Hello again!
Once I finished Adam's guard for him, he started handling all of his own member stuff. I have since made a second guard for a friend. Today I was asked about pattern pointers, and I realized that I never followed up with final photos here! :geez: I'm including some pattern info for ...

I'm ready to put the lining in the outer cloak, but I want to make sure I'm not going to have any approval problems with the color. The CRL standard still calls for "burgundy or dark purple fabric that matches the inner robe" like the RotJ cloak. However, it is easy to see that the RotS lining does ...

Okay, great.

Maybe they aren't sooo far off from these? Maybe???

Okay, below is a picture of the gloves, the velvet for the outer cloak, and the material for the inner robe. The gloves are not orange at all. They are just bright red. The velvet is the acetate/nylon blend velvet from distinctivefabrics.com in "Red". I have a great deal of experience dying fabrics ...

So, the gloves I ordered arrived and they are very red, not dark red. Is this going to be a problem? Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might safely darken them? They are super nice and I don't want to chance ruining them.

Okay, my husband (Adam - "gaffeyswim") thinks the neck seal will be cool for helmet off photos, and it'll be a dickey, so he can choose not to wear it when it's hot.

I'm leaving the force pike to Adam. He's looked at all the tutorials and is prepared to make it, but he really likes the CP one ...

Okay, I have the boots, gloves, velvet, and visor. I'm working on the helmet.

I have a question about the neck seal. Is a mandarin collar or neck seal preferred? Should the neck seal be black or red?

Also, is CP going to be the best place to get a ready made force pike? Are there other places ...

Any ideas on the price yet?

Thanks! LuciousTalvloinne also sent me a pm with some very helpful info. I'll post progress pictures once I get rolling.