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Does anyone know of a source for original Blanco Khaki Green No3, I picked up a few mismatched bits of patt 37 webbing from the War and Peace show, the bits come from rummaging though the trade stands in there bargain buckets, I just want try and give them a good clean and then colour match them.
I've just awoken from my darkest nightmare....., dreaming about someone who was looking for some blanco to blanco some webbing. Phew......, thank heavens that it was just a horrible dream.
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Sorry Peter, thought it may bring on the cold sweats, Terry I seen the ones on the Blanco and Bull, just wondered if there was any otiginal still about, as daft it seems I never thought of looking when at the show......
Strangely enough, I found a few tubes in the back shed this morning........bit far from you though.
Am sure we could do a deal Muffer......Quote:
Originally Posted by muffett.2008
You have to be careful with Australian and pommy blanco from memory because you can get a dry blanco and you can also get a waxy blanco. And once you've had wax blanco (like a soft shoe polish) near your webbing you can forget about ever putting the dry stuff on it again. When I was attached to The Cheshire Regt we had a dark khaki waxy blanco. But soon after I got there and changed all my stuff to wax type I went to Oz and the nightmares ended with the issue of '44 pattern stuff
Thanks Peter, Found some on ebay but not the original Blanco, but a later version in a paste (not wax). I'll keep looking, first need to clean most of it and bleach a holster its a faded RAF blue one, someone I met yesterday said just bleach the holster and possibly the map case, and dump the rest in a hot wash.
As I was going for bargain basement don't mind the work, for the times it will be displayed not worth spending a small fortune on it, can't believe some of the prices of 37 webbing, even some grotty stuff was demanding a high price.
The water bottles with carrier were around £25 +.... picked one up for £2.00 same on most stuff I picked up I paid very little, I remember when I was a kid there was a huge Army Navy store in Liverpool which sold everything...... I always remember the one floor packed with 37 patt webbing....... it was pennies.
How much blanco do you want? I am going somewhere where I maybe able to purchase some original blanco in a couple of weeks or so.
Just enough for a full set of webbing plus touch up etc, the fact I'm NOT going to wear it and will be displayed only in the dry with the bike, anything to bring the colour out would be good, I was thinking of trying cotton dye if I could find a suitable one.
Original KG3 blanco tablets are really rare now and expensive. I have a couple in my collection, but it was getting hard to find 15+ years ago.
Soldier of Fortune sell repro blanco which is your best bet, although they are currently out of stock of the KG3 (have stock of all the other wartime shades though)
Bloody 'orrible stuff :lol:
I'll see what I can do in a couple of weeks or so, bigduke, and if successful I'll be in touch. I don't anticipate a couple of blocks of blanco being silly money.
I've seen original KG3 blocks selling for over 25 quid each......Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
However, I've just remembered that Steve Siddle of Pegasus Militaria does repro KG3 blocks as per original, for a tenner each. Steve's repro stuff is very high quality.
http://www.pegasusmilitaria.com/prod...ormandyarnhem/
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The stuff in oz is in a powder dispenser, mix with water and brush or rub on.
I decided to try the shoe cream method after I seen a forum members webbing in the Service pistol and revolver part of the forum, Peter look away.......
For anyone interested see link The Blanco Story | Blanco and Bull
I just wanted to bring the very cheap webbing in line and try and get it uniform in colour, (Like I've said I'm not becoming a webbing collector Honest, its just to go with the Matchless) following the recipe on blanco and bull, it came up quite good, I probably should of done the whole lot with a base coat first as they do a shoe cream in Khaki, but I went for applying the KG3 obvious the RAF holster would be a bit darker but the belt and water bottle carrier come out quite good, probably needs a second coat but these consumed all the cream.
Some of the brass still needs some bull but the belt parts had some corrosion on and I just left these in vinegar then a very quick bull with brasso........(I've still to fix the cork on the water bottle)
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It looks like your webbing has cleaned up well.
Back in the day, did the army sometimes use RAF webbing by blancoing it khaki, when needs arose? I just wondered how historically accurate it is to do this because the RAF version of P37 pistol holster tends to be a little cheaper than the army version?
I seen some webbing in one of the pound buckets at the W&P show that was originally karki and had been cleaned with blanco blue.........
The holster is dated 1951.... and being an RAF one did reflect in the price...... WW2 dated Army ones are around £40+ , think I paid £12. That was the most expensive bit of the webbing.
It's handy if you can be historically accurate by using RAF webbing, blancoed khaki, because of the price difference between the two.
Some of the eBay sellers don't make it clear if the webbing that they are selling is RAF or Army and they phase the advert along the lines of "British military webbing" and they do the pictures in such a way as you can't tell if it's blue or khaki in colour.
I did get caught out by this with a webbing holster that I thought was army but turned out to be RAF. It wasn't the bargain I was expecting, after all.
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Originally Posted by Flying10uk
The reason I waited for till the W&P show, so I could see what I was buying, even then it was hard locating the bargains........ but they were about.
As my items are for a background display not worried about dates and original colour as I can get some sort of match with the Blanco, even the Webley in the Holster is a post war one 1946, just trying to do it the cheapest way but at the same time, as you say Historically accurate.
I like Peter had two sets of TA-50 or web gear as we referred to it. Still have my field set hanging in the closet alas it will not fit but just for old time sake I guess. We never used anything like blanco just had to keep it clean and the metal tabs, buckles blackened. I can see the disdain in collecting it. But I did enjoy reading the web page on blanco. However with my collectables I enjoy having the proper slings, holsters, ammo pouches and lanyards. Adds to the fun of collecting but my how it has gone up in the last 40 years!
I would say quite confidently that there would never, ever be an occasion where we would be issued with RAF blue webbing and told to blanco it khaki. There was never a shortage of the real McCoy in my experience of being issued with, cleaning, scrubbing, brassoing, crawling along and cleaning again after it was thrown down the corridor and being told that I was a sack of shix, as was my feeble attempt at blancoing. And then blancoing it all again and putting it all back, exactly folded as per the room NCO's instructions on the top of our steel lockers. We had every variation ever made - but never ever got RAF stuff. I often used to dream of meeting up again with the likes of Cpl 'Piggy' Nxxxxxx and reminding him of the joyousness of throwing not just MY webbing, but the whole rooms webbing down the corridor. And stand up properly when you speak to me Nxxxxxx........., I'm not your mate.......... I'm sir to you! Ho, ho, ho,ho
Do you ever wonder why I look pitifully at webbing collectors.............
That blanco colour in thread 13 was very similar to the colour we had while I was attached to the Cheshire Regiment and the KSLI
Another two Regiments that have suffered the same fate as many others.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Laidler
I just found an entire 12 puck box of KG3 blanco in my shed.
What’s it worth these days ??
What you can get someone to pay for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by csmarcher
In the UK, about £15 per puck at least.........maybe more.Quote:
Originally Posted by csmarcher
I can't believe that I have just read through this section on blanco and webbing collectors............. Talking of 'Piggy' Newton, I DID meet up with him again at a reunion i Carlisle. He was still as gobby but a more mellowed and nice bloke.