Costumebase updating its TFA flightsuit/vest this summer

Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2017 11:53 pm Post subject:

Both.
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RebelScum5150 (Mike Campbell) · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:18 am Post subject:

I don't see the TFA rebel jumpsuit or vest on Costume Base's website. Did they pull it because they are doing revisions?
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Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 1:42 am Post subject:

CB only contacted me when they were running low on their current stock, so I'm guessing they're out-of-stock and are working on the new version.
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Redwillow () · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2017 10:37 am Post subject:

Im hoping they offer a smaller size with the new run. I still need a suit for my gf and if the new version looks good i'm planning on getting another one of these.

Big_Furry_Oaf () · Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 9:11 am Post subject:

Do we have a consensus on the Costumebase gloves yet?

Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 2:18 am Post subject:

Costumebase has updated their offering. I'm trying to get hi-res photos from them.

http://www.thecostumebase.com/resistance-pilot-full-tfa-costume/

Chestbox looks bad, and the ejection harness/belt is terrible, but I was never interested in either from CB -- just the flightsuit and vest.
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RebelScum5150 (Mike Campbell) · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 3:01 am Post subject:

So what are your thoughts on the flight suit and vest? That's a heck of a deal if they will pass inspection.
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Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 12:27 pm Post subject:

I need to sit down with the CRL and go over it point-by-point. If the LCJs or anyone with an approved pilot wants to chime in, please do!

Hi-res photos available at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GzwmTjqlWEGxKf9lmgStdL8OoFnn-0Cu?usp=sharing

(If anyone can confirm they can see those, that'd be great!)
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Mawee () · Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2018 1:09 pm Post subject:

I saw the pictures

Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 3:04 pm Post subject:

I looked at the photos with another Base member. We're thinking the flightsuit is probably approvable, with two tweaks:
* replace the leg strap buckles
* probably? replace the back strap buckle

One big question we have is the color - not sure if it's too OT orange.

The vest is a bit more problematic:
* Not sure if the cord around the edge is thick enough
* The vertical spacing between the foam rectangles on the front looks too small
* The construction of the front looks tacked-on.

In general, I think it's a huge leap forward. I'm curious if anyone has been approved, with modifications, with these new versions.
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SSR78 (Jeremy Chang) · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:33 am Post subject:

I recently overhauled an older one for approval (and in the process had all of the flaws laid out for me). The D pocket isn't done correctly and the pocket behind the left primary needs to be smaller as well. Neither are particularly difficult modifications. The Right primary doesn't look quite right either, but i cant tell with the available photos. Also, the color looks better than the v1 which had kind of a neon tone to it and also the fabric used for the v1 was dye-able with RIT synthetic so hopefully that means that this will be too.

The clasps for the collar shouldn't be buttons and i doubt they included the flap in the front for the chest box to hook into, but those can be non-visible
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Thanamira (Dave Leung) · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 1:43 am Post subject:

SSR78 (Jeremy Chang) · Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2018 2:03 am Post subject:

SSR78 (Jeremy Chang) · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2018 5:33 pm Post subject:

I got my CB rev 2 flightsuit the other day. Here are my first impressions:

Overall, I don't think the color is red enough to pass. IIRC its less "neon" than the previous revision, and you might be able to sneak it by if you're lucky (definitely not for TFA but plausible for TLJ). Fortunately, you can dye this fabric with synthetic dye so that shouldn't be too much of an issue. The pocket shapes are definitely better, but need some touch up work, and naturally the texture still isn't great.

The D pocket is not quite right (needs to open under the top flap not above it) and the shape of the overlapping pocket needs some work. This could plausibly be done with the fabric present. The ladder pocket actually looks pretty good, but the flap above the main part needs to be liberated, and the nested pocket needs to be made less wide. Definitely doable with the fabric present.

Although better than velcro, the collar still needs to be replaced with clasps and reinforced if it depends structurally on that hard point. Also the chest box flap needs to be replaced with grey/black fabric and will probably need to have a wider opening if you want it holding anything more than a #2 pencil.

This is where the fore/aft chaps terminate at the side/hip. Its hard to see how it should be in reference photos, but this is what theirs looks like. There's a picture in the reference gallery that seems to indicate that this is correct.

Pretty sure these need to be grey. (Could use some help figuring out what to search on AMazon for this. Trying "sew on grey cuff" didn't help.

Other notes from the CRL include:
• With a stand-up style collar with noticeably slightly darker colored tightly pleated detailing all the way around the outside. Collar closes at front mandarin style.

Could do this with some watered down fabric paint. I personally believe that the shadow provided by the texture should accomplish this and that no recolor is necessary, though the paint option should suffice for a feedback turnaround.

• A strap of dark grey webbing runs around the leg just below the lower pocket on each leg. The strap is sewn in place on the pant leg. The strap features a sliver/light-grey slide-adjuster buckle located on the front side of the leg.

This will need to be removed prior do dyeing.

• Flight suit should have a strap of dark grey webbing running across the width of the lower back with a black adjustable quick-release buckle.

This needs to be added. Should probably just replace the leg webbing with whatever you choose to do this with. And do it post dye.

• Sleeves end with no separate cuffs attached, or the suit sleeves should end in dark grey knit ribbed cuffs.

Not sure where they got the idea for "no cuffs", can't find a reference image of a flightsuit without cuffs.

Disclaimer, there have been rumblings about people getting nicked for things not listed in the CRL, so it would be nice to get some official feedback too. Overall this is a much more solid base to work off of than the V1, and I'm hoping to modify it for a briefing room standard, so we'll see what happens I guess. Let me know if you want any more pictures.
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Blue Banshee Leader (Alex Buirch) · Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:14 am Post subject:

Well, the suit is certainly better than what they've had before, but it's still not ideal. Like you said the color isn't right, that's more of original trilogy X-wing pilot orange, not TFA/TLJ. The collar and sleeve ribbing looks better but I can't tell if it's wide enough, a couple of the pictures make it look fairly thin but I'm not sure if it's just the angle of the picture. The ribbing should be a shade or two lighter or darker than the suit.

The top of the chaps look good to me. They have the seam going down the outside, and the chaps seam meets with the leg seam. The leg pockets should be a bit fuller, those ones are very flat.

The chestbox loop on the chest zipper can be the suit color, many of them were in TFA. They can be either the orange-red suit color or silver-gray/charcoal gray. But yeah, it looks pretty narrow.

The sleeve cuffs should indeed be gray. A woven material of some kind, wool or something similar, and the cuffs should be sewn under the orange-red sleeves, sort of giving it the look that the gray is a shirt that's coming out from under the suit sleeves (that's what it's always reminded me of, anyway). But yeah, some suits didn't have the gray cuffs at the end of the sleeves. Snap Wexley's suit in TFA didn't have the gray cuffs, and there were a couple pilots in TLJ that didn't have them, either.

Did they at least get rid of the quilted butt this time? Razz

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