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N-1 Deck Jacket USN/RN with Bells On
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:00 PM UTC
Greetings all,

Following on from Grumpy's post in the figures forum, here's my amended USN Crew in the N-1 Deck Jacket and I've added some Bells to the RN Guys.

Commants Welcome.

Cheers

Al

USN - N -1 Deck Jacket

ORIGINAL EDITED FOR GALLERY SPACE - SEE BELOW

RN - With Bells On

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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:14 PM UTC
Hi Al!
Crew's looking good, mate!
Who's figures are the Royal navy's?
~Gunny

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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:49 PM UTC
Hi Gunny,

The RN chaps are:

1. The old Monty Italeri figure, the one with his back to you and

2. One of the Commandos from the MB Set, the one who had a camo smock on.

I've done a little touching up since the photo as I spotted a few things I didn't see last night.

Cheers

Al
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Posted: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 11:27 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Hi Gunny,

The RN chaps are:

1. The old Monty Italeri figure, the one with his back to you and

2. One of the Commandos from the MB Set, the one who had a camo smock on.

I've done a little touching up since the photo as I spotted a few things I didn't see last night.

Cheers

Al


Ha!
I knew one of them looked VERY familiar!!
I thought that was an MB figgie, but I had No clue as to the other chum. . .nice and creative, interesting choices. . .Pier 51 just gets better all the time!
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 05:36 PM UTC
Hi Gunny,

Humm, just you and me in this post LOL, LOL (and Dave)

I got some of the Trumpetet figures, arrived yesterday. You get six but they are in pairs of 2 off the same. I'll make up a few and see how they match in.

They have foul weather clothing so I've got a reference for that. Were the belts and strings on the Life Jackets blue of khaki? Can't find a colour photo of that particular type of life jacket so far.

Cheers

Al
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 06:20 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Hi Gunny,

Humm, just you and me in this post LOL, LOL (and Dave)

I got some of the Trumpetet figures, arrived yesterday. You get six but they are in pairs of 2 off the same. I'll make up a few and see how they match in.

They have foul weather clothing so I've got a reference for that. Were the belts and strings on the Life Jackets blue of khaki? Can't find a colour photo of that particular type of life jacket so far.

Cheers

Al


I hear ya, mate!
Listen, are you talking about the 1/35 WWII US Navy LCM Crew from Trumpeter? They're a pretty decent set, and the vests on these figgies were blue overall, mate. . .I'm trying to locate a color shot to verify this, I've seen 'em in films, but not too many stills. . .
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 08:00 PM UTC
Hi Gunny,

Yip, I've used sea blue for the colour which looks right but as there is quite a reasonable amount of detail I wondered if the ties and staraps were sort of buff. As sea blue is so deep/dark I'll need to think of a way to highlight the detail.

Here's a link I came across yesterday that gives good examples of WW2 foul weather clothing:

WW2 Clothing

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.manions.com/catpics/20041217T/11290-8190-1-T.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.manions.com/catpages/items.aspx%3Fcattype%3D2%26var1%3DK25%26%26var2%3DK25%26%26ClosingToday%3Dfalse%26NewToday%3Dfalse&h=78&w=35&sz=2&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=OII5k-x3FWT7IM:&tbnh=70&tbnw=31&prev=/images%3Fq%3DUSN%2BPersonnel%2BUniforms%2Bin%2BWW2%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG


US Navy Life Preservers (but can't see examples of that particular jacket)

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=US+Navy+Life+Preservers

Any colour pics would be useful.

Cheers

Al
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Posted: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 - 10:10 PM UTC
Hi Gunny,

Found this site when I was looking for pictures of Kapok jackets on USS WASP Survivors, in fact a lot of interesting sites came up:

http://ussslcca25.com/uss_wasp.htm

apart from the story scroll down to the bottom and see site pictures, some interesting photos and great models at the end.

Cheers

AL
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 04:49 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Hi Gunny,

Found this site when I was looking for pictures of Kapok jackets on USS WASP Survivors, in fact a lot of interesting sites came up:

http://ussslcca25.com/uss_wasp.htm

apart from the story scroll down to the bottom and see site pictures, some interesting photos and great models at the end.

Cheers

AL


Great link Al, thanks for sharing!
If only some of these oldies were in color, huh?!
~Gunny
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Posted: Thursday, October 05, 2006 - 08:34 PM UTC
Hi Gunny,

Here's a couple of shots of the crew in the boat and of two of the Trumpeter Figures with Hornet Heads.

LCP (R) Crew





USN LCM 3 Crew



Sorry the pics aren't great, it's a bit windy for outside shots today.

Cheers

AL
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