume were also designed from conceptual drawings by Ralph McQuarrie. Brian Muir, who was also responsible for sculpting Darth Vader, sculpted armor pieces for the stormtrooper costume in the Art Department at Elstree Studios. The Stormtrooper suit was molded and initially cast in plaster. Then Muir sharpened the detail at the plaster stage. The plaster casts were then remolded and cast in fibreglass to use as the “tools” for vacuum forming process. Stormtrooper suits were produced in house by Tashy Baines, the resident vacuum former, but then a problem developed with the machine. As Shepperton Design Studios had already been used to vacuum form the helmets, the fiberglass molds for the armor were then sent to them for vacuum forming the suits. By the end of production, two different Stormtrooper helmets were produced; one for the common stunt Stormtrooper and a second design for close-ups called hero Stormtrooper. Fifty Stormtrooper stunt helmets were produced in white-painted. And six hero helmets were produced in white. Besides the material used, the two Stormtrooper helmet designs can be differentiated by differences in the eyes, the ears, and the mouth area. The Stormtrooper armor has also been the subject of light humor for years regarding its functionality. This is due to it making its wearer easy to be seen, restricting his movement and range of vision, and seeming to offer no real protection from blaster fire. One possible explanation for its continued use is that its purpose is to protect against projectile weapons i. Automatic guns which have a much greater speed and rate of fire than blasters; because such weapons would be ineffective against the armor, they are never used. However a 2011 UK court decisions considered the Stormtrooper armor to be industrial design, which is only protected for 15 years, and thus the armor design is now in the public domain at least in the UK and probably throughout the European Union. The item “STAR WARS Stormtrooper Falcon Helmet Mask Blaster Movie Replicas Prop Art Agapop” is in sale since Monday, February 20, 2017. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Science Fiction & Horror\Star Wars\IV\Star Wars”. The seller is “aga65″ and is located in Newbury Park, California. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, to Japan, to China, SE, KR, ID, to Taiwan, ZA, TH, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, RU, IL, to Mexico, to New Zealand, SG, to Switzerland, NO, SA, UA, AE, QA, KW, BH, HR, MY, BR, CL, CO, CR, PA, TT, GT, HN, JM.

• Country/Region of Manufacture: United States