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post your mkVII's here!
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:50 pm
by Indiana Cromeens
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:00 pm
by Indiana Williams
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:16 pm
by IndianaRedmon
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:14 pm
by HigHurtenflurst
Here's my Todd's Costume's bag, (New "authentic" strap from Todd's shortly to arrive!) lovingly distressed with bleach and a great big hammer:
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:39 pm
by Indiana Cromeens
I like the color you got on yours indiana redmon, yours too mr. hurtenflurst
Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:47 pm
by IndianaRedmon
Thanks, the mark VII is a 1942 Whiteley's I got from SOF a few months back when they were selling some extremely dirty used bags. (It's got the black line) What you see is the results after two machine washings. It held up fine and travels with me everywhere now.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:57 am
by Don't Call Me Junior
HigHurtenflurst-
I must say you did an AWESOME job distressing that bag. It looks more beat up than my original MkVII!
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:56 am
by Texas Raider
I'd have to agree on that one! I thought it was an original!
Good show!
have a nice day!
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:06 am
by ob1al
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:13 am
by Erri
very nice leather strap ob1
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:26 am
by Scandinavia Jones
Swindy should post a 13Gb thumbnail gallery of his bag collection soon... (checks watch)
While we wait for the King of Mk VII to show us his stuff, here are my modest contributions:
Mk VI
Mk VII
WPG and MK VI
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 7:21 am
by Texas Raider
Scandy, where'd ya get that peppered canvas MKVI? I used to have one like that, I sold it on ebay a long time ago.
have a nice day.
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:22 am
by Ken
Ken
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:22 am
by Floribama Steve
Here's mine. It's an authentic bag from WPG with a deluxe strap from Todd's Costumes.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b31/m ... G_1335.jpg
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:23 pm
by Scandinavia Jones
Texas Raider wrote:Scandy, where'd ya get that peppered canvas MKVI? I used to have one like that, I sold it on ebay a long time ago.
I bought it last year on eBay, from a UK seller, IIRC.
Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:54 am
by Erri
My W&G MKVI now in bastoon's hands
My first MKVII (sold aswell)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y157/e ... ashed1.jpg
Curiously i don't have pics of my actual MKVII... mmh i should take some
Posted: Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:01 pm
by Swindiana
Scandinavia Jones wrote:Swindy should post a 13Gb thumbnail gallery of his bag collection soon... (checks watch)
They aren't that many, really. Though there are rumors of my gruesome near-death event under a pile of certain bag receipts...
Anyhow, here they are;
2 G. & S. Ltd. bags, one of them mint (the star of the pocket making tutorial) and the other one the first genuine Mk VII of mine... with a stripe on it.
LINK 1
LINK 2
*Edit - URL probably too long to make an image, links posted instead.
2 and 3 are Canadian bags, number 1 is the striped one mentioned earlier. (A friend of mine is now holding on to number 3.)
The final one is an R.M.A. 1942 bag with now fixed holes in the front. (Very thin fabric and the "floppiest" I've handled yet.)
A redyed WPG replica with snaps replaced, now in the hands of another friend of mine;
I also own a Mk VI with a busted, but fixed in a modern way, snap.
So.. That's 4 Mk VII bags that I currently have. Still looking for a mint one with Newey snaps, the desert version, an Australian one, and Indian one and... See, there's no end to it. I just haven't gotten around to it lately.
Regards,
Swindiana (Cheers to SJ for the nice comment)
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 11:32 am
by Indiana Cromeens
i hearby declare swindiana the master of the mk VII. right on man!
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:41 pm
by Lukmas
You call those distressed, you have not seen anything yet! I got my bag given to me and i love how it looks like it has been on many adventures!
Ill post a close up soon! (Camera currently busted!)
Regards
Luke
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:50 pm
by Scandinavia Jones
Hey, Lukmas' last pic reminded me of my striped MkVII I got from SoF! I don't even know where it is right now... in order to get rid of that cursed stripe, did some heinous experiments involving a lot of chemicals... stripe disappeared and re-emerged in a mysterious, almost magical way.
Anyway, seeing that pic brought it all back... that old bag of mine looks just as cruddy - sorry,
distressed - as Luke's prime specimen!
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:15 am
by Swindiana
Indiana Cromeens wrote:i hearby declare swindiana the master of the mk VII. right on man!
Thanks buddy!
Regards,
Swindiana
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:30 am
by FloatinJoe
ob1al,
That is a nice strap. Where did you get it?
Mike
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:13 pm
by Prof. Ed
I have an original Mark vll from 1942. It say RMA inside. I purchased mine in
1971. I don't have the heart to remove the original canvas strap.
I purchased one from WPG and the leather strap smelled so bad, I had to immerse it in a bath of odor remover for 24 hours. It still smelled after all this.
It has been a year now and the strap has finally lost the horrorific odor. How do you rationalize removing the strap off a prized bag? I've had mine for over 30 years.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:29 pm
by Michaelson
You don't. You either retire it up or display it with your collection, then order a reproduction What Price Glory bag with leather strap and wear IT instead.
Regards! Michaelson
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:33 pm
by IllinoisJones
Prof. Ed wrote:I have an original Mark vll from 1942. It say RMA inside. I purchases mine in 1971. I don't have the heart to remove the original canvas strap.
I purchased one from WPG and the leather strap smelled so bad, I had to immerse it in a bath of odor remover for 24 hours. It still smelled after all this.
It has been a year now and the strap has finally lost the horrorific odor. How do you rationalize removing the strap off a prized bag? I've had mine for over 30 years.
I can say I had this exact problem, and I sovled it by unstitching the strap so as not to destroy it. It made me feel better about doing th job. Illinois
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 2:50 pm
by elodiejones
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:33 pm
by Pandora
here is mine, it's a WPG-bag (replica), distressed with a TAG-strap. The snap fasteners have been changed (from those with patterns on to plain ones):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/ ... 0_1125.jpg
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/ ... 0_1124.jpg
The cat is Aimee - she's no Indy-fan...
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:43 pm
by Swindiana
I really like the distressing on that one, very natural. And it looks a whole lot better with the other snaps aswell I think.
Regards,
Swindiana
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 3:57 pm
by Gater
Bufflehead needs to post pics of his distressed WPG bag, it's quite impressive
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 4:36 pm
by Pandora
thx swindi, I used DanClorix (liquid bleech), abrasive and a wire brush.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2005 5:20 pm
by Prof. Ed
I thought about doing this. You may have given me the inspiration that I needed to defile this thing!:)
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:56 pm
by Zendragon
An old photo of mine, the strap is much darker now and the buckle is much close to the original
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 11:50 am
by Kt Templar
Here you go, click fot the big pics!
My Mkvii with a mahogany Lost Ark strap
My Wpg with a dark tan Lost Ark strap
And the 2 Lost Arks with the original WPG strap.
"Strappy does as Strappy-doo's"
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:00 pm
by elodiejones
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2005 2:19 pm
by Prof. Ed
Sorry, I can't get the link to work.
Ok, now they are working.
Very nice work.
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:18 am
by Pitfall Harry
Does anyone know how much the Mk.VII bags weigh? I odered one and I wanted to know how much it was going to cost me in shipping.
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:30 am
by Kt Templar
550-600 grams / 1.3lb or so.
I've just posted one! It's not some weird obsession "How much does your gear weigh!" sort of thing!
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:48 pm
by Swindiana
Now THAT was something I didn't know!
*Adds to list in mind*
Regards,
Swindiana
