Thanks Matt. Appreciate the compliment.

Super cool Ronnie.  As realistic as can be.  

Here are a couple of shots of my printed .45. The  first shot shows the dummy gun as it appeared straight out of the printer. The second shot shows it after I worked on it to give it a “real” look.

I'm not an expert on this kind of thing and I might be totally wrong in my thinking but something just bothers me about the uniform with the wing and collar device for Army Air Service.  Here's why.   Timeline: A Newspaper article from July 12, 1907 shows him to be a Private in Company B, Minnesota National Guard. His WWI Draft Registration of June 5, 1917 shows that he was a Private in the infantry A document regarding his commissioning as an officers is dated October 15, 1918.  At the that time he was a Corporal. A document (provided by Jumpship) dated November 30, 1918 shows him to be a 2nd Lt and Adjutant in the infantry.  An Adjutant being an Administrative Staff Officer. His Headstone Application shows he enlisted April 29, 1918 and his discharge date being December 4, 1918.   I found no evidence of oversea transport to Europe and yet in the photo of an officer by the plane it shows what I believe is an overseas stripe. His total service according to his enlistment and discharge dates is a little over 7 months.  From the time he enlisted to the time he was commissioned was a little over 5 months.  From the time of his commissioning until the time of the document Jumpship provided showing him as a 2nd Lt at Camp Funston, Kansas in the infantry was a little over a month and a half.  At what time would Leroy have learned to fly during the time he was commissioned and the time he shows to be a 2nd Lt in the infantry at Camp Funston, Kansas? I found no evidence of Leroy F Gerard being in the Army Air Service at all. As far as I know the photos shown don't specifically identify any of the men as being Leroy F Gerard.  They may've just been people he knew or perhaps a relative/s. The photo of the uniform with the label showing his name Leroy F Gerard I believe is legit and it has Camp Funston, Kansas also on the label which goes along with him being at Camp Funston, Kansas.   That said, I think the only things that don't make sense to me is the wing and Army Air Service collar device. All and all, it's still a really beautiful uniform a really nice wing and I look forward to someone coming up with with evidence of an Army Air Service connection for Leroy.  I just haven't found anything yet.           Page 6.pdf

There is a name on the vest though the picture got blurry when I downloaded it.

K-28 flight suite(s) bottom left? Some sort of body armor with Airborne velcro patch 

Storage Unit auction. 

I have a massive photo and document group from a Colonel who was on Attu from 43-45. There are many aerial photos of the bombing of Paramushiro and other islands. Likely some reference to the internees as well.    Scott

3/4 collar does not have plates, it has 12-ply ballistic nylon (soft fabric) panels, one across the back, and one on each half of the front that fold over the shoulder and meet behind the neck and cover the top of the back, with the collar attached to these two halves.    The problem was the armor would, like any fabric, basically wrinkle and "bunch up", pulling it away from the edges of the vest. The solution to this was to sew plastic strips to the nylon to limit it's flexibility, they were sewn on part way though the stack, if I remember correctly on layer number 5 but don't quote me on that. Here is a picture of a back panel ripped apart to show the stiffeners:   The 24 June 1970 revision of Technical Manual 10-8400-20123, General Repair Procedures for Clothing and Individual Equipment says that any vest without stiffeners should be automatically classified as "unserviceable condemned" meaning it cannot be repaired and should be disposed of. It gives no instructions for modifying armor to add stiffeners nor have I seen any indication elsewhere of any program to do so.  When this improvement was made the stock number was changed from 8470-823-737(0-3 depending on size) to 8470-122-1(299-302) so that the old vests with the fatal flaw could be identified and replaced with the new ones. There were a vast number of contracts awarded immediately after this change was implemented to create enough new vest to replace the old ones.   From November 1965 to April 1969 there were a total of 17 contracts awarded for the vests without stiffeners; one, DSA 100-68-C-2375, was still in production when the change went into effect in April 1969 and it switched over to making those with stiffeners. 6 contracts were awarded in April 1969 for vests with stiffeners and 1 additional one in May.    There were only 3 further contracts, now updated to M-69s, 2 in June 1970 and one final one in May 1974 (as well as 3 contracts for special smaller sized ones for the South Vietnamese and one tan one for Saudis). Notably the was no change in the stock numbers between the updated 3/4 collar with stiffeners and the M-69, this is reflective of the fact that despite the change in name the M-69 with it's velcro opening and pockets and smaller grenade hanging loops was only a minor improvement and could be used interchangeably with the earlier 3/4 w/ stiffeners until those were phased out through attrition.       

Wanted max storage if needed. My ex-wife sewed it, lol!