Independent Army Brigade for D*C (part two)
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 22:00
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WHAT KIND OF GUNS DO THE INDEPENDENTS USE FOR SIDE ARMS?
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I really like those fingerless gloves that Mal has on in one of those pictures on the previous thread - I will look around the op shops here in Melbourne to see if I can either find something like them or something that can be modified too... or did this already get discussed...? 
I got a little lost with all the 'gun talk'...
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Those fingerless gloves they use are almost exactly identical to the ones I use in Revolutionary war re-enacting. I also have a modern pair of fingerless gloves that have a fold-back mitten portion. Something similar shouldn't be too hard to come by.
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Place my body on a ship and burn it on the sea,
Let my spirit rise, Valkyries carry me.
Take me to Valhalla where my brothers wait for me.
Fires burn into the sky, my spirit will never die.
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Articat...Yes, those are exactly the striped legged pants I saw. Are they too strange looking, or could they work?
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my first instinct is no the stripe is too wide, and the waist is all wrong, however, if you wore a browncoat over it and closed it might work, I am not sure I think I may go to Walmart on my lunchbreak and have a closer look.
Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
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..thanks Articat; I bow to the more experienced.
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Morning, all!
ArtCat, I am dying to see how the 'experiment' works! Thank you again for tackling this project. 
I do not believe I ever saw any of the soliders wearing a sidearm. I could be wrong, and someone please correct me if so. I know Mal was supposed to have gotten his pistol during the war, but so far I have not been able to see him wearing it.
Gloves...no, we had not discussed those yet. Thanks, Magda! I'll have to start looking more closely for those, too!
CMH, we have a local surplus store...I'll check there to see what they have for gloves.
Sister, I looked at those pants, too, and I agree with ArtCat. They could work, but not exactly.
I have started to pattern my old trenchcoat during a lull in costuming (ok, I took a day off!) and I'll be working on modifying it over the next few weeks. The red vest will be next. I'm trying to find a bunch of good, close pictures of them, especially to figure out the front closures.
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Tristan: in "Firefly" the official companion vol. one; pages 14-15...they describe the browncoats uniforms/vests as having "Asian closures"...this was for the battle of Serenity valley and probably farther into the war than you are aiming for but it might help some. Good drawing of the 'mail' sleeves, tho; showing them attached to the arms w/straps.
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Sister, I did see that, and I also looked at the renderings...and "Asian closures" still have me a bit confused! I will be doing a frame-by-frame of the flashback scenes sometime this week, I can already tell! 
Thank you for that, though! That Firefly Companion has a lot of good pictures for a general idea, though.
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The 'Asian closures' look almost like a type of fastner you find on large handbags (!) a snap latch with a foldover closure. I suspect you of knowing the ins and outs of every craft store in your state, but that was my first thought on seeing the close-up.
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