Here’s another bunch of guys that caught my attention during the Singapore Toy, Games and Comic Convention over the weekend. They are the folks from our very own 501st Legion unit here in Singapore aka Singapore Garrison.
These guys had a booth set up near the entrance as they did their bid for charity combining forces with Starwars.sg to raise funds for the ‘Make a wish’ foundation. Basically visitors could take photos with the Storm Troopers, Jedi Knights, Sith Lords and Darth Vader himself for a small fee of which the proceeds will go to charity.
You can check out this website for more about the 501st Legion at www.501st.sg and take a look at some of the events that they have been a part of as well as their upcoming events. These guys mostly do work for charity so support them if you can and especially if your a star wars fan.
Now the characters being portrayed at the 501st Legion are all bad guys cos thats the squad which wiped out the Jedi. I tried my hand with a little audition and man this helmet is uncomfortable.
Starwars.sg well features the good guys with lots of them being Jedi including this R2D2 unit in the picture below.
Now it’s actual size, movie accurate and it took about just over a year to complete 90% of it. There’s still a paint job and some minor finishes to be done before it is complete. At a cost of about 16k information was gathered from all over the internet via fellow starwars fans who shared details of the dimentions of the unit.
Damn that’s alot of hard work, these guys got passion man.
Anyways I decided to try my hand at something a little more comfortable than a Stormtrooper outfit. I played Jedi……….don’t I feel cool, hahahaha!
There you go, the guys from the 501st Legion and Starwars.sg
All photos in this blog post are courtesy of Edwin Tan.
Danker out!
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