mulceber
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Thanks a bunch! When I flip it on eBay for about half that price, it'll finance my next 2-3 GWs!
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NEW TYPE B-3 REAL MCCOY MFG. CO.
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OperationCoffee
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It’s always amusing when sellers from Japan use “from Japan” (or whatever) in their item description in the column view, before you even click on it, and the item is always overpriced ( on eBay)
A BR B 2 in a size 36 for $1500? Sure, because everything from Japan is as endowed with magic as crystallized unicorn farts.
And then you’ll find the same jacket on yahoo Japan for 2/3rds that or less.
The Japanese sellers know the Americana game and shamelessly take advantage of it.
A BR B 2 in a size 36 for $1500? Sure, because everything from Japan is as endowed with magic as crystallized unicorn farts.
And then you’ll find the same jacket on yahoo Japan for 2/3rds that or less.
The Japanese sellers know the Americana game and shamelessly take advantage of it.
Dumpster D
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That's only about a month and a half rent in a 2 bedroom 1 bathroom apartment in New York.
Shanghai-Mayne
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In exchange, you gonna looks seven times better than David Schwimmer.
Thomas Koehle
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Why the discount-price?
Honestly if a jacket would cost me a kidney just for funding i'd rather buy a comparably CHEAPER THAN DIRT/DISCOUNT Eastman before ...
Honestly if a jacket would cost me a kidney just for funding i'd rather buy a comparably CHEAPER THAN DIRT/DISCOUNT Eastman before ...
Chandler
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Couldn't find a pic of Sobel in his B-3?
Shanghai-Mayne
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When the RM owner facing BR owner
B-Man2
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Chandler
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That's a better fit to the comment.
John Luder
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Shure as shootin that don't include me.The sad thing is, the people who will pay that are the ones who don't really consider $4800 all that expensive.
John Luder
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OK, so this costumer thought to put the metal captain's bars on the tabs. Seems logical, but what happens when they flap around? When the chute harness is strapped on.
I know this has come up before, but have any of you done this, and what was the result? Has anyone simply cut them off?
And has anyone done a field mod and had a left hand-warmer pocket added? That'd be the second thing that I did. The first would be to lie to my wife about the cost.
Cheers,
One-eye, two-pockets.
Dumpster D
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Gen. Patton on the phone. He heard someone's been rockin' his look...Harrrd!!!
Dumpster D
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John Lever
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That B3 was made by Real McCoy's New Zealand
leper-colony
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That's why there was the printed on leather rank to sew on. Every once in a while you see metal on leather examples. Saw an A2 with the epaulettes cut into to nest the capt bars.
Edit: Or you see rank painted directly on.
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John Luder
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I've seen the embroidered leather in most officers' ranks, and the occasional painted leather patches. Both of which make sense.
The idea of nesting rank into the epaulettes is creative and bold, but chancy without a back-up supply of replacements.
John Luder
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If they didn't flap around during filming, it's likely because the costumer used toupee tape to tack it down. No regard for any damage that might have occurred to the leather on the shoulder, that's not their brief. That will be the headache of someone else in wardrobe, but these were repros, and would be thrown, higgledy-piggledy, back into the warehouse after filming.
I've been in lost of shows where toupee tape is used. All wardrobe people carry it in the bag of tricks. And it works, too.
Cheers
