While Megan was looking for a job up here in Vermont, she had a bit of free time on her hands, and watched the entire ten seasons of Stargate: SG-1 over the last couple of months. For halloween, she’s been inspired to put together a basic Vala costume, and I’ve opted to go with one of my favorite characters, Dr. Daniel Jackson.
The outfits that we’re putting together is called Garrison wear: any time that they’re in the SGC, and not out on a mission, they’re wearing pretty basic garb: BDUs, black boots and black shirts.
Last night, we got the boots and BDUs (straight olive green). The patches (an SG-1 and Stargate Command patch, one for each shoulder) have shipped, and they’ll hopefully be in our hands today or tomorrow. Megan’s also picked up a ‘Jackson’ name tape for me at last weekend’s convention. We haven’t put anything together, or taken pictures yet, but we will soonish. By the time that the two of them were together in the series, their outfits were custom made: we’re just going with off the shelf army surplus stuff.
There’s a couple of additional things that we’ve got for this. James gave me a Zat gun a while back, which needs to be painted (where does one find Rub n’ Buff?) and we need to sew on the patches. Megan’s going to dye her hair straight black, and the next time that I have a hair cut, I’m bringing along a photo of Jackson for reference. “Make it like that!”
I’m rather excited – it’ll be a great, off duty costume for conventions, and it’s one that I’ve wanted to make for a long time. I’m so proud of Megan – when I spoke with her on the phone the other day while doing research, she demanded reference photos for something. We’re slowly breaking her into the costuming world!
