Waheyy!!

The more the merrier.

I wear mine every winter. Bloody love it!

I still need to do the trousers, and I reckon I'll also do the hoody that many of the prisoners have.

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Hey WDI!
Do you have a thread on trousers going, or any other costume threads related to the prison staff? I am keen to make the whole thing.

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No, I haven't I'm afraid.

The trousers in particular are one of those projects that I've had in mind to do for years but I haven't found the right colour sweatshirt fleece yet or the time to properly devote to it.

Once I get into it, it should be a dead-easy project - there's not much to them.

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I had photos saved of them, but I will need to search my external harddrive.
Could you give me the specifics on the belt and watch cover though?

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I've got some reference photos of the trousers but I'm 99.9% certain that they were shared with me with the request that I don't share them further... I'll have to check through old emails and also to see if they were shared by their owner on here.

The belt, as best I could ever tell, appears to be a German Army belt like this, with the green paint removed from the brass buckle. Some wire wool did that for me in no time:



Here is a photo of Andrew's belt:




The watch cover was a fairly common (at the time) British MOD leather watch cover - much like this design:


Here you can see some screen caps of Aaron's watch:


And Clemens'

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Thank you Gareth! This is excellent information.

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Belt and watchband sourced and ordered. Thanks so much!

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Nice one!
Happy to help

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Here is a great resource for Aaron's costume. I didn't realize he had a stencil on the back of his shirt!

http://hollywoodrelics.com/?product=ali ... creen-used

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I did mine with brown boot polish. Just brushed it on through the stencil with my boot brush and then pressed it with a hot iron and some greaseproof paper.
Worked a treat! The heat melts the polish into the fabric and sets it.

Here it is before I washed it. Once washed it faded nicely, just a little and has stayed permanent ever since.

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Great technique! Using the photos from the auction I linked to I found a vintage Hanes turtleneck shirt with matching tags. When it arrives I'll do the stencil the same way you did.

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Awesome

Mine is a placeholder - it's far too snug for me really (especially these days )

The boot polish trick is a useful way to stencil.

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The vintage sweatshirt arrived, so I am a bit further along with my costume. I still need to add the name tapes and velcro to the exterior of the jacket, and then figure out the dogtag.

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I love mine too, but the pockets ripped at the bottom years ago!
Never got round to figuring out a way to replace them.

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I would approach it by making new pockets, tucking them inside the existing, and then just hand felling them to the old pocket lining.

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That's the plan! It's just one of many plans under a big pile of plans, that I can't even see because of the giant stack of plans in the way!

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Can we talk about the dog tag situation?

I see the photo on page one of this thread (with the large notch and the barcode sticker), but then I see photos like this:



What am I missing?

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The various photos I've seen have shown a few different tags being worn at different times.

I've got a collection of photos and screen caps which I'll share later on. I've got to dash out now...

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Did a run many years ago of the top three


Bottom ones are customs I did for my bags with my central los angeles area code.

Close up:

Absolutely gorgeous Noble!

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I've seen three types of dog tag in the movie.
1. The completely plain tags as in your photo above.
2. Tags with just a barcode stuck in the centre.
3. The 'hero' tags with debossing and a barcode stuck below.

And varying versions amongst those types as well.

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Awesome WDI, that is great information. I found these guys if I decide to go the stamped route:

https://www.mydogtag.com/military/wwii/ ... gIqifD_BwE

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Watch cover sorted. Studying WDI's photos it looked like I could have gone with either brown or black, but I figure I can always darken the brown if I wanted to, but I couldn't change the black as easily.

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My belt is now sorted too. I was worried that I had ordered the wrong size but it has a really forgiving adjustment feature. Yay German engineering.

I threw my recreation of the Weyland Yutani matchbox (shown as a prototype in the Japanese Alien3 book) into the shot for fun. Physical props are always fun to make.



For some placeholder trousers I've ordered these. They have a few of the correct features, and will (hopefully) do nicely until screen accurate ones become a reality.

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The trousers arrived and work well for my current needs. I am off to buy some socks to match the screen used ones.



Dog tags are on order, just need to figure out the barcode sticker.

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