Independent Army Brigade--The 76th (part three)
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Tuesday, December 5, 2006 16:08
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I also like the idea of our 76th patch on the left shoulder and the Independents patch on the right. If that is acceptable to most, then I think that is the way we should go.
Thank you for the info, BWTP!
I am out for the weekend, but I'll be back Sunday...and I'll be bringing home the new gun. 
Until then!
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Little Albatross,
I too have a companion costume, and was thinking originally of marching in the parade with a "Support Unification" sign since companions logically would be Alliance sympathizers
However the idea of marching as part of the brigade has overcome my desire to get all gussied up in companion attire for the parade at least, after the parade I will be found in either companion clothes or my kaylee jumpsuit.
I figure I have all weekend and am allowed a few costume changes.
I have one sleeve done with the knitting, now I just have to play with mylar and experiment with a slightly different dye.
Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
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Tristan, I hope you don't mind but I am doing this so I can find everything we have already run through in one location, I figure as one thread gets used up, it will be easy to copy and paste/edit this master list as oppposed to going back through 3 or more threads to find a link you were lookign for :)
This of course is all somewhat fluid still and just my attempt to amass as much info for my selfish use as possible :)
The Plan:
March as members of the Independent Army, at www.dragoncon.org in their parade. The finished costumes will look like this
we will be marching as the Balls and Bayonets brigade, regiment # . The current vision is, "vision has the soldiers at least a little "uniform"...at least close in pants and shirts, but with similar vests and overcoats and weapons. As the war progressed, they seem to have become very hodge-podge...I was aiming for a relatively new 'brigade'...haven't really had their edges dulled to far yet."
Pants can be found here:
http://www.wwmerc.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=CM83&type=store&catego
ry=3930
These are the pants I used for my Mal costume...all that needs to be done is a bit of hemming and adding the stripe down the side. You don't have to use these pants, but they are the closest within a decent pricerange.
Vest:
Tristan is designing one now
Chainmail Sleeves:
Artcat is testing out these directions http://upstagereview.org/CostumesArticles/Chainmail.pdf and will be making chainmail sleeves on a limited basis, possibly making a make your own sleeves kit available if there is enough interest.
Helmet:
Still unsure, thought the Navy does/did use textured helmets
Boots:
not really a problem. Mid-calf or knee high boots. Preferably brown... but of course, it doesn't matter a great deal.
Scarf:
Depending on what campaign, apparently. Mal wears a blue scarf and Zoe wears a red scarf in Serenity Valley. Tracey, Mal and Zoey all wear red scarves in Du-Khang. Up to you. I have a blue bandana sort of scarf plus a big red one, just in case.
Belts and ammo packs etc:
Look around :) A brown belt isn't hard to come by... a gun holster should be too hard in America
Patches can be found here:
http://mysite.verizon.net/resp06h7/
AND
www.OutToTheBlack.com will has fully embroidered Independent patches. The star is a navy blue, which is the color in the Firefly Companion book.
Gloves: Unknown
Weapons:
This is what we are looking for. The G36, obviously. (First big picture) We can take the laser off, etc.
The gun we seem to have settled on is the H&K G36C. It appears that the guns in the series are actually something called CA36 (it has a higher sight rail than the G36), but as the CA36 runs about $350.00, and the G36 runs anywhere from $13-$40 for the airsoft versions, we have decided to go with those. Sister gave us a link to www.airsplat.com, which has just the right one:
http://www.airsplat.com/itemdesc.asp?CartId={C70A1A45-9E39-4CFE-BDB3-D
C8609FB28EVEREST1E}&ic=AR%2DG36%2D366&eq=&Tp=
$17.95 plus shipping.
Optional Medical Kit (aka Beer bag) for our medical crew
http://www.cheaperthandirt.com/
........ I Will finish editing this list in a bit gotta get some work done :)......
If there is anything horribly wrong in what I have thus far please let me know
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Originally posted by Tristan:
We will be bigger than the 501st! We must! We shall blanket the streets with wave upon wave of browncoat-ed Independents! They will have to increase the length of the parade just to accomodate us! They will stand in awe of the ordered (well, maybe) ranks of proud holders-of-the-line! And we shall march proudly!
*ahem*
Amen brother! I really think that ordered is not the way to go, it will make us look too much like those dumb stormtroopers. We could move along flanking each other, complete with spotters and scouts and the like.
Quote:
Originally posted by BoomerGoodheart:
Ultimate Dragon*Con Fantasy:
Captain Malcolm Reynolds, in full officer uniform, leading the troops through the streets of Atlanta (after having caught wind of this fabu idea)..............
That would be
ing amazing. Maybe we should send him a wave sometime to help to encourage him to be there. Hmmmm, I have his MySpace too.....EDIT: LA, great minds must think alike
or at least have a one-way psychic linkI like the idea of wearing both patches, and I would pay ArtCat or whoever else is able to make them for a set of the mail sleeves (I have never been good with the needles, though I would be willing to learn if someone wants to give me instruction)
~Jimi
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I think I will be making the sleeves on a limited commission basis, but keep in mind each sleeve just to knit so far takes me 5 hours
If I end up doing the mylar metallic stuffs it will go up a bit more.
I would be more than happy to help coach browncoats to knit, and again if there is enough interest I can order bulk supplies and send knit sleeves kits out.
I will talk to my fellow Houston Browncoats as I know there is at least one other knitter and 3 folks that crochet (the crafty 'coats have been teaching each other).
I'm getting very excited about this folks it is coming together quickly!
Again I am going to suggest a website or at least a page so we can keep track of links to various pieces of the costume and have all teh reference pics in one place, just an idea so folks dont have to crawl through multiple threads to find info, and folks with dialup are not faced with the pics and hte horrendous times it takes to load :)
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Hey! Artcat81... that is such a shiny idea - but I have no clue how to make it happen, so we might just have to keep mentioning it... in our conversation from time to time until someone who is clever, computer-savvy and has amazing talent can start a webpage for us!!
Also I am pretty sure these haven't been scanned and posted yet... so I finally got around to doing it - hope they don't confuse at all, just wanted to add to the colourful array of options for us...
All from the Official Firefly Companion...
So... Artcat... what's been happening lately - wouldn't it be shiny to have a dedicated web page for the 76th Independant brigade...?
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oooooo, gorramit I am still trying to get me a copy locally of the companion Im about to give up and order from poplollies.com
You know... looks like the chainmail is not a full sleeve... that would make life easier and be a bit less knitting.. however thehn you have the how to attach it to those understraps issue... hmm I am gonna talk to some of me very Browncoated D&d group who happen to be talented leather workers for ideas...
oh and I have one sleeve done except I need to redye it so it all matches in coloration closer (right now I have a dark patch, a light patch, and a white patch
I am on the mylar hunt this weekend
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ArtCat, you might also want to look at how shiny the sleeves are. Actual steel chainmail dulls down very quickly after it's made. I assume that warfare would make it even more so.
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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Howdy, all!
Hope this isn't too presumptuous, but I posted on both the OB and Dragoncon's livejournal about the 76th. Hopefully, you guys'll get some more recruits!
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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