Northern Ireland British Soldier, Black Watch, 1970s

[Sgt. Red]

Fantastic!

 

[Sgt. Red]

Do anyone make a Land Rover in 1/16 scale?

 

[BarrieHynd]

The nearest scale i can think of is 1/24th

Barrie.

 

[Argyll]

The boots are wrong as well, the lightweight NI issued boots didn't have a toecap like the DMS boot, the DMS was only an ankle boot as well, and worn with puttees.

 

[martin tabony]

I saw lots of DMS with extensions added.

Martin

 

[Helm]

I seem to recall my second pair of N.I. boots having toe caps and like Martin saw a lot of hi leg dms custom jobs
Steve

 

[Argyll]

You guys must've been lucky and had good Tara's then, I was issued my NI Boots in 1980, they never had toecaps, not saying it's unheard of, our Battalion never had them, and by the time I did my 2nd tour, we were on the new High Leg boots, around 85?
Nobody in our Battalion had extended DMS either, as they had to conform with SOP's..and our QM was a tossser.

 

[moz]

I was in palace bks 1980 and no we didn`t have toe caps either, I cant remember sculpting them on, so not sure why I did! but it seems its not so incorrect and it would be an easy fix to scrape them off. Our battalion had more doc martens than Belfast slippers.

 

[Argyll]

I was in Ballykelly Moz, 1980-82 then went back to the Deanery ,Clogher during Op CaraCara I think in Summer 87 .

 

[Argyll]

I was in Ballykelly 1980-82, then went back to Clogher for OP Cara Cara Summer of 87 I think, great times.
We were never allowed in these days to have beret style T O' S's either, when in camp, but we shaped them when deployed, only the Senior ranks wore theirs like berets.. and they were of a different make and colour than the Jocks anyway. Nowadays it seems more fashionable to wear it beret style. We also started receiving black metal cap badges during the 1980 tour.

 

[moz]

You lucky sod, I had to rough it in Berlin from 1981-83. we had black cap badges courtesy of Humbrol! pretty pointless while wearing hackles.

 

[Argyll]

I'll Assume you're an ex RRF Fusilier then Moz?? Or RHF?? Not many other Regiments wear hackles

 

[moz]

2RRF 79-87 . Bought myself out because they threatened to send us back to Cyprus

 

[Argyll]

Yep I PVR'd too

 

[badger]

i was in the t.a. 1976 /1983 and had extensions on my dms boots/badger