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:
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Looking at the pattern haha
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My outfit
(with "Trouble", a.k.a. Black Jonesy)
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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!