Just an update: While making the jacket I think the Tiger Lady leg piece for the back of the left arm needs a little more sky.So I had the back Tiger Lady's leg printed for the back of the left sleeve and it came out good IMO. I used the same fabric as her obviously and had Contrado print a "sample". Here are the specifications and pictures.View attachment 1429872View attachment 1429873View attachment 1429871View attachment 1429874
Outstanding! I'm so jealous right now.So I finally finished this beast after a year of research and collecting, I think I spent around $600. I want to thank everyone who helped me, especially Charlie tearz. It took me about 50-60 hours to cut, position pieces/ patches, and sew. I started with the leopard and snake lady then the peacock and matador. The back of the leopard and peacock will over lap the back pieces so don't sew that part until after the lower back is on. Then I did the lower back and over lap the front pieces over the back pieces under arm approx. 1"-2" overlap. Use the lower back pieces and center of jacket for the placement of the top pieces on the back. The tiger lady doesn't over lap the matador piece, but I think she does a very small part of the bull body on the left, so the bull would need to be sewn before the tiger lady. Then the top shoulder pieces, use the top shoulder pieces for a center point of reference for the sleeve pieces. Before you cut down the tapestries double check your placement against real photos, not from other peoples jackets. The only fan jacket I can say is almost perfect is the Vinnytats. Also the stunt and hero have small differences in the tapestries and placement so you can follow one or the other or a combination of both. I highly recommend buying some sort of form, I posted info for a cheap one on ebay. Before you sew on pieces of tapestry or patches use the T-pins for placement and put the jacket on the form then check it against pictures. This is the way I did it except I didn't take my own advice on a couple of small things being in a hurry and certain small details on my jacket are wrong. The most notable is too much of the lower portion of the snake lady is showing. I had it right and then went to sew it and I didn't notice it had moved. I noticed it when I went to sew in the patches because it threw their placement off a little. We're only talking less then a half inch, but that small detail snowballed. I don't care enough to tear it apart and redo it, but I wanted to warn others. Another is the leopards on the back are reversed, and I didn't make the strip crooked enough, mine needs to be lower on the left about another 1" or so. I may or may not fix it, it's a lot of sewing to fix. Also another mistake I made was not leaving enough extra for fraying 1/4"-1/2" extra is not a bad idea. I didn't plan on fraying mine but looking back I wish I would have made some pieces a tiny bit bigger. I think the movie squid skirts a smaller than 12", maybe 10", the 12" just look alittle too big to me. Some notable changes I may make in the future are downsizing the anarchy patch one size smaller from Contrado mine seems just a little too big, making the Warriors patch 9.5" instead of the 8.5", and look for some better squid skirts.
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Outstanding! I'm so jealous right now.
Awesome find! Yeah, take a good picture of her and make sure there is enough "red" background in the shot, I'm sure everyone would be appreciative. You have all the luck man! Where did you find that one?Amazing work Pennywise!
I guess cause there were many versions of the jacket and other peoples replicas being so close to the originals that they look original makes future jackets get slightly confused or not accurate in some places, that's why I stuck to the promo pics jacket really. I bet you feel a sense of pride wearing the jacket after completion :-D
Quite funny as Alex signed the jacket he said when he went for his audition they had all the jackets on the floor to pick from, and him being the first at the auditioning picked the Marko jacket and that's how he got Marko, imagine if he picked Dwayne's or something haha. At a UK convention, I see like 3 Marko jackets, 1 being myself. Mine was like a middle tier in terms of most accurate, and there was another guy who I swear must have owned an absolute original screen jacket it was that good, very aged, all patches looked absolutely flawless.
Anyway, I'm now making my second jacket and remodifying my current signed one, scored this beauty few days ago. In total awe finding it. Just to give others out there a sense of rarity, I search almost daily in the past 3/4 years and only found 4 of these tapestries, 2x I own, 1x from a person who loves cats and won't sell, and a blue version which isn't accurate. I do have an original one of her but the border is not accurate, this one is. I will take some pictures if anyone wants to when I have it.
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Ah, very cool. Yeah, I'd be really torn cutting into them, especially now that Contrado has the Chi-Chi Furnishings Velour, it's very close. If I did cut one up I probably wouldn't wear the jacket, it would be for display only. Now you gotta find the Tiger LadyYeah got lucky finding them 2x tapestries, all I can say is if you put in the effort and time you get rewarded, this jacket in the future will only be rarer since the tapestries are all rare, to begin with. I found it on Etsy but it wasn't named lady chariot wild cats or anything like that it was semiramis. It is a Ha-Va-Ti tapestry too, I know some tapestry are RJ / ATC etc.
I think you would easy get 1k for your jacket, the effort finding them tapestries alone is hard work.
I've typed all sorts of names on Etsy and ebay for this one. It's called "semiramis"?Yeah got lucky finding them 2x tapestries, all I can say is if you put in the effort and time you get rewarded, this jacket in the future will only be rarer since the tapestries are all rare, to begin with. I found it on Etsy but it wasn't named lady chariot wild cats or anything like that it was semiramis. It is a Ha-Va-Ti tapestry too, I know some tapestry are RJ / ATC etc.
I think you would easy get 1k for your jacket, the effort finding them tapestries alone is hard work.
You want to know what's rarer that the two lady taps (which I luckily have now) --- The bit of paper that came packaged with them originally stating their names! Those I'd LOVE to see!!! Some amazing detective work in this thread... Well done all
You want to know what's rarer that the two lady taps (which I luckily have now) --- The bit of paper that came packaged with them originally stating their names! Those I'd LOVE to see!!! Some amazing detective work in this thread... Well done all