Stormtroopers are the Empires elite soldiers, ready to go anywhere and crush the Emporer's enemies at a moments notice and fight in any climate. When the battleground is an arid Desert world, the Empire deploys Sandtroopers.

Sandtroopers were seen patrolling the deserts of Tattooine and the streets of Mos Eisley and are one of the most iconic characters from Star Wars. They were dirty, battleworn and looked damn cool, and Sandtroopers carry a variety of heavy weapons not available to satndard Stormtroopers. If you are planning to build a Sandtrooper costume, these Heavy Weapins certainly make you stand out.



There are some notable differences between Sandtrooper and Stormtrooper armour owing to the fact that Sandtroopers were the first Stormtrooper suits built for filming and were a sort of a prototype.
While it initially appears that sandtroopers have MORE details than the regular stormtrooper, its actually the other way around. After filming in Tunisia finished, Lucas added more details to the armour to give it more visual impact, such as the Ab buttons, drop boxes and the cannister.

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