Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

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Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by Ship of lights » Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:50 am

Does anyone here know where to get the belt buckles these days?



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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by Cylon-Knight » Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:20 am

Hello Ship of lights and welcome to BYC!

Hummm... as for the belt - our members who are also over at Blackstar Squadron (http://blackstarsquad.proboards.com/) would be your best bet for that info.

Hope you find one soon and can post up some officer/dress uniform pics. Best of luck.
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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by GoldCylon » Fri Dec 13, 2013 2:52 pm

A little insight on the belt's color. A exacting match of the military belt has never found. The thoughts are a white belt was used dyed blue then given wear and stress marks. It is pretty easy to find the white belts but I have never seen anyone go about stressing a dyed belt yet.
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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by Red Eye » Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:30 pm

Welcome aboard and good luck on finding a decent Dress Uniform belt buckle.

Nevertheless, I guess this thread would be better placed in the "Classic Battlestar Props and Costumes" category.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by parus_ater » Fri Dec 13, 2013 4:37 pm

Is this the canvas belt we're talking?

It's a US Dismounted Pistol Belt, could be white originally but I dare say US OD3 khaki would take blue die quite well.
White ones are post war MP issue.

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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by GoldCylon » Fri Dec 13, 2013 5:01 pm

You are correct about it being a pistol belt, and thanks for the insight about taking dye. Also what war are you speaking of. WW2, Korean or Vietnam.
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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by parus_ater » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:06 am

Sorry, post WWII. during WWII US webbing was a khaki tan, all pretty much made after 1943 are dark green.

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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by GoldCylon » Sun Dec 15, 2013 8:43 am

Yeah that color is light enough to work, but the process they used to dye it the pigment didn't take very well, but good enough or some type a light barrier was put down before the new color assignment. The coloring had stressed or used finish.

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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by parus_ater » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:15 am

They used to be fairly expensive but a load came over in mint condition from Russia, unused from lend lease. The dye is vegetable based so the canvas sucks in any stray filth, rust oil and stain.

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Re: Bridge officers and warrior dress belt

Post by Monolith21 » Mon Dec 16, 2013 6:28 am

Paradestore.com has the correct web pistol belts with the brass hardware (or rather the modern equivalent).
They have the dress buckles as well but they need some work to be screen accurate. I'll have to dig up some links!
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