Iron Maiden My son's new battlejacket (Tommy)

NIGHTRIDERFri, 12/09/2014 - 08:36

Working on this one for close to four months now - hope to finish it by the end of this year.

Battle Jacket

Not for sale or trade

Year: 2014

Bands:

Iron Maiden Megadeth Motörhead Sepultura Judas Priest Black Sabbath

Iron Maiden My son's new battlejacket (Tommy)

Claudandus on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 10:13

Too many patches of the same band for my taste. And the front, it just looks like a mess. Not too crazy about all those shaped patches either, looks like the kind you get at local fairs for 1$ a piece.

NIGHTRIDER on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 12:20

Wish we had local fairs where we could get them for the price you mentioned - as for the rest of your comment - each person has his personal taste, you are entiteled to your opinions - we are entiteled to ours - by the way - I happen to be a jewellery designer - wonder what criticism about my works you will have when I'll upload some pics later :)

Claudandus on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 12:24

Sounds neat to me. Wish I had the patience to make something like that myself. ^^

justinlopez1995 on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 19:23

sons got some awesome taste ! haha and that bulldog patch is pretty rad

NIGHTRIDER on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 20:08

Thanx bro \m/

Tico Tyrant on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 23:46

I think there's some wild stuff on there, but some stuff I don't like; (mainly my nitpick is at stuff like black label society & the anarchy patch...anarchy patches bug me as it's a pointless thing to advertise and just creates issues :s)

but tastes aside, the spacing and patches are just placed kind of oddly, there's so many in the same shape, it might prove worth while for him to save a few and make space for other shaped patches? ~ that way the final result will come out a bit cleaner and then some extra patches will be available for another project or to re-sew in a different way, but overall a pretty good effort.--The Motorhead worship is nice, but perhaps better suited to a Motorhead tribute vest haha, OR I dunno......Motorhead, Saxon, Priest...guess it all adds up to a British Invasion

Tico Tyrant on Fri, 12/09/2014 - 23:46

Does he like stuff like Raven, Wolf, Venom or Grim Reaper?

NIGHTRIDER on Sat, 13/09/2014 - 06:40

The circular and stripe patches were chosen on purpose to create something different from the usual type of 'square patches front' - thank you for your kind advice - but we are happy with the result - bottom line is that the wearer is the one to decide if he likes or dislikes what he put together.
When we work on a battlejacket here we face a huge problem as there is no shop in Israel that sells metal patches - we have to order from e-bay and quite a few sellers won't ship to Israel (lately it became even worse - quite a lot of cases where the money was paid and the patches were not sent - using politics to justify plain and simple theft).
So to put together enough patches for a project takes ages, add to that the fact that sometimes we can spend hours looking for a certain patch and the end result is frustration at having to compromise and buy "the nearest" to what we wanted...
As of now I am still hunting for patches to finish his battlejacket and my battlejacket - pretty crazy - back in the 1980's I could practically get in Israel all the patches for a new project in less than 2 months. Again - we are pretty happy with the end result and this project is not finished yet. :)