u/idrownedmyfish77

It’s been awhile since I played Elite Squadron but I’ve been thinking about these two lately. If I remember correctly, the game starts with them training troopers on Tattooine, but then they take part in the Battle of Coruscant and then the Siege of Cato Nemoidia, alongside a detachment of the 501st (the unfinished BFIII cutscenes depict most ordinary clones as 501st, I don’t know if that’s just reused assets from BF2 or if they’re meant to be 501st, I really don’t remember how they looked in ES). Were they officers in the 501st? Were they part of the Special Operations Brigade?

As a sidenote, I always thought their story was a bit weird to start with, being cloned from Jedi stock and all. I can 100% see the Aiwha bait taking DNA from an injured Jedi for research purposes like that, but to then create clones based on him and send them along to the Republic along with the Jango clones just feels… weird. I’d think they’d keep them on Kamino for study, or even try to get them to overtly train with a Jedi to see if they could unlock their abilities.

It feels weird that apparently she’s close enough with all of them that a whole company decided to paint their helmets in her honor after she came back. The only time I could imagine she’d have interacted with someone other than Rex would be in “Duel of the Droids” or “Cargo of Doom” where maybe she interacted with Denal. But I haven’t watched either episode in so long that I honestly couldn’t say.

She’s conspicuously absent in the episodes that show character development and growth among individual clones, like The Deserter or the Umbara Arc, so we never see her interact with Jesse, Hardcase, Kix, Dogma, or Tup. She’s MIA during the invasion of Kamino, meaning we don’t see her interact with Fives or Echo, and even in the Citadel Arc where she fights side by side with the Domino boys, there isn’t any direct interactions between them and her.

But then Season 7 comes out and suddenly she’s friends with all of them, she goes out of her way to rescue a clone pilot who is crashing, she’s saddened at Vaughn’s death, and she rescues Jesse from Maul. Then we get Tales which shows she knew Jesse since the immediate aftermath of the movie.

I recently picked up the Obi-Wan and Airborne Trooper 2 pack on sale and since I don’t currently have very many clone troopers, it’s made me want to focus on the 212th. I plan on picking up Anakin’s and Cody when that one goes on sale, and I’d like to pick up the 212th 4 pack at some point as well. I got the Umbra Operative ARC to go with because of his orange markings, I think he’d make a good officer for a 212th Shadow Trooper unit

Since I apparently collect the wrong scale action figures. So far only Hunter and Crosshair have official 3.75” action figures, while the whole squad exists in 6” and some of them even have multiple different figures

For my first custom figure, I made a redesigned take of Echo after he joined the Bad Batch, but if he opted to use standard Katarn class armor instead of a modified version of his Phase II ARC Trooper armor, inspired by artwork created by u/leadius.

My version retains some of his unique visual style however, using the Tsukumo helmet as it gave a more “cyborg” vibe in my opinion, not dissimilar to his modified phase 2 helmet seen in the show.

Every clone commando is competently trained in demolitions, marksmanship, battlefield medicine, and hacking, with each member of a squad specializing in one of the above tasks. Given the nature of his cybernetic implants, Echo shares the role of squad hacker with CT-9902 “Tech”, which is reflected in canon by them having the same style of backpack with added communication antennas. For my version, I opted to give Echo a backpack more similar to that worn by RC-1140, “Fixer” from Delta Squad. While Tech is eccentric and somewhat goofy like the rest of the Batch, like Fixer, Echo is gruff and grumpy, and overall disinterested in his squad’s shenanigans.

Also like Fixer, Echo appears to be the unofficial second in command of his particular squad, taking over when Hunter is captured by Crosshair in the penultimate episode of season 1. Thus, Echo receives two dots on the left side of his chest plate, similar to Fixer.

One last note about my custom version, I opted to give him shoulder plates inspired by the comic book “Star Wars Tales #22, Honor Bound,” for no other reason than because I think they look cool. The shoulders, helmet and backpack all came from Wilson Works 3D on Etsy, and the scomp link arm is from Coruscant Customs on Etsy. All 3D pieces were painted by my wonderful fiancee.

I think I’ve finally figured out exactly what how I want to finish off my army. In the Special Forces squad, I want to add two white scout troopers, one with a sniper rifle and the other with a baton (Rick the Door Technician).

I used a Rocket Trooper with an E-11 for the infantry squad’s commander, because there were a couple stormtrooper commanders in the first season of Rebels with red pauldrons (picture included). I’m going to finish that section with a stormtrooper heavy from Fallen Order, Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper disguise (one of the stormtroopers already here is secretly Han Solo 🤫) and two more Jumptroopers

At the moment we’re only missing the scomp link hand, and when that’s here and painted, I’ll assemble the full figure

When I ordered the Remnant Stormtrooper single carded figure, I didn’t realize that I got the carbonized version. He was a couple bucks cheaper than the other listing on Amazon so I went for the cheaper one.

I still have some gaps obviously, I’m planning on getting the new Sandtrooper to put with the Remnant, along with Luke Skywalker in Stormtrooper Disguise (one of the Stormtroopers is actually Han Solo 🤫), a rocket stormtrooper and heavy stormtrooper from Jedi Survivor, and two more Rocket troopers.

I’m also planning on doing at least one more Electrostaff Purge trooper, two purge troopers from Kenobi, and Marrok

Okay so for context, she has a condition that limits her hand strength and that’s what put this firearm on my radar in the first place. Currently her only gun is a Walther P22 and it’s hit or miss as far as reliability goes, probably because that’s the nature of .22LR. I’ve had her shoot my PPK in .380, but it hurts her hands too much for that to be a viable option, so this puts us in the awkward category of small and relatively difficult to find calibers like .25 ACP or .32 ACP. Which I know all of the above are considered anemic by many of us, but I’d rather her carry and be proficient with something. .25 is a pain to find and expensive when you find it, but PSA has .32 for sale for around 60 cents per round for target ammo, good enough. What are our thoughts on this gun? Any other suggestions?

I needed a neck ball joint for my custom Echo figure and saw this guy up for sale like new on Amazon. Two days later and I have my ball joint, a unique night trooper variant, and a pile of extra pieces. Bonus pic of my fiancee enjoying this just as much as I do

The original art work was done by u/leadius, we didn’t follow it exactly obviously, but I love the idea of it. I thought the Star Wars Visions helmet gave off a good “cyborg” vibe. The helmet and the other pieces I ordered are from Wilson Works 3D on Etsy. I ordered another Crosshair figure for it, but I didn’t want to mess with my existing figure until I had the other one in hand

I decided it’s going to be between a fanon redesign of Echo or Honnid’s interpretation of Corr from the Republic Commando books. I bought the helmet in the last slide because for reasons I can’t explain it has a cyborg vibe to it.

For Echo, I’d paint the helmet with a bad batch color scheme and stick it on an official Hunter body.

For Corr, I’d paint the helmet all black, and use a regular clone trooper body, but painted up with a bomb squad color pattern (or black potentially based on what yall think) with Dark Trooper hands. I won’t worry about the gunner pieces on the chest or shoulders for now