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paul wrote:-
Indiana Tree
Sorry Dave, you'll always be this now in my eyes.
I can't believe I missed this threadBabyjelly wrote:Please excuse the slightly contentious title, it's intended to provoke interest more than anything else.
I loved the article by Dave Tree - exceptionally well put together and researched. However, I'm not sure that F-Force was the name, and here's why (the argument depends on there being no other facts than the ones from the article). Oh and I am in no way challenging Dave's research etc - this is just friendly debate around a point of interest!
My hypothesis is that the force is 'Special Weapons Force'
The case for Special Weapons force...
1. The prototypes are said to have been labelled 'Special Weapons F' - my hypothesis is that the F stands for Force, ie it's a truncated way of writing 'Special Weapons Force'
2. The other single initial forces have logos designed around the initial - Z and Q - and this is true of SAS as well (though three letters and also the dagger is included). The Red Shadows and Space Force, both of whom have names that aren't acronyms of single letters, are represented by symbols, not stylised letters. On the basis of this trend, the logo of a hypothetical F-Force would be based on an F, not a rocket. This would lend itself to the theory again that the name of the force was Special Weapons force, with a rocket as a logo, rather than F Force that should have a F as a logo.
3. From the article, the only reference to F is that single letter after Special Weapons F. If F is the Force designation (I don't think it was though, but I'll go along with it for the example) then Special Weapons was part of it too - it appears on all 4 bagged prototypes. So that would make it 'Special Weapons F Force' and that is understandably too complicated.
There could be other evidenced not yet presented that makes the designation F Force more likely, but if the evidence is based on the writing on the bagged prototypes alone, then I'm 100% sure this unit's intended name is Special Weapons Force, shortened to Special Weapons F on the bag...
That is soooooooooo cool Andy, can I use that as my avatar please?Andy1672 wrote:Thundershot wrote:I wonder what ol' Indiana Tree will uncover next..?
Dave there may be something good in that box on the right ?
So 6 baggies but 2 of the same figure .......Dave Tree wrote:whoops, should have clarified that, 5, but there was a second Fixer. You can see that in one of the pics.
Dave.
