Thought I'd start a thread for my dropship flight jacket.
I've worked in aviation history and always thought the dropship flying kit was obviously heavily influenced by US flying kit so why no make one of my flight jackets as a homage to Aliens and the dropship crews.
I decided to use a WWII USAAF B-10 repro jacket as the base for no other reason than I think they look great and that I'd imagine operating a dropship in space, a mouton/fur collar would be the way chosen for a flight jacket.
Patches are just some I picked up online. I didn't want to use the "Victory by Wings" patch because according to the Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual this was an unofficial unit patch rather than a Corps-wide patch and seeing as it was on the flight suit unlikely to be on outerwear.
I've mocked up the patch placement which is based on semi-traditional USN/USAF/USMC patch placement. Here it is...
The space above the USCM Delta patch on the left breast will have the "wings" name patch which I have made using the USCM font and a wings badge which I designed myself. I didn't want to use a current or historic US military wings qualification badge for obvious reasons and this seems to me to look good to the aesthetics of the film and being "similar" to the commercial wings patches seen on the Nostromo whilst being different. I'm getting this embroidered on an olive drab 4'' x 2'' standard size military patch.
Anyway I hope you like what I'm doing. Let me know and if you have any other suggestions fire away!
