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Post by VeeVee on Aug 18, 2008 16:21:23 GMT -5
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Post by legionnaire on Aug 18, 2008 17:46:43 GMT -5
NICE ONE !!! Vic You should also included your Bataan book collection beside them. Get a styrofoam head for the helmet too. Makes me want to do one too. All I have are the outdoor temporary displays from past events. Philip
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Post by VeeVee on Aug 18, 2008 22:42:54 GMT -5
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mish
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Post by mish on Aug 19, 2008 13:28:01 GMT -5
Outstanding, Excellent and any other superlative existent, Vic!
Freak and fan of the dark that I am, I particularly liked the lighting. Nice.
I saw the post on USMilitariaForums. Heheh bilib sila. You not only scored points for originality/uniqueness (not to trivilaize the PS with "uniqueness," but who the freak wants to see yet another 101st/82nd, or MACV-SOG collection anyway!? - you get what I mean. I hope.), you did that originality proud.
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mish
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Post by mish on Aug 19, 2008 14:56:59 GMT -5
I'd like to get foam heads for the helmets especially since I have quite a few helmets but the wife doesn't like "severed heads" laying around. They'd freak her out ;D God(TM) would make a great comedian. I'm firmly of the belief that he designed women with one aim in mind: make collectors'/reenactors' lives batty.
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Post by VeeVee on Aug 19, 2008 16:17:51 GMT -5
Thanks Mish. Just trying to make the "Forgotten Soldiers" unforgotten.
Maybe I can piggyback on a cultural/historical event around here and setup a temporary exhibit.
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Post by legionnaire on Aug 19, 2008 16:43:54 GMT -5
Hey Vic why not put a new section on personal collections as "Exhibited or Displayed" I think this would be a great place to post permanent and temporary display photos.
Perry has had so many display exhibitions and I have a few too that we can put together.
Philip
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Post by VeeVee on Aug 19, 2008 21:50:32 GMT -5
Done. I know you've put up a lot of displays in the past including your 1/6 scale figures. Post them here
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Post by VeeVee on Aug 26, 2008 6:45:29 GMT -5
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Post by rickthelibrarian on Sept 7, 2008 21:30:27 GMT -5
Nice display, VeeVee - especially that new M1 and the P-40 model!
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Post by VeeVee on Sept 9, 2008 8:46:06 GMT -5
Thanks Rick. I'd like to add a P26 at some point... and a 1903 with finger groove stock
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Post by oklahoma on Sept 21, 2008 10:47:25 GMT -5
hey vic...just this morning i discovered your site and thought i would jump in. since talking with you on the corregidor site the other day i remembered this tidbit that i read somewhere about one of our bataan POWs who, it said in this book, made the march out of bataan, not once, but twice. according to this story the soldier, who admittedly was in better physical shape than the other guys in his unit, survived the trek to san fernando only to be returned (via jap army truck) with a few of his "death march" amigos to mariveles for some type of forced labor that the enemy needed american know how to accomplish. when this work was finished, whatever it was, the guy was marched out of bataan once again, along with some other american and filipino troops who were still being gathered up or being sent north after doing various chores,etc for the japanese. if memory serves, this particular soldier was in one of the hospitals or maybe was a medic when captured after general king's surrender. at any rate he was "hoss" enough to make the march twice according to this book. have you ever heard or read this particular piece of lore????if true, this trooper is certainly a fugitive from the law of averages. what if it was "our guy", private teed from the cover of that 1942 life magazine. nah, that couldnt be since that piece was published after the conflict had started and soldier teed was still in the states. on the other hand, if the information and photos were prepared before the war started and published a few months later private teed might just have had time to unfortunately been shipped to the far east. i think the last troop ship arrived in manila in november 1941. again, if memory serves, most of those doomed folks were army air corps ground crew and teed was evidently a "dogface" infantryman. i had better get off the board, i am starting to fanticize. good talking to you again. glad i found your site. you certainly are "up" on all this bataan-corregidor thing. a real "geek" as i am about that mostly forgotten or at least neglected part of our military history.
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Post by VeeVee on Sept 21, 2008 21:00:57 GMT -5
Hi okla... the site is not specifically Bataan/Corregidor centric but because quite a few of us are into that particular era, the content of the forum is heavy on those topics. Welcome to the forum. I hope you find a lot of content here that you haven't come across in your previous researches and readings
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Post by VeeVee on Jan 4, 2009 17:24:46 GMT -5
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cco23i
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Post by cco23i on Jan 4, 2009 20:56:53 GMT -5
Very nice Vic!! I know the feeling, one of my heads I used to make a dummy for Halloween one year and had it sitting in the "war room" well I kinda forgot about it and a couple days after Halloween the wife opened the door and FREAKED! Boy was I in the doghouse for a while! Scott
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Post by VeeVee on Jan 5, 2009 12:41:16 GMT -5
Well I did go ahead and buy a styrofoam head but it's all white, it doesn't have a freaky painted face on it. So we'll see...
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Post by 26th on Jan 5, 2009 14:51:38 GMT -5
Hey Vic
Nice display. Sure is coming along. How will the tank get down to the basement?
I should do one also, but that darn saddle takes up room and we of course do not have basements in california.
Rudy/26thCav
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Post by VeeVee on Jan 5, 2009 16:09:48 GMT -5
Hi Rudy, Why don't CA houses have basements? I've always wondered about that? Does it have something to do with earthquakes?
Your collection puts most everyone's to shame. Maybe you can use your daughter's room now that she's in college HAHAHA!
You can't see it well but I have the .45 mags and dummy rounds you sent me a while back on the display. Thanks again.
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Post by 26th on Jan 5, 2009 21:23:20 GMT -5
Vic
Well heck> no wonder that stand looks great. Yea my wife would make a basement just to bury me doing that to Kate's room. Not a bad idea. I did make a gun room but to tight for all.
They just got out of putting basements in because of cost and low water table in most area's. Rudy
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Post by OneZero on Jan 7, 2009 20:51:57 GMT -5
Nice set up Vee, I like it! It's slowly growing bigger and bigger...I guess whats missing now is a full body mannequin wearing something like an Infantry or Cavalry uniform.. or maybe not... i dont think you'll like to see someone standing in your basement at night with dim lights and an eerie silence...
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