Club Obi Wan

WinstonWolf359

I'd wait for Todd's actual HE2 airsoft. It should be around the same price as his current offerings, but won't require the modifications needed to make the "Cairo" airsoft look the part. Personally, I think the M10 "suitcase" pistol might superficially look the part better, there...

WinstonWolf359

That looks amazing, Todd!

Short of owning a real M1917, that is the ultimate Indiana Jones gun.

WinstonWolf359

Do you have a pair of pants that fits you well?

Use the measurements you get from those pants, perhaps adjusted to fine-tune the size to make them a little more "Indy" and send those to Magnoli.

WinstonWolf359

And fat boy sizes, please.

I've had to pass on the shirt and jacket because of sizes so far...I'd hate to miss out on the pants too.

WinstonWolf359

I really don't see how wool pants are any more labor intensive to care for than the leather jacket or felt hat. If the gear doesn't suit the adventure, pick different gear. If you're really going out on "adventures" and getting really, really dirty, maybe officer's pinks aren't the right p...

WinstonWolf359

100% wool. There's no reason to try to make a pair of Indiana Jones pants and get side tracked halfway there.

There are plenty of "close enough" pants already out there that are "kinda" Indy, what the hobby needs is a pair that actually gets the fabric, fit, and color right.

WinstonWolf359

The most frustrating thing about the pants situation is that no one seems able to put together the correct fabric with the correct pattern and fit. Magnoli's got the tailoring down, but all of his fabric options fall short compared to the original cavalry twill. Wested has good fabric (though still ...

WinstonWolf359

I'll bet if you held a tape measure up to the pants they'll measure out to the size they're marked.

Most modern clothing is sized a lot more generously than the size on the tag would indicate, but clothing from the first half of the 20th century (or replicas of such) were a lot more honest.

WinstonWolf359

I recall reading Wested did make patterns (or at least took a lot of notes) on all the Noel Howard gear when they had it. It just wasn't a priority for them to make the corrections to their shirt and pant offerings. I'm guessing they have plenty of current stock to sell first.

WinstonWolf359

I don't think we're intended to think this character has a wardrobe full of identical stuff or that he regularly goes to the same hatter, tailor or whipmaker. In Raiders, when Indy's talking to Marcus while packing his suitcase you clearly see a closet with several leather jackets and khaki shirts....

WinstonWolf359

I'm sure it's supposed to be different hats, much the same as the rest of his gear gets replaced as it wears out over the course of his adventures. We saw an entire closet full of spare clothing in Raiders, so it's clear Indy has a "style" for his adventure gear. Besides, I'm not sure ther...

WinstonWolf359

So can you replicate that look from the screen caps using an actual head, hat, and turban or not? I'm genuinely interested in seeing this become more than just theory, conjecture, and screen caps.

WinstonWolf359

I think Agent5's turban sans hat is pretty compelling, but does anyone else care to post a pic of themselves wearing a hat AND turban that matches what we see in the film as a counter proposal? Personally, I think if Spielberg would have asked Harrison Ford to wear the hat AND a turban in the Tunisi...

WinstonWolf359

Todd's site update, and listing the Uptowner, seems to have been added just within the last week or so. I was somewhat surprised Todd hasn't mentioned anything about it himself, but I'm sure more info is coming. I'm certainly interested to see how the Uptowner differs from the Downtowner.

WinstonWolf359

It's really sad that this situation is still dragging on here, after SO long. He had a similar backlog of unfulfilled customers at the RPF as well, and it reached the point where the staff had to give a "make good or be banned" ultimatum before he finally gave any refunds or guns over ther...

WinstonWolf359

My LC tie came from SolidColorNeckties. Like you said, nice tie, great price!

WinstonWolf359

My Magnoli shirt is light khaki, and I really like the color a lot.

WinstonWolf359

Well, it seems to be portrayed in the films that Indy is wearing military surplus clothing and equipment, and that he always has multiples of each piece. So I think part of the reason we see Indy using the same clothing and gear over and over again is because he's found wardrobe pieces that are chea...

WinstonWolf359

I think the shirt is a good length for the untucked look, but I think another inch to half inch longer wouldn't hurt. I wonder if the shirt looks longer in those ROLA photos because he's wearing higher waisted trousers :-k Maybe, but I'm mostly looking at how long the shirt looks compared to HF's a...

WinstonWolf359

I'm not convinced the original shirts Harry wore were all that short. Not the greatest pictures, sure, but his untucked shirt tail still comes down pretty far, indeed. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v430/WinstonWolf359/shirt3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v430/WinstonWolf359/shirt2.jpg ht...

WinstonWolf359

The Raven scenes were filmed on a stage in England, whereas the Bantu Wind Scenes were filmed off the coast of France. 2 different photography units. Two different units, sure, but those locations makes it much more likely that it would have been a single Hi-Power pistol used in both scenes, most l...

WinstonWolf359

Does anyone know where the Bantu Wind scenes were filmed? Or the Nepal bar? If both scenes weren't filmed in the same country, then the Browning Hi-Power guns would have to be different guns, without a doubt. For the same reasons there were two different versions of the Smith and Wesson. Now, if bot...

WinstonWolf359

In Wested's description of the Noel Howard pants on their website, they state that the NH pants are the same fabric and color as their offerings, just that the NH pants are a heavier weight fabric. However, I believe the Last Crusade pants from Noel were intentionally lighter in color, which would e...

WinstonWolf359

I'm confused. :-k You want a durable jacket, but what makes you think an Indy accurate jacket wouldn't be durable? There's a thread floating around on the first page of the jacket section of a ten-year-old Wested that looks amazing and is still in great shape, and will probably last another thirty y...

WinstonWolf359

Man, why is it that it seems like all of Todd's gear runs a little small? The jacket and shirts ran small, which is why I couldn't get either one of those. Then the boots aren't initially offered in a 13, my usual size, but it seems like I'd probably need a 14 so they'd actually fit? Well, here's ho...

WinstonWolf359

I think the whole thing looks awesome!

Great color, great texture, great jacket! When I saw the first pictures I thought "man, that looks pretty good already, why mess with it more." But wow, those "after" pictures look really good!

Thanks for sharing!

WinstonWolf359

Thanks for posting pics! :) Once Todd has expanded his sizing on these, I'll be sure to get a pair. If you didn't tell me these weren't Alden's I'd never know, other than the screen accurate color. So Todd, looks like the pants are about the only thing holding you back from literally being a one-sto...

WinstonWolf359

Can't do much better than the Carolina "close enough" boots. A lot of us have a pair and I think they're great.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Carolina-mens-6-wor ... dZViewItem

WinstonWolf359

I'd need at least a size 13, so that's what I voted for...

If these sizes run small like most of the other gear I'll probably need a 16...

WinstonWolf359

Yeah, I noticed that too. The only thing I could think of to explain it is it would probably be easier to make replicas of the one bag they liked as the hero bag than to try to find vintage bags that actually matched.

WinstonWolf359

Well, one of the toughest things about this hobby is that color is subjective. How things look in photos won't necessarily match what you see on screen, and even that might not be particularly accurate to what the item actually looked like in real life. So obviously, everyone has differing opinions ...

WinstonWolf359

I think the best advice I have is to find a pair of pants you already have that you like the fit of, and use those as a starting point. Every time I've ordered custom-fit clothing (Wested jacket, Magnoli shirt and pants) I've based the measurements off of something I owned that fit me well, and I've...

WinstonWolf359

The dark khaki is too light, and the dark brown is too dark...

The best color Magnoli has is the 100% English wool in Camel. I have a pair of the camel pants and a shirt in light khaki and the color and contrast between the two is perfect for Crystal Skull.

WinstonWolf359

I got mine from Solid Color Neckties: http://www.solidcolorneckties.com/index.cfm/fa/subcategories.main/parentcat/15823/subcatid/47423 It's polyester, and doesn't have quite the same subtle weave of the original poplin tie, but it is matte black and how can you beat under $10 shipped? They were very...

WinstonWolf359

There's not much to see in "before" and "after" pics. The pants look exactly the same, they just feel a little different.

WinstonWolf359

Yep, once again, I'm one size too big for any of Todd's off-the-rack clothing. Jacket, then shirt, and now shoes... :cry: Oh well. I can keep losing weight to try to fit into the shirt and jacket, but I'm not cutting off my big toe the get a pair of boots. I guess I'll have to keep waiting to see if...

WinstonWolf359

I've washed mine (together with my Magnoli wool pants) on cold/delicate and tumbled them dry in a low heat dryer and suffered no ill effects.

They ended up a lot softer and a little fuzzier but they seem a lot more like adventure pants now, and less like a plain pair of dress pants.

WinstonWolf359

I'd second the vote for Magnoli's shirt, since you can specify exactly how long you want the shirt, and have a lot more control over the color, too. Todd's shirt is too short for taller folks, and I didn't own the Wested shirt for long enough to get a feel for how long it was, but the color is way t...

WinstonWolf359

They show up on eBay all the time.

WinstonWolf359

Mmmmm... Not me. My dark brown has none of the warm reddish tone to it at all.

WinstonWolf359

I think the length of the CS and Raiders jackets are the same. Like you mentioned, Harry wears his pants waistband MUCH higher in CS than he did in any of the other films, and it throws off the apparent length of the jacket. It is much more accurate to compare the length of the jacket to the length ...

WinstonWolf359

Magnoli doesn't really have anything quite the same color as the 100% English wool in any of his other fabrics. The English wool is slightly less gray than the "correct" color, but it's the only fabric Magnoli offers that has enough true brown in it to be a contender, IMO. In case anyone m...

WinstonWolf359 · Mine is 7-1/16" or 181mm. Hope this helps!

Mine is 7-1/16" or 181mm.

Hope this helps!

WinstonWolf359

Man, those are pretty cool pants, but just the thought of spending $130 on "close enough's" makes my eye twitch.

WinstonWolf359

Thanks for the kind words, guys! The jacket is about three years old. As for distressing, what HAVEN'T I done?!? Sandpaper, steel wool, water, acetone, tumbled around in the dryer, rubbing alcohol, rolling around in the dirt, rolling around on rocks, rubbing up against cinder block walls, you name i...

WinstonWolf359

Here's a pic of my dark brown lamb. I really like the dark brown, and it in no way looks black...

WinstonWolf359

Which version of the movie did you see? He cocks the Webley to scare off the midget-ninja-zombie-monkey-indian-graveyard-protector-guy but he never actually fires it.

WinstonWolf359

And that's great if you happen to be the same size as Harry was in 1983. I personally haven't been since I was 15. :) I think as long as the new patterns being cut using these screen used pants take all the proportions into account as they scale them up and down for various sizes these are going to ...

WinstonWolf359

But what size are we talking about here, a 34 waist? For the size of the screen used pants, I think an 18" cuff opening would make them pretty straight legged. The problem is that unless that opening scales up as the waist measurement increases the pants will seem more and more tapered. My pair...

WinstonWolf359

My favorite paint job for guns is to first put several thin coats of Testors Model Master "Gunmetal" Buffing Metallizer, followed by a coat of metallizer sealer. Then spray several thin coats of Krylon BBQ Black, lightly buffing each coat before moving on to the next. Then lightly rub the ...

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