Picture of the day

[plinker 777]

What!?^ More please Tony. Are you saying the Zigzag cigarette paper logo is actually modeled after an individual...Why? How? 1970's tattooed guys what to know.

 

[trebor2880]

What!?^ More please Tony. Are you saying the Zigzag cigarette paper logo is actually modeled after an individual...Why? How? 1970's tattooed guys what to know.

Or maybe Zig Zag is his code name.

 

[fat tony]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman

 

[Gibbs505]

I remeber watching his film "Triple Cross" (1966 film)

 

[tokguy]

What!?^ More please Tony. Are you saying the Zigzag cigarette paper logo is actually modeled after an individual...Why? How? 1970's tattooed guys what to know.

The Zigzag guy is modeled after a Zouave soldier who's pipe was destroyed in the battle of Sevastopol , he tore some paper off of his gunpowder packet and spun one up.

 

[MarkCNP]

I always wondered where he got the ideas for his vehicles.

Do you have any samples of that art for this picture thread?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Eddie Chapman had quite the life. Douchebag? Hero? Both? Life can be complex.

Speaking of Englishmen in German employ...

 

[fat tony]

Collaborators!

 

[grelmar]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman

Heh. I'd call Eddie a loyalist. He appears to have always been 100% loyal to himself.

 

[Ganderite]

I give up. What is that?

 

[diopter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheintochter

 

[fat tony]

Heh. I'd call Eddie a loyalist. He appears to have always been 100% loyal to himself.

Well that is half the battle isn't it?

 

[Cottage Hill Bill]

Back to puttees, the main reason for the difference in direction, infantry start at ankle and tie at knee, cavalry (and mounted artillery) started at knee and tied at ankle, is because if you are riding a horse and tie the puttee at the knee the action of your knee against the saddle quickly unties it. If tied at the ankle the tie is safely out of the way.

 

[Sharps '63]

.... or likely due to the 'shingling' of the wrap from top to bottom. There would be less rucking action wrapped that way.

Wrap tape around the handle of a shovel the wrong way to get the point.

 

[plinker 777]

The Zigzag guy is modeled after a Zouave soldier who's pipe was destroyed in the battle of Sevastopol , he tore some paper off of his gunpowder packet and spun one up.

Ha! Thanks. And thanks to Tony as well.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Nice view, but lonesome and cold...

 

[vandoo66]

Nice view, but lonesome and cold...

Still beats belly turret as far as I'm concerned

 

[MarkCNP]

Nice view, but lonesome and cold...

No worse than Edmonton, haha

 

[Sharps '63]

Nice view, but lonesome and cold...

Whaddya mean? He'd have all kinds of "company" from the Luftwaffe.

 

[plinker 777]

Wrong sorts of "friends", but he came ready to host the party!