Blanco KG3

[GeeRam]

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

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[Flying10uk]

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.

[GeeRam]

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......

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/

[muffett.2008]

The stuff in oz is in a powder dispenser, mix with water and brush or rub on.

[bigduke6]

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)

[Flying10uk]

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?

[bigduke6]

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.

[Flying10uk]

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.

[bigduke6]

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.

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.

[BruceHMX]

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!