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Author Topic: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... Artillery 15/09  (Read 7219 times)

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #15 on: March 24, 2022, 06:48:14 PM »
Stunner! Ace job there Dags!


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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #16 on: March 25, 2022, 02:46:20 AM »
Thanks, all  8)

Correct if I'm wrong (and I'll happily bow down to your knowledge on the topic) but weren't the WW1 issue greatcoats khaki/earth brown?


The Russian overcoat for the lower ranks of the army and guards units was made only from undyed cloth from the beginning of the 19th century (with a few rare exceptions). For officers, the overcoat was steel gray (although many also preferred to have a soldier's overcoat in wartime). This statement is true until the 70s of the 20th century, when overcoats began to be dyed brown - but these are the ones you will see in films and for any other period, since they are easier and cheaper to purchase from army warehouses, where they are probably are still stored today.
During the Civil War, overcoats in Soviet Russia could be made from various surrogates and protective colors could be found there (I read, for example, about tailoring overcoats from billiard cloth). Here is the formation of the soldiers of the Czechoslovak Legion in Vladivostok. One of the soldiers has an overcoat sewn from "civilian" checkered fabric:



During the Second World War, for sewing overcoats of the Soviet army, imported cloth supplied by Lend-Lease was partially used. It was khaki, but the number of such overcoats was scanty against the general background and was not typical.

Here are the approved samples of the colors of the cloths that were used for sewing overcoats (here - the period of the First World War). Moreover, it was light shades that predominated - dark cloth was used much less frequently (just pet hair was more often than light colors). In one military unit, they tried to have overcoats of the same shade, but in wartime, of course, they did not pay attention to this.




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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #17 on: March 25, 2022, 07:14:17 AM »
Those look the dogs b******s Dags, reminds me I’ve got some of your RCWs stored away, must get them out on the table again.

And I’m always intrigued by the idea of saying “well yes, it is cold out here and that coat does look warm and comfy, but according to the regs, it’s the wrong colour so put it back”.

I also want to add a figure to my collection in a civilian chequered cloth fabric and perhaps one in billiard cloth :)
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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #18 on: March 25, 2022, 09:27:59 AM »
OK, so if I've got this right for the future....

Various Greys and Grey-Brown - Tick
Billiard Green - Tick
Checkered  - Tick
Khaki - Big Fat Cross

And I’m always intrigued by the idea of saying “well yes, it is cold out here and that coat does look warm and comfy, but according to the regs, it’s the wrong colour so put it back”.


My thought entirely.

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #19 on: March 25, 2022, 09:31:37 AM »
Dags, reminds me I’ve got some of your RCWs stored away, must get them out on the table again.

Please tell me you haven't got the biplane with "Go **** your mother" painted in Russian on the side of it? Colour me embarrassed (definitely not khaki) if you have....

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #20 on: March 25, 2022, 02:16:51 PM »
Lovely paintwork Jon  8)

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2022, 07:34:31 AM »
Lovely painting Dags and info Cuprum. 

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream....
« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2022, 03:51:23 PM »
First batch of a ****load of Cossacks (****load is a technical term)



As with the infantry, a unit that has been on campaign for a while and has a fair bit of replaced/begged/borrowed and stolen kit, sometimes even in the wrong colours.

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2022, 05:27:15 PM »
Very nice again, I particularly like the chap at front right who seems to be experiencing the final stages of physical climax.

Offline FramFramson

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2022, 05:47:01 PM »
Very nice again, I particularly like the chap at front right who seems to be experiencing the final stages of physical climax.

 lol lol lol lol lol

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #25 on: April 20, 2022, 07:27:52 PM »
Lovely stuff!
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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2022, 08:03:52 PM »
They are superb

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #27 on: April 21, 2022, 10:00:53 PM »
Jon, some absolutely lovely fellas, in a most masculine and semi-scary sense, of course! lol lol
Got to kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight.

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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with added Cossacks 20/04
« Reply #28 on: April 27, 2022, 09:09:29 AM »
First Troop finished.....



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Re: Vodka, Kahlúa and Fresh Cream.... with More Cossacks 27/04
« Reply #29 on: April 27, 2022, 08:34:22 PM »
They are lovely.

Why no lances? I find that lancers make the best looking units.

 

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