WHAT are your HOLY GRAIL ITEMS ?????

Yep. Those all sound about right. =] Anything Selous Scouts... except the shorts. Those are not so sexi...

really,really want a USMC "lemon squeezer" hat

cairyhunt wrote:really,really want a USMC "lemon squeezer" hat

Yeh but would you ask the bloke in the photo for his I know I wouldent

yer, no sweat he's only a bloody marine LOL

Experimental Soviet TTsKO/Butane which later evolved into the standardized TTsKO:



Also pre-Soviet Afghan forces wore a "duck hunter" style uniform, I doubt I'll ever find it.

For what it is worth,

Here is my 2 cents:

I have at least 12 of the Holy Ones on my I wish list, more if the different French TAPs are considered

So, In no particular order of preference:

Finn M05
Finn Digi Snow Pattern
San Marco Desert, 1st Pattern
Consubin Desert,Pink, or Ginestra
Italian Air Force Vegecam
Swiss TAZ90(?) Desert
Spanish M62 Fall Pattern
Viet Brushstroke
Any WWII German Pattern
Any WWII/Postwar Dennison
French TAP Lizard Patterns( emphasis on early mods.)
And last, but certainly not least, FUMACO

These pieces make me drool............rip...

My holy grail
A full set or Rhodesian brushstroke
oh at a price that I wouldnt have to sell the wife into white slavery

I like collecting items from Russia's "Survival Corps".  

Here's a vest I found in a powerpoint slide that was sent to me in 2010 (vest bordered in yellow).



Ostensibly powerpoint was for TV and Movie types who wanted military gear for props.  The owners of the gear were well supplied by the MVD and FSB and had some really wonderful stuff.

The vest in question is a very early version of an SRVV Chestrig sewn on request of Vympel starting in 1997.  The production versions used large fastex buckles on the chest, but the variant above has metal clasps.  Although the photo is pretty lousy quality, the rig was sewn in a fabric referred to as "Korean Woodland".  Thanks to some astute eyes over at Red-Alliance, it was confirmed that the pattern (and probably the fabric), are in fact from South Korea.

I'm interested in all things "Korean Woodland" that were sewn in Russia, so I would really love to have this rig.

The ones I own would be:
My blue Rhodesian SAS Stable belt
My Rhodesian Brush stroke Bush jacket
My Southern Cross Fund duck hunter camo toiletry bag
My unknown lizard camo cap with Rhodesian camo reinforcement on the front

What I don't own:
a set of Cuban Elm Leaf camo
SAP 1st pattern camo set
Chinese "swirl" camo
Russian Tigr Camo
Yugoslavian Mountain Rock camo
Tanzanian DPM camo
Recce Niemoller Webbing
Any camo Chicom chest rig
32 battalion DPM chest rig

cairyhunt wrote:yer, no sweat he's only a bloody marine  LOL  

yeh and not even a Royal one at that