Eastman pop-up score

[John Lever]

Is there a difference?

 

[John Lever]

Totally agree and I’m surprised BR sit still for this. Surely it can’t have escaped their notice that the RMJ shop in Covent Garden does rather well, regardless of the popular view of this forum that they’re overpriced. Toyo the parent company of BR, has other vintage repro brands such as Star of Hollywood, Style Eyes, Lone Wolf, Sugar Cane and more and the EU distributor should do a lot more on all these too, imho. Sure I get all the reasons ELC might not want to do it, but that’s not reason enough, imho.

Surely ELC is the group distributor ?

 

[s4rmark]

Roughwear 27752 is About £100 cheaper on HPA site .

 

[ausreenactor]

HPA is generally cheaper for BR N-1s, Tankers and Deck jackets.

 

[John Lever]

Could it be VAT ?

 

[ausreenactor]

Could it be VAT ?

Fair call. Not sure.

 

[A2 B3au]

I’m popping in to get an air comfort but will be trying a 50cal B3 to see if I can get away with a 38 and I wanna get my hands on a hilts up close to see if it’s overdone in person and maybe have the discussion to not over do mine. I admit some of you guys dedication flying over to check it out

 

[Serghei87]

I’m popping in to get an air comfort but will be trying a 50cal B3 to see if I can get away with a 38 and I wanna get my hands on a hilts up close to see if it’s overdone in person and maybe have the discussion to not over do mine. I admit some of you guys dedication flying over to check it out

Living in Luxembourg, i do not have chance to check personally their jackets. Plus the ryanair tickets are so cheap now from here to London, it is the perfect timing. Also taking the girlfriend on her first London trip so i am scoring some extra points with her too )))

 

[A2 B3au]

I started with Avirex and one or two Coopers before I started the buy three, sell two thing in 2008. I am at the point where I could sell a few and grab another ELC, or put some of my ill gotten war profits into one. I would rather fly to the UK and visit and bring two jackets back in my luggage. The duties would pay for one leg of the journey. But then there would be pubs, museums, probably a VLJ catch up or three and the wife would probably want to come.

Probably better just paying the duties..

I’m a fan of the packaging when they use cardboard boxes and similar but the crappy plastic shirt bags go directly in the bin

 

[gav]

We originally visited the pop up shop to try on a D-1 which I may have been tempted , Unfortunately none in my size .

I think mine was possibly the only one there. I could be wrong. the D-1 seems to be not a regular production model.

 

[Saint-ex]

Also taking the girlfriend on her first London trip so i am scoring some extra points with her too )))

And of course, it's this point that has been presented as the justification of the trip and totally by chance, you will fall on the pop up store ...

 

[Serghei87]

And of course, it's this point that has been presented as the justification of the trip and totally by chance, you will fall on the pop up store ...

Ha ha exactly!

 

[s4rmark]

They had 3 or 4 D-1’s on the rack but all in larger sizes.

 

[John Lever]

Gav,
Please can you post more pics of your D1 ?

 

[ausreenactor]

It must be pretty substantial, size wise? I know they shoot out an email. How long does it stay open for?

 

[gav]

Gav,
Please can you post more pics of your D1 ?

Will try to get some tomorrow. Have not been able to do so over the weekend unfortunately.
Anything in particular you want to see?

 

[ausreenactor]

Oooh RW B-6!

 

[John Lever]

Will try to get some tomorrow. Have not been able to do so over the weekend unfortunately.
Anything in particular you want to see?

The fleece please

 

[Brettafett]

Popped into the pop-up on Sun. They guys are brilliant, really are.
Great jacket selection, however what I was hoping to try on was not available. Probably a good thing.
As it was, an Elite 23FG RW1401 fit really well and looked so cool, I almost dropped a hefty sum and walked out with it. Thank goodness my girlfriend was along for the adventure and level heads prevailed (for now)!
That said, she almost walked out with a Buzz MA-1 and a B-15 lol And was hampering after a girls A-2, even told Gary so haha
I ended up buying the new Eastman catalogue, which I had erroneously thought was a brochure. It is in fact a fantastic little book, with some great WW2 pics and some interesting bits. Well worth the £15

 

[ausreenactor]

I ended up buying the new Eastman catalogue, which I had erroneously thought was a brochure. It is in fact a fantastic little book, with some great WW2 pics and some interesting bits. Well worth the £15

Agree 100%. A great read in its own right.