I recently found this photo taken while I was working as an extra on Star Wars. It is quite small and faded but I have tried to electronically enhance the colours. The costume was mostly simple moulded fibreglass which was held together with black cloth straps that can't be seen against the baggy black "silk" undergarment. The lower leg parts just clipped around my legs where there are gaps at the back. If you look carefully at the original release of the film you will see that in some of the shots near the Millennium Falcon, one of the Stormtroopers appears to have only one leg. It just fell off and nobody bothered with a retake - I won't reveal the legless Stormtroopers name except for money. The belt and kneecaps are made of a flexible moulded white material. The helmet has to be rotated 90 degrees before being put on or removed else it takes your nose with it. It is lined with some smelly yellow foam which is uncomfortable and hot under the studio lights. If you look at the face you will see that it has been simply hand painted in silver and black. Whether there were different "grades" of costume for close up or distant shots I don't know, but I do know that this production was made as cheaply as possible. If only we had known then, what we know now. For some reason we were not allowed to have our guns with us when these pictures were taken, pity as they were real tat. As you can see the costume was quite dirty and well worn and one of the upper legs had been repaired and painted over, but none of this shows in the world of movie magic. No, I don't have the costume for sale unfortunately, I'll bet it would be worth a small fortune.[/b]
I love the way he looks when he struts off that elevator.
