V For Vendetta

[slo_one]

What uniform are the Government troops wearing at the end of the movie? I am a total retard when it comes to identifying uniforms.

Thanks

[T3CH]

I think its just urban camo cut in a soldier 95 cut, tho I'm unsure if they are wearing PASGT's or British helmets

[Trooper Cooper]

It's an urban camouflage BDU with a paintball mask, PASGT style helmet, and Blackhawk 1st Pattern Omega Rifleman vest. The screen-used vests and uniforms are available in the United States from the company "Backlot Props and Costumes".

 

http://www.backlotprops.com/index.asp?ITEM...&SEARCHSTR=

 

http://www.backlotprops.com/index.asp?ITEM...&SEARCHSTR=

[slo_one]

Thanks guys, will now go hunting for Rothco retailers.

[ninja master of coffee]

Isn't that a MICH rather than a PASGT helmet? Doesn't seem to have the "peak" of the PASGT... could be wrong.

[Brick]

Isn't that a MICH rather than a PASGT helmet? Doesn't seem to have the "peak" of the PASGT... could be wrong.

The lids in the film have partial peaks, the MICH has no peak. I would have to agree that they are a cheap PASGT knock off (probably the viper pvc thing)

[Hobbles]

Also there are a dozen companies which make an almost identical copy of that vest, if you're going for the look - and not necessarily a serious quality piece...super easy kit-list...that urban camo is sold at most surplus store stateside...

[Xaccers]

Don't forget, if you want the authentic look, spin the helmet cover by 90 degrees

 

Anyway, details on the camo selection:

http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/cmp/int...ew_sammy_s.html

 

Was the army uniform print designed specifically for the film?

 

Sammy: Those uniforms are real and have never been used in combat, which is why I wanted to use them because I didn't want us to use something that we know, but it almost looks like you know it. It's one of those things where in the future they will probably use urban camouflage, so that's trying to predict a bit. The battles the army has now are in urban areas and not out in the forest. Naturally the British army wears forest camo and recently they've started to go into desert camo, so it's something that looks different, really. Not British, but not any army… it's more used at the moment as a fashion thing.

We toyed with designing our own camo… we tried to do some drawings using the buildings in London and how we have sandstone that has gone dirty and the geometric nature of it. I drew up a lot of different ideas and tried to get it printed, but the lead time to get it printed versus how fast we needed to shoot it didn't work out. We would have had to have it printed in China, shipped to America, made up in America, brought back here to Germany, and for the time frame and the cost, buying urban camo in America was just so cheap, you couldn't by it in England that cheap. There were lots of reasons why we went down that route.

 

I would have loved to have used the camo we designed because I did research a bit into what the armies around the world are doing in the future for camo, and there's a lot going on with high tech kind of disruptive pattern being the optical illusion, and they are going very geometrical, which I thought would have worked really well in London because all the buildings, brick and stone, are linear.