Just so everyone knows shit is happening (and for my own aid-memoire) I am listing what is complete and packed to go - list will be added to as days count down.
Four A2 B&W site aerial photos for commander/nco briefings
Three framed canvas paintings (plus rolled 'real' Fallen Madonna - don't bother explaining it to Guy!)
Ten German armbands, velcro adjustable
Eighteeen A2 period posters to be pasted/pinned around site
Battle FX & German Radio transmission CDs
Two each of two large town signs - Oosterbeek & Arnhem
Four direction signs to bridge (two pointing one way, two the other)
Two Ferry signs
Two bank signs
Fishmonger sign
DRW ID cards, individually named with photos where supplied (civilians will need to remember not just their names but also date and place of birth LOL)
Four German first aid post signs
Direction finger signs for Arnhem, Oosterbeek (2), Nijmegan
Four British first aid post signs
Four street name signs: Markstraat, Westervoortsedjik, Grote Markt, Nijmeegseweg
Chemist, mechanic, butcher, miller signs
Rail Station sign x 2
Hospital sign x 2
Hotel Hartenstein sign x 2
Photo studio, Doctor, Florist signs
German Headquarters sign
SS FeldGendarmerie sign x 2
Friggin stripey sign posts finished
Panzerlied crib sheets done
Also packed and ready to go:
Staple gun & staples
Hammer & lump hammer
Masonry nails
String
Gaffa tape
Wallpaper paste & brush
Step ladder
Three german flags, one british
Pyros from last game
sounds great! 
Job not done:
wired up CD player with croc clip fly leads, tested with only 12v source I had, a car battery charger. POP. Shit. Tested charger - giving out 20v!!! Knackered CD player. 
Old and unused so doesn't matter except that I don't have one to bring...
do'h!
Oh well... I considered going and getting yet another one from argos later in the week anyway.
I've got 50 ingots done , just need marking up as German
Mortars ready to go
A chalkboard available for either side
Box bult for car stereo ghetto blaster, more work required
No progress on Orange armbands yet .
cool...
Orange armbands have to take priority now...
If possible they need to say "Oranje" on them... and use velcro for fastening.
Right im pretty sure i've done all the bits i needed to do.
Do you guys want me to write the two AXIS ground briefs or are you going to wing it.
Allied PM brief will be a verbal one as obvioulsy there wouldn t have been written orders for being serioulsy fucked over
It's be a quick mitivational we have to hold the key buildings of XY&Z until 30 corp arrive, at 3.00 I will tell NCOs the situation is hopeless and orgnaise a hasty evacuation plan to be carried out at 3.30 and no sooner.
Anything else i have to have got done before the game?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Well if you could write it Gadge please...
No worries i intended too but had second thughts as i thought you might have your own ideas.
Will saort it later tonight or tomorrow
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
We need all the briefs organised so they can be be printed out in the correct quantities... etc.
Yith, you were at PU on Sunday - had the broken glass been removed from the Medi block?
Ghetto blaster now working A1 .
Still orange armabands and now some flares to source.
Pyros maps and orders - how we getting on ?
Pyros have been ordered and will be there for us on Sunday.
I don't want to be handing orders on bits of paper to Axis - read out to troops/NCO's when appropriate. If they need it written down then it's too long/complicated!
Yith, you were at PU on Sunday - had the broken glass been removed from the Medi block?
No.
Geoff said it'd be done this week... lol
As for orders... true... but at the moment they're all just lying randomly around the forums along with the rules... we need to coalesce them into a single area to make sure we have everything printed out for the day!
Understood.
Pyros have been ordered and will be there for us on Sunday.
I don't want to be handing orders on bits of paper to Axis - read out to troops/NCO's when appropriate. If they need it written down then it's too long/complicated!
No , agreed not handing out, just read out a la Bulge. We'll have the chalkboards ot use as well , either for map drawing or standing orders .
What time are you getting on site for Stbf ?
I'll try and hit 7.30.
Just done a stack of printed slips with Panzerlied verse in phonetics - no one will have an excuse NOT to join in (even me 
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Sorry mate , I meant on Saturday ?
Looking forward to the Panzerleid .
on sat or sun?
Beg your pudding.
Should be leaving Coventry around 1.30pm, drop family off in Derby, pick up kit so let's say on site 3.30 - 4.00, earlier if I can. James will be with me so an extra pair of hands.
