Korea - send in the Commandos ! Help needed

[Sunray]

At last! The Pendraken Head Shed has ordered sculpts of the most elite unit to serve in Korea.  Clue - their lids were green.

41 Royal Marine Commando - rushed out in civvies with only their berets and ...attitude.

Its a chance for some unique sculpts of the Royals in US combat dress/weapons with the beret.

Sculpts with the widest possible proxy potential.

There is one of a R/0 - radio on back, ear piece in a stooped position - like you do - as his mate  plants a demo charge on a railway - can we source it ?

  Its a tribute to all who ever youmped a Clansman 

I have a neat one of a .30 Browning being fired from the waist. 

Also a couple of very senior marines - sort that would proxy for any NATO/Falklands command stand - berets,  .45/9mm on web belt, binoculars lowered , giving ..."ORDERS" and that canny figure checking watch as he raises his hand for ....the bombardment ? the off?
the ambush ?

I am minded to advise Techno to go heavy on the Grease guns - in relation to the M1 Garand - what's the view by those who will purchase ?     

What sculpts would you click on paypal for ?

[lowlylowlycook]

With US kit and berets would these be suitable for the French Battalion?

[Sunray]

With US kit and berets would these be suitable for the French Battalion?

With the detail that Phil creates - the answer is sadly no.

We Brits and assorted allies wear the beret with badge prominent to Left of the forehead and a Right hand pull . The French do the opposite.  As berets have shrunk since WW2, this pull has got more accentuated, and the badge has slipped from "over the left eye", to somewhere near the left ear on British elite units.

Stick with the Royals- there's a good lad. Only a bunch of posers wear white scarfs in a killing ground.

[fsn]

This one?

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Some good stuff here Techno - not much RM, but lots of photos.
http://archive.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/remembering_the_korean_war_60.html

[Techno]

Excellent, Nobby !  ......That's a huge help.....Many thanks, Matey. 

Just so's I get 'it right'.......Should I do them with 'mid' length or normal 'short' boots ? (Definitely not 'long' boots.)

I'm probably not seeing the pics right. It's probably the socks that are giving me the impression that the boots are longer than they really are, in one particular piccy ? (The chap on the left of the photo where I presume they're sabotaging the railway line.)

Cheers - Phil (Black thumbnail) L  ......... I just got bitten by a rat-trap....I said very naughty words !

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Look like gaiters to me?

[fsn]

See the photo of the solo marine. One boot with sock and trousers stuffed into it, the other trouser leg free. That's how they all appeared in Korea - it was a field sign so they could be easily recognised. Either that or they were half hearted Masons. 



Royal Marine Commando George Barnes on the USS Horace A. Bass (APD-124), a US Navy destroyer, before a raid into North Korea, 1951


https://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/uniformes-militares-de-gran-bretana1950.html?m=1

[fsn]

Look like gaiters to me?

Socks?

[fsn]

Another gratuitous Centurion shot

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Where was it shot?

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[Sunray]

Some great images ! Thank you gentlemen- even proof that 41 used the BAR ! - it was not popular compared to the Bren.

Boots.  The Royals have always been sensible about boots- except were a formal No1 or 2 dress parade was concerned.

In combat, you see an individual choice that is good for the conditions. The Royal prepping the bomb appears to be in climbing boots.

For the rest, the ammo boot was mixed with the popular US pattern that had ankle buckles (they could be mistaken for gaiters ) and had a suede version.    South Africa copied this ankle buckle style post war.   They were issue in Rhodesia.

[fsn]

Cap comforters



Men of the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders take cover as they advance into the town of Chonju on the British front in North Korea during the Korean War



Canadians - looks as the Canucks wore them slightly differently. Is this a different form of headgear? More like a US watchcap?



OK, Cyprus, 1963 - but a good photo


Duke of Wellington's Rgt at the Hook

Worn in a variety of ways


http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191765
Australians
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205191005
Chap on the right

My mistake ... it's a beret  

IMHO the Cyprus/Duke of Wellington's rather more formal manner is what I'd like to see. However, the rather more irregular mode may well fit in for other, less stylish forces.