Approved Vendor List
MLS ComMando: Modern/Late Crusader (addition of sculpted mods and hoses)
NME Deathstalker: Late Crusader
Big_Water99 Rohlan Dyre: Late Crusader/Early Crusader
(addition of sculpted bone segments)/Modern (addition of brow, earcaps, and keyslots)
TMA MST - Mandalorian Shock Trooper: Late Crusader
TMA The Ramikadyc: Late Crusader
Forge props Demagol: Late Crusader/Modern (suggested mods: add brow, add keyslots, add earcaps)
Forge Props Open Seasons Death Watch: Modern
ComMando: Modern/Late Crusader (suggested mods: remove keyslots, add hoses, taper t-visor)
Drak's Hunter: Modern/Late Crusader (no mods)
Drak's Recon: Late Crusader/Modern (suggested mods: extend t-visor, add brow)
Examples of the Late Crusader helmet
Neo-Crusader
Neo-Crusaders are the most rigidly defined of the eras. These Mandalorians are only seen wearing one type of helmet: a full cowl with a mask featuring a pointed T visor with angled mandibles. The mask has no cheekbones or cheeks. The cowl is made from a thick material that does not wrinkle, but that is still flexible.
Examples of Neo-Crusader helmets
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Early Crusader
Early Crusader helmets differ the most from the other eras. Commonly, the only element they share with Modern and Late Crusader helmets are the mandibles. Early Crusader helmets also feature full T-visors like modern helmets, but do not always have parallel mandibles. These helmets do often feature cheekbones and cheeks as well. Early Crusader helmets are most notable for the fact that they are made out of bone and are very organic looking. However, they depart from convention in that Early Crusaders are also known for wearing masks over leather cowls. These masks have mandibles and full T visors, but only have a half dome and no back and no cheekbones or cheeks.
Examples of Early Crusaders
Early Crusader
Early Crusader helmets differ the most from the other eras. Commonly, the only element they share with Modern and Late Crusader helmets are the mandibles. Early Crusader helmets also feature full T-visors like modern helmets, but do not always have parallel mandibles. These helmets do often feature cheekbones and cheeks as well. Early Crusader helmets are most notable for the fact that they are made out of bone and are very organic looking. However, they depart from convention in that Early Crusaders are also known for wearing masks over leather cowls. These masks have mandibles and full T visors, but only have a half dome and no back and no cheekbones or cheeks.
CUSTOM HELMETS
Custom Sculpted/Pepakura/Pattern-bashed helmets: These helmets are ones that are completely new, never before seen designs as opposed to helmets based on established characters (Boba, Jango, Rohlan Dyre, etc.) and stock helmet with minor add-ons (new earcaps, engraving, greeblies, etc.) or helmets that are a combination of helmets from other eras or which incorporate elements from other helmets in the Star Wars Universe.
Please consult with the App team on all new designs to ensure the proper build era is being utilized. We understand that crafting custom armor and helmets is very time consuming and can be very expensive. We also understand the disappointment that comes with being told that a custom-designed piece will not be approveable.
By involving the app team from a custom helmet's conception, you can ensure that your idea will make it all the way through design, execution, and approval.
All App Team members are available through PM at any time. If you do not ask for approval before constructing a completely custom helmet, we cannot guarantee that it will pass the approval process.
If there is any question as to whether your custom helmet falls into this category, please PM an App Team member.
Video Script
In this video, we will go over the basics of armor builds in each of the four eras available for custom armor creation in the MMCC and discuss the challenges inherent in each. Hopefully, these basic tips will go a long way to helping you minimize common problems with your build and may even inspire you to try your hand at a build in a different era than you have done before. This is Armor Across the Eras.
There are a few things to keep in mind when building an Early Crusader kit.
• First of all, nothing from any other era can be used with an Early Crusader kit, which means that you cannot use similar plate shapes, weapons, helmets or anything else that would fit in a different era. This prohibition even extends to things like pouches.
• Organic, Organic, Organic, is the name of the game with an Early Crusader kit. That does NOT mean everything has to be bone, but everything needs to look roughly handmade, so, for example, hammered metal instead of machine shaped, leather instead of nylon.
• “Natural” colors are encouraged for EC kits, meaning earth tones like greens, browns, cream, beige, tan, and gray are commonly used. Bright colors may be used as accent colors, but should be minimal, and EC kits should avoid using neon colors or black in large quantity.
For the Crusader era, also sometimes called the Late Crusader era, once again nothing from future eras can be used.
Some key hallmarks of this era are:
• 3-Dimensional plates. This era is a standout in that its plates aren’t as “flat” as modern era plates, but have more complexity and use more trauma plating.
• No Chest Diamonds. This goes back to the nothing-from-a-future-era point. Chest diamonds do not appear until the Modern era, so this goes for Early Crusader kits as well.
• Rugged Technology. The weapons and gear of this era have a rugged, bulky look. Clean, streamlined designs have not yet come into fashion in this era and visible tubing and extra plating are common both on armor and weapons.
The Neo-Crusader era is the most restrictive of the build eras. Kits are limited to the colors seen in the Legends examples of Neo-Crusaders, and once again nothing from a future era can be used with a neo-crusader kit.
• Neo-Crusader kits use head coverings, and the cowl can be semi-flexible, but the dome and face of the helmet still need to be made of hard material.
• Colors are limited to red, yellow, gold, silver, and blue.
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