hey all.

I've been watching the bab 5 DVDs again. and was wondering if anybody had a good line on how to make the earth force uniform, specificly Garibaldi's uniform and the standard grey uniform that zach wears.

It will be a while before I can actually do the costume.

I'm assuming you're referring to the original blue and brown uniforms, not the black and silver ones?

Zach's grey uniform was among the original Alliance uniforms...

they switched uniforms halfway through second or third season, when Delenn presented all the administrative staff with new costumes to indicate Babylon 5's break from the rest of the Earth Alliance

one of my former team members has a decent replica of the original Earth Alliance costume (the blue and brown one) - let me see if I can dig up a photo...

Here's a photo of my original B5 Security uniform. This has been modified for use by Mars Police on Crusade.
Most of the B5 Security staff (Season 1-2) wore this style uniform with the exception of Mr. Garibaldi. His was a darker color with more leather detailing on the front flap.
You can still buy these from Backlot Props, that is if they still have any available.



Randy in San Diego

thanks.

backlot props' bab 5 section says "comming soon" so that looks to be out.

and yea tillie, I'm looking more at the uniforms in season 2. specificlly Garibaldi's dress uniform & regular uniform. as well as zack. like the the right one in randys post.

I'd like to do one of them sometime in late 08, but more likely it will be in late 09 that I get one done.
but if anybody comes across the patches and such at a decent price. let me know. same for the PPG pistol they use.

backlotprops has A B5 security uniform up on eBay, but it's not the one you're looking for:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...:B:FSEL:US:1123

found some reference photos in my "Creating Babylon 5" book:

garibaldi and zack:



generic security guards (along with garibaldi and zack)



garibaldi (black and white - sorry, no color!)



zack:

Garibaldi's uniform is brown wool. It's basically the Army equivalent of the blue EA uniform. Zak's security uniform is made from a green gray poplin twill like material.

Never heard of the book "Creating Babylon 5". Looks cool!

Thanks!

That will definatly help when I start making the uniform.

I've seen some of the patches that are worn on the shoulders. but so far it looks like the EA and staff position bars worn on the uniform may end up being the hardest to find.

thanks again.

Sellers like "Intergalatic" on e-Bay carry the EA and stat bar pins, from time to time.

It was a book that was released before B5 started running on TNT - think TNT commissioned the book - it has all kinds of neat info on sets, costumes, characters, etc...

I picked it up some years back - don't remember where, but I snapped it up immediately, since it was the first book that I've seen that dealt with B5 as a TV series...

there's a version of the B5 security uniform up on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...:B:FSEL:US:1123