Marines!

Back from FACTS and i think it was fantastic!

Finally, i met some guys from here! (Mantroon, Broskopf, and much more!!)

got cool pictures (with Lance Henriksen,the UK Marines etc...)
managed to finish our "special costume" the new Colonial Marine AT-5 Mobile Battle Suit (a conversion of the ABC Robot from Judge Dredd)
to party on saturday evening in hotel IBIS with the most colonial marines
and so on...

I´m looking forward to see photos soon!

actually we are collecting photos from our photographers and then put the best pics on our website

Thanks to broskopf for his organization and all the others for beeing there!

Hope to see you soon again!

ABC War bot crossed with USCM armour you say???...

PICTURES... I WANT PICTURES DAMNIT!!

Hello all.

Just arrived back myself. I am EXTREMELY tired, so don't expect a report just yet.

Nice to meet all the other marines at the event. It was indeed a very good event.

I will post more when I finally get some sleep.


UKCM @ www.colonialmarines.co.uk
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A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally I'd mud wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock, and a sack of French porn.

I'll just put the link here again.

Belgian Costume Division: FACTS 2006 gallery

A few teasers perhaps?

Pug50 stalking children
*TAP* You're it!
[img]http://www.troopers.be/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_14102006_15.jpg[/img]

Mantroon and Pug50
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My "Aliens"-wall. This is about half of a project I'm working on.
[img]http://www.troopers.be/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_15102006_01.jpg[/img]

This is me, dressed as Neo from the lobby-scene.
[img]http://www.troopers.be/gallery/albums/userpics/15102006_23.jpg[/img]

Those of you who remember that I posted about the short film we're making: we set up an entire scene, with jeep, to commercialise the film. Everything shown at the stand was used in the film, including the costumes worn by these two soldiers.
[img]http://www.troopers.be/gallery/albums/userpics/normal_15102006_24.jpg[/img]

Keep checking the gallery, because more will be added later!

hello this is thibaut from france i have seen you at facts and just want to know where i can find an armor and a pulse rifle not to expensive

thanks for your help

Here are my pix from FACTS.

The UKCM presenting Lance with his badges; Some of us with Michael Ironside and John Terry (LOST & Hawk the Slayer); a few punters; with Ze Germans; Pug50 and I as Aliens (my first time out in that bloody suit) and my personal favourite, a photo with Helga & Grueber from Allo Allo.

I'll let somebody else post the pix of the journey home.

Had a great weekend, thanks to Geordie for driving, and to all the other lads for some memorable antics!

Thanks to the German Marines and German Garrison for a good nights drinking at the hotel – bring some of that Honey Mead to England next year!

Looking forward to another outing sometime.

UKCM RULES!
Andrew






























Edited by: [url=http://p220.ezboard.com/bthealienslegacy.showUserPublicProfile?gid=andrewdavidclark>Andrew David Clark[/url]  at: 10/17/06 3:25 pm

Yeah, UKCM rocks!

We all had the greatest time. Excellent event and great "socials". I think Andrew and I got even more attention than we expected to! We were complete xeno-tarts! The marines were looking pretty sharp too.

And Alien escaped on the ferry home!!! Pics to follow soon...

Gareth

Oh nothing like a Xeno-tart my friend! OH er...


EVERYONE looks amazing! Weldone guys! UKCM - The Best!

Excellent Pictures too!

BuGz:lol:
IN SPACE NO-ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM...

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I can explain that, giving a little background info first:

FACTS is thé convention around these parts, known pretty well across Belgium's border. But up to last year, cosplaying revolved around two themes mostly: Star Wars and anime/manga. Ever since last year, me and my fellows from the Belgian Costume Division have been trying to bring more movies, tv-series, comics and games onto the scene. At first SW dominated everything (pretty much thanks to ourselves, because we initially started out as the Belgian 501st Garrison, which now has become a sub-part of the larger BCD). Some of our members did make costumes that weren't SW, but the balance was something of 1 non-sw versus 10 SW costumes.
Last year however, we started having more and more members interested in non-SW and brought several new things to FACTS, such as Hellboy, 5 Ghostbusters and my Colonial Marine.

The response was immense.
Obviously, people grew too acquainted with SW-costumes and were happy to see some new stuff. This year, we drew the line further.

Everything we presented @ FACTS was new, with only Jabba and the R2-builders, being the Star Wars items. Our fellow 501st Garrisons brought the SW costumes.

FACTS had never before seen an Alien warrior costume, nor a gang of marines. With the UK and Germans spanning together, the audience had 10-15 marines at once, plus two bugs. No wonder you got a lot of attention, eh?
That way, I was pretty comfortable leaving all my alien stuff on display at the stand. You guys provided all the alien-costuming the visitors needed.

Thanks guys.

Had a fantastic few days of Anglo/European public relations with great travel companions.The id cards that were made for us were fantastic.The social with ze germans on sat night was great.We were given a few goodies by the german garrison who were a great bunch.Really wish id taken some UKG goodies with me,still i know for next time.Our costumes were very well recieved,though the bugs totally stole the show IMHO.Was geat to be in a complete costume this time the breast plate and headset made a huge diference(certainly to me anyway).The ferry trip home was one of the funniest most bizarre things ive been part of,but ill let the pics/vids that should surface soon explain.Plenty of cool pics/vids were taken.We got pics with most of the guest signings.Lances presentation was great and i think he was genuinly blown away.Congrats to ADC for breaking his costuming cherry you certainly appeared to be enjoying every minute,and Pug50 i bow down in the presence of the biggest camera whore ive met,and trust me ive met plenty,dude we really need to give you some kind of award.Big thanks to Geordie for all that driving,though it probably would've been easier had i not left my phone(it has euro tom tom on it)on my car seat.I think i might have been a little excited as i nearly left my boot and drivers door wide open as well.Hope to go back next year providing it doesnt clash with the NSC event.The UKCM most certainly do rock.LETS GET IT ON
Andy Gardener - TK2173

"The UK Garrisson,the very best there is.When you absolutely ,positvely,have to impress every mutha in the vicinity,accept no substitutes."

Could it not just be because Aliens are the coolest creatures in the known universe?

Here is the (beta version) UKCM Gallery of the event:

UKCM Gallery (v0.2)

It will expand as we add all our photos to it.

GarethEdited by: [url=http://p220.ezboard.com/bthealienslegacy.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pug50>Pug50[/url] at: 10/17/06 5:02 pm

Awesome pics guys.... looks like you had a freakin' good time! Hoo-rah!
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OT: Andy, I'm guessing you're the smartgunner I talked to and whom I introduced to our 501stBG CO. Get in touch about Celebration Europe plz.

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The only way to travel!

More photos HERE in "Pug50's FACTS Photos"

GarethEdited by: [url=http://p220.ezboard.com/bthealienslegacy.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pug50>Pug50[/url] at: 10/18/06 1:17 am

Fantastic photos. You guys were right, I do regret not being able to go.
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I´m trying to put one some pics too...

Does nobody have pictures of our USCM - AT5 ABS (Armored Battle Suit)?

tonight i am meeting chris, our "ABS-Driver" he must have some pics...

Was a real great time! hope to see you soon!

Pyro
Edited by: [url=http://p220.ezboard.com/bthealienslegacy.showUserPublicProfile?gid=pyro77>Pyro 77[/url]  at: 10/18/06 3:19 am

I only saw two pictures of your AT-5 so far, made by a visitor and of poor quality. So, they won't help much. But I'll ask around. The AT-5 parked in front of our stand a while, so someone is bound to have pictures. Maybe the R2-builders took some.

A photo album from one of the R2 builders.... slave Leia is in the odd one or two. Theres also a large "robot suit" photographed a few times...is this it?

www.xenoweb.nl/facts.htm

TTFN

Jon.

Damn I missed that second slave Leia
UKCM @ www.colonialmarines.co.uk
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www.exewing.co.uk/

A man may fight for many things: his country, his principles, his friends, the glistening tear on the cheek of a golden child. But personally I'd mud wrestle my own mother for a ton of cash, an amusing clock, and a sack of French porn.

Nice pics guys... I see you travel overseas and still manage to be tarts (media / camera / pretty young blonde things / slave Leia)

Does anybody have dates for next year, so we make sure it doesn't clash.

Just doing my bit for Anglo/European relations.It's a dirty job but someone has to do it......
Andy Gardener - TK2173

"The UK Garrisson,the very best there is.When you absolutely ,positvely,have to impress every mutha in the vicinity,accept no substitutes."

Yes, the big robot suit shown in the R2-builders' gallery is indeed the AT-5 suit from our German marines. I knew some R2-builder had to have some pictures.

The second slave Leia was there during the final minutes of FACTS, just to have her picture taken with Jabba. She's from the Netherlands, while the first one came with the R2-builders (I think) and was there in costume the entire Saturday.

ADC's other photos have been added to the UKCM Gallery now.

Gareth

Movie showing the AT-5

AT-5 passes BCD stand

Who are these sexy guys?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSfI-_ENMjk

Gareth