Snowspeeder Pilot (Episode V)

Flight Suit

Required Details:

• Orange medium-to-heavy weight matte fabric with no sheen one-piece flight suit/coveralls. Heavy cotton twill recommended.

• Flight suit has a front zipper that is hidden by a strip of the same material as the flight suit that is approximately 2.5 cm (1″) wide

• Flight suit is devoid of visible zippers or snaps.

• Flight suit has two upper thigh pockets with curved openings, one on each leg, positioned close to the outer side seam of pant leg. Width is approx. ¾ the width of the pant leg lying flat, height is taller than width by a couple inches.

• Flight suit has two middle thigh pockets with rectangular flap closures, one on each leg, positioned immediately below upper thigh pockets and similarly close to outer side seam of pant leg. Width is the same as width of upper thigh pockets, height is taller than width by approx. 2.5 cm (1″)

• All rectangular flap closures have a height that covers the top ¼ height of the pocket.

• Flight suit pant legs are tucked into boots.

Optional Details:

• Mandarin-style collar with pointed tab closure, closing from wearer’s left to right with the exposed tab extending to the right side of the neck.

• Code cylinder pocket on outside of the wearer’s upper middle left arm, centered to the shoulder seam with slots for 5 code cylinders. Pocket is rectangular, width is a bit over 12.5 cm (5″) with seams between code cylinders 2.5 cm (1″) apart, height is slightly taller than the width by approx. 2.5 cm (1″)

• Comm pad pocket is on the outside of wearer’s left forearm above the wrist, centered to the shoulder seam and placed approximately halfway between the wrist and elbow. Open window is large enough for most of comm pad to be visible, border approx. 2.5 cm (1″) around all sides around window.

• Rectangular pocket with a rectangular flap closure on upper-middle of wearer’s right arm, centered to the shoulder seam. Width is nearly the width of arm if lying flat, height is taller than the width by a couple inches.

• There is a horizontal seam or double-topstitched line on the front of the flight suit that runs across the upper chest.

• There are two vertical seams or double-topstitched lines that run from the upper chest (horizontal seam) to waist seam centered on each side of the chest Mandarin-style collar closes with Velcro.

• Cuffs close similar to the Mandarin-style collar with Velcro.

• There is a shoulder gusset in the back on each side.

• Top and bottom portions of the flight suit are connected with an approximately 5 cm (2″) wide strip of material the same as the flight suit that wraps around the flight suit. This fabric has slight ruching in the back.

• There are two chest pockets with a height starting at approximately center on the chest and extending to the waist, and width from the center of either side of the chest and wrapping around the sides of the torso with curved openings, one on each side.

• Flight suit has two pockets on wearer’s shins with rectangular flap closures, one on each leg, positioned similarly close to outer side seam of pant leg as upper and middle thigh pockets. Width and height measurements matches the middle thigh pockets. 

Flight Jacket

Required Details:

• Orange puffy jacket made of sport nylon or similar fabric.

• Jacket has semi-circular, thickly padded, rounded collar.

• Jacket closes with a hidden fastener of velcro or other hidden fastener that is hidden by a strip of the same material as the flight jacket and is approximately 2.5 cm (1″) wide closing from wearer’s left to right.

• The Box pleated sleeves approx. ½” width beginning the neck and ending approx. 8” above the hem.

• Sleeves have orange box pleats the same color and material as the rest of the jacket that extend from the bottom of the collar to a few inches above the wearer’s wrist on each arm.

• Each pleat is approximately 12.5 mm (½″) wide.

• The pleating is inset with a seam along the edges.

• The strip of pleats are about ½” the width of the wearer’s arm when jacket is flat, approximately 7.5 cm (3″) wide.

• Jacket is devoid of visible pockets.

• Vertical top-stitched seams on front and back of jacket.

• Jacket is approximately hip to upper thigh length.

Optional Details:

• There is a rank badge pocket on the wearer’s left chest that is approximately (4”) wide and (3”) tall with an opening approximately (2.5”) wide and (1.75”) tall.

Flight Vest

Required Details:

• Flak vest consists of a front and back panel made of a white material (ballistic nylon or similar fabric).

• Flak vest is contoured to fit over the chest and back where the two panels are of a similar shape and size.

• Font and back panels are connected at the top by shoulder straps approximately 5 cm (2") wide that extend over the shoulders.

• Shoulder straps are sewn in place to the inside of the flak vest panels,

• Front and back panels connect at the bottom sides with straps of approximately 2.5 cm (1") webbing similar in color to the vest.

• Left and right straps meet in the center and are adjusted with a black “strap adjuster” style buckle.

• The excess strap lengths are either trimmed to length or tucked into the track to present a neat appearance.

• Bottom of front and back panels are approximately even.

• Front and back panels cover approximately half of the torso with significant flight suit visible between the belt and panels.

• Front and back panels have a series of horizontal ribs created by inserting 6.5 mm (¼") tubing (or similar sized material) through fabric tubes prepared for the tubing.

• Ribs are separated from each other by a space that is the same width as a finished rib

• Ribs on the front and back panels stop approximately 2.5 cm (1") from each side

• Front Panel Details:

  •  Front panel is worn with the top of the panel at the base of the jacket collar

  • Front panel has approximately 13-14 equally spaced ribs at the top

  • Immediately below the 13-14 top ribs, there is a gap approximately 3 cm (1.25") with a track for webbing that is open in the center showing approximately 10 cm (4") of webbing where the webbing connects with a black “strap adjuster” style buckle.

  • There are 2 ribs below the track

• Back Panel Details:

  • Back panel is worn approximately 5 cm (2") below the collar

  • Back panel has 2 equally spaced rib at the top (near the collar)

  • Immediately below the two top ribs, there is a flat wide area (“The Gap”) with approximately 8 horizontal rows of top stitching that are approximately 6.5 mm (¼") apart, for a total of approximately 5 cm (2") of flat area

  • Remainder of back panel contains 8-9 ribs that continue to the bottom edge of the back panel

• Note: This flak vest is the same as the traditional x-wing pilot flak vest but worn backwards. 

Chest Box

Required Details:

Note: All direction descriptions of the chest box are when looking at the box from from the front

• Grey rectangular box made of a hard, smooth material that is approximately 18.5 cm (7.25") tall and 14.5 cm (5.75") wide

• Top of box has a white, hollow, flat disk (sticker), approximately 15 mm (0.6") in diameter

• Left side of box has a black vertical rectangle with small vertical rectangle cutout on the left side

• Black vertical rectangle has a white 3.2 mm (⅛") pinstripe border off center to the right

• Black rectangle has 2 raised acrylic or similar material 2.5 cm (1") square buttons at the top inside the pinstripe that match an approved color scheme

• Black rectangle has a metal or metal-like silver round disc with cone knob, approximately 2.5 cm (1") in diameter, centered vertically on the black rectangle and off center to the right horizontally

• Rectangle has a metal or metal-like male silver snap, approximately 12.5 mm (½") in diameter, just below the knob and to the left horizontally

• Chest box has a white 3.2 mm (⅛") pinstripe square approximately ¼ of the box in the upper right corner

• Square has 3 raised acrylic or similar material 2.5 cm (1") square buttons in the top left, top right, and bottom right quadrants that match an approved color scheme

• There are rocker switches below the square that match an approved color scheme identified below.

• Outside rockers have a black dot centered on the top portion of the rocker

• Middle rocker has a black dot centered on the bottom portion of the rocker

• Rocker switches have separation between them

• There are 2 channels in the grey box below the outside switches

• There is a ribbed grey hose approximately 2.5-3 cm (1–1.25″) diameter that attaches at the left-bottom of the box with the other end connected to the wearer’s flight suit in an approved configuration with a black elbow joint

• Chest box is secured around the collar and the back with olive webbing straps

• Strap around the collar is void of fasteners and connects to the chest box at the top corners

• Chest box is worn with the top of the box sitting within 2 inches of the collar and has the bottom strap passing over the flak vest in the front.

• Strap around the back has a silver “strap adjuster” style buckle approximately centered on the wearer’s back and sits below the flak vest.

• Excess strap is either trimmed or otherwise tucked to present a neat appearance

Optional Details:

• Strap around the back has a screen accurate silver Roko Buckle

• Three flat white squares on the top of the raised portion top of the chest box, approximately 6.5×6.5 mm (.25″x.25″). Starting from the left side of the raised portion of the top of the chest box: 2 squares next to each other with a 3 mm (⅛”) gap between them and the third square with more space after it to right end of the raised portion of the top of the chest box. 

Hose Attachment Configurations:

• Option 1: Hose tucks into the wearer’s left curved pocket of the flight suit.

• Option 2: Hose tucks into the wearer’s right curved pocket of the flight suit.

• Other hose attachment configurations will be accepted with a reference photo during submission with noted source of the photo 

Chest Box Color Schemes:

• Option 1

  • Black rectangle has 2 raised white acrylic square buttons

  • Square has 3 acrylic square buttons with white on top left, and blue on the right top and bottom

  • There are 3 rocker switches with white on the outsides and grey in the middle.

• Option 2

  • Black rectangle has 2 raised white acrylic square buttons

  • Square has 3 acrylic square buttons with white on top left, and blue on the right top and bottom.

  • There are 2 rocker switches with the left most missing, white in the middle, and grey on the right.

• Option 3

  • Black rectangle has 1 raised acrylic square button, left missing and white on the right 

  • Square has 3 acrylic square buttons with white on top left, and blue on the right top and bottom.

  • There are 3 rocker switches with white on the outsides and grey in the middle.

• Option 4

  • Black rectangle has 2 raised white acrylic square buttons

  • Square has 3 acrylic square buttons with white on top left, red on right top, and green on right bottom

  • There are 3 rocker switches with white on the outsides and grey in the middle.

• Other Chest Box color schemes will be accepted with a canon reference photo during submission and noted source of the photo

Belt

Required Details:

• Belt is made of silver gray webbing that is approximately 5 cm (2″) wide and the same as the harness.

• Belt is closed with a 5 cm (2″) silver/gray roll pin (British roll pin) style belt buckle that is centered.

• Free end of the belt is looped around the slide so that the excess belt is on the inside of the belt and secured.

• Left and right sides of the belt contain 6 vertical webbing loops for mini belt flares with both sets visible when facing front.

• The webbing loops are either the same or slightly darker in color compared to the belt.

• Belt is worn over the jacket and sits approximately at waist level. 

Flight Harness

Required Details:

• Harness is made of silver gray webbing that is approximately 5 cm (2") wide.

• Lower part of the harness falls (or loop) just below the inseam (or crotch area).

• Two loops of strapping are connected to the front-back strapping at the lowest part of the front-back loop and loop around each leg, drooping no lower than the knees.

• Front and back harness straps extend up the torso and continue under the jacket. 

Gloves

Required Details:

• Weathered white or light gray leather or leather-like gauntlets gloves that go to midforearm

• Wearer’s left gauntlet has comm pad

Glove Comm Pad

Required Details:

• Glove comm pad is white, thin rectangular base with teeth on the left edge, triangular slope, and a gold screen rectangle in the center of the slope.

• Glove comm pad is approximately 5 cm (1.75″) wide and 4 cm (1.5″) tall.

• Glove comm pad is attached to the center of the gauntlet of the wearer’s left glove.

• Glove comm pad is oriented with the teeth facing to the wearer’s wrist 

Leg Flare Holder with Original Trilogy Specific Leg Flares

Required Details:

• Flare holder is made of olive drab or black canvas or similar material approximately 10 cm (4″) tall and long enough to fit around the leg just above the visible portion of the boot

• Running the center of the holder is a thinner strap of the same material sectioned off into 8 loops

• Each holder loop contains a leg flare

• Holder loops are spaced equidistant around the leg

• Leg flares are silver metallic in appearance and may be made of metal or wood painted to appear as metal

• Leg flares are approximately 10 cm (4″) tall

• Leg flares can be worn on either leg

• Leg flare holder is positioned with the bottom edge resting on the top of the visible portion of the boot so there is no gap between the flare holder and the top of the boot

Boots

Option 1 – Black Leather Boots 

Required Details:

• Leather or leather-like pull-on style “Engineer”, “Jack”, “cavalry”, or “riding” boots (may require the flight suit bloused sufficiently to make the boots appear shorter).

• Visible height of the boots reach approximately to the bottom of the wearer's calf.

• Boots are largely unadorned with no visible embossed or painted branding.

• Boots have a wide, rounded toe in the style of a military jack boot.

• Boots have low heels, approximately 2.5 cm (1″) tall.

• Boots are devoid of visible laces, buckles, straps, or other ornamentation.

• Boots are devoid of visible front and outside zippers or other large vertical seams.

Optional Details:

• Boots may have a black zipper hidden or on the inside of the boot

• Small buckle at top edge of boot allowed 

Option 2 – Grey Hoth-style Boots

Required Details:

• Weathered white, ecru, or light gray moccasins

• Tan or gray gaiters are worn over moccasins or attached to shoe

• Gaiters are constructed as funnel. It is closed by pulling two white strips the width of the foot toward each other, folding the center front, then strapped.

• 3 white straps are connected to the back of the gaiter by one rivet each.

• Front of strap is secured with Velcro.

• Gaiters may be worn over boots instead of moccasins if there are no visible laces, straps, or zippers 

Weathering

Required Details:

• All costume parts have moderate weathering, especially the Jacket, flak vest, chest box, gloves, and helmet.

Face Character

Required Details:

• Helmet with paint scheme matching authentic quality to include details and weathering to face character

• All optional costume items match face character (ex. number of code cylinders, belt flares, etc)

• Weathering matches face character costume

• Hair and other unique features match face character

Note: Provide face character reference photos with submission 

X-wing Pilot Helmet

Required Details:

• Helmet has a Mohawk design and raised side panels.

• Mohawk has a trapezoidal cap on the front with universe related design.

• Helmet has an amber or grey translucent visor lens covering the eyes this is fixed or movable.

• Helmet has a white chin cup held in place with a black elastic strap secured to the inside of the helmet on both sides and either threaded through the chin cup or attached to the end of the chin cup on each side.

• Helmet has black weather stripping around the “ears” and neck borders.

• Helmet is devoid of visible buttons or covers that are not present in reference photos.

• Helmet style, décor, pinstriping, and paint scheme fits in the Star Wars universe.

• Helmet is devoid of modern-world or other sci-fi-fantasy genre images.

• Helmet is proportional to the wearer.

• If submission includes a face character helmet paint scheme, it must be submitted as a face character with all accompanying costume details and the helmet must be of authentic quality to include details and weathering.

Optional Details:

• Helmet has a solid gray or white boom mic shaft with a pill sized silver tip mic attached to the wearer’s right side

• Helmet has dark tan earcups

• Other schemes or details will be accepted with a reference photo during submission

Note: Helmet must be approved prior to use at any Rebel Legion event 

Flight Cap

Required Details:

• Flight cap is made from light tan twill, cotton, or similar material that fits the wearer.

• There are ear cups on the inside of the cap that present a padded appearance on the outside but are devoid of visible stitching.

• Cap edges are finished with matching bias tape.

Optional Details:

• There is a single brown chin strap made of twill or similar material that is approximately 13mm (½”) wide sewn to the wearer’s bottom of cap and attaches to the inside left with Velcro or other hidden fastener.