Updates!

I have decided that I want a better Service C shirt, so I found a Long Sleeve shirt I will use as a base. I will use the extra material from the sleeves to do the pockets and pocket flaps, then it should have that crisp look to it! Just have to order it, BUT!!

I am also putting together a Ripley from "ALIEN" costume for my Mom haha. I want it ready for September since we have eyes on a convention then. I am also working on my own Nostromo shirt as well.

Anyway, I have found suitable items for Ripley and started ordering. I have a blue flight suit and all the patches and pins coming for both of our Nostromo items. The flight suit is just a cheap Rothco one, not the same model as the real deal, We were going for cheap but practical. She will still be recognizable

I found some cheap chinese Hightops that look close enough to the part, a couple green t-shirts as well as a white work shirt to do her crew shirt with, and bonus, when she's not wearing it, I can wear it!. In the meantime I have a black shirt that looks the part, just need to add the epaulets and pen loops, taps and sleeve pocket to it, slap a dark Nostromo patch on the shoulder and the Black wings patch like on Ripley's flightsuit, attach the officer rank pin somewhere and presto!

Seeking information with the appropriate people about a resin crew watch for her to wear, and I have 2 racal headsets that need some love and a few parts to put together to round out the look for both of us.

Will post pictures of that as well

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Hi Moosh

Sounds cool but wasn't Ripley's flight suit green in Alien?

Martin

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you can't take the PUNK outa Spunkmeyer

Looks blue to me haha



I have read somewhere that it was green though... but it looks blue! haha

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Yep in a couple of photos it does looks blue, but it is definitely a green.

Oh and a pressure suit or parts from one I believe.

Oh and a cool thread on the RPF about the Nostromo crew uniforms

http://www.therpf.com/f24/alien-nostrom ... rms-34755/

Martin

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you can't take the PUNK outa Spunkmeyer

Ha, I always thought it was faded blue I knew it was like an anti gravity suit but flight suits are cheaper

I guess this is like the pulse rifle, we know its brown but we swear its green haha

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Just finished adding olive drab Velcro and a small strap with a D ring to my custom Spat holster, I can pull it open quickly now it also looks nice too!

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Looks Awesome Moosh!
I'll probably use this method on mine as well.

Akos

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That looks really neat Moosh! I'm having a holster made right now and I might try that too.

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Also, if anyone is wondering what the little red thing is, it is a small Metis sash haha

Thanks for the comments all Glad you like it as much as I do

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Working on some Nostromo outfits still

I found a $12 shirt at Walmart recently that I liked (totally not thinking about ALIENS at all) but when I got it home I realized it had an industrial look to it (perhaps what drew me to it? haha) so I thought of making it into a Weyland Yutani shirt. But once I got working on gathering my Moms ALIEN Ripley costume, I decided it could also work as an "inspired by" Nostromo shirt too.


(Pictured with my own Officer pin )

I ordered all of her patches and her Officer pin, as well as a Dark Nostromo crew patch for the shoulder of the shirt, and originally I ordered an extra small black wings patch like on Ripley's flight suit but now I've decided that the large wings in grey would look good, and more "traditional". Maybe if it is chilly in September when the convention is I will throw the small black wings on a jacket if we have to wait outside for a bit.



I also ordered us two light olive t-shirts for under our Nostromo shirts

And I ordered her a white Red Kap Mens Pocketless shirt as well to use as the base for her Nostromo shirt.



My shirt and her shirt still need to have pieces added

I thought my costume could use something a little more recognizable so I'm making a hat like Brett's without the gold leaves. I found a blank vintage snap back mesh trucker hat that I ordered, as well as another dark Nostromo crew patch. I need something to help keep my hair out of my face too since I'm not quite happy with it yet. September isn't that far away either so it will more or less still be the same haha.



I also plan to order Mom some cheap white high tops, as well as myself a pair but I've run into that familiar problem of finding a pair small enough for me! :[ haha. I'm sure I will find something that will work!

Once I get the refund from her way huge flightsuit, I will order one that fits better, and is green! Should get the refund in about a week or so.

I still need pants so I'm thinking some grey cargo pants of some kind.

I am making my own watch. Will post about that more when I actually do it haha

I am planning to go Nostromo for a day or two, then Marine for another day

Haven't decided what to have as a prop for my Nostromo outfit. I can probably throw together one of the little stick lights that Dallas, Ripley and Ash used to find the facehugger easily enough. I can also try making a harpoon gun too. But I thought of a cute idea of just going with a vintage Tupperware stackable mug haha.

For the Marine, since I just have my Service C outfit, I will just take my VP70 and Spat holster.

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Tupperware cup, Aspen Beer can, Balaji Imperial cigarettes, Jonesey the cat... lots of props from Alien!

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Haha, I really want to get or make a crate like Jonesy's for Mom to carry! Haha! And find one of those sleeping, purring cat toys that look like him to put inside

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I can't help with the cat stuff, but I have the rest if you need something!

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Thanks for the offer!

I've got a whole whack of LEDs and some AA battery clips and buttons and switches out the kazoo in my tool box to use, and we have our eyes on a set of vintage tupperware mugs but I'll definitely check in with you for info! Your builds are my inspiration!

Beer and cigarettes might ruffle some feathers at a con, fake or not, although they do look cool!

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I'm likin' the mod'd spat holster!

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Update time!!

So! I got more of my Nostromo outfit sorted!

Lets see...

I found a pair of pants that will go perfect with my crew shirt! Good ole Walmart!

Our olive green undershirts came in as well! Looks just like I imagined it would under my black "to be" crew shirt! and almost bang on with the colour to the movie! Plus they are super light and soft!

(picture isn't the greatest, sorry! I will get a better one up soon, when we get the tabs and such sewn on the black shirt )



My grey wings came as well. I won't put the shirt patches on until we sew the rest of the stuff on the shirt though



My vintage snap back mesh trucker hat came in, so we sewed the other dark patch on it, and I've been wearing it every day cause it is awesome and I have a hat obsession. I am so glad that it is really an old hat too and not a modern repro!



I'm not going to put the scrambled eggs patches on the visor, I don't want people to think I AM Brett haha, but Brett is definitely an inspiration, as well as Lambert and Dallas

I also scored a set of 4 vintage Tupperware mugs with lids, including the elusive White mug! They haven't arrived yet It probably wouldn't be hard to cast one of the others in white food safe resin though

Also, we fixed my Service C shirt so it looks a lot better in the pleated back and the collar haha.

Here's what it looked like before (Don't laugh!, it worked for the time being! we didn't know we made the neck way too big! hahaha!)



And now

I know it looks short, but it isn't when I wear it, The white t-shirt will be tucked in anyway



Tomorrow Moms flight suit should be in, as well as her white shirt. We just need to get time to go get the material needed to alter them

Also gonna do the pants for the UACM Service C shirt, I know I've been putting them off but I need to prod my seamstress to get her butt in gear while still surviving the reprocussions!

I think I am going to try and make Mom a flame thrower to carry. Either I need to find a 3D model of the Alien flame unit, or model it myself to unfold it for pepakura, unless there is already a pepakura version out there. For the greeblies if it is too intense for pep, I can mold them with Fimo or Sculpy. I just bought the Pepakura Designer license so I hope to get some use from it!

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Loving the work there Moosh, the collar stitching is a real piece of work!

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Looking very good i wanted to do it this way but found a easier way that someone posted up saying it was a USCM collar mod lol.

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Updates on the Nostromo outfits!

Got almost everything needed to do the Nostromo outfits now, all that's missing is my own headset and the lacing and zippers for the back of Moms flightsuit

Finally got the material needed for the shirt mods and the light pink piping.

Also got the very very awesome Nostromo watch kit from Matt Noble!, Fantastic kit! Haven't put Moms together yet, but I used the extra bits to finish my own watch since I pretty much finished mine a few weeks back. Once we get back after this weekend I will finish hers

Here's what my watch started out as:



Here is what it looks like now



I cut off a bit of excessive strap and cut them into rectangular buttons, because there was no way I could get perfectly round little buttons! It looks good enough! and bonus is it works and can light up different colours, I have it set to red

Put some sticky Velcro on the battery cover and stapled the other piece of Velcro to the half rubber backing that Noble was kind enough to throw an extra one in with Moms kit

Bonus that the backing makes the watch fit better on my tiny wrist even on the last hole!

I then took the top of one of the screens from Moms kit and glued it to the top of my watch

Also almost finished putting together Moms Racal headset. Just have to drill one screw hole a bit deeper on the one wing to screw it to the headband, but it will have to wait until I get back. Pictures to come of that later

*EDIT*

Ahh! I almost forgot, SHOES!! We got our shoes in too! haha. Be damned if I could find some white shoes in my size, but I found some grey and white canvas shoes that will look cool, very retro looking

Moms cheap white canvas hightops came in. They have these knockoff Chinese "converse" style red stars on the INSIDES of the shoes instead of the outsides, Can't pull them off but we can put white tape or white paint over them, from the little bit you might see of them haha

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Great progress Moosh! I love the hat and the watch, great details. There's a build thread on www.propsummit.com right now (in the Alien section) for the flame thrower. Lots of great pictures for inspiration.

Where did you get the green under shirt? I'm looking for a couple myself!

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Thanks retro!!

I got the shirt on eBay, it's brand is "Next Level", this one is a ladies. The colour you're looking for is "Light Olive"

Womens Lt. Olive:
https://www.nextlevelapparel.com/womens ... olive.html




Mens Lt. Olive:
https://www.nextlevelapparel.com/mens/f ... olive.html

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very cool:)

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Updates again

Over the weekend I finally wrangled some "Sewin' time" out of Mom, I printed off a pattern I found on the RPF for the Nostromo shirt conversion and had her add everything from it except for the breast pockets to my existing Wal-Mart shirt, so the epaulets, sleeve pocket, name tape border, chest panels, and pen loops. Also managed to sneak in some patch ironing for my shirt and her flight suit as well.

Everything went to plan pretty much aside from 2 minor hiccups, one being that we followed (I followed) the pattern but somehow someone (likely Mom haha) screwed up on the name tape border panel and the space in the middle ended up wayyyy narrow, which I totally expected, that's why I wanted her to work on my shirt first, being that it is black and will hide mistakes well, so when we get to her shirt, which is white, we have experience. I'm cool with it anyway since it will never be used and its so hard to notice, you probably wouldn't have noticed if I didn't mention it!

Also when she was trimming threads on the pen loops she cut a V shaped hole through the shirt HAHAHAHA!!! Luckily I had some iron on repair patches, in forest green, so we cut a small piece and ironed it on the inside, you can hardly tell its there, and bonus is we stuck a taller pen over it in the loops so it is not visible at all now.

Aside from mishaps, we still manage to have fun doing this, even though I have to watch her like a hawk! haha

Here are the finished photos of my Nostromo costume.

A better shot of the green undershirt which I promised to take, it's a Ladies "Next Level" crewneck, see up a few posts for a safe link to the Mens version on eBay. The colour is true to the shirt:



Looking at the pattern haha



My outfit (with "Trouble", a.k.a. Black Jonesy)







Still need to finish my own headset. I am having mine 3D printed, so I need to finish the design and order it so it gets here in time. Also I want to print off the decals for my white Tupperware mug but want to wait until I can use the rest of a sheet so it's not wasted. Need to think of other decals to print. Also want to finish making my Balaji Imperial cigarettes and get the awesome pack made up, and my outfit is finished! I was so tempted to put it on last night!! hahaha!

Today I got the zippers in for the back of Mom's flightsuit, just have to get her to add them this weekend so we can suck it in around her waist and make it less baggy and more like the anti gravity pressure suit used in the movie. Still waiting on the laces I ordered for it too, those should be in Wednesday or Friday.

I tried to assemble her Nostromo watch kit from Matt Noble, an amazing kit, but every glue I tried didn't work, I tried some white all purpose craft glue, super glue and then hot glue. I will get it conquered soon. Totally nothing wrong with the kit, its just my inexperience putting something like it together haha. It was the nylon strap that wasn't adhering to anything, it just soaked up the glue and never stayed sticky. Luckily I also have a whole roll of webbing so it wasn't a total loss to mess up the webbing that came with it.

Thanks for reading!

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Looking great Moosh! I had a hard time finding a glue that would hold the watch together too. I can't remember what I eventually used, but I'm not sure even now if it would stand up to extended wear. It's much more of a display piece. Such a nice detail though!

So, would your mom be up for a third shirt conversion?

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Great stuff its really looking tbe part

Cheers
Coop

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