"My Navy Seal Team" Topic

This is the start of a 6 man Navy Seal Team. Figures by Empress sculpted by PaUL Hicks.

He is wearing a Levis jeans as many of the Seals in Vietnam did.

Nice work.

501s rolled up, the turn ups are light grey, with a dark blue hem. It is not a good look however. He really should have those awful fake flares we wore, with a V of fabric inserted between the seams, because we could not get the real thing at first in the UK. The insert never worked as it always just stuck out laterally instead of flaring fore and aft.

Seriously though, great idea, yet again, for something different.

Very nice. My uncle was a SEAL in Vietnam. He used to just say he was "in the Navy" but even at 10 years old I could tell this guy was not someone you messed with.

When I was a kid in Boston in the 1960s, we called them "dungarees," and they were only worn when working aboard a ship (which my father did -- both work aboard ships and wear dungarees when he did).

By my college years in the late 1970s, jeans had become pretty commonplace, but designer jeans hadn't been invented. We usually had 3 pairs of 501s at any given time: The very old pair that was all frayed and beaten-up and about to be turned into cut-offs; the brand new pair that was still being broken in; and the one that had been around for a couple of years and was supercomfortable and got the most use.

Eventually, the old one would become cut-offs, the middle one would by then be old, and the new one would have been broken in, and it would be time to consider buying a new pair to start breaking in.

I can see why the SEALS wore them for jungle work: same reason the 49ers wore them for gold mining.

Nice job on the miniature. I concur with making the rolled-up cuffs light gray. That's how I remember them.

Nice job Tr.