I think it has something to do with the Empire becoming much stricter and trying to eliminate any individuality. At the end of ROTS the Star Destroyers also are plain and have no clor like they did at the begining of the movie.

 I also think it has to do with mandalorians in some way. The clones, most of them at least, had been motivated during the clone wars by the fact that they were clones of a great mandalorian soldier; and as a result, Mandalorian drill instructors were asked to train some of the elite clones, and even clones that learned from Jango himself had taught the future commanders, of which probably had added some aspect of mandalorian culture to the curriculum. All of this had probably lent itself to the clones' colour deviations, which was done ritually to mandalorian armour. I think that after the Empire took conscripts and other clone templates, the desire to be like the mandalorians among clones and soldiers lessened, which made it easier for the Empire to eliminate individuality of any sort, such as colour deviations to armour.

You could try www.DarkHorse.com. Last time I checked they had all the covers.

  Each issue is pretty much pictures of mandalorians in different seasonal backdrops. The first one is of Jaster holding onto a young jango's arm while shooting, the second one is of a mandalorian on his knees lifting up a dead mandalorian, the third one is of jango on his knees and dooku up on a hill behind him, they're both an a snowy area, and the fourth one is in a field it looks like in the spring and jango's shooting with his twin westar-34 blaster pistols.

Well I'm probably not going to make any more Mandalorians either for a while.  I'm wanting to make some sort of humans with their faces being shown for this challenge.

 

 *Musters up the best Jango Fett impression he could attempt*

"Exposed faces are for civilians, soldier." 

I'm going to bump this up, since I have a question about Tamiya paints. 

I bought 5 bottles the other day, because I wanted to try some better paint and they had it in the colors I was looking for. Everyone says these are supposed to be thicker.

The paint seems to be much thinner, instead of thicker. When I go to apply it my brush just wipes it off and it won't cling to the surface, it seems way too watery. I wonder if it is the brush I'm using or if I am completely missing something and I just suck at using them. Anyone have any tips on how to use this stuff correctly?

 I've never experienced this problem with tamiya paints before aside from the Metallic colours, which tend to run a little, but not too much. Depending on the colours, the thickness can actually vary (From my experience, the flat colours are more thin), but even the thinner ones I've used can stick onto to plastic exceptionally well. One thing I find helpful is to "bathe" your figure first. SOmetimes a figure can accumulate oils and such from your fingers and just plain being exposed; and in some cases, being packaged. You can reduce figure oilynedd by rinung the figure with warm water and using a dish soap to clean it a bit. That should help make it stick.

 EDIT: The thing about tamiya paints, also, is that sometimes there's a thicker layer of paint on the very bottom that cannot be mixed by shaking at all. Use a paint mixer or even a chorstick or toothpick to scrape that thick bottom layer out, mix it in a bit and then shake it again. Maybe that could help.

I have yet to decide which body to use, and in deciding, I came up with this hilarious Work-In-Progress pic of my head (Or Captain Typho's if you want to get technical) on an ROTS Threepio body. I'll post pics later when my dad comes home with the camera.

Nice. He looks concerned in that picture.

I may have to cook one of these clones up for myself, my own "Stealth" trooper, of sorts.

Kevin

 I've mde a special ops trooper in homage to CHEWIE's Rykof Enloe. I'll post it once I finish the fine tunings of it.

Are these customs supposed to be us as a Star Wars character, or us in every day life?

-DD

 As long as it resembles you in some way, you can be a bounty hunting, sith killing, Carbine slinging madman or an accountant with a jolly pinstripe suit. It really doesn't matter so long as it resembles you.