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The KOTCS webbelt

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Do you think that the KOTCS webbelt is brown (like in Raiders) or beige/tan (like in LC)?
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I think it is in between of the two.

it doesnt look brown and it doesnt khaki...it looks like a khaki with an orange tint

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I think it looks like a faded brown, personally...although a few years from now, Spielberg will probably make it known that the belt was really gray. :shock: :roll: :junior: -M
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In one scene it looks really dark (compared to the pants) but in every other scene it is much lighter. In most promotional shots it looks like it is the same color as the pants.

Faded brown is probably the best answer.

I have been waiting for Todd to ship a tan web belt since May. Has anyone ever tried to dye a tan web belt?
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it looks like a khaki color with an orange tint to it to me....

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So what would be more reasonable? Buy a brown one and fade it? or buy a tan one and dye it and give it also an orange tint?
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Post by Holt »

dont know...I am gonna buy a khaki and duy it with an light orange tint


we'll see how that turnes out


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Seems pretty clear to me that it's the same as the LC belt. I mean it is common knowledge that they were matching up the gear with the third film. I don't really get why this is in question. :?
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Seems pretty clear to me that it's the same as the LC belt. I mean it is common knowledge that they were matching up the gear with the third film. I don't really get why this is in question.
You colorblind?

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Post by buda741 »

The CS belt looks dirtier and more aged than the LC belt. Considering the time difference it makes sense that the CS would have a darker appearance.
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Post by Indiana Strones »

You can take 10 pictures of the same item and obtain 10 different colours. Also you can print 10 times the same identical photo and obtain 10 different colours...

I think CS web belt is a very dirty khaki: not orange, just dirty.
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Post by Kentucky Blues »

I wonder if maybe this one is Olive Drab? In the right lighting, it could look like that, and Indy was in the army recently as of CS...

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Post by Kt Templar »

I don't believe the normal sand/tan colour we get for a LC belt works for the CS.

A brown belt that's been in the washer a few times is a better match. JMO.
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PLATON wrote:
Seems pretty clear to me that it's the same as the LC belt. I mean it is common knowledge that they were matching up the gear with the third film. I don't really get why this is in question.
You colorblind?
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PLATON wrote:
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Seems pretty clear to me that it's the same as the LC belt. I mean it is common knowledge that they were matching up the gear with the third film. I don't really get why this is in question.


You colorblind?


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C'mon it was a joke! :wink:
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I dunno...looks like a standard tan web belt to me...maybe dirtied up a bit?

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http://www.theraider.net/showimage.php? ... ij4_01.jpg

still looks brown to me. :junior: -M
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It's brown.
And that's the point I wanted to make with this thread.
It's a brown color close to the color of the pants.
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Post by Holt »

are you guys still talking about the web belt??

cause it still looks like the khaki with a orange tint to me....but under a different lighting off course


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In my opinion, the belt used there is a dark brown belt distressed heavily, maybe with soap and some bleach. It's like mine. I bought mine long ago by Noel Howard. All Noel's items were heavily distressed.

To be honest the khaki belt was the item that I liked the least from the overall outfit. Maybe the producers noticed that and they returned to the original setup.


Here's mine. Both come from Noel Howard during the MBA times.
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I also own the MBA one and it is heavily distressed brown.

Hey Indygr, do you think that the KOTCS pants are more brown than taupe? (raiders)
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Well Platon this difficult to say mainly because of the colour palette that the new movie had and plus Douglas Slocombe was not the director of photography. The colour palette this time was 50's based giving more vivid colours thus making exaggerated the look of the whole scenery. ex. The sky was strange, the shirt at the indoor shots had a very green hue and the pants looked shiny as MODERATOR WORD REMOVAL. WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE HERE.

Considering that this time Bernie Pollack had access to the Lucasfilm archives and supposedly copied the colours exactly, I would vote that the KOTCS pants are similar if not identical to the LC pants. Of course the pants looked like brown, because of the boxes in the intro scene and because of the lighting that the principal photographer wanted to achieve. But in the atomic bomb scene it can be seen clearly that the pants had a pink hue similar to the LC pants.

So, after all this academic explanation :lol: :shock: I think that they can be categorised more as brown than taupe even if taupe is categorised as brownish grey.

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Post by Indiana G »

i bought a tod/lc belt from NH last year and i think she's a dead ringer for the CS web belt.
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Do you think the buckle is steel or brass (in KotCS)?
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Post by Holt »

look at the 2 pictures above.the LC compared to the CS...

I bet you'l see that both look like brass dont ya? :wink:

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Post by Mannie Bothans »

Indiana Holt wrote:look at the 2 pictures above.the LC compared to the CS...

I bet you'l see that both look like brass dont ya? :wink:

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In the pic below, the brown belt has a brass buckle and the tan belt has a steel buckle:

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I guess I was asking what it looked like to y'all underneath the top coat of brass.

Yep, in the pics above, they both look like tarnished brass.

(On my tan belt, I just ordered a steel buckle. Oh well.)
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Post by Kt Templar »

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Nearly 3 years ago AC helped me order some belts from Todd, a couple of LC and a couple of dark brown.

To me the CS belt really bears no relation the the sand coloured Todd belt at the top. (please ignore the cheap belt in the middle!).

My brown belt is still going strong after all this time and several washes in the machine, I'm still on the first one! If I can find the unused brown one I will take a pic of the 2 side by side.
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I'd imagine that it's just a tan belt that was aged in a pot of boiling tea.

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Post by WConly »

To me it looked brown, but aged! Heck, I don't know and I don't really care. It is what it is...and, that is what it is! It seems to me that many of us here -- and, I have done this...want SA looks...but, does it really mean that much? Why not just enjoy what is available and not get carried away with the 'small stuff!' Just my 'two cents!' W>
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Post by Dakota Ellison »

I tried washing my Todd's brown web with clorox and it hardly faded at all. Then I looked in a drawer I haven't looked in lately and lo and behold I already had a web belt in a kind of orange/tan color. It had a black buckle and tab. Bought it at an Army/Navy store years ago. I swapped buckles and tabs from a khaki web and voila, a Crystal skull Indy web belt. By the way I have found dull brass buckles at Hancock Fabric stores for around $3. I'll try to post a pic later.
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I know. It looks like my computer's wearing trousers.
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