Club Obi Wan

On my quest to find a belt for my upcoming Indy Fan Film: Anything Goes (http://www.edbrowndesigns.com/anythinggoes) I was lucky enough to find brown webbed belt, with weathered brass buckle for £1. YES £1.

Where was this amazing find?? At my local Primark store! I was amazed to stumble across such a find in the U.K.

Here is a Picture (sorry its a little dark):



Regards
Luke

That's pretty. I like it.

I've been looking too. My local Primark only had white belts with silver buckles :evil:

I got one at Claire's eventually looks ok, but is a bit flimsy and cost £3! The buckle on the Claire's one is tin plated with brass and then washed with a laquer. If you take a green scouring sponge to it you can get down to the white metal and make it look pretty screen accurate.

Looks like I might have to visit Primark again and ask if they have any of the brown ones.

KT

I cannot tell you all how simple it was to dye a tan web belt dark brown. I wear the thing every day--no bleeding whatsoever. Rit brown dye and use the stove top method. simple as pie!

WOW!!! Boy does THAT LOOK GOOD!!!

Regards,

Marc

Double post... MODS?!

Thanks,

Marc

The one you bought at Claires was relatively small though, wasn't it? About a 28-30 waist?

Will fit up to a 35 at a pinch.

KT

The shape of the buckle is a bit off I think, though for £1 it sure enough is worth it given how hard it seems to find a brown belt in Europe. Easy enough to switch the buckle with a tan belt buckle of the right shape, if needed for accuracy.

Nice find!

Regards,
Swindiana

Kt Templar wrote:The buckle on the Claire's one is tin plated with brass and then washed with a laquer. If you take a green scouring sponge to it you can get down to the white metal and make it look pretty screen accurate.

I don't think that I would work hard to take the brass plating off. I think Indy's belt was brass with some silver highlights where the brass had been scratched.

These buckles will be distressed just like that in a very short time simply by wearing them.

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Swindiana is this buckle the right shape? Both are the same but the antiqueing seems to hide the contours.

Bufflehead do you think I overscrubbed? Really can't find any solid brass around here! On the solid brass ones do you clean off the laquer or leave it shiney like new?

Regards,

KT

Templar;

Yup, that's it.

Regards,
Swindiana

KT,

That buckle appears to have an antique finish on it. I really don't know the best thing to tell you to do to that buckle to make it look as screen accurate as possible.

The ones that we have in the US are either solid brass or brass plated. The solid brass ones are just that, solid brass. At first they are very shiny brass, but will eventually tarnish. Hit them real qick with a brass polish, and they are shiny and new once again. No amount of scrubbing or sanding will ever make them have silver showing through because they are solid brass. For military purposes, since they want everything shiny and perfectly new looking, this is the way to go.

The brass plated ones are nickel with a brass plating. This is the one that is more screen accurate to Indy. If these get srcatched, the brass plating gets removed and the silver colored nickel underneath shows through. For the military, these would then be trashed if they were scratched looking. With this distressing, for Indy, they are just the ticket.

Both of these buckles are very shiny brass when new. They both have a clear lacquer coating. This coating just keeps the brass from tarnishing. Eventually it begins to wear off. When it does, you can see where it is wearing off. In the military or police, this coating must be taken off so that you can not see where it is wearing through.

In my job, I don't know how much brass that I have had to clean. I don't even want to think about it. In the police academy, they used to like to make us clean all of the brass door knobs and kick plates on the doors of the police academy every day during our lunch break. That was BEFORE we got to eat. No wonder people lost weight.