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Drill, paper clip pin, glue to secure the pin and for friction.

Cut small holes with an exacto and sew around them to reinforce the fabric. Basically, make functional button holes like 1:1.

A moderately unsuccessful experiment at making a range day figure from the Taran training video. I stripped the gear from my JW2 figure to rig him, then restored everything shortly thereafter. The sculpt is a bum older one that I had replaced with the NRToys one (on the left) as soon as it...

I have mixed feelings about this figure. So much was done right, but there is so much lost potential. The weapons are done well, but little details are off (like the back half of the barrel blocking off the ejection port of the Glock 34 or the wrong stock on the AR15). What really annoyed me was...

That sticky-backed leather thing at 09:40 is a piece of duct tape. You cut into strips and use it to secure the gear. It's that specific brand because it peels off without leaving residue and has a good "in-scale" look.

SOG is an excellent primer and a good general history of the unit. Both of Plaster's other books are quite good as well (he also made a photobook and wrote some memoirs under the title Secret Commandos.) If I had to pick top five (technically seven, but you'll get the same flavor with either...

Neither LRRPs nor SOG followed that practice, actually. You're absolutely right about the boot treads though, which is Bata boots were issued and occasionally worn. The unfortunate fact was that US jungle boots were better than the alternatives that were tried, which is why the Bata boots were...

Outstanding!

This project will be done to depict the arms and equipment used by MACVSOG at the end of the Vietnam War. The title from the project comes from a Western picture popular at the time named, “The Wild Bunch.” In it, an aging band of outlaws becomes confronted by the reality of changing times and...

It was a trade unfortunately :/ The guy's offered monetary restitution, but he's not going to send out the figure that was originally promised or return the Jack Sparrow.

The guy who got scammed contacted the local cops and he's trying to negotiate with the guy on the side. I think some elaboration is needed, so here's a few reasons why I'm helping here at all: 1) I was a member of SSF when this started (Dave's membership is still processing) and I saw a...

Dave may end up needing to pursue this in small claims court. The guy's threatening to sue SSF for that one post with his ID in it as well. Huh.

Re: Bad Trader Alert - Joker's Wild Just an update: The cops have spoken with Joker's Wild and he's tentatively agreed to pay Dave $250 to replace the Jack Sparrow. He claimed to police that he shipped the Ghost Rider sans tracking and that it just never arrived. I'm going to try to help Dave...

Re: Bad Trader Alert - Joker's Wild Thanks, man. I'm not optimistic after the last scammer that messed with us, but we'll see.

Re: Bad Trader Alert - Joker's Wild Guys, we're talking with the guy who originally got scammed and suggesting that he talks to the local police and USPS about mail fraud. He's got a pattern of trying to defraud people, so they might look into it. This is preferable to the local option, but...

Re: Bad Trader Alert - Joker's Wild Marcel - thanks for helping Dave here. We're potentially taking a local option (we had a volunteer), but that's up to Dave. Many thanks to the SSF staff for being on the ball about this and extremely - you've got pros running the site here :D

Heya Ty, welcome to the boards.

Re: Bad Trader Alert - Joker's Wild Friend, earlier you asked me: I think it's safe to say that you just answered your own question.

Rather than clutter up some poor guy's sale thread with our little discussion, I'll start a new thread in a place where I can actually, well, start a new thread. On OneSixthWarriors (OSW), we had a trade recently go wrong between a guy named Joker's Wild and unknownhero88 (Dave). Near the end of...

Replacing some loose modern and 'Nam parts from an order that was "lost to the warp."