tooz Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Hey Andrew! Now that there is a flood of cool looking snow-covered mods for the Bulge/Nordwind battles and ops I noticed that my Airborne guys are freezing in their uniforms. Will you consider weaving your magic yet again and conjure us up a cool airborne uni mod? Please please? :cool: I know there is your old CMBO mod renumbered to CMAK but am reluctant to use these, because these BO to AK conversions don't seem as aesthetically pleasing as CMBB crossovers. Maybe toss in a white helmet as an option? In CMBO all the US has white uni's but don't think that's necessary--or historically accurate. I believe the airborne guys got a hold of a bunch of white linen and made improvised smocks and capes, but I believe only the US 10th Mountain Division were issued white camo uni's. (Hey! There's ANOTHER good idea,--oops sorry, just getting greedy...) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Tooz, Andrew's CMBO set that I renumbered for AK looks good to me, down and dirty. The winter set has nice gloves and neck scarves. One of my first mod atempts is Dave Molinario's, IIRC, USA whites at cmmods but I never renumbered them to winter. I made a set of whites from MikeT's winter Finns but they aren't good enough to share. At my website is my start screen with a pic of GIs riding a tank in whites. Andrew's anorak coats are nice but are they warm enough for the Ardennes? For winter greens look at my Korea set made from Andrew's USA set 3. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Looking in my Korea files, I had starting making a set from Andrew's Soviet white reds smocks with USA necks and straps. I couldn't find enough photos of troops in white to justify the project. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooz Posted January 4, 2005 Author Share Posted January 4, 2005 J2D, the crossovers look good (but I don't think the whites have that crisp CMAK/CMBB look to them) but I am still leary and am going to wait and see if "the legend" will respond. Sycophants (and modsluts) have no shame. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Tooz, I am shamelessly both a mod slut and a sycophant to AndrewTF (The Great and Powerful). However, I would use, and do use, his CMBO to CMAK conversion (make sure you get the one that includes Airborne and Crews - he has another on the list that does not). If you want white helmets you can use Junk2Drive's, American winter 45 and just renumber the helmet. Frankly I love the GI down and dirty look (blatant plagerism of Junk's response) that AndrewTF (the Great and Powerfull) has got. DavidI 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 JMHO just as the German greens and greys faded and sometimes turned brown as the war went on, the GI greens got faded and stained. Andrew's BO unis are just what I prefer. The AK green ones look just out of boot camp. Another thought is how many historical CMAK or NW Europe battles were in deep snow? Most of the Dec 44 scenarios at TSD are wet, mud or light snow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Junk, True enough, the one universal article just can't be done in any of the CM games - The Greatcoat. Too bad. For every picture of some Grunt (in any Army) with a winter cammo parka or jacket, I can come up with a thousand with them in greatcoats. Still look cool (ah warm?) though. DavidI [ January 04, 2005, 01:18 PM: Message edited by: David I ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 White Reds as USA screenshot coming up soon. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Overcast so it is a little dark, Andrew's Soviet whites with USA straps and belts. Korea [ January 03, 2005, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: junk2drive ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewTF Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 I could make a set for the US Airborne pretty easily, but it appears that my 20-month-old has "done something" with my CMAK disk! :mad: My wife took it out of the CD-ROM drive (!) to play a Wiggles CD for him and left it on my desk--when I went to look for it last week it was nowhere to be found. The mischievous little monkey (baby, not wife) has a new habit of trying to insert CDs and DVDs in places that LOOK like they should accept a disk but don't. Anyhow, I've got a few mods to release once I find the disk. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David I Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Andrew, If it is any consolation to you; my daughter discovered that you could feed soda crackers into my cassette deck, and it would eat them all up. Every one. David [ January 04, 2005, 01:21 PM: Message edited by: David I ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewTF Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 It's gotta be around somewhere... My office (ok, my desk in the corner of the master bedroom--the office is now the baby's room) isn't really the tidiest of spaces, so it'll probably turn up some day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Well 3AM and I can't sleep. I made a complete set for late war with infantry and airborne, and all the helmets. They will do while Andrew waits for a replacement disc from BFC, lol. At CMMODS 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juju Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Originally posted by AndrewTF: The mischievous little monkey (baby, not wife) Heh, reminds me of my cat Cleo. When she was young she thought the backs of my recordcovers were the perfect place to sharpen her nails on! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junk2drive Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 The backside 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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