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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Gunbird on February 10, 2025, 08:34:03 AM

Title: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Gunbird on February 10, 2025, 08:34:03 AM
Recycled one of my older hiking pants into a nice wide dice, marker and token bag for Nam'68. A patch, a button and some Sharpie did the rest.

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Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Hoagie on February 10, 2025, 09:45:33 AM
Well done, very thematic! Did you base it on some reference material, like grafitti on helmet covers?
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Tom Dulski on February 10, 2025, 12:12:42 PM

 BTK?
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: CapnJim on February 10, 2025, 03:06:49 PM
Cool!  Looks good! 

Mine is one I already owned - its in woodland camo.
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: HerbertTarkel on February 10, 2025, 04:10:02 PM
BTK?

That’s the bind torture kill serial killer   :o

Other than BTK, what a cool dice bag!
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Gunbird on February 10, 2025, 08:09:37 PM
Well done, very thematic! Did you base it on some reference material, like grafitti on helmet covers?

Yes, all based on historical photographs. The patch is one I found for sale locally, Vietnam patches are not very common here.

@Tom/Herbert; BTK = Born To Kill. I shortend it, it just fits the size of the bag better and I know what it means. No other meaning/reason, no idea what this  "bind torture kill serial killer" is you are talking about?

@CapnJim; my green pants had worn out and I asked our local seamstress to just remove one of the legs and change it into a dicebag. On delivery of the pants she suggested cutting off the other leg as well and she fixed the rest of pants for a few euros more....so now I have 2 dice bags and a useful pair of shorts :)
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: HerbertTarkel on February 10, 2025, 08:41:06 PM
Yes, all based on historical photographs. The patch is one I found for sale locally, Vietnam patches are not very common here.

@Tom/Herbert; BTK = Born To Kill. I shortend it, it just fits the size of the bag better and I know what it means. No other meaning/reason, no idea what this  "bind torture kill serial killer" is you are talking about?

@CapnJim; my green pants had worn out and I asked our local seamstress to just remove one of the legs and change it into a dicebag. On delivery of the pants she suggested cutting off the other leg as well and she fixed the rest of pants for a few euros more....so now I have 2 dice bags and a useful pair of shorts :)

I was going to guess Born to Kill - but BTK was right there  lol There was a famous serial killer who is known as the BTK Killer. Not kidding! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Gunbird on February 10, 2025, 09:20:10 PM
Wow, that's a nasty piece of work.....
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: HerbertTarkel on February 10, 2025, 10:16:54 PM
Wow, that's a nasty piece of work.....

Yup.

Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Altius on February 11, 2025, 12:58:24 AM
Very nice! I need something like this.
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: carlos marighela on February 11, 2025, 06:31:52 AM
BTK actually stands for Born in Topeka, Kansas. It was written on helmets and flak jackets to warn that the wearer was not to be assigned moderately complex tasks and whose conversation was to be avoided.

Nice work on the dice scrotum!

Sadly for me, Doug Stanhope's bit about Vietnam Vets and their baseball caps can never be unheard, so whenever I see merch/paraphenalia I think of that.
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: anevilgiraffe on February 11, 2025, 09:21:07 AM
Wow, that's a nasty piece of work.....

watch Mindhunter on Netflix - great bit of telly about the Behavioural Science Unit in the FBI, BTK is the killer we follow in seemingly unconnected to the main plot scenes thoughout both series doing his thing... I think the plan was to ultimately get to him as the focus of the investigations, but David Fincher got bored and won't do anymore...
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: HerbertTarkel on February 11, 2025, 02:06:55 PM
watch Mindhunter on Netflix - great bit of telly about the Behavioural Science Unit in the FBI, BTK is the killer we follow in seemingly unconnected to the main plot scenes thoughout both series doing his thing... I think the plan was to ultimately get to him as the focus of the investigations, but David Fincher got bored and won't do anymore...

Is that not a fantastic show?!? I was seriously disappointed when only two seasons were made.
Title: Re: Nam'68 Dicebag
Post by: Dougie on February 15, 2025, 09:13:13 PM
That's a great idea consider it copied  ;)