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[Nonskimmer]

Joe with tools and full of oil and grease. It really completes the picture.
Nice shots.

 

[Medvedya]

Oh well, some news from the Chocolate soldier front anyway - the 2nd Guards were out in Edinburgh on the Royal Mile this weekend collecting for the Poppy Appeal. It was good fun, chatting to friendly Canucks and Americans about their own Veterans days (Canada has more or less the same arrangements), getting photographed by phalanxes of giggling Japanese girls and meeting a gorgious Russian devochka who told me that her great-grandfather fought in the Defence of Moscow.

Also it was fun to see the double takes people made at one of us who was in full Cossack rig, complete with birka woolen coat!

Here's a pic of roughly what it looked like.

 

[evangilder]

Sounds like good fun, Med! Good on you for collecting for the Poppy Appeal.

 

[Medvedya]

Ah, there is something interesting that might happen as well.

Someone is going to make a film about the Night Witches, and it looks as if they're interested in having the younger members as extras!

Have to see what happens with that.

 

[evangilder]

Hmmm...Med the movie star?!

 

[Medvedya]

Hardly! Nah, they're mainly after the girls (ain't we all?) and it will mean standing around all day - probably in the freezing cold, to be in a single frame of a 10 second sequence that gets cut from the final film!

Someone told me that it's a bit complicated where living history groups are concerned, as we wouldn't just be extras in the conventional sense, because our presence would also come under the remit of 'historical advisors' which sounds (and is) a bit swisher.

 

[evangilder]

Yeah, I know what you mean. Some of the guys in my unit at Lakenheath were extras in "The Last Days of Patton". If you freeze frame a part of a formation shot, you can see them. It's just a pan past shot. They did a LOT of just standing around all day for the one shot. But you never know. You may get picked for a quick walk on part, like a courier or something.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Pretty cool Med - My sister is a "Professional Extra" in New Your City. She's done a few "big" movies and some TV stuff.

 

[trackend]

Nice shots Fbj
personally I like the matlot rig.

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Thanks mate!

 

[102first_hussars]

Well, Im picking up my scanner on Friday Ill post some pics then, hows that?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

We will see.....

Great pics FBJ. I wish they would let us wear the old pickle suits again. I am tired of Aviation Battle Dress Uniforms!

 

[FLYBOYJ]

Thanks! The BDUs would work well if you got to pee in a hurry!

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

That is true, but the pickle suits are just too classic!

 

[102first_hussars]

What Everybody has been waiting for.

Ill get some more with some better resolution but theyre in a box in thebasement and dont feel like digging for them right now.

 

[P38 Pilot]

Great pics!

 

[102first_hussars]

Thanks, hey you got a yellow card too, were like brothers now

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

There we go posting dumb again!

How long did it take you to find those pics in a magazine Hussars?

Im kidding....

 

[Nonskimmer]

Who are the guys dressed in the desert rig in the background of the second pic?

 

[102first_hussars]

Those were guys based near Drumheller which is Pretty much desert over there.