hey everybody adam savage here in my cave with a tale of prop obsession exploration
and execution within the alien universe and while the main character in this
story's name is adam it is not in fact me no this story comes courtesy of an obsessive rpfer one of
my fellow forum members on the rpf prop collecting and making forum his name is adam ezekiel
and adam ezekiel decided he wanted a super accurate set of the gold wings
on the uniforms of the crew of the nostromo this is the crew sigourney weaver john hurt
tom skerritt yafetkoto harry dean stanton uh and veronica cartwright that are the crew members and
uh if you're not an obsessive viewer of alien you might not know that john mullow and his team
built an entire iconography for the uniforms for the patches for the officer insignia uh it
is a sophisticated graphical system that they put together along with the incredible designs of ron
cobb um and uh the originals actually exist the original wings uh can be found in my friend bob
burns uh unparalleled collection uh here is one of the original rings it's embroidered in a metallic
uh thread these are beautiful i mean who is imagining when they're watching alien
that somebody spent hours simply making the double eagle insignia inspired by like the tomb of ramses
yeah no but that's the kind of work they did on alien
and adam ezekiel wanted an accurate pair of wings now i have a couple of moderately accurate pairs
of wings that i've bought from the rpf over the years from different people that have made them
but adam wanted to go a step further so he started to look into the types of thread he discovered
that the originals were made of both a mat and a shiny thread and that there are different kinds of
metallic threads some are wrapped around a wrapped around a fiber core somewhere straight wire some
are braided there's a whole list of things to understand and understand them he did um
here is oh yeah here is here's another shot of bob burns original with some measurements on it
here is adam ezekiel's very first attempt which he says he can't even look at i'm here to tell you
that it's a damn respectable respectable set of wings and these are done by hand this is a
technique that is not um let's just say there's not as many people doing it today as there was
40 years ago so adam self-taught to do this and ended up producing these uh
these are amazing these are so beautiful i'm gonna shoot some close-ups of this so you can see
uh i possess lots of old pieces of military some old dress swords and some military uniforms
and when i look at old pieces of militaria and i look at these wings i don't see
any difference whatsoever in the craftsmanship and in the execution adam spent i think well over a
year or more on this quest and i think you'd agree with me that he landed like he stuck that landing
and i for one cannot wait to sew these to my nostromo crew uniform shirt unfortunately my
current nostromo crew uniform shirt is just not accurate enough for me
i need a more accurate one i might i might have to purchase a couple just to get the
one that i really really want but um this is my kind of tale obsessive research exploration
uh learning how to execute a forgotten technique and bringing into being some of the more beautiful
alien uniform pieces i've seen in forever and here's the other funny part i noticed
this thread and i was thinking about purchasing a pair of these wings for him because i knew
this is a limited series he's making these by hand i don't know how long each one takes but
no matter how much he's charging he's not getting paid enough to do it so i was thinking about
purchasing a pair when adam reached out to me directly through the dms on the rpf and said i'm
a big fan i love the kind of stuff that you do and i'd love to have a pair of my wings in your
collection and i was like kismet of course i would love a pair of these wings and he sent me them uh
just amazing adam your work is phenomenal it's inspirational it's absolutely badass
um thank you so much for sharing your story with me adam we'll include a link to adam's rpf thread
so you can read more about his research in the comments below uh and as always thank you guys for
coming along with me on these journeys and thanks for watching and i will see you next time cheers
ah one more thing i would be remiss if i didn't point out that adam ezekiel also included for me
a tag
utilizing the same devil eagle utilizing the same iconography from ron cobb and john molo
and his crew to sew into my nostromo uniform crew shirt this right there that is my kind of crazy
that is just magnificent and he sent me sent me two adam thank you thank you so much