Happy Pilot Costumers

I've been too busy to post updates on my recent projects, the pictures are still sitting in my camera...but I realized that I had a few pictures of some of my costume clients after they received their costume element from me. Here are three pilots, two with flak vests from me and one with a flight suit from me:


Gil's flight suit:

(Updated 4-29-09 with some completed costume shots of Gil:)



Russ' flak vest:
(photos by Martin Miller)



Lauren's flak vest:

Smaller "petite" ladies' X-wing Flak Vest

As a special request, a woman wanted a smaller more petite flak vest for her X-wing costume. Most flak vests are a standard "one-size-fits-most", but since women have more narrow shoulders than the men that the flak vests were originally designed for this makes sense.

Here, I've posted pictures of the finished ladies' flak vest compared with an unfinished standard flak vest:



Here is the vest on its own:

X-Wing Flak Vest

The vest is made out of sport nylon, double layered to prevent transparency. The shoulder straps are made of sport nylon as well. The adjustable waist strap is nylon strapping. Instead of copper wire in the smaller channels, I used plastic string trimmer cording. This way, it can bend and flex without getting warped out of shape like wire does. Clasps are Tandy Leather clasps.