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by Quickfire
14 May 2017 22:21
Forum: Chat
Topic: Standby, Standby
Replies: 32
Views: 6679

Re: Standby, Standby

Part 4:

:stake: The rollerball had started.
:attack: Got to follow it down, down into the cellar.
:sparrow: Stun grenade out
:eagle2: No sledge, no shotgun, gotta drill the locks.



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by Quickfire
14 May 2017 22:17
Forum: Chat
Topic: Standby, Standby
Replies: 32
Views: 6679

Re: Standby, Standby

Part 3: Steve Scott regales us again.

Notable here you hear the jumbos coming in much lower than usual on Heathrow approach - all part of the plan to distract the hostage takers and cover a variety of other noises from intel gathering (a British Gas team doesn't feature but they had the same MO ...
by Quickfire
14 May 2017 22:03
Forum: Chat
Topic: Standby, Standby
Replies: 32
Views: 6679

Re: Standby, Standby

Part 2: Story tells itself as protests occur and initial recces and intel gathering occur. Possibly some of the original police material shown.

Can't remember if the discussions between negotiator and Salim are original but, if not, very close imitation. Will return to that in part 4.

Also the ...
by Quickfire
14 May 2017 21:56
Forum: Chat
Topic: Standby, Standby
Replies: 32
Views: 6679

Re: Standby, Standby

Dunno precisely what Steve Scott was doing after losing his job on digital F1 in 2002 (Channel 5?), but he proceeds to present the original version of the Carlton 1996 adaptation of the Iranian Embassy siege.

Initial narration by Soldier I, the original UKSF chronicler c. 1989 who, after being (the ...
by Quickfire
14 May 2017 21:44
Forum: Chat
Topic: Standby, Standby
Replies: 32
Views: 6679

Standby, Standby

Read about this movie wrapping up several years ago in Der Stürmer and, although perhaps a mildly interesting coda to the fetishisation of UK SF in the land of offshore casinos, royals, bad tatts and alcopops, assumed it had been junked due to the proliferation of imitations. Was perhaps wrong about ...
by Quickfire
14 May 2017 21:23
Forum: Chat
Topic: Pebble Island
Replies: 7
Views: 480

Pebble Island

35th anniversary tonight.

http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Pebble_Island_Mentors-and-Pucaras_.jpg

http://images2.persianblog.ir/1632_psRATQKq.jpg

Not posting the long lost reenactment by G Squadron for Frederick Forsyth and the Bee Bee Cee in 1984 or 1985 for the ...
by Quickfire
17 Apr 2017 15:02
Forum: Action Force [Palitoy]
Topic: For reference, MISB Picture box laser exterminator unboxing
Replies: 5
Views: 5134

Re: For reference, MISB Picture box laser exterminator unboxing

Very interesting indeed.

Quite the :laser: shortage .... wonder if connected to the nefarious plans for 1985.

At least we now we know where all the non-doofus :shadow: went ... into boxed Shadowtraks and Exterminators. :shock: :roll:

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by Quickfire
17 Apr 2017 14:55
Forum: Action Force [Palitoy]
Topic: For reference, MISB Picture box z force jeep unboxing
Replies: 10
Views: 13196

Re: For reference, MISB Picture box z force jeep unboxing

Thanks for sharing, interesting to know the wheels were coming off the well-oiled Palitoy machine some time before the Jan 1985 apocalypse...
paul463 wrote:Amendment to the collectors guide required.......
... TOO SOON!

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by Quickfire
17 Apr 2017 14:51
Forum: Action Force [Palitoy]
Topic: For reference, MISB picture box shadowtrak unboxing
Replies: 7
Views: 6008

Re: For reference, MISB picture box shadowtrak unboxing

At least the box photo is consistent with the contents: :shadow: rather than :vulture:

Everyday was Friday afternoon once the design team was out ... ???

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by Quickfire
27 Mar 2017 21:58
Forum: Chat
Topic: St. Nazaire
Replies: 2
Views: 199

St. Nazaire

About 75 years and 58 minutes ago tonight the raiding party formed up offshore over 60 nautical miles from St. Nazaire and began their approach to the Loire estuary and their target: the Normandie dry dock.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Bundesarchiv_Bild_101II-MW-3722-22%2C ...

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