Because i'm always super happy with how these turned out I want to talk about them for a minute. In the Clan sourcebooks we do get either pictures of the field and dress uniforms or descriptions of them and this helped shape the outcome as drawn by a wonderfully skilled artist friend of mine.
We had a lot of fun talking about them and working on the design, and with them, we tried to stay true to the original description or picture but with her artistic spin on it.
Lincoln Osis here was the one that required the least work, the original picture showed the Smoke Jaguar's dress uniform had a somewhat stylized animal face on the front so that was retained and otherwise its as per the description.
Star Captain Victor Malthus of Clan Jade Falcon required more work. The description of the Jade Falcon's dress uniform was verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry 1970's/80's and would have looked like something more out of Battle of the Planets than we were comfortable with. The original description was
Reserved for more formal situations, the Jade Falcon dress uniform consist of a jacket with a black chest piece, with green breasts and arms along with emerald piping. A bright yellow collar and the "Falcon's Talons" - three bright yellow slashes on the shoulder complete the jacket. The trousers are green and black with emerald piping, tucked into knee-high black boots. A long emerald green cloak, lined with yellow, completes the uniform.
The cadet variant of the dress uniform follows the same pattern, but with red piping on the sleeves and legs, and with a red-lined instead of yellow-lined cloak. Rank Insignias are worn on the collar. Trueborns wear the engraved belt buckle denoting there service branch, while freeborns and second-line trueborns do not. Both wear a blackened metal belt buckle of the Jade Falcon insignia instead.
And the image backed it up, the cloak originally connected to the upper shoulders and seemed permanently attached to the uniform, so this was changed to be over the shoulders, and held on by the now shorter 'claws' and the big golden 'beak'. This beak then can be split down the middle and the claws removed to leave you with a perfectly workable workday uniform/jump suit and makes it less encumbering as you can take the cloak off and not have to worry about sitting on the damn thing.
saKhan Yana Fletcher of Clan Hell's Horses was also fun to work on. Originally described as
The Hell's Horses dress uniform is a simple red jacket, trimmed with black leather, over a black high collar undershirt. A single pentagonal gold button, matching the jacket's cuff links is pinned to the right flap of the uniform, over the wearer's left breast. A simple, black leather belt at the waist, a ceremonial sword may be worn. Red trousers trimmed with black leather and polished blacked leather shoes complete the uniform. Hell's Horse warriors wear black leather gloves with the dress uniform.
This was quite simple to do as it sounds like many military No 2's dress uniforms, the big change was with the colour of the trousers. Because with him wearing a red jacked and with red pants, it looked more like a very posh crimson onesie, which resulted in the trousers being black but with red piping to carry on some of the original effect.
Star Admiral Alecia Sukhanov of Clan Snow Raven was the biggest challenge as there was no image for the uniform and the description of it sounded either 'special' at best or a hot mess at worst.
A snug-fitting, snow white woolen jacket and trousers is the Snow Raven's dress uniform. Black chevrons cover the upper torso and back, crossing the flared shoulders and merging with the black full length cape. Black boots and belt complete the uniform
And we just couldn't visualise it so we binned the majority of it, and instead went with using Director Krennec's uniform from Rogue One as inspiration and went with a military style jacket and a simple long cloak instead of the flared shoulders nonsense.
There was also this image of a Ghost Bear Star Colonel
and like the Smoke Jag's one, this required the least work as the Ghost Bear's uniform, save the 'bear claws' on the shoulders are very similar to British army No 2 Dress uniform, save the colour change.
As always, thoughts and comments are most welcome!
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