Re: The Walking Dead - by Velvet Morning & Kato - ONE HEAD DONE! PG. 26!
The Outfit-Budget Version
No huge surprise here, our favorite TV Sheriff wears... a sheriff's uniform. A khaki colored shirt with brown epaulettes and pockets, brown pants with a khaki stripe and a black basket weave duty belt.
(If you're getting the outfit from Kato, skip to the upcoming post about the duty belt.)
So if you've got a large stash of military gear, there's a strong chance you'll be able to find a khaki shirt and pants in your stuff and a quick dunk in brown dye will make the khaki pants into brown pants. If you don't have a stockpile of stuff laying around, then the easiest and possibly cheapest option is hunting down BBI's Los Angeles County Sheriff Officer Burns.
This is an older figure that can be found for anywhere from 40-80 dollars MIB and parted out several places. His shirt and belt are the right style and color and while his pants are an olive green, a soak in in bleach then dye should fix that. Another less accurate(but inexpensive) option is the Deluxe Sheriff Uniform Set available at Cotswold. The shirt is long sleeved and the trim/pants are olive but the basic shapes are there and the hard to find belt full of goodies is included.
Modification
Whether you go with any of the options listed above or pull together something else, there will have to be modifications made. Starting with the pants, you'll need to add a stripe down the leg. The easiest way to do this is with ribbon, just find 1/4 inch wide ribbon in khaki (or white if you can't find any the matches your shirt then tea dye it) and attach it to your pants using fabric glue or iron on hem tape. To color the epaulettes and pockets, tape off the rest of the shirt with painter's tape and use a fabric marker to carefully color them the correct brown.
The Outfit-Budget Version
No huge surprise here, our favorite TV Sheriff wears... a sheriff's uniform. A khaki colored shirt with brown epaulettes and pockets, brown pants with a khaki stripe and a black basket weave duty belt.
(If you're getting the outfit from Kato, skip to the upcoming post about the duty belt.)
So if you've got a large stash of military gear, there's a strong chance you'll be able to find a khaki shirt and pants in your stuff and a quick dunk in brown dye will make the khaki pants into brown pants. If you don't have a stockpile of stuff laying around, then the easiest and possibly cheapest option is hunting down BBI's Los Angeles County Sheriff Officer Burns.
This is an older figure that can be found for anywhere from 40-80 dollars MIB and parted out several places. His shirt and belt are the right style and color and while his pants are an olive green, a soak in in bleach then dye should fix that. Another less accurate(but inexpensive) option is the Deluxe Sheriff Uniform Set available at Cotswold. The shirt is long sleeved and the trim/pants are olive but the basic shapes are there and the hard to find belt full of goodies is included.
Modification
Whether you go with any of the options listed above or pull together something else, there will have to be modifications made. Starting with the pants, you'll need to add a stripe down the leg. The easiest way to do this is with ribbon, just find 1/4 inch wide ribbon in khaki (or white if you can't find any the matches your shirt then tea dye it) and attach it to your pants using fabric glue or iron on hem tape. To color the epaulettes and pockets, tape off the rest of the shirt with painter's tape and use a fabric marker to carefully color them the correct brown.
I'm a HUGE fan of The Walking Dead! I'd love to have a great custom 1/6 scale figure of the good sheriff Rick Grimes! Please let me know if I can still get in on this. 
Thanks! 
