Bodge Deep

We try not to look!

Ned Kelly KIA

I like to think of it more like Bertie Wossters 'Drones Club Rather than the 'Rovers Return'

No you won't... I've had a crap day and that just made me actually laugh out loud!

Nice! Look forward to seeing in the flesh ... erm tin... erm ... alloy!

You keep pumping Cynthia and I'll play Hymn number 46.

shouldn't take long... *ahem*

Have you applied for a 3rd runway in your garden yet?

Nice truck Nice markings 'Century Bombers' Nice!

Nice truck Wow! yours has the same oddity as mine! Namely the short early type drivers running board across the wider 'access body' gap Must be a Norwegian thing!! I've also seen a 6x6 which is the opposite... ie a running board which runs across the gap and under the body about 6 inches...

Well i'm clearing out the barn so if anyone is interested £50 ono... Turns over okay, plenty of compression... just never got round to doing anything with it... Hell, I'll even drag it to Stoneleigh... (well, maybe not drag it exactly)

He better had be there! He'll get a punch in the bracket if he's not!

Yep! I'll be there & brother in tow

They always look to me like something made from the leftovers of a few airfix models! Like 'em though!!

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Many a true word, spoken in jest

Jack should we be concerned that you've called this show A&E?

Welcome Dave Go for 1/1 scale, you'll never have so much fun ... or be quite so skint!

I'll keep me eyes open!

Make a nice wall hanging! Got an original 48 star 5x3 which is lovely... far too nice to fly on the truck!! Got mine for my birthday so didn't pay for it but i think it was in the 50/60 region!!! 'Tis nice though Although where you'd fly a 22 foot long flag from i'm not sure... in a wind tunnell!!!

Dunno! I seem to remember there being a plastic one too, a sort of opaque bakelite material

ISTR that the USMC in the Pacific had these in quite high numbers

Nice, very nice indeed!

Yeah the VCR has made it difficult to get hold of a replica anything if you're not in a reenactment group & a decent deac Garand or Carbine is another layout on top the vehicle costs just to fill the rifle rack... and needs to watched over, padlocked, kept out of sight en route to and returning from shows etc etc... bit of a ball-ache really. Sold my deacs and replicas before the madness ensued! A repro pistol belt holster & couple of pouches shouldn't be too expensive and looks every bit as authentic as the fully tooled up paratrooper...

A bit of a minefield (pun intended) as the colour of webbing altered during course of the war from tan through darkening degrees of olive drab as the war went on. But given that you'd've trained and been issued with equipment during 'basic' tan would be fine. As the recovery chaps were more likely to need guns that fired grease than bullets, webbing would be fairly minimal... M36 pistol belt and as you're a sergeant a belt mounted .45 1911 Colt Holster & 'peice' would be fine with clip pouch and maybe carlisle first aid tin pouch... although (and here the regulation book goes out the window) tank crews (with whom you'd be familiar with, working with and no doubt borrowing from) often had their .45 in shoulder holster. Althought the only downside to that is that the shoulder holster looks odd when empty as it has no flap to cover the grips of the gun, whereas the belt holster dosen't look out of place when empty... unless you're inclined to get a de-act 1911A1. Hope some of this makes sense