Nam'68 Dicebag

[Gunbird]

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.

[Hoagie]

Well done, very thematic! Did you base it on some reference material, like grafitti on helmet covers?

[Tom Dulski]

 BTK?

[CapnJim]

Cool!  Looks good! 

Mine is one I already owned - its in woodland camo.

[HerbertTarkel]

BTK?

That’s the bind torture kill serial killer   

Other than BTK, what a cool dice bag!

[Gunbird]

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

[HerbertTarkel]

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  There was a famous serial killer who is known as the BTK Killer. Not kidding! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader

[Gunbird]

Wow, that's a nasty piece of work.....

[HerbertTarkel]

Wow, that's a nasty piece of work.....

Yup.

[Altius]

Very nice! I need something like this.

[carlos marighela]

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.

[anevilgiraffe]

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...

[HerbertTarkel]

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.

[Dougie]

That's a great idea consider it copied