The 76th Independent Battalion (Part 6)
POSTED BY: Tristan
UPDATED: Monday, December 18, 2006 18:29
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Tristan,
Definitely put me in for the knee-length coat when you get to that stage.Seems to me that you're going to have a lot on your plate in terms of tayloring what with you making a uniform for the captain and all.Wish I had those skills to help tho I will pay you for your time.If you need a bit of extra coin to help with the captains uniform let me know.
Returning to the subject of heavy weapons-I understand your reservations about having a hodge-podge of garden variety weapons in the parade,however,I feel strongly that the Independents would have employed these as a necessity albeit sparingly.Would you consider perhaps assigning a heavy weapon to an individual or to a two-man team?That way you could have control over what shows up.That M-60 that was discussed earlier would be pretty good if it got cleaned up a bit.This is my last word on the subject-I don't want to kick a dead horse,just a suggestion.
"Come a day there won't be room for naughty men like us to slip about at all"
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Just a thought for those who do not sew ( like me) chances are if you do some checking around you either have a friend that can be convinced to help you for a minimal fee, OR a local tailor who can take on the project. there will be a pattern available so you will have the "blueprint" for what you are wanting made
Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse
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found a good deal on a military surplus shoulder bag, with bonus points for already having a browncoay phrase in chinese!! “Serve the People” Im ordering one for myself and my sister, and im gonna put a blueSun patch over Mr. Mao's head.
http://www.majorsurplusnsurvival.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD
&Store_Code=MSS&Product_Code=088167&Category_Code=23
they are about $10 a pop.
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Dear future comrades;
I am not only glad to buy a coat from our own q-masters - and keep the money 'in the family' so to speak - but promise to wear it out here, and even act as your 'recruiting sargeant'on the Left Coast. There is Wondercon and Silicon next year where I shall be glad to pimp both the 76th, and my other insanity the National Civil War Association ( www.ncwa.org). I just hope we can keep the price under $200, this hobby is getting to be as expensive as my Confederate impersonation.
The place for butternut trousers with Sargant's blacck stripe is "The Blockade Runner" ( www.blockaderunner.com) which has many goods relevant to our common interest. For ordering the pants, note that they are wool and cost $180.
An alternative is to order the Cotton pants, the tape, and get some one local to sew it for you. My current Indy pants are $9 specials from Walmart - but the tailoring to add the stripe cost me $20! I can't sew and don't rely on glueing in a straight line.
Regards,
If we are looking for slogans, may I suggest "The Spirit of 76". Many independents would undoubtedly trace their ancestry from descendatns of "Usans" - much the way in the re-enactment hobby you'll find many who can trace ancestors back to those who served on either side - and some have relatives on both!
Quandom.
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Hm.
So, we have a single blue star..
Instead of the 'bonnie blue flag that bears the single sttar', do we have a 'bonnnie blue star upon our single flag'?
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Evening, all!
Sister, thank you for that! If, when you get them, you'd take pictures and let us know about the construction, etc., that would be shiny!
And I will probably take you up on your offer...let me know how much they are and I'll buy what you don't need. 
Browncoat1, I think BWTP is working on our "slogan", but I had not thought of a mascot...that may be something to think of!
NaughtyMan, thank you for the "pre-order"! I should have photos of the test-version of the coat up by next week. I want to be sure everyone likes it before I start mass-producing them!
And from your mouth to the Captain's ears! I have not yet heard back from him on MySpace, but if I do! 
We did also talk about the heavy weapons, and that may be something we open up in the future, as we grow. For the first parade, though, we are going to stick with the G36 variants. There is a SAW version out there. But, as there WILL be a future for the 76th and we WILL be growing (), the heavy weapons discussion will come about again. Thank you for your input on that!
ArtCat, thank you for the sewing info. I am more than willing to share the pattern for the coat with those that want it...I would love to find someone else in here willing to put together a few of them for people, too. Again, while I am aiming for having one style of coat and one style of smock, I do not want to be the monopoly...which is why I am offering the patterns.
LostThought, those bags are great! Well, other than the picture of Chairman Yao...
That should not be that hard to either cover or remove, though.
Thanks for the link!
Quandom, thank you for that offer!
I actually hope to keep the coats below $100.00, which is why I have been tweaking the pattern so much. I want something that looks good and is simple to make. The major financial factor right now is the cloth to build it.
And thank you for that link! Um...whereabouts in there are the pants you were talking about? If most people are like me, they will just end up perusing the catalog (shiny stuff in there!) and forget why they started in the first place...
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Sister, please put me down for one of those patches! I'll need it for my un-Battalion project.
BoomerGoodheart
Renegade Military Supplier
"I love my Captain."
www.myspace.com/boomergoodheart
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Good evening!...Absolutely, Tristan; as soon as I get those patches with the blue star; I'll haul out two of them..take a pic and send the rest to you! (one of the two I'll keep is for Boomer!)...I believe BWTP is sending patches to Canter, yes? If not, I'd be glad to.
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About those heavy and specialty weapons:
The CO wrote:
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We did also talk about the heavy weapons, and that may be something we open up in the future, as we grow. For the first parade, though, we are going to stick with the G36 variants. There is a SAW version out there. But, as there WILL be a future for the 76th and we WILL be growing
For those folks a-thinkin' that we need a SAW or two, I'd recommend hitting Ebay and searching on M41K2, or M41 K2, in airsoft. You'll come up with some inexpensive hits which look much like this:
Notice that the forearm guard is long, with six lozenge-shaped holes, and all that's visible of the barrel is the pronged flash hider. You want a model that's 1:1 scale, about 32-33 inches long.
Then you either kitbash a box or drum magazine, or buy one. I recommend kitbashing, because the price of the airsoft drum or box magazines are brutal. You can use the magazine which comes with your airsoft model to build around, easily enough.
Personally, I'd do a box magazine. Easier to put fiberboard, foamcore, or styrofoam around a magazine in a simple box, than fussing with a drum on either side of the magazine ; but both could be done with a modicum of effort.
If you want to spend an extra 20.00 or so, and buy the more accurate, longer add-on flash hider for G36s, and swap out , that'd be shiny -- I sispect you'll have to slide a dowel down the barrel and glue/slide the new flash hider on that way.
End result: A LMG/SAW built on a G36 chassis. What's not to like?
As far as snipers go? I'm probably looking to get this piece:
http://www.hobbytron.com/AirsoftSniperRifleGunSpringAA957C.html
Also 33 inches, but the length is gained by the longer "barrel" on a fairly standard G36K body. I also like the slightly less skeletal stock, as I'll be adding a cheekpad to it, as snipers are wont to do. I'll be leaving off the pseudo-tactical greeblies on either side of the barrel shroud/foregrip, of course.
There's plenty of *inexpensive* room to "kit up" within the guidelines of the 76th. Make it from a G36, but make it shiny; make it special; make it *yours*.
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"Jubal 'Doc' Harris" // Bill Ernoehazy
Volunteer, 76th Independent Battalion
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Wanna?
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Hi all... Just letting you know I'm alive and well and so very excited about marching in the innaugural 76th parade!
Do you guys realise that in years to come our kids will be marching and saying to one another... "So, how did you get to be part of the 76th?" ... "Oh my Dad actually marched with them in 'o6... you?" "Wow! I saw the series on super speed lazer disc a while back and I joined up right away - so, your Dad was actually one of the originals... they're as amazing as the BDHs themselves...!!!"
or maybe "yeah - my Dad actually knows Tristan himself... "
At least that's how good it is in my mind!
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"I can put one foot in front of the other - I'm Magdalena, & I'm marching with the 76th" http://76thbattalion.homestead.com/index.html
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