brutuswayne
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You'd think with me bein just another night or two from finishing my AoU Cap I'd take some time to relax before the con wouldn't you? Absolutely not! That'd be ridiculous!
For my Sunday and possibly Friday costume for NYCC, I want to wear Steve's Officer's uniform from The First Avenger. I really wanted to get a uniform from one of the many WWII replica sites that supply reenactors, but I really don't have the cash to drop on one of those right now (all the options I found in my size would've been easily $500+ for a full uniform). So I bought the CosplaySky uniform about 3 weeks ago with the intention of replacing the lower quality or inaccurate parts of it. It came in last week and was very loose in the waist so it's at the tailors right now getting taken in to fit better.
The 'medals' and buttons on it were definitely an issue. The 'medals are just pieces of vinyl cut to shape and sewn down, so I removed those with a seam ripper before bringing it to the tailors so that I could replace them with the actual pins and medals. I actually ordered those first before the uniform using an online guide of what Steve has pinned on, and a site called medalsofamerica.com. it cost about $50 to get all the different medals, and another $15 to get the SSR pins off an ebay seller.
You can see all the pin marks in the cardboard from me trying to align everything for a nice picture haha. The buttons were also the wrong size and had anchors on them which made it look like buttons from a navy uniform. I found a seller on etsy that had a set of buttons meant for a WWII Officer's uniform, 4 large buttons for the front and 6 small ones for the pocket flaps and epaulettes. Those should be coming in today so I'll take pictures of that once I get them.
I also had to order a new shirt and tie for it. The shirt and tie that came with it was passable, but I found an olive green buttonshirt with a wide collar on amazon that matches in color much better, and I bought the tie from a WWII replica costumer in the UK for about $15. Those should be coming in early next week.
The last thing I wanted to do though, was to have a blank shield like the one Steve picks up when discussing his shield options. My plan for that is to use one of the Disguise shields, cut the star out of the center, place a big piece of worbla on the back to match the curvature, and fill the empty space with bondo which I'll sand smooth to make the center circle flat. I'll also make a set of brackets/straps to replace the elastic using craft foam, more worbla, and a couple of leather belts I don't mind cutting up. I'll probably lightly sand the rest of the outer surface too so that the texture is consistent with the center circle, and then just plastidip the whole shebang and paint it silver. I cut the star out last night by repeatedly scoring the lines of the star with a box cutter and popping it out and put the worbla backing in as well.
So barring any catastrophes happening with the mail or the tailor, this should be pretty quick to put together for what I think will be a passable costume, especially for use on Sunday of NYCC/other conventions when everyones a bit more geared towards comfort. More to come from this pretty soon as I whip it all together in the next few days!
For my Sunday and possibly Friday costume for NYCC, I want to wear Steve's Officer's uniform from The First Avenger. I really wanted to get a uniform from one of the many WWII replica sites that supply reenactors, but I really don't have the cash to drop on one of those right now (all the options I found in my size would've been easily $500+ for a full uniform). So I bought the CosplaySky uniform about 3 weeks ago with the intention of replacing the lower quality or inaccurate parts of it. It came in last week and was very loose in the waist so it's at the tailors right now getting taken in to fit better.
The 'medals' and buttons on it were definitely an issue. The 'medals are just pieces of vinyl cut to shape and sewn down, so I removed those with a seam ripper before bringing it to the tailors so that I could replace them with the actual pins and medals. I actually ordered those first before the uniform using an online guide of what Steve has pinned on, and a site called medalsofamerica.com. it cost about $50 to get all the different medals, and another $15 to get the SSR pins off an ebay seller.
You can see all the pin marks in the cardboard from me trying to align everything for a nice picture haha. The buttons were also the wrong size and had anchors on them which made it look like buttons from a navy uniform. I found a seller on etsy that had a set of buttons meant for a WWII Officer's uniform, 4 large buttons for the front and 6 small ones for the pocket flaps and epaulettes. Those should be coming in today so I'll take pictures of that once I get them.
I also had to order a new shirt and tie for it. The shirt and tie that came with it was passable, but I found an olive green buttonshirt with a wide collar on amazon that matches in color much better, and I bought the tie from a WWII replica costumer in the UK for about $15. Those should be coming in early next week.
The last thing I wanted to do though, was to have a blank shield like the one Steve picks up when discussing his shield options. My plan for that is to use one of the Disguise shields, cut the star out of the center, place a big piece of worbla on the back to match the curvature, and fill the empty space with bondo which I'll sand smooth to make the center circle flat. I'll also make a set of brackets/straps to replace the elastic using craft foam, more worbla, and a couple of leather belts I don't mind cutting up. I'll probably lightly sand the rest of the outer surface too so that the texture is consistent with the center circle, and then just plastidip the whole shebang and paint it silver. I cut the star out last night by repeatedly scoring the lines of the star with a box cutter and popping it out and put the worbla backing in as well.
So barring any catastrophes happening with the mail or the tailor, this should be pretty quick to put together for what I think will be a passable costume, especially for use on Sunday of NYCC/other conventions when everyones a bit more geared towards comfort. More to come from this pretty soon as I whip it all together in the next few days!