Aglarwen

I thought those looked suspiciously like runes! I'm a stickler for details, and would love to get them as accurate as I can lol. Reaching out to the game designers was definitely on my list of things to do. I'm going to shoot them an email later today. Hopefully I'll find some luck! AH THIS IS FANTASTIC! Thank you so much! Seems like there are side seams on the back piece, like I had thought. But I won't make any certain decisions until I hear back from the game designers.

So I've been planning to make Vaylin from the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion for Celebration next year. She's such a badass, so snarky. I thought the natural choice was to attempt to get her approved for the 501st. Now I've found a lot of decent screenshots from the game that show off a couple angles of her costume. Side view with a great shot of the glove design. The side of her leg. And the full view of her cape. The only issue with her wearing a cape is that she's never been seen without the cape on, so it's been hard to find what the full shirt looks like. And the Vaylin inspired armor that you can buy for your character is very different from her costume in several details, so a 3D model of the costume isn't readily available. The best I've been able to do is find a couple angles that kind of show what the shirt might look like. From these shots, I can only assume that the shoulders and back are also black like the center panel of her shirt, and the grey only exists on the sides. In general, I've been going back and forth on materials to use for the costume. It seems like she has a mix between solid armor pieces and fabric pieces. I'd make the solid armor bits out of worbla because I'm most comfortable with using that material. As for the fabric bits, that's a little more complicated. Seeing as how this is a video game character, the kind of fabrics she's wearing aren't as obvious. For the couple parts where the fabric is ribbed, I kind of like the idea of using a 4 way stretch ribbed faux leather like some are using for the new Death Trooper in Rogue One. I want to do most of it in a linen because I'm more comfortable with using that kind of fabric, but I'm worried about how it would look doing a mix of faux leather and linen. My other option would be to use all linen and use quilt batting and sew in the ribbing myself on some of the linen. It's much more labor intensive, but I feel like it'll look much better. If linens will look a little too worn in, a suiting fabric like for the officer suits could be another good option. What do you all think? Do I have a good amount of reference images, or do I need to find more? Do you think I'm on the right track with construction of the costume? Any input you guys can offer would be fantastic! Thanks!