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Post by Gordak on Feb 24, 2007 13:04:04 GMT -5
Finally we found it on a clip of film from sicily!  |
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Post by Nimlas on Feb 24, 2007 14:31:15 GMT -5
Hoooray!
Was this off Doug's film?
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Post by Gordak on Feb 24, 2007 19:27:33 GMT -5
yeah, im going to post the whole clip soon
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Post by Cpl. Hicks on Feb 24, 2007 23:56:08 GMT -5
That's cool! Thx for sharing.
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Post by kcaj8 on Feb 25, 2007 19:17:44 GMT -5
sweet.
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Post by Gordak on Feb 25, 2007 19:38:17 GMT -5
Here are photos of two originals along with my reproductions, Its really great that we found all this evidence because we were up against allot of criticism.  |
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Post by Tough Ombre on Feb 25, 2007 23:07:49 GMT -5
That looks awsome!!! i think i might put that on a crappy display shell i have. It looks alot like the paint scheme of a WW1 shell.. might have gotten the idea from that possibly.
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Post by biged on Feb 27, 2007 5:24:29 GMT -5
Good eye man...
Kudos to you and Doug for doing the research.
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Post by Tough Ombre on Feb 27, 2007 13:54:38 GMT -5
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Post by Red on Mar 15, 2007 21:26:10 GMT -5
what is the bn and company that used that style helmet? the reason i ask is that the 82nd airbornes helmet designs were so intricate and i wanna do that impression but to do it accuratly i need to know the bn and company
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Post by Gordak on Mar 16, 2007 2:41:00 GMT -5
Battalions were red white and blue = 1st, 2nd , 3rd. Sometimes the white ankhs were half black, (to reduce visability).   your going to do 82nd ab? or your just making a helmet? |
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Post by Gordak on Mar 16, 2007 2:49:17 GMT -5
here it is in the field  |
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Post by Red on Mar 16, 2007 16:54:22 GMT -5
im doing multiple impressions and 504th will be 1 of them
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Post by Tough Ombre on Apr 1, 2007 2:30:17 GMT -5
Looks really good Gordak, and thanks for the info i plan on doing 504th with Red here. We were going to make a normandy pathfinder impression.. but we wont have the money for a eureka... so... maybe. Like i said though looks good
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Post by Nimlas on Apr 1, 2007 7:26:20 GMT -5
Looks really good Gordak, and thanks for the info i plan on doing 504th with Red here. We were going to make a normandy pathfinder impression.. but we wont have the money for a eureka... so... maybe. Like i said though looks good -Cary I got to play with a eureka last night! Anyway, why not do Sicily or Italy, where ALL of the 504 fought, instead of the maybe 50 guys that jumped on D-Day? No trying to demean those 50, mind you... If you can't get a eureka do a demolition or security team member impression, those are easy. |
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Post by Red on Apr 1, 2007 13:57:08 GMT -5
im doing a 504th timeline so im doing north africa, sicily, italy, and holland
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Post by Tough Ombre on Apr 1, 2007 14:05:29 GMT -5
We planned on doing 504th from North Africa till the end, and then doing Normandy pathfinders too.
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Post by Red on Jun 8, 2007 14:00:59 GMT -5
Gordak... sorry not to bring back a dead topic but, I just remembered... that helmet is only really accurate for Sicily impressions... I saw pictures of you wearing it in the snow at like a bulge event and that is actually incorrect... not to sound like a jerk or anything... From what i've seen they had OD M1 helmets in the bulge
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Post by Gordak on Jun 8, 2007 18:34:53 GMT -5
LOL, did you see I was carrying an m249 Saw too?.... (we called it the captured nazi secret weapon) you got to find something to do with all that spare time  , that was a modern game, with m16s and ak47s, we just wore our ww2 stuff for fun. BUT rememeber, there was snow in the mountains of italy. 504 were stuck on a mountain frezzing their asses off during the battle of San Peitro, yes wearing the same helmets. -Gordak |
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Post by Red on Jun 8, 2007 19:45:18 GMT -5
ah this is true... but alot of the accounts i read of the mountain time in italy it was more so freezing rain!
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Post by 2nd Bat on Jun 8, 2007 20:09:32 GMT -5
Gordak, if the helmets are that rare and took so long to find photographic evidence of (Only known photo) are you sure you and Nimlas are comfortable depicting them? I would think it would probably be keeping some folks up nights imagining your group wearing them. LOL They've probably been working years to get you to stop! Please accept that I am joking.
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Post by Gordak on Jun 8, 2007 21:04:21 GMT -5
LOL, well aside from having only one photograph of the helmet, we have a bunch of originals in peoples collections, we had already done the helmets BEFORE we found a photo! OK NOW, FOR THE RECORD, here is the picture Butzen had a problem with...  clearly my helmet is way out of place, good eyes there Butzen! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL by the way, on a more sober note, what a waste of time this was. |
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Post by Red on Jun 8, 2007 21:07:24 GMT -5
not only that but you threw out the excuse of it being in italy by having reinforced m42s lmao!!!!
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Post by azeeze on Jul 22, 2007 23:29:20 GMT -5
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, that was a modern game, with m16s and ak47s, we just wore our ww2 stuff for fun.
