For Sale: Repro winter AFV Crew Coveralls aka "Pixie or Zoot Suit"

[horsa]

A couple of shots showing one of the new tank suits. It has the same weight as my smaller original but is much more supple and easy to move in compared to the stiffness of the original. My original is a size 5 but I had this one built as a fantasy size 7 so I can wear full battledress underneath if we ever play up north during the winter months. Temps were hovering around 50F when we took these so I was only wearing shorts and a tee shirt underneath so the suit hangs loosely on me but was nonetheless very comfortable.

PS - should have worn a tanker badge for the shots with the Sherman but it was a spur of the moment opportunity ;-)

[Jordan Baker]

Looks great David.

[Robert Bergeron]

Hey Gordon, looks great. Is that your daughter we see in a picture in the foreword of one of your excellent books when she was a little kid ? Robert

[horsa]

Yes, the girl in the turret is my older daughter Tiffany who is currently 25 years old. She has been part of the Sherman crew for several years when the military base holds public events that it attends like this past weekends show battle.

Not sure if this will work but the link below is a short video clip my wife shot showing the Sherman maneuvering with her being TC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOFyp-8nXo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_2-CiQsmA

[Robert Bergeron]

David, you have very good reason to be a proud trooper and Dad ! Facebook link does not work but i get the picture. Cheers. Robert ( also a Dad )

[horsa]

Fixed the two links. They were tied to my wife's Facebook account so I moved them over to YouTube so they would work on the forum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruOFyp-8nXo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK_2-CiQsmA

[Chuck Anderson]

How did your suits arrive (which courier)?

Irfan told me on the 12th that I'd be getting mine "next week", but it didn't show. Now I'm getting suspicious emails from a company called TNT Express that wants me to open a link to get a receipt for something. The parcel number they give me doesn't jive with a TNT Express shipment number, so it looks like a phishing scam. I've got my kubel for sale on Milweb and have been getting spam emails from Europe & Asia since I posted it there.

Thanks.

[Remko]

Originally Posted by horsa

It has the same weight but is much more supple and easy to move in compared to the stiffness of the original.

This is because the 'plastic' layer between Outer and inner is not there in the repro. The original has a (What I think) waterproof layer in upper arms upper legs shoulders, breast and upper back.

[Jim Burrill]

Plastic sleeve? That was there in the sample. It is a modern substitute and is very flexible. When i checked that, I had to work at trying to separate the layers to feel the middle layer.

I had stressed to Irfan how important it was that the arms, chest and back have it. When we play field tacticals on rainy days ( rain is period!) we need the upper body waterproofing.

I am very surprised if he didn't have that in.

Let me email him and verify that.

Jim

[RichardT10829]

Nothing a bit of wet proofer wouldn't fix !

[Remko]

Originally Posted by Jim Burrill

Plastic sleeve? That was there in the sample. It is a modern substitute and is very flexible. When i checked that, I had to work at trying to separate the layers to feel the middle layer.

I had stressed to Irfan how important it was that the arms, chest and back have it. When we play field tacticals on rainy days ( rain is period!) we need the upper body waterproofing.

I am very surprised if he didn't have that in.

Let me email him and verify that.

Jim

I was a little to fast in the reply, sorry.....

Arms do not have that but the top 10 cm from shoulders do.
Chest does have it up to the top if the chest pockets (15cm from top seam down)
Also the upper 15cm of the back. (Measured from top seam)

Upper side of the legs (When driving) dont have it.

The original I refer to has a waterproofing the whole chest. (Partial) back, Full sleeves and top of the legs (till knee)

Added Some photos to my comparison album.
https://goo.gl/photos/Mp6jHWtehZQaFePt7

[Chuck Anderson]

I received mine today and am very happy with it. It looks great, fits great (glad I went with a size 7), and I can move around in it. It doesn't weigh as much as an original, but that's fine by me. Irfan does really nice work!

Chuck

[Remko]

Originally Posted by Chuck Anderson

I received mine today and am very happy with it. It looks great, fits great (glad I went with a size 7), and I can move around in it. It doesn't weigh as much as an original, but that's fine by me. Irfan does really nice work!

Chuck

It truly is a great Pixie.

[Darrell Zinck]

Hi

You guys need to get together!

regards
Darrell