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Offline vito321

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clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« on: Monday 14 January 08 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Would someone give this a clean up and colour it is an irish national uniform 1922 ish i think.
any comments welcome
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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #1 on: Monday 14 January 08 21:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi Vito321

Heres my effort at colouring you photo
Not sure if the colours are right ??? ??? ???

Hope you find it o.k


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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 02:14 GMT (UK) »
A clean up from me

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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 05:01 GMT (UK) »
They were called the "Irish Defence Forces" ( Óglaigh na hÉireann) from 1922 and
the uniforms were supplied by the british army so I'm guessing Kahki uniform!

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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 05:06 GMT (UK) »
Additional!!

I think later uniforms may have been a dark green??.

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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 05:20 GMT (UK) »
Wow, Mike...very nice...impressive use of character map as well ;D

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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 08:28 GMT (UK) »
Wiki has a picture of the  cap badge and cap material just showing, I think your colours are pretty close 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%93glaigh_na_h%C3%89ireann

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Re: clean up and colour of this irish national army uniform please
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 15 January 08 12:26 GMT (UK) »
Thanks to all restores and colours are fantatstic cant wait to let my da see them.

vito

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