Wash's Patch(es?)

POSTED BY: Skymutt
UPDATED: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:49
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ROBOZ

Sunday, October 16, 2005 1:24 PM

G'day!

Nicely I.D!

Regarding the 2010 Alexei Leonov joint USSR/USA
mission patch.

You can find the cloth badge availably commercially. I believe I got mine years ago from the Intergalactic Trading Post, not long after the film came out in 1984. There's a picture of the cloth badge here as well, which is a very useful site for S.F insignia generally.

Again, you'll need to copy these into your URL address bar to go there.

http://patchdistributor.bizland.com/wHOlesale7002.chtml

There's also a very good Exhibition site for the 2001/2010 logos here where you'll get an actual ready to go graphic:

http://www.2001exhibit.org/arts/patches2.html

I've just heard that a big Stanley Kubrick exhibition is coming to the Australian Centre For Moving image here in New Melbourne, and they're bringing an original spacesuit loaned by a private collector, not sure if it's a Discovery or Lunar suit, or perhaps even a replica from 2010 Can't wait to see it, as i've been working on a 2001 suit of my own for some time and this will be an unlooked for opportunity to finish off my research! Sometimes ya get to be in the right place at the right time...

Back to the badge. I've got a Leonov one on my cloak, and as it happens I did a lot of research so I could handpaint it. The trouble with the commercial cloth badges is that the crew names on the border around the inverted triangle are sewn somewhat impressionistically so are really rather hard to read. Anyway, if you plan to reproduce the names they are in white capital letters (san serifs) in a plain font like Ariel. The crew names on the left angled border have the tops of the letters facing towards the triangle, the ones on the left have their bottoms facing the triangle. Each name is seperated by a -

The crew names in Peter Hyams film are slightly different from Clarke's novelization.

On my badge I've got the movie crew names....

Left Border- KIRBUK-RUDEKNO-KOVALEV-SVETLANOV-TEANOVSKY

Right Border- FLOYD-CHANDRA-ORLOV-BRAILOVSKY-YAKUNINA

Only the LEONOV on the top border is in Cyrillic.
Captain Tanya KIRBUK's last name is a play on KUBRICK.

Of course, if the Serenity art department just brought a commercial Leonov patch without modification and slapped it onto the jacket then
that would be more accurate, technically!

As for the Intercosmos badges-these patches are sort after by collectors and there's quite a trade in originals and reproductions.

Here are two different sites to start with...

Intercosmos pins here

http://sadcom.com/pins/space3/tmb/all.html

Patches

http://www.ussr-airspace.com/catalog/advanced_search_result.php?PHPSES
SID=69c131a5aa738bd06c89ea425bf6d74d&PHPSESSID=69c131a5aa738bd06c89ea425bf6d74d&keywords=INTERCOSMOS

I've got a bunch of Intercosmos insignia on my second cloak, but haven't got around to cataloging them properly yet. Now I'll have to make sure I include Wash's amongst the other Serenity/Firefly graphics!

Incidentally, the fancier computerised sewing machines are able to take in digital files and reproduce embroidered badges. You can also, in Australia at least, go to some Malls and get it done by one of the custom baseball/trucker cap embroiderers. Mind you, it would be cheaper to get the patches from one of the online traders.

Now you know why I made all my own badges myself rather than try and get the hundreds required from a diversity of sources!

Hope this is of some help,

Cheerio

ROBOZ

SKYMUTT

Monday, October 17, 2005 3:27 AM

Hot Buttered Cripes, Rob! That's a LOT of info. Thanks yet again. I'd found 1 or 2 good images of the Leonov patch from sellers on eBay, and was hoping to find a better view of Wash's version before I did anything about that one.

ROBOZ

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:57 AM

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Originally posted by Skymutt:
Hot Buttered Cripes, Rob! That's a LOT of info. Thanks yet again. I'd found 1 or 2 good images of the Leonov patch from sellers on eBay, and was hoping to find a better view of Wash's version before I did anything about that one.

Well now, no worries. Old Chinese Saying: "Sharing is the best way to take the 'work' out of 'artwork' ".

Speaking of which, I'll be wanting to pepper my second badge cloak with Firefly/Serenty insignia/flags/logos etc. I figure the DVD release of the film ain't that far off, which will be the best way of getting good screen grabs. I've ordered the visual guide but haven't seen it. Anyone know if it has good pics of graphics? Does anyone know offhand of good links to Firefly graphics? Alliance flags, security badges, Independent flags, and so on....I'll do my own search of course (part of the fun!) but am always chuffed if I don't have to reinvent the wheel....
Haven't done a run through of the series yet for graphics, but that'll be the next pleasant job.

Much obliged for any help, suggestions, etc.

ROBOZ

SKYMUTT

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 3:40 AM

Rob,
In case you haven't looked lately; The first link you posted above (the place with the bajillion patches) has a few serenity/firefly ones. All but one were real tiny pics, but the Browncoat patch has a huge graphic, perfect for printing. I'd also found a decent sized pic of the gold Alliance security badge on eBay, though I'm not sure if that auction ended. Here's a direct link that should work.

ROBOZ

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:49 PM

Zhen niu bi!

Marvelous, and right under my nose! Couple of good badges right there....kind of like riding out of Camelot looking for the Holy Grail only to find that it's being used as an egg cup on the Round Table.....

Or somesuch.

Ta and Cheerio

ROBOZ

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