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zoux posted:How often do y'all do big reenactments and what kinds of crowds does it draw Since we're talking reenactments, I dug into an old photo archive of mine and found some of my reenactment photos. These were taken a few years ago. We staged a “public battle” for a student filmmaker from University of Colorado who wanted to make a film about a Russian kid in WW2. We were the Soviet Army.    Yes, we made some explosions:   Germans:  These were from an event in California I traveled to:  This is me on the back of the T-34, I spent most of the event driving: 
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I was under the impression people just randomly choose to have a snooze or not. Yeah thats the way the Civil War folks did it. The WW2 folks plan out during the morning safety meetings who dies before the event.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:I was under the impression people just randomly choose to have a snooze or not. nobody wants to die, i think i remember reading in Confederates in the Attic (great book) that a lot of company commanders assigned deaths by birthday - eg "OK in this one all guys born in Jan and Feb die, August serious wounds." next time out of course the months change.
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Cessna posted:Since we're talking reenactments, I dug into an old photo archive of mine and found some of my reenactment photos. These were taken a few years ago. We staged a “public battle” for a student filmmaker from University of Colorado who wanted to make a film about a Russian kid in WW2. We were the Soviet Army. Holy poo poo man, this is awesome.
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Cessna posted:Since we're talking reenactments, I dug into an old photo archive of mine and found some of my reenactment photos. These were taken a few years ago. We staged a “public battle” for a student filmmaker from University of Colorado who wanted to make a film about a Russian kid in WW2. We were the Soviet Army. That seems pretty dope, I never get to drive tanks
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Feb 6, 2019 21:59
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:nobody wants to die, i think i remember reading in Confederates in the Attic (great book) that a lot of company commanders assigned deaths by birthday - eg "OK in this one all guys born in Jan and Feb die, August serious wounds." next time out of course the months change. but dying sucks because i hate getting sunburnt
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Feb 6, 2019 22:00
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zoux posted:Do they set up big food and vendor tents. Is it a nerdier Ren Faire Hegel, admit it Our big annual event used to be "Fort Indiantown Gap," a huge WWII mock battle held in Pennsylvania. The event was canceled recently as some idiot almost murdered himself with a mortar, but it was fun while it lasted. They used to set us up in the old WWII barracks, then let us use the woods for big battles. One of the barracks was set up as the "Axis Club," another as the "Allied Club." The Allied club was fun:  The best unit in the event were the "Cossacks." The Axis and Allied barracks were separated, on the other side of a small field. The Cossacks would dress in WWII Cossack uniforms and go to the Allied club. They'd drink a LOT of Vodka and other alcohols, then stagger outside. They'd swap the insignia and badges on their uniforms to "Axis Cossacks," then go to the Axis club and drink a LOT of vodka. Then they'd switch back - back and forth, back and forth. They were impressive.
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Feb 6, 2019 22:02
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Cessna posted:Our big annual event used to be "Fort Indiantown Gap," a huge WWII mock battle held in Pennsylvania. The event was canceled recently as some idiot almost murdered himself with a mortar, but it was fun while it lasted. They used to set us up in the old WWII barracks, then let us use the woods for big battles. One of the barracks was set up as the "Axis Club," another as the "Allied Club." The Allied club was fun: When acting Russian, do as the Russians do???
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Feb 6, 2019 22:04
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Cessna posted:This is me on the back of the T-34, I spent most of the event driving:
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Feb 6, 2019 22:06
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Comrade Gorbash posted:How was it to operate? Just fine. Not as smooth as a modern US AFV, obviously, but I never had a problem with it. Don't believe the stories about "changing gears with a hammer."
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Feb 6, 2019 22:09
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Cessna posted:The best unit in the event were the "Cossacks." The Axis and Allied barracks were separated, on the other side of a small field. The Cossacks would dress in WWII Cossack uniforms and go to the Allied club. They'd drink a LOT of Vodka and other alcohols, then stagger outside. They'd swap the insignia and badges on their uniforms to "Axis Cossacks," then go to the Axis club and drink a LOT of vodka. Then they'd switch back - back and forth, back and forth. They were impressive. ahahahaha quote:The event was canceled recently as some idiot almost murdered himself with a mortar, but it was fun while it lasted.
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Feb 6, 2019 22:12
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Cessna posted:This is me on the back of the T-34, I spent most of the event driving: Coooooooooooooool!
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HEY GUNS posted:ahahahaha
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Feb 6, 2019 22:23
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HEY GUNS posted:a lot of reenactors i've seen have just lovely attitudes toward safety Oh, yes. I am fanatical about firearm safety. You see things that make your hair stand on end at big reenactments.
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Feb 6, 2019 22:25
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Cessna posted:Our big annual event used to be "Fort Indiantown Gap," a huge WWII mock battle held in Pennsylvania. The event was canceled recently as some idiot almost murdered himself with a mortar, but it was fun while it lasted. They used to set us up in the old WWII barracks, then let us use the woods for big battles. One of the barracks was set up as the "Axis Club," another as the "Allied Club." The Allied club was fun: Im impressed by their respect for the authentic lived experience of the Cossacks during world war 2.
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Feb 6, 2019 22:26
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HEY GUNS posted:ahahahaha A guy at a Russian reenactment recently fell off a tank and under the tracks. Thankfully they were on loose sand, so he only had some bones broken and didn't die. Don't ride on tank fenders even if it looks really cool.
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Feb 6, 2019 22:51
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I looked up the incident and this was in one of the articles: at hospital, lost fingat
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Feb 6, 2019 22:55
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three years ago i was at a big event in the netherlands and a dude brought a real dagger onto the field and cut someone's thumb off
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Feb 6, 2019 22:55
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Wait y'all were reenacting with live mortar rounds
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Feb 6, 2019 22:57
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zoux posted:Wait y'all were reenacting with live mortar rounds Not live with a bursting shell that will throw shrapnel, but live with enough propellant to throw a small charge that will make a loud "bang." It's not a problem if you aren't an idiot about it, like blanks fired from a firearm.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:00
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C.M. Kruger posted:I looked up the incident and this was in one of the articles: This article - here - is pretty good. The guy in the photo is a jackass.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:05
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My "reenactment" experience was really more a group who liked historical LARPing, so the idea of a reenactment weapon that you can't whack someone over the head with and still have them be your friend in the morning rather terrifies me.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:27
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LatwPIAT posted:My "reenactment" experience was really more a group who liked historical LARPing, so the idea of a reenactment weapon that you can't whack someone over the head with and still have them be your friend in the morning rather terrifies me.
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Feb 6, 2019 23:37
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Cessna posted:Since we're talking reenactments, I dug into an old photo archive of mine and found some of my reenactment photos. These were taken a few years ago. We staged a “public battle” for a student filmmaker from University of Colorado who wanted to make a film about a Russian kid in WW2. We were the Soviet Army. here's me, the focus is really tight so you can't tell from the photo that this is happening in a soccer field: 
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Cessna posted:You see things that make your hair stand on end at big reenactments. When I rode in a T-34 during a public mock battle event years ago, one of the homemade “blank” shells went off without being properly secured in the breech. The casing shot off straight backwards, bounced off the back of the turret (smashing one of the interior lights along the way) and hit me in the back as I was kneeling by the loader’s position. (This wasn’t even the worst safety incident that day.)
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Comrade Koba posted:When I rode in a T-34 during a public mock battle event years ago, one of the homemade "blank" shells went off without being properly secured in the breech. The casing shot off straight backwards, bounced off the back of the turret (smashing one of the interior lights along the way) and hit me in the back as I was kneeling by the loader's position. Edit: Turns out the article I read was confusingly written. It was the blank firing adapter that shot out, which is mentioned in the paragraph on the bayonet. LatwPIAT fucked around with this message at 00:21 on Feb 8, 2019 |
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Feb 7, 2019 00:28
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Are there any surviving T-34/76s left?
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Are there any surviving T-34/76s left? Oh yeah, here's one that was at Aberdeen when I was there about ten years ago:  (Aberdeen when I was there was both extremely cool and depressing because while they have a ton of neat vehicles there, they were all sitting outside in awful condition.)
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Feb 7, 2019 00:42
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cessna, move your vehicle!!!!!! https://twitter.com/BBCNWT/status/1092767721840934912
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Feb 7, 2019 01:21
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what, is it a permit parking zone?
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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:what, is it a permit parking zone?
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Looks more like an APC....
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Feb 7, 2019 01:42
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Legit surprised no one has put a boot on it. I thought that was a big thing there. E: Boot like the thing that stops the wheel turning or something, not like a trunk?
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Fangz posted:Looks more like an APC.... I think it depends if the gun is more than 20mm, in which case it’s an IFV not an APC (although  might not count as part of Europe for much longer so that could change?)
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Schadenboner posted:I think it depends if the gun is more than 20mm, in which case it’s an IFV not an APC (although The CFE definition has "Infantry Fighting Vehicles" being armed with weapons of calibre equal to or greater than 20 mm. It's a fairly important distinction because when the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe was written, the 20mm Oerlikon, Rh202, and F2 autocannons were rather common weapon on NATO armoured transports. However, that's a British FV-432, of which only some 13 autocannon armed versions were ever made using the turret from the Fox armoured car. The one in the photograph is a fairly standard FV-432 APC version with a GMPG turret.
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Feb 7, 2019 01:53
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HEY GUNS posted:three years ago i was at a big event in the netherlands and a dude brought a real dagger onto the field and cut someone's thumb off On purpose?! Like as a trophy?
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VanSandman posted:On purpose?! Like as a trophy?
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Feb 7, 2019 01:57
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everything with tracks is a tank idiots
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bewbies posted:everything with tracks is a tank Isn't that how it works? Like with the AMX-13? AMX-13 (Homme)  AMX-13 (Femme)  /s
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