RDA SecOps camo pattern: where is it?

[Cougashika]

Many people, on different sites and forums, have complained about the lack of camouflage material using the pattern from James Cameron's Avatar. Some recommend using various digital and non-digital patterned material, while a few die-hards attempt hand-patterning. My question is: why isn't this pattern available commercially? Is it a legal issue, or is it because the movie hasn't been out long enough or popular enough (riiight!) for someone to see the commercial possibilities? Maybe someone has captured it for an exclusively children-only market. I can also see an ironic twist coming; the pattern is copyrighted by Cameron, who will allow it only if a portion of profits go to "green" charities.

Or am I just being paranoid....

 

[Riceball]

Many people, on different sites and forums, have complained about the lack of camouflage material using the pattern from James Cameron's Avatar. Some recommend using various digital and non-digital patterned material, while a few die-hards attempt hand-patterning. My question is: why isn't this pattern available commercially? Is it a legal issue, or is it because the movie hasn't been out long enough or popular enough (riiight!) for someone to see the commercial possibilities? Maybe someone has captured it for an exclusively children-only market. I can also see an ironic twist coming; the pattern is copyrighted by Cameron, who will allow it only if a portion of profits go to "green" charities.

Or am I just being paranoid....

I'm guessing that there's just not much of a market for replica movie camo patterns out there even one that appears to be as functional as AVPAT. The most likely people to produce at least a semi-accurate AVPAT uniform would the Chinese who do all of the Multicam knockoffs but I'd imagine that they'd have to smell something a profit before they'd attempt it which would probably mean that there has to be enough interest in the airsoft community for this stuff to be worth their while. It's possible to create the pattern yourself and have it printed and maybe get the uniform made in China but the tariffs, if you go with cotton, will likely kill you; I know a guy who had replica SG-1 jackets in ripstop cotton made in China and he had to pay an arm and a leg to get them out of customs. There are also places in the US that will do custom fabric printing but of the ones that I've seen so far none of them print on any fabric used for making cammies ie. ripstop cotton, nyco twill, polycot ristop.

Give it some time, I'm sure that somebody will eventually come out with either AVPAT fabric or a complete uniform. All it would really take to make it feasible would be a large amount of interest and perhaps the formation of an RDA SecOps/Avatar costuming group along the lines of Aliens Legacy. If that happens then I'm sure that someone like Men at Arms, who makes the Aliens USCM camo, could be convinced to start making and offering AVPAT uniforms.

 

[panzerwerk]

as a camo collector , I know some of the companies out there are supplying Hollywood with unique patterns like for GI Joe , ,Companies like hyper stealth and Hyde Definition is a couple, I think , I would be one guy who would like to find camo uniforms from the movies , I have a set of the Russian "Red Dawn" camo.