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  1. Smithy

    Eastman Roughwear 1401 A-2 jacket - Holy Grail!

    That is absolutely superb Brett! Everything is spot on with it. I know that you have been after the perfect A-2 for a long time now and spent a lot of money on a lot of A-2s. I'm really pleased for you that you have finally made it. Always nice to see when someone completely nails it and...
  2. Smithy

    Leather U Boat Jackets

    Nice photos Capes. In my earlier posts I was responding to the assertion that KM issued coats might not have existed. Private purchase items were used but they were the exception rather than the rule. Das Boot probably fuelled the idea that all U-boat deck jackets looked like they did in the...
  3. Smithy

    Leather U Boat Jackets

    Unfortunately a lot of people have tried to cash in on the U-boat service coat/jacket thing by claiming that various German and/or period double breasted leather jackets were U-boat issue by sewing Kriegsmarine buttons on similar jackets and claiming that they are original. Original jackets...
  4. Smithy

    Leather U Boat Jackets

    I thought that I might post these in this thread for those looking for references for actual issued Kriegsmarine/U-boat service leather jackets. I hope they might be of help to those interested in these jackets and give some visual evidence of what these jackets looked like. A great photo of...
  5. Smithy

    Leather U Boat Jackets

    The single breasted leather U-boat crew jacket you refer to was for engine personnel, or Maschinenpersonal, it was single breasted with 5 buttons and was made in both black and grey, although grey seems to have been the prevalent colour amongst U-boat crews. There were two issued jackets/coats...
  7. Smithy

    Seal leather samples for ANJ-4 poll

    I voted goat Sloan as I think the colour and grain are perfect from the samples you posted. I also think that goat is great in that it won't be over the top weight-wise in tandem with the sheepskin. Goatskin can wear in and patina absolutely marvellously, it's just that it takes a little...
  8. Smithy

    Withnail's Coat

    I'm rather embarrassed to say but I still haven't had time to be measured properly. There's only a couple of places here I can do it (smallish towns in Arctic Norway aren't awash with tailors or proper seamstresses) - as much as I love her, I don't trust my wife to do it properly so I want to...
  9. Smithy

    Nazi Plane Tailfin

    It's perhaps an exaggeration to say that most camouflage of late war Luftwaffe aircraft was hand painted. Most late war airframes were still being delivered to frontline units with spray applied mottling, even very late Ta-152s, etc. The examples of brush (or sponge) applied camouflage in...
  10. Smithy

    BK's Site Relaunch

    And there you have hit the nail well and bloody truly on the head Butte!
  11. Smithy

    BK's Site Relaunch

    Actually my post wasn't directed at your posts here at all but rather at the general hoofluff that has arisen whenever anything regarding BK is posted here. In the past there's been so many he-said-she-said arguments regarding BK and general argy-bargy that, for me at least, it's gotten terribly...
  13. Smithy

    BK's Site Relaunch

    I'm not interested in buying from them because those prices are eye-watering and if I was going to spend that kind of coin I'd go the extra hog and go GW, but nor am I interested in the he-said-she-said kerfuffle which seems to waft around any BK discussion as it is frankly, after all these...
  14. Smithy

    School and college sports

    Played rugby at school (wing) for a time as well as tennis (until it got in the way of cricket) and swimming. Cricket was what I was best at and played briefly for school but was invited to play for my local club and played 9 years club cricket - fast bowler and 3rd or 4th drop batsman until I...
  15. Smithy

    Past lives, do you believe?

    I've had a couple that would make even Stalin and Hitler think were morally bankrupt and ethicless!
  16. Smithy

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Hi Ticklish, yes I was until late last year. 6 years in the Dry Country and now in the arctic north, from one extreme to the other! It is a shame to be so far away but I come from a family where we sprinkle ourselves around the world. Itchy feet seems to have run in the family since my...
  17. Smithy

    Past lives, do you believe?

    What a fascinating question. I was brought up C of E so without the concept of reincarnation. But for me personally over the years I've loved the idea that if there is an eternal soul, the Buddhist idea that you have to keep coming back until you get it right makes wonderful sense. Maybe when...
  19. Smithy

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Thank you so much Ticklishchap, he's a good lad, he's going to study engineering (aviation), my sister blames me for his fixation on all things that fly!
  20. Smithy

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    I may very well be wrong but I think that this is because the job market has become even more competitive. Uni students know that a BA alone in some esoteric major is not a ticket to a plum job now. Well that's what my nephew back in NZ tells me and he's intent on working like a Trojan. Not too...
  21. Smithy

    Greatcoats

    The real kicker is wind chill. Yes +1 or 2 with wind and rain is cold and miserable but it's unlikely to kill you. The real danger is seriously cold temperatures with wind chill which are potentially lethal. It's one of the reasons why here (Arctic Norway) they make a very real fuss about...
  22. Smithy

    The Germans did invade England - Shoreham airport Luftwaffe landing

    Thanks for that. As I mentioned earlier in the thread I'm always suspicious of conspiracy things and I always treated this with a great deal of caution. One thing that always puzzled me though were the reports by journos in France a day or so later of casualties being shipped from France - must...
  23. Smithy

    The Germans did invade England - Shoreham airport Luftwaffe landing

    Thanks Warden. I'd forgotten we'd had this discussion here about Shingle Street. Interestingly if the non-disclosure for the OSA was 75 years it should it around now that it's lifted!

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