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Posted by steelrudi on Sunday, September 9, 2007 5:01 PM
Steelrudi grabs his FN, and kit and heads for the chopper pad.  Rotors start to spin.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 9, 2007 2:05 PM

Wow - should we call out CSAR birds??

 

 * Outlands starts rounding up a couple of fire-force sticks for a mission... 

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Posted by steelrudi on Saturday, September 8, 2007 10:44 PM
No doubt.  Wonder how long a little while is where he's from?  Two day's?Whistling [:-^]Zzz [zzz]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 8, 2007 8:30 PM

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand???

Perhaps he met a fabulously beautiful and rich woman looking for a modeler and ran away with her, totally forgetting us poor slobs?

Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by steelrudi on Saturday, September 8, 2007 4:58 PM
What did you find out?  More to the point, what did you buy?
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Posted by squeakie on Saturday, September 8, 2007 12:57 PM

will be heading up to my LHS in about thirty minutes, so hang on.

gary

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 7, 2007 8:08 PM

PLEASEpleasepleaseplease do post up the kit info on that!

 

Couple of sources on the M14 for you - Academy's Israeli Defense Forces kit and Dragon's US Snipers set.  Don't know of any other sources for them, sorry. 

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Posted by squeakie on Friday, September 7, 2007 7:37 PM

 steelrudi wrote:
1/35 scale FN FAL's.  I can't find the Italeri modern wpn's set any where, and I need lots of them.  I mean lots!  Like 20+.  Anybody have any ideas on where I can get some on the cheap?  I really need these for my modeling projects.  Any help would be great.

I just looked at a box of modern weapons that had them in it while ago. Think it's from Dragon. I also noticed that it had an RPD and three or four different machine guns too. But the RPD was all I was interested in at the time. Also needed to find a twelve gauge shotgun and an M14 rifle, but the kit lacked these. Should you need more data I'll drop by and get the kit numbers for you.

Gary

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Posted by Sic Semper Tyrannis! on Friday, September 7, 2007 7:30 PM

Count me in on this one friends.

I usually only jump online on the weekends so, I will look through all the links Outlands and Rudi posted and maybe come up with an idea or two. I am attracted to the chalenge and level of difficulty of this GB. Should be VERY interesting.

SST

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Posted by steelrudi on Friday, September 7, 2007 3:32 PM
Also need info on the A63 Pack radio.  I have my people in SA looking for me and a friend in Sri Lanka too.  Outlands you will need this info for you "Stick" Dio.  The stick leader carried one, either on his hip, or in his pack.  Depened on the individual.
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Posted by steelrudi on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:59 PM
http://www.thenewrbc.com/pages/music.html  For those wishing for inspiration while working on a Rhodesian subject, listen to the hit of the week, and troopie songs #2.  Sorry they can't be copied or downloaded.  If you want any more info on the music, e-mail me.
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Posted by steelrudi on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:54 PM
Go look in group builds.  It will begin on the 15th of this month.  I gotta get a camera. 
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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:32 PM
Find me another 1/35 civilian pick-up truck from the 70's to the 90's and I'll gladly do just that. Big Smile [:D]  Yeah right, it would be easier to convince Finescale modeler that they should do articles on nothing but armor, than to find another.  I only found that one with the generous help of a forum member.
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:48 PM

 IanIsBored2000 wrote:
I've already got most of my stuff done

 

So build another technical!  Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by IanIsBored2000 on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:39 PM
I've already got most of my stuff done (technical and 2 figures, plus the diorama is at around 75-80%, so I'll be happy to join, but all that's left is a couple figures and some dio work.  Probably take me a while with my other stuff I'm working on though, so I'll be glad to join.
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Posted by steelrudi on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:38 PM

Okay.  Are we ready for the SADF links yet?  Here we go.  I am only going to post 10 or so  no more.

http://www.shantygoods.com/military/index.htm

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=58225

http://www.geocities.com/sadf_scrapbook/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/odjobman/index.htm

http://www.geocities.com/sa_bushwar/  On this site there are many graphic photos dealing with war.  Be warned they are very graphic.

http://www.sa-transport.co.za/index.html

http://uk.geocities.com/sasolboy/abenstxt.html

http://newsite.ipmssa.za.org/content/view/149/28/

http://militarymodelsreference.fotopic.net/c95668.html

http://www.geocities.com/richy1724/history/angola.html  This is a bunch of garbage in my opinion, but has some good photos.

http://www.saafmuseum.co.za/frelon.htm

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=64954

Well gents, that's it for me and my posting.  I could be here for days on end, and not get anything I want to do done.  I hope this helps, and lets talk more on the Group build.  I can post some on the congo, 1960-1965, a few on Biafra, and on the Portugese in their wars in Africa.  Let me know.

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Posted by steelrudi on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 1:08 PM
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 9:12 AM

...falls into the net and disappears...

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...!!

 

Big Smile [:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 12:08 AM

replying to myself again?

 

http://members.tripod.com/selousscouts/EQUIPMENT.htm

 

Rhodesian web-gear layouts.  Good site overall - poke around on there.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 3, 2007 11:56 PM

SSt (et al), here's apic of one pattern of webgear

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=321484

 

I have the belt from this kit - wish I'd managed to snag an entire set, dangit.  There's a Dragon set of WWII Brit guys who are carrying shoulder bags very much like this one, too.  I've got some ideas for the rest of it that I need to try out, too.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 3, 2007 11:38 PM

You know I'm in.  Too many ideas yet to own up to what I'm going to build just yet, tho.  Since most of my projects tend to come from pics I see, the more research I do, the more projects will suggest themselves to me!  Odds are, I'll be doing a Rhodesian SAS dio from an article - they are in RENAMO fatigues carrying combloc weapons, blowing up a fuel-farm in Mozambique, after being hauled in on SA naval vessels.  Then of course there's the straight RLI foot-patrol in the bush and the converted Universal Carrier doing convoy guard-duty...

 

Let's work on securing a good base of research info before we really nail down anything on the GB.  That way, we can catch more people, as they start looking at the info we accumulate and they say, "Wow - I like that (whatever is in the pic)!  Lemme sign on for that before someone else does!"  Also prolly need a decent run-time to account for the extra research and locating and obtaining (or making) kits/items that are obscenely rare, obscure, or unusual.

 

 

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Posted by m1garand on Monday, September 3, 2007 9:41 PM

It sounds like an excellent group build.  Good luck with it!  Few years ago, I met a guy who used to work for a company called Executives Outcome and he spent quite some time in Africa working as an operative.  Very interesting gentleman and learned a lot from him. 

 

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Posted by steelrudi on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:32 PM
All right.  If someone will coach me through how to post pictures, I will start a group build.  I will need help with this though.  Who's with me?
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Posted by steelrudi on Monday, September 3, 2007 8:26 PM

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=SADF  Here is some for the SADF.

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=Rhodesia  Here is for Rhodesia.

Look around on there, and you will find a lot of stuff, on these subjects.  Under SADF watch the last domino.  All 5 parts.  It is very good.

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Posted by steelrudi on Monday, September 3, 2007 7:29 PM
I will try and figure out how to post pics on this site too.  I can scan some stuff for the webbing and post it too. 
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Posted by steelrudi on Monday, September 3, 2007 7:27 PM
http://www.sa-soldier.com/data/index.htm   Here is the site for equipment and and the 1983 pattern webbing.  Plus rifles.  Hope this helps those who are interested.  We will further discuss the build.  Let me work on a few things before we kick this thing off.   
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Posted by Sic Semper Tyrannis! on Monday, September 3, 2007 7:09 PM

I'll have to do some more research as well before I jump in. Maybe I can do something on the cheap. A figure and small base perhaps?

I vote Rudi should head it up since he seems to have the most expertise in this area.

SST

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Posted by steelrudi on Monday, September 3, 2007 7:04 PM
Let us not jump the gun yet gents.  Although a very good idea, I am still deep in research mode.  Aircrft, and waterborne would be good, I have choppers, and AC used by all Nations concerned  from 1960-1994.  Ah Hell, lets go for it.    No time limit.  Lets see how many bites we get.  You want me to be ring leader or do one of you want to set up to the podium?  Everything will be included.  Fig's, AC, Helo's, Soft skins, waterborne, and armor.  Let us see what happens.
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Posted by Sic Semper Tyrannis! on Monday, September 3, 2007 6:46 PM
 Outlands wrote:

Then you figure in that the SADF had its own webbing made, eventually.  Far as I can tell, there's no one else that ever used it, either.  I'm trying to figure out how to best replicate it - and am fortunate enough to have a real piece of it in my collection.

 

Hey, between Rudi's SADF, Ian's Somali Technical, and my Rhodesian projects, we need to work out a "Brushfire Wars" group-build! Big Smile [:D]

 

Oh Hell YEah! \m/ Thumbs Up [tup] I'm down for that!

I'm having no luck searching for the SADF combat web gear. Could you point me in the right directon for some good pics of the stuff? I am interested in maybe trying to replicate some of it in 1/35.

SST

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