Bounty Hunter and Smuggler

I'm still struggling mentally with what to do about my recording plan. Having messed one of them up already, and now feeling quite honestly like I'm just not sure that the whole idea was a great one to begin with (I'm really disappointed in the video quality of my rendered videos from OBS and Windows Photos Video Editor) I'm having second thoughts about the whole affair.

I wonder how it would work if I streamed it and then grabbed my streamed videos after the fact? Well, they wouldn't be edited, so there'd be tons of long, unwatchable running around and messing with inventories and crap like that. Sigh. What a disappointment. 

Maybe I just play the characters I got without recording them, and wait until the new thingy launches, and then do characters that I want to do, like a bounty hunter using the vanguard mechanics, etc. Actually, that's the only one on my radar, other than maybe an agent as a gunslinger or powertech or something. I kind of want to do a mercenary too, but I'm not sure that I like my current mercenary as much as I thought I would. Some of the characters that I haven't really started and don't really care about I can transfer whatever money that they still have and delete them and chalk up the losses as sunk costs. 

Right now I'm leaning that way (sigh) with more targeted videos and screenshots. Maybe a series of outfit videos, like Vitnir makes.

Anyway, I was considering how to best replicate or cosplay in game Cad Bane. You can't have a Duros character, but the Chiss race looks pretty close, or at least as close as you can get. Here's a screenshot of how I'd create such a character, probably as a Mercenary, but you could do it as a Gunslinger too. Mechanically, I mean. Both of them are two-gun space gunfighters in a classic, Western sense.

This is my cosmetic build of the character. Yeah, he's got a relatively big nose compared to no-nose Cad Bane, but you know; none of the options are really much better. I like the strong chin and the eyes are right. Go to the moods setting and set your character to annoyed and he'll have the right expression too. The skin color is probably the right one for the Boba Fett version of Cad Bane. The last skin tone, whatever number that is, is probably best for Clone Wars Cad Bane, who's a bit more royal blue in coloration.

This is the outfit. I put it on my existing human gunslinger, because I already had him and it worked. I'll explain it in more detail.

In order:

Hat: I used the Trimantium Onslaught hat, which is craftable, but only wearable at relatively high level. The cartel market Outer Rim Gunslinger is identical, but of course, it's a cartel market hat, and you have to buy it. Long ago, I bought the similar but slightly more detailed Shrewd Rascal's armor set instead of the Outer Rim Gunslinger, because I thought most of the time I'd prefer the extra detail. If I were building this for a 1st level character, I'd put that on him instead. The detail isn't preferred for this particular cosplay, however.

Body: The TD-07A Scorpion Jacket is already perfect as is. There are some alternative versions, including the craftable Titanium Onslaught (although it doesn't work right on Republic faction characters) although it's more gray rather than black, or the GTN/Cartel Market Troublemaker (which is identical), or the GTN/Cartel Market Subversive, although it's green. But this one is the best. You can't buy it as a 1st level character, because it's available on the fleet, but you can wear it as a first level character, as long as someone else buys it and mails it to you to you can equip it. And, it's actually cheap.

Arms: The Secret Agent bracers. With this build, you can actually see the bracers. Ideally, you'd have some chunky ones, but the only ones I know of that are chunky are the Infamous Bounty Hunter, and I don't have that set. I'm also not 100% sure that's the piece I'd want here anyway. I admit that this isn't quite ideal.

Hands: I used the Secret Agent gloves. They are fingerless, biker-type gloves, which is good for this character. The Skiff Guard also has chunker fingerless gloves that look like halfway up your arm gloves that are fingerless, but they don't look technical. The Dust Storm Survivor gloves are also a good alternative, that I happened to have handy. And I've since updated this armor (since taking this screenshot, I mean) with the BK-0 Combustion gloves. I couldn't find one that really looked perfect, though, between the gloves and the bracers. Maybe the Secret Agent's gloves with the Infamous Bounty Hunter's Bracers are the best you can get. Either that, or give up on worrying about the fingerless jazz, and you've got more good options than you can shake a stick at.

Belt: I used the Scout Trooper belt, but I admit that I have many options that I think would have looked good. I like the ammo belt look of that one in particular. The Remnant Yavin Trooper seems to be identical, but of course you can't wear that until 10th level, even if you mail it to yourself from another character.

Legs: Loads of options would look equally good here. I used the Decorated Targeter's Leggins, which is a smuggler world drop that I had held on to because I liked the look of them. Using Cartel Market pants, I'd probably go with the my Black Vulkar Swoop pants, Corellian Pilot's pants or my Nefarious Bandit pants. 

Boots: Again, I went with an Alliance crate set, the Remnant Dreadguard Bounty Hunter. They look perfect from the front. They look a little silly from behind, though. The Combat Engineer's boots would be a relatively easily obtained GTN set that also has the ammo look to it and would work very well. The Republic Protector's boots that you can get with Makeb reputation and then send to a 1st level character would also do in a pinch, although they do have a bit too much of a ski boot look to them in my opinion.

For weapons, they're not cosmetic yet unless they're modifiable, but when they are, luckily the first set of craftable pisols looks quite  a bit like what Bane used, the Carbo-plas Onslaught or Asylum (they look identical.) Personally, I prefer bigger guns for my characters, but that's a personal thing, I admit.