Star Trek Romulan Commander

Darthgordan, yeah, the darker fabric looks like one piece, but the magenta looks to have holes. Even if it doesn't, it is one way to get the texture if you can't find the pattern.

Jessica, That is really close! Are you going to try to color it, or use the red as the contrast under it?
 
I bought a $4 red sweater from a thrift shop today. Thinking also of sewing in the triangles with a blunt needle and black yarn so it's one piece of fabric...but for the life of me can't remember what this technique is called!

Guri, I can't color the fabric because it's a polyester blend that won't take in dyes well. I guess I could always spray it with fabric paint though!! Hmm...that's a thought.

I'll see and do a test swatch and see which one looks closest to the Romulan fabric. This is so fun!!
 
I have a fabric swatch card of this fabric. The black backing is a mesh netting fabric and the "red" or "blue" is knitted onto the black.
The fabric is then backed or lined with a black fabric. Otherwise the black netting would show everything! LOL
 
Kezler said:
I have a fabric swatch card of this fabric. The black backing is a mesh netting fabric and the "red" or "blue" is knitted onto the black.
The fabric is then backed or lined with a black fabric. Otherwise the black netting would show everything! LOL
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Kezzler, can you please post a photo of this swatch? I would love to see it up close...the front and the back.
 
Kezzler:
I have a fabric swatch card of this fabric. The black backing is a mesh netting fabric and the "red" or "blue" is knitted onto the black.
The fabric is then backed or lined with a black fabric. Otherwise the black netting would show everything! LOL
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So the red is constructed just like the blue in the image Darthgordon linked?

darthgordon said:
Hmmm... this really shows this to be one piece to me

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It looks like you could embroider the pattern using yarn... but oy, that would take time.
 
It looks like I will go ahead with the embroidery. I have a whole year to do this, so no biggie. Here's a small start. I am not really happy with the pattern--so I will remove and re-do. Hoping that I can get better/clearer shots of this pattern (I don't have BluRay)...

Incidentally, this is the back of the $5 sweater from Goodwill, not the front, but it works perfectly for the outfit. I will cut the left side of the sweater for the scarf part of the Romulan suit. I think I will sew the outfit together before I put down the pattern.

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I found silver fabric which I have sprayed lightly with gold. This fabric will be the silver/gold part of the outfit. I will have to figure out how to silkscreen a design on the fabric now.

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Hey Jessica, that embroidery method does look promising! :)

A cheat I use when I need to get a template is to take the photo of what I want, gray scale and increase the contrast. Then I print it out at various sizes and compare photos of my printout against my costume/mannequin with the costume photos I'm trying to make.

Here are various tutorials, each with a different take on the method:

http://www.jedielfqueen.com/lotr/costumes/eomer/templatemaking1.htm
http://www.jedielfqueen.com/lotr/costumes/eomer/templatemaking2.htm
http://www.jedielfqueen.com/lotr/costumes/eomer/pauldrontemplate.htm
http://www.jedielfqueen.com/lotr/costumes/embroidery/makingatemplate.htm


And here's me messing with the photos given here:

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A good friend of mine managed to to this costume and it's one of my favorites of the ones she has. I'd be happy to ask her for some of the details.

We were part of a TOS Trek group at Dragon Con this past year. Here are a couple of the pics.

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I have not gotten far with the outfit. I have all the fabric and material in one tub though, so that's kind of a start. I need to create the pattern of the silver/gold fabric so that I can silkscreen it. I don't know when the next Star Trek Convention is in my area...so as soon as I find out exactly when it will be, I will kickstart the project again. I can re-use the latex ears I used for T'Pring. I bought eyebrow wax so I won't have to shave off half of my eyebrows this time around...

I saw those photos of your friend on Imageshack! That's pretty kewl!!
 
Starting to move slowly with this. First I drew out the pattern that I want to silkscreen:

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Someone cleaned it up for me on Illustrator, and this is the pattern that I will silkscreen onto my gold/silver fabric.

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Armed with my ventilation tool and sheer determination, I am adding a lace front to a $20 wig, since I really hate the way the hairline is folded over the weft. I'll do a little bit here and there when I find the time. Just like Zira's hairline, this Romulan commander's hairline is going to slowly march forward too.

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darthgordon said:
Awe... you should have posted a full before pic so we can see the difference when you are done.
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I found a pattern KWIK SEW 3472. With a very little adjustment, it is a great one for this uniform. I found some red and black large herringbone material at Mary Jo's, a wonderful cloth store in Gastonia NC
 
I'm tempted to buy a lace front wig just for the lace and adding that to my current wig instead of ventilating the wig. Maybe. If I find a lace front wig and the color matches, half my work will be done. I am also thinking I will need a "bumpit" for the hair to keep it styled. Can't wait to see this all put together. I'm going to start trying to work on the chain pattern soon.
 
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