Eastman Leather Clothing - Catalogue 1

[Ken at Aero Leather]

Andrew ‘Roughwear’ Swatland, late of this parish, speaks highly of the ELC catalogue on the Book of Faeces.

Now that IS funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Greg Gale]

They did send me a calendar along with my gloves last year. It was a nice gesture.

 

[Micawber]

Now that IS funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The entire thread borders on the hilarious.

 

[ausreenactor]

I guess we wait on the first one to hit a mail box.

 

[B-Man2]

When it arrives somebody please do a quick review on it. I’m sure it would be interesting, whether you are pro or con on the pricing of it.

 

[petermack09]

Couldn’t resist it’s actually very good quality,I was sceptical about paying £15 but I’m happy with it..

 

[B-Man2]

Nice jackets!

 

[ausreenactor]

I would not think that anyone paying for one would be disappointed.
Great backdrop for the pic review....

 

[Officer Dibley]

I wonder Smithy if you could tell me if you imagine this catalogue is as accurate as a reference book ?
It’s like complaining a “Commando” comic (remember them !?) isn’t a factual reference resource. Although it taught me most of the German i still remember, hande hoch, gott in himmel, achtung spitfeuer aren’t generally useful on vacations to Germany.
And Smithy, please don’t take me seriously - i never do !

 

[Micawber]

I wonder Smithy if you could tell me if you imagine this catalogue is as accurate as a reference book ?
It’s like complaining a “Commando” comic (remember them !?) isn’t a factual reference resource. Although it taught me most of the German i still remember, hande hoch, gott in himmel, achtung spitfeuer aren’t generally useful on vacations to Germany.
And Smithy, please don’t take me seriously - i never do !

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Mein Gott! Look what's staring at me on top of the pile of books I pulled out of my storage just recently. Spooky coincidence or fate?

 

[petermack09]

I have to be honest here and say I much prefer those front covers to the Eastman one lol

 

[B-Man2]

and why is that......?

 

[petermack09]

Two good reasons ;-)

 

[Micawber]

Yep, much, much better than cliched posed action man type Osprey book type images

 

[Ken at Aero Leather]

Other than a similar layout I'm struggling to see too much Osprey........ particularly in the figures

 

[Smithy]

I wonder Smithy if you could tell me if you imagine this catalogue is as accurate as a reference book ?

Nope!

I have no problem with anybody wanting to buy this product catalogue. It looks to be nicely produced and the piccies are so lovely. No drama there. My comments were a reaction to some insinuations in this thread that this was somehow going to be a completely accurate reference document and especially after Couchy compared it to Osprey books of a similar price. The problem there is one's primary function is to drive sales of a company's products and the other's is attempting to be an objective reference material on a specific historical subject. I'll admit that because I am involved in historical aviation research professionally I tend to be wary of things which come by way of being marketing tools - that's the same reason I've been a bit vocal about some of Buzz's and correspondingly, HPA's marketing spiels which are based on marketing rather than facts.

If anyone buys this by all means read it and enjoy it but don't necessarily think that it's a completely objective, thorough and exhaustive reference on the subject. Like all company product catalogues it was made for the primary purpose of attractively listing ELC's products and to get people to buy these jackets and products.

 

[Micawber]

Other than a similar layout I'm struggling to see too much Osprey........ particularly in the figures

Oh I don't know.....

 

[Smithy]

Oh I don't know.....

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A little aside Mikey, Osprey seems to have ditched the pilot figures in flight kit and uniform in their newer releases of their Aircraft of the Aces Series. I always enjoyed the two or three pages of guys in flying clobber and uniform but they seem to have binned it.

Obviously things like the Men at Arms and Elite Series have them but with their newer AotA series they've sadly gotten rid of them which I reckon is a bit of a shame.

 

[ausreenactor]

Other than a similar layout I'm struggling to see too much Osprey........ particularly in the figures

There are always a smattering of illustrations of 'figures' related to the particular unit/theatre on the covers of the Elite/Warrior/MAA series.

 

[Ken at Aero Leather]

I'm getting the inspiration but to borrow a phrase from Stu from Lost World's, I'm not seeing the manliness that is clear in Osprey's illustrations........(can I say that in these PC days?)
Someone suggested Peter Kaye, to me the "cover guys" are far cheesier than that