SSgt Burton's T1 Future War Kyle Reese

Awesome!

First time I've ever seen this particular costume, IIRC.

Great job on it.

Good luck & happy Halloween.


-Mike

I think it's great stuff man!

Even captured the "blue undertone" that visually MADE the first Terminator.

Compliments again

Very well done!

Very cool!

I love the fact that you put together such an obscure costume, and have done it so well

I think it's awesome that you've done this costume with such attention to detail.

I once saw a stunt 40W Plasma rifle for sale, on eBay I think, but it was damaged and missing the scope.
I forget what the base weapon was for that.

Nice job on all you've done!

Mike

SSgt Burton said:

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Reese's Plasma rifle was based on a Valmet M82A:




Thanks for the compliments guys; I really appreciate it.

Unfortunately I had forgotten that Halloween bar costumes are about the lowest common denominator. I mean I knew going in that few if any people would "get it". I just didn't think that no one would.
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I should have known better. The masses aren't about obscure costumes. I should have worn my Grayson Robin and saved this for the convention circuit. Needless to say last night was a write off. Oh well- there's always next year.


Thanks again guys!

Kevin

Oooo yeah, that Valmet's a bit obscure!
Anything that comes up, eBay, Gunbroker etc; is sure to be high dollar.

Far as the bar for a costume venue,
I've found the stories in this thread amusing,
http://www.therpf.com/showthread.php?t=72648
11 pages worth.
Even when people don't take the time to comment,
you know the work is understood and appreciated on the RPF.

Good Luck,
Mike

Nice work Kev, and you know I appreciate it!

Don't sweat it dude. It seems like guys of our generation (late gen x-ers, early gen Y-ers, or guys in their mid 20's to early 30's) really like the "obscure 80's pop culture costume that few people will get, or expect". I was Rambo from First Blood. Tarp and all. I think one older guy in the place actually got it.

Next year I plan on being Solid Snake (Hopefully my friends do a "Super Smash Brothers" group theme). Chances are no one will get that, considering it's a pretty similar costume. Hell, Snake's image on the cover of the first Metal Gear IS Michael Beihn from Terminator.

This thread & your work is inspirational !

Oh ... That very nice replicated!

Wow, very awsome!

I've got the gear for a T4 resistance soldier, but deffintly not as cool as this!

Great costume

Nice work man! You defiantly did your homework!

Hey I was wondering what the jacket is made of or is it just a motorcycle jacket?

The jacket is an Alpha Industries MA-1 flight jacket:





I managed to find a cheap, beat up one at a local surplus store for $20. It was the common colour Sage Green like the picture above.

The screeused jacket appears blue/gray on screen. There has been some debate as to whether this was because of lighting techniques, or a repainted jacket. I went with what is seen on screen and repainted my jacket with Tamiya Acrylic spray paint. The colour I chose was TS-32 "Haze Grey":




Now for the hard part- the padding.

The best guess of the padding is that it was "moving blanket" material:






Now, you could go with this stuff. But I have heard that it isn't very durable once you cut into it. A friend of mine who had used the moving blanket for a different costume said that it fell apart rather quickly.

So I still had plenty of the (inaccurate) material I used for my first T1 soldier:



So this material had an incorrect checkerboard pattern.

What I did was re-stitch the correct zig-zag pattern, and then removed the incorrect criss-cross stitches (which nearly drove me back to drinking again ):





I cut the whole thing (front and back of the jacket) out of one large piece. Basically just eyeballing it. Sewed the edges and finally sewed it onto the jacket:





There are also two large oval pads under each forearm.

Reese's nametape was only sewed onto the jacket at either end. In the "looking at Sarah's Kodamatic picture" flashback scene, you can see that his nametape "bows" away from his jacket. His nametape says: RE DN 38416.

Reese's jacket also has several leather straps with D-rings. Two on each forearm and two that run around the waist. For now I've only added one strap to each forearm.

The collar of Reese's jacket has also been replaced with a strip of leather with D-rings on the one end.


Hope this helps!


Kevin

Just looks like an Alpha

The Pilot Shop - MA-1 Classic (Alpha Industries)

EDIT: Ooops; you don't need me.

It's okay Larry; we still have some need for you around here.

There's a nice corner office in the sub-basement with some important assignments waiting for you.





(Just kidding Bro!)

Kevin

i find it funny they (the resistane) switch from leather knee/ shin pads to almost hockey shin/ knee guards for T2
awesome build, i'm putting together (or atleast trying to) do a T2 resistance fighter and using your build to inspire thank you

Heh thanks!

Well because of the free bump, I'll shamelessly post a few more pics.

These were from Fan Expo in Toronto last year:




I managed to do those upgrades of the straps around the forearms and the get the belt thingy (distress beacon) attached.






Also got to meet Kyle Reese himself- Michael Biehn... but I had to tell him who I was dressed as.



Kevin

He really didn't recognize the outfit!?! Too funny.

20 years will do that though.

Nick