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Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:13 pm
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Seems something has gone horridly wrong at sutlers.co.uk some sort of drama with the current owner and the business being shut down.

What ever it is, it sounds ugly.

Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:10 pm
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Come to think of it, the way it constricts and bends plastic may very well be what its made of. I never even thought of that. I'll have to get one of the Vietnam helmets and try to do the warm water t ...

Mon Jul 26, 2010 1:24 pm
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I've had some time to stew on it and try the helmet out and its not so much the shape of the helmet I think is wrong so much anymore. My face is pretty lean and the helmet looks big. I tried to get th ...

Tue Jul 20, 2010 3:16 pm
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Hello,

I've just purchased a white foreign service helmet reproduction and like just about every single helmet on the market today the shape is a bit unsatisfactory. I'd like to alter the shape to ...

Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:27 am
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If you are wrong Simon, I'd certainly not know it. My understanding was "Utzu" or some similar word was the war cry yelled before or during a charge. I'm a novice to the subject at best and ...

Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:57 am
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Haha, yeah I remember wondering why the hell a bunch of Germanic tribesmen were yelling Utzu at the top of their lungs. Later I found Ridley Scott did it as a tribute to Zulu. Which was kinda neat.

Mon Aug 31, 2009 12:36 am
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I don't think one can call themselves a 'war film fan' and not have Zulu in their top 5. I don't know how to confirm this but another tidbit I picked up was that one of the producers of Zulu Dawn is o ...

Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:53 am
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Around 3 quarters of the way in, the hectic music from the final battle scene of Zulu dawn in played during Tarentino's WW II flick "Inglorious Bastards". A good movie in its own right, I wa ...

Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:04 pm
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If placed in context of the times, those circumstances in which the Zulu found themselves the idea of a ghost army seems probable. I am however a skeptic of anything supernatural so I can't easily pla ...

Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:03 pm
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The story of the Zulu's thinking Chelmsford's column being the ghosts of those killed at Isandlwana was fascinating, this forum and Lt.Col. Snook's book was the first I'd heard of it.

Mon Aug 17, 2009 1:00 pm
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Did you happen to see the Spike TV "Deadliest Warrior" show which features a duel between William Wallace and King Shaka? DW is one of the silliest shows I've ever seen, to say its quite bad ...

Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:31 pm
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Wow I was thinking of going through these guys for my kit they seem to be the only outfit on the internet that make good AZW and Boer war kit.
Unless anyone has any other suggestions? I saw another s ...

Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:47 pm
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I'll have to find that book, I just received Barthorp's book on the Nile Expeditions and the relief of Khartoum.

Tue Jul 21, 2009 2:16 pm
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Hello there, I'm currently in the early stages of possibly putting a 1879 & 2nd Anglo-Boer War impression together. Where can I get the best possible shaped pith helmet? I've seen tonnes of them o ...

Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:51 pm
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Aye, I'm aware of what a mess of a state the Sudan is in. Still it must be fascinating to go see the Victorian graves, the sites like Abu Klea and Omdurman. To see these places first hand must really ...
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