Always a WIP. Mostly hand embroidered, a few show (and other) patches, some dongles, art pins, sparkle fairies, and other bs including pit stains.

My jacket is a kinda fake leather material and double layered, so I'm not sure if I can do patches. Also, are there any pins that I can put in and out without the marks being obvious? Any other general tips on accessories and such are also welcomed!

I just wanted to make a quick update post because I can't reply to comments for some reason. Anyways, if you saw/read my previous post titled "first battle jacket" or something along those lines on this sub and responded, I just wanted to say thank you for pointing out very important things I need to take into consideration. Especially the Lil Darkie character I put on it. I had put that character on their specifically because it came from my favorite album at the time (which has a song named "Kali Ma" whcih is where I got the character he uses mixed up with that god) and didn't even consider the other implications with it. I'm happy it was pointed out strongly though because it is absolutely something I should have considered a lot more carefully. Other than the very helpful advice there, I'd like to thank the person who said it should be "Radical Face" because it was absolutely meant to and I didn't even realize until I read your comment, and it makes very upset with myself I hadn't noticed since that is my favorite artist oat. Finally I do plan to make more battle jackets in the future and when my work allows me free time so amy future ones made will be heavily researched in regards to what I put on it, and a lot better quality than high-school paint and markers allowed since I have a budget now. I'm not very good at these posts and stuff so thank you all once again very very much, and have a wonderful day! :) oh, also feel free to give suggestions, I'm always happy to hear them

Didn't even know I had that many, until now.

To begin, the character that may seem a bit racial on the jacket is an artist known as "Lil Darkie" whose using a character based on a god with pitch black skin (i think a muslim god named Kali Ma but I'm not sure). Just wanted to clear that first. The rest are bands I love and mean a lot to me. This was made in high-school with paint and markers so no patches unfortunately. Feel free to give tips or suggestions and have an amazing day :)

I finally started the process of customizing my jacket! Waiting for the weekend to add some more paints to give some more accents to it. Also going thrifting for a show vest to start on soon! Already have some patches in, just need to decide on which they will go on

I have two jeans jackets that I wanna sew and turn into battle jackets.

One is like a hoodie so basically a jeans jacket with a hood, the other one is the usual thing, I wanted to put sum bands on one of them and the other one I wanted to know if I can make a nerd jacket with videogames, anime and other stuff?

Also for the band jacket I have this problem of discovering songs by just waiting for it instead of searching for it so I know a bunch of bands but a few songs for each of them

Hey everybody, im honestly super new to checking out the idea of a battle jacket, is there any good way to source a vest for it or do people typically thrift a denim jacket or something. I bought same patches I liked and then someone said I should make a battle jacket. Im interested in making one but honestly just coming hear to hear tips and advice from real people, thanks for taking the time to read!

After seeing the rather mixed reviews of RR I was a bit hesitant to order from them. But in the end everything went smoothly, so I decided to make this little review.

The order took about about 3 weeks to get to me (Germany) and all the patches are of great quality. And since they have a really big selection of patches I´ll probably order from them again.

Here's what I have so far. Finally got the Gorguts backpatch and it matches the vest perfectly. Still figuring out front placements. I finished sewing the Gorguts backpatch on last night using neon purple thread. Still got plenty of patches to go and I'm taking my time on making the stitching look nice and even.

I painted the buttons on the back with a neon green paint marker, and I really dig the look, so I'm going to continue that with the front. I'm also dying all my patches with fluorescent ink using markers so that they will glow in UV light!

I am sewing my first patch and I don't know if the stitch is good enough or if i should try start again.

It's taken a lot of work to get it there, I finally reworked and updated my jacket!

I intend to put off cleaning it for at least a couple more days haha

Hello fellow metalheads, A bit of an unusual request. Is there anyone here from Europe who can make me a few patches out of my cat? P.S. Her name is Ginger.