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privateolives · 2 years ago

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Clones and paint

Just a casual little headcanon I put together earlier today, I don't know if any part of the canon disproves it:

The paint clone troopers tend to use for their armor is tie fighter paint.

Why? As largely unpaid labor, going out to get expencive types of paint seems unrealistic. But getting your hands on an extra bucket of paint from the spaceship hold seems simple enough.

Paint for the space ships would be more blaster-resistant than your average stuff too, I figure, since it's for ships going into blaster fire - much like clone trooper armor.

And while I realize the REAL answer is "animation simplicity", it'd also be an easy explanation for why all the clones in a unit don't just share colour but an exact shade. They could literally be splitting one big bucket of paint meant for ship maintenance.

#Star wars #clone troopers #headcanon #star wars headcanon #clone wars headcanon #clone trooper paint designs #Although the idea of clones carrying around their group's space-pantone in their pockets at all times is pretty funny #I like the idea of the clones using highly resistant ship paint #Might be that it started there and paint got more accessible to them after the trend started catching on #captains ordering back a few extra buckets for maintenance etc.#It'd be easy to make the more geometric designs with the kind of techniques used for ships too #tape and spray and rollers for those clean geometrical edges #I don't think there's much basis in canon for it or anything #but I liked the idea

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