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 Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:12 pm
But I'm a novice at DIY on this large of a scale Can anyone tell me the kind of stuff I'd need? The jacket being used as inspiration:  Also the pics are from the movie Tin Man produced by Sci-Fi last year and it's one of the better thing to come out of that channel thus far. If you haven't seen it I highly recommend it especially if you are a Wizard of Oz fan.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:23 pm
I really wish I could help you, 'cause that is a truly spiffy jacket! But I don't know the first thing about sewing/creating.
Do want, I must say.
I eagerly await an answer for this, 'cause if it's simple enough I have someone who might do it for me. : DD
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:33 pm
You could get a military style jacket and modify it to look like that. You could get a run-of-the-mill brown jacket and add on and rip appropriately. Or you could make one. Also, Tinman is the best thing ever made by SyFy Channel.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:17 pm
Thanks for the advice I'm sketching and making notes on the specific coat that I want.
Also I ******** love that movie!
Have you seen the director's new flick "Alice" yet?
It's supposed to be for Alice In Wonderland (of course).
Seeing as how Tim Burton is making a mockery of my one and only holy book in 2010 I figured I should see the syfy version but I missed it's premier.
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:29 pm
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Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:45 pm
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:11 am
我就是你们女生最讨厌的那种人I'm the kind of guy you girls hate most.
You could start off with any manner of jacket. Look for something with a rigid, masculine shape to it. Envision it, since it doesn't really matter what it looked like when you started.
I'd recommend a textured fabric like tweed. You could use a coarser or silkier fabric, but it's all up to you.
You could do it all from scratch, but you'd need to buy a pattern for it, which might cost about the same as actually buying a basic jacket (depending on how and where you shop).
You'd need gimp braided cord, buttons, and fabric to line the interior if there isn't already. Of course, if you don't already, you need some thread and needles, but also possible a needle case... It's a cylindrical flip-top tube that's small, usually brightly colored, but makes it so you always know where your needles are and helps avoid losing any. Anyway, if you want something weathered, feel free to use inks, paints, and even sand paper.
I don't know if this is a good site, but gimp braids are these exactly (many people don't know what they're called): http://www.jkmribbon.com/wrights/fancy3.html
Yeah.
If you have trouble sewing on gimp braids, you can always try the super glue gel or a hot glue gun... Try not to use the ironing patches that are supposed to be no-sew, because they tend to work poorly and don't hold up to much.
But yeah.
That's pretty much all I can say.
I hope you have fun erasing my post style, though.
John Stalvern waited. The lights above him blinked and sparked out of the air. There were demons in the base. He didn't see them, but had expected them now for years. His warnings to Cernel Joson were not listenend to and now it was too late. Far too late for now, anyway. John was a space marine for fourteen years. When he was young he watched the spaceships and he said to dad "I want to be on the ships daddy." Dad said "No! You will BE KILL BY DEMONS" There was a time when he believed him. Then as he got oldered he stopped. But now in the space station base of the UAC he knew there were demons. "This is Joson" the radio crackered. "You must fight the demons!" So John gotted his palsma rifle and blew up the wall. "HE GOING TO KILL US" said the demons "I will shoot at him" said the cyberdemon and he fired the rocket missiles. John plasmaed at him and tried to blew him up. But then the ceiling fell and they were trapped and not able to kill. "No! I must kill the demons" he shouted The radio said "No, John. You are the demons" And then John was a zombie.
对了就是那个臭男孩
That's right, that jerk.
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:11 am
Thanks alot
I was wondering wondering where I could get those gimp braids but I think I have an idea of a place locally who would carry them. The only good thing about living in the slums of a s**t town is that you are close to alot of antique stores, vintage stores, salvage stores, fabric stores, etc.
Also everyone is putting out their halloween stock atm so I am trying to get more cash
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:20 pm
If you can't afford to make a jacket as described above, you could go looking for a secondhand band uniform jacket. White would work well, but it's not all that common methinks, and can then be soaked in a teabath or simply brown/yellowed dye until it reaches a color you like. If you can find a brown band uniform, even better. Checking around the local high schools for their colors would probably help in this search.
Distressing the jacket would be easy enough, just pull some loose threads or cut a few to make the gimp braids fall/go limp. Sand paper and ink are wonderful for distressing, as well.
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Posted: Wed Oct 14, 2009 7:20 pm
You've had some excellent tips here, but what I have to say is that it appears that the coat was constructed of canvas. That leads me to the thinking that you could modify and distress (easily, I've worked with quite a bit of old military gear) an army (or other branch depending on what country you're from) jacket.
The sleeves have been sliced quite a bit. Mind that once you slice them up the forearm, it's hard to control tears as you wear them. A reinforcing stitch (just run it a few times under the machine, making a squarish shape) might help that, as would stitching some sort of interfacing such as felt (or fabric glue...hot glue even).
If you can't find something just right to DIY, canvas is comparatively cheap to buy, and Simplicity currently has some great patterns for civil war gents.
EDIT: Tea/ coffee grind baths may not be strong enough for coat fabric. Be prepared to break out 1-2 packages of RIT.
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