Hi,
I'm a new member here, so I thought I'd share my own Caprica Six costume photos.
I have others of the classic Six dress that I made the year before, and I'll share those soon as well.
The following are from last year's BayCon; a sci fi convention held in California's Bay area.
This is my replica of the alternate red Caprica Six dress worn in "Pegasus" (Season 2, Episode 10).
I didn't work off of any pattern, but simply draped it on my dress form, using pictures of the actual dress as a guide.
The whole thing ended up being really easy to make, compared to the many pieces involved in the classic red Six dress I made last year.
I couldn't find a stretch silk charmeuse in the right red, so I went with a synthetic version. Still quite nice to work with, and the only futzing I did, was with the gathers at the center front where the brooch is pinned. It's a just a big cowl neckline, and it was hard to get it to not look too bulky.
Definitely making this one out of silk if I find some in the right color, for next time.
The original costume from the series:



Hopefully, I can find some better photos, but these will have to do for now.
My hair is my own ;-) Naturally blonde already, I added a toner to cool it off to an even brighter platinum blonde. I did cut it though :-( and it's just now beginning to get back to it's original length. While I really needed the trim, and it looked even shorter styled for the character, I missed my long hair. I think this year I might try to track down a wig or hairpiece I can use for the shorter style.

And yes, in case anyone is wondering how I wore this without uh...giving a peep-show, Double-sided "fashion" tape (better known as toupee tape) is a girls best friend ;-)
Enjoy the photos!
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Hey all,

I am putting together a Six costume for Comic Con that I will post pictures of soon (hopefully including a how-to for making her silver bracelet), but until then, I wanted to share a props site that I stumbled on:

New Moon Props

For Galactica, they mostly have a lot of rank pins and some of the old style pistols from the original. Enjoy!

Here is a repost, from my own LJ, of the entries i made while making a set of Colonial BDU's

( All the gory photos and my whole sordid tale )

So I'm back to work on another run at making duty blues. My last run was originally for myself for last summer's D*Con and I think as a junior costumer I didn't do too bad. I wore them to work for Halloween and got lots of compliments... and a few "is that a band uniform?".

So my question is this: How do you manage the lay over of the chest? I've been going over images and I'm struggling to find something consistant, though I'm also struggling a bit with the collar as well so I'm wondering if they're related. I've seen that some have the collar closed perfectly tightly and some have up to an inch gap at the front.

But the on the cross over I'm wondering how far the cross should be, meaning where do I put the buttons? I'm leaning towards using the nipple line as where the edge of the fold over front should line up. I think on my last run I over shot, but I also don't want to do what I saw at D*con on a few and only have like an inch of fold over.

What did you use? What do you think?

Since I haven't found the gray knockoffs that the BSG costume department used, and since I have a zillion sets of them, I am working on a project modifying one of my older sets of Army digital camo uniforms to the Colonial style. I'm removing the velcro from the sleeve pocket flaps, getting the IR tape off, removing the velcro for the chest nametapes, etc. I might have to dye them a little bit. It should work well to simulate a more well-worn set that a working Colonial Marine would have than the fresh-off-the-supply-room, out-of-the-back-of-the-wall-locker look that Commander Adama had on the Kobol landing.

I have several extra sets in different sizes if anyone wants to try something similar.

Hey guys, totaly n00b here...

I was wondering if there was somewhere online where i could get the pilot tank tops/number 6's bracelet??

Halloween is coming up, and I was just wondering if anyone had any BSG plans for the holiday!

I work at a comic book store here in Toronto, and we throw a huge Halloween party every year. A few members of the staff usually choose a sort of theme, and this year the theme just so happened to be BSG. I was nominated for Six (not easy shoes to fill!) and my costume is finally coming together (in spite of my reluctance!). I thought I'd share what I had so far, and hopefully hear some more stories!

( are you alive? )

So that is what I have so far. Does anyone else have any BSG plans for this Halloween?

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