Mal's Coat

POSTED BY: Larkin
UPDATED: Sunday, August 28, 2005 06:41
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HELL'S KITTEN

Saturday, July 24, 2004 10:44 PM

I got bored and threw this together real quick. I still need to finish them hem & collar and fabricate better clasps, but here it is anyway. I put a photo of Mal in his coat next to it for comparison. My crappy camera didn't quite pick up all the detail, but I think you get the general idea. If you see something that's not quite right, please let me know... I'd like to get this as right as possible.

SPIKESMORTICIA

Sunday, July 25, 2004 6:17 PM

SHINY!!!

It looks pretty good to me, although I do agree with the clasps, they really stand out. Perhaps a more burnished gold finish would blend in better.

Did you make the coat?? I'm so jealous. I've been looking all over the internet and can't find anything that even comes close to what I want.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day.... it just means you tried.

STEAMEDBAO3

Sunday, July 25, 2004 11:06 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I got bored and threw this together real quick. I still need to finish them hem & collar and fabricate better clasps, but here it is anyway. I put a photo of Mal in his coat next to it for comparison. My crappy camera didn't quite pick up all the detail, but I think you get the general idea. If you see something that's not quite right, please let me know... I'd like to get this as right as possible.

What Type of fabric did you use and where did you get it. It looks great. I have been wanting to make one myself for awhile.

God created Mudder's Milk so the Independence wouldn't take over the 'verse.

APEX

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 7:07 AM

The jacket Adam Baldwin wears during his rendition of "The Hero of Canton" on the DVD seems to be made of the same material as (or one very similar to) Mal's coat.

RELFEXIVE

Wednesday, July 28, 2004 8:17 AM

Some suggest suede would work; others say that's too heavy and calfskin would be better.

In this case I couldn't say, cos I've not seen the real thing.

Mal: "We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so... very... pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die."

LARKIN

Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:18 AM

Well the thing is that it's got to be able to blow in the wind. That kinda narrows down the material a bit there.

"Lady, you're my kind of stupid,"

WILLOWY

Thursday, August 19, 2004 1:25 AM

Wow it looks so good! A couple suggestions, like the poster above said, the clasps really stand out, maybe take some sandpaper to them...and the cuffs look black, while Mal's in the picture look light brown...

That's it though, good job, it looks SHINY!

"Once, in flight school, I was laconic..."

BROWNCOAT1

Thursday, August 19, 2004 12:32 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Hell's Kitten:
I got bored and threw this together real quick. I still need to finish them hem & collar and fabricate better clasps, but here it is anyway. I put a photo of Mal in his coat next to it for comparison. My crappy camera didn't quite pick up all the detail, but I think you get the general idea. If you see something that's not quite right, please let me know... I'd like to get this as right as possible.

No ruttin' way! That is one shiny looking coat Hell's Kitten. Did you make it? You have to tell us how you did it or where you got the materials. You are sitting on a gold mine! If that jacket could be reproduced dozens if not hundreds of Browncoats from all the boards would happily part w/ money for one of their own.

"May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one."

LJOSALF

Friday, August 20, 2004 3:07 AM

Well, from what I have been able to glean from stepping through Serenity (White Fall scenes), Trash (opening scenes), and the Train Job (opening scenes), there's this to say about the construction:
The coat very much appears to be sueded leather. It has the weight of leather and seems to have the hand as well. Except for the cuffs, it appears to be sueded on both sides; so it is likely a split (a single cowhide is often split into two pieces by shearing the outside hide from the inside hide. The inside hide "half" will always be sueded or rough on both sides. This provides a rough hewn, frontier look to this particular garment.) The back is very clearly made up of a yoke above and a mid-back piece below. The sleeves join not at the side seam but about 1/4 - 1/3 of the way up the back of the armhole; this seam is either meant to abut the bottom seam of the yoke or very nearly so. The sleeve looks to my moderately practiced eye like the style you get in men's suits only not quite as fitted. I think that there are two narrow side/back panels that have a slight hour glass shape to them giving the coat a bit of flare at the bottom, a very mild waist effect and providing a smidge more ease across the shoulders; these panels appear to attach to the front pieces in a standard side seam at the underarm. But I may be mistaken on this last point because on White Fall you can clearly see from the inside how the side slits are faced and there doesn't appear to be any seam going up from the top of the slits. The collar appears to be about 1 to 1 1/2 inches wide and the front pieces appear to overlap by about the same amount producing a notched lapel look. I haven't yet decide on the depth of the cuffs or the width and shaping of the sleeves although the sleeve is definitely not as fitted as a standard suit sleeve.

I managed to pick up a lovely cow's worth of brown leather for under $100. It's not double sueded but has a great distressed bomber jacket finish and some strategically placed holes that will incorporate nicely as shot damage. I'm looking forward to running up a browncoat for an air support gunner for my husband. I figure the different units not to mention service branches would have different interpretations of what a browncoat should look like.

Ljosalf

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

DOCARCANE

Friday, August 26, 2005 6:44 PM

there is a company that makes knockoff of holywood costumes that is offering a 'Browncoat' coat...

http://www.abbyshot.com/

... but they want $450 buck for it.

I went with Internatinal Male's 'Westgate Suede Trench II'

http://tinyurl.com/cg2a2

It's only $140 bucks and looks pretty good. and, the way I figure it... a rag-tag unit like the Browncoats -- they ain't got no tailor that's gonna go make sure all their coats are the same-like.

P.S. IM's 'London Opera Vest' would make a darn good Simon vest too...

http://tinyurl.com/7vhzy

Doc Arcane

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