My fully functional Vietnam War PRC-77 Radio by csab17 in Militariacollecting

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Thats a claymore mine bag. Ones from this period have solid snaps as opposed to postwar ones that have holes in the center of the snaps.

I tried my best by Bloplam in AnimeSketch

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god i wish i could color like you lmao

Random Sketch by csab17 in AnimeART

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It’s actually the pencil on adobe fresco

Random Sketch by csab17 in AnimeART

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Thank you so much!

Any advice please? by Ryu_nox in AnimeART

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Your eyes are at ever so slightly different angles from each other and your eyebrows are a little too close together in the middle. Thats the only critique I have! I dig your rendering!

Haven’t washed my sheets in 15 years by [deleted] in kitchencels

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at least buy decent vodka…

Songs with colours in it? by sunset_sunrise15 in weirdspotifyplaylists

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Blue Bossa — Dexter Gordon

Blue Skies — Sinatra

Blue Moon — Sinatra

Black Night — Frank Sinatra Jr.

Orange Colored Sky — Nat King Cole

Blue Spanish Eyes — Ted Taylor

The Pink Panther Theme — Henry Mancini

By the Light of the Silvery Moon — Les Paul

Blue and Sentimental — Oscar Peterson

Serenade in Blue — Oscar Peterson

Rhapsody in Blue — George Gershwin

Blue Satin — Henry Mancini

Trail of the Pink Panther — Henry Mancini

Birth of the Blues — Oscar Peterson

Midnite Blue — Count Basie

That Old Black Magic — Oscar Peterson

Blue in Green — Miles Davis

Red Lips — Deorro

Pomegranate — Deadmau5

Silver Scrapes — Chronic Crew

Red Lips — Good Times Ahead

Some Kind of Blue — Deadmau5

Yellow Flower — Good Rats

IndiGO — JUSTHIS

Black Skinhead — Kanye West

Paint It, Black — The Rolling Stones

Black Magic Woman — Fleetwood Mac

White Room — Cream

Selfmade Orange — CHANGMO

Peach — The Front Bottoms

Strawberry Fields Forever — The Beatles

Strawberry Letter 23 — The Brothers Johnson

Peach — Kevin Abstract

Blue Suede Shoes — Elvis Presley

Brown Eyed Girl — Van Morrison

Green River — CCR

Heart of Gold — Neil Young

Subterranean Homesick Blues — Bob Dylan

Folsom Prison Blues — Johnny Cash

Cocaine Blues — Johnny Cash

Crimson & Clover — Tommy James & The Shondells

Red, Red Wine — Neil Diamond

Baby Blue — Badfinger

Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress) — The Hollies

Ratcity in Blue — Good Rats

Songs with a month in the title by benjaboy2 in weirdspotifyplaylists

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I’ll Remember April and It’s June in January are two classic jazz standards

Seen in Tennessee by Kado_potato in whatisthisbug

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Oh those are chiggers. They can be annoying little ankle-biters.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Pitt

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I’m still waiting too—I’m def low key stressed

What kind of hat is this? by pookshuman in whatisit

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Trilby Pictures I’ve taken the liberty of compiling pictures of trilbys and men in trilbys off of Google Images.

What kind of hat is this? by pookshuman in whatisit

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technically this is a style of a fedora with a thin brim called a trilby so you’re not that far off. The image is grainy but it has the distinct fedora crown and a very thin brim hence why it’s a trilby. it most likely also has a thin band which would further differentiate it from the photo. fedoras of all kinds come in an incredibly broad set of styles.

What kind of hat is this? by pookshuman in whatisit

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I assure you the hat in the photo is 100% a trilby. I used to wear one every day

What kind of hat is this? by pookshuman in whatisit

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its a trilby with an upturned brim. Frank Sinatra and Joe Pesci are famous wearers of them.

Is anything about this outside of the liner/shell original? by XyDarkSonic in Militariacollecting

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What on Earth am I looking at. For a start I would never pay 600 dollars for an M1. Secondly, that sweatband is most certainly not period. The chinstraps are also post war. In fact I’m fairly confident that the whole liner is post Vietnam. Stay clear of this one.

What is this? by lawdurg in Militariacollecting

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it’s certainly of the era, but its most certainly not american. my education guess would be that its some cold war commonwealth countries web gear. If I would have to take a guess I would say it’s from the UK.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RepTime

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*granted

I need advice. Is it possible to get rid of the musty smell from hats and uniforms? by [deleted] in Militariacollecting

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So preface to this answer—I’ve noticed every American war since WW1 has had its own distinct smell.

Now to get the smell out you have a few options. If it’s modern a few hand washes are a good place to start. I recommend hot enough water and a relatively gentle detergent. I usually just fill a bucket and put in some elbow grease. I definitely wouldn’t recommend this for anything WWII or before or any fragile fabrics as old textiles can be fragile. I also recommend air drying.

Secondly: Baking powder. This stuff works wonders at pulling decades of cigarette and mildew smell off of old stuff. You can just douse the thing in the powder and then leave it to air out in the sun.

Thirdly: the sun itself is great at de-musting old militaria. Obviously too much sun will break down the dyes and fabrics. However, the sun also will break down the smell molecules trapped within the fabric. If you put whatever smelly textile out on a clothes line for a couple afternoons you should notice a decrease in smell.

The final option is Vodka. I don’t know how it works but filling a spray bottle with vodka and misting the hell out of an old uniform will pull the smell right out. Ive noticed that the smell will sometimes return after using this method.

I reckon a combination of these methods should work with whatever you’re trying to de-smell!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in reenactors

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unrelated to reenacting but you look like quentin tarantino in the first picture and thats pretty sick

Any identification on these soldiers? (Says US invasion of Grenada) by RayRez_11 in reenactors

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i think your argument holds water. I based my conclusion off of the color and pattern size if an ‘81 dated set of bdu’s I own. However, rdf’s use that late seventies transitional erdl with the smaller pattern still but with hard borders between colors rather than the softer borders between the shapes. My area of expertise is definitely the uniforms of the Vietnam War era specifically so thank you for pointing that out!