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There's a reason for the madness of creating a thread for a figure that's generally sold out. :wink1:

Ujindou's official name for UD9003 is 'World War II 1942 Lieutenant Colonel Blair Mayne' - but wasn't promoted to that rank until January 1944.


UD90003 British SAS Lieutenant Colonel Blair “Paddy” Mayne (1942)

Head Sculpture “Blair”
BB2-Body w/Feet

1 x Arab Style Headdress And Head Scarf
1 x Crusher Cap, Shape Adjustable
1 x Genuine Leather Jerkin Leather Vest
1 x Genuine Leather Flare Pistol Holster
1 x White Sweater
1 x Red Scarf
1 x Commando Dagger Sheath
1 x Aertex Tropical Desert Shirt
1 x British Army Drill Trousers
1 x 1937 Webbing Belt
1 x Desert Ankle Boots
1 x Sub Machine Gun Sling
1 x Pistol Ammo Pouch
1 x Military Service Ribbons
1 x SAS Shoulder Titles
1 x Rank Insignia
1 x SAS Parachute Wings
1 x 1928 Thompson 1928 Sub Machine Gun Made With Wood & Metal
1 x Webley & Scott MK5 Flare Gun Pistol w/Pistol Lanyard
1 x Commando Dagger
1 x British Dust Goggles
1 x Kershaw Binoculars
1 x British Army 1 Pint Tin Mug
1 x Monkey
1 x Pipe


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In hand photos by Remington 300 on the BBICN forum:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddy...obert Blair "Paddy,Special Air Service (SAS).
http://www.irishmasonichistory.com/lt-col-robert-blair-paddy-mayne-dso-freemason.html

Brief wartime biography:

In March 1939 Mayne joined the Territorial Army in Newtownards. After training with the Queen's University Officer Training Corps he received a commission in the 5th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery. In April 1940 he transferred to the Royal Ulster Rifles. Following Churchill's call to form a "butcher and bolt" raiding force following Dunkirk, Mayne volunteered for the newly formed 11 (Scottish) Commando. He first saw action in June 1941 as a lieutenant with 11 Commando during the Syria–Lebanon Campaign, successfully leading his men during the Litani River operation in Lebanon against the Vichy French Forces.

Mayne's name was recommended to Captain David Stirling by his friend Lt. Eoin McGonigal, a fellow officer of No. 11 (Scottish) Commando, and an early volunteer for the Special Air Service (SAS) – then known simply as the Parachute Unit. It is widely believed that Mayne was under arrest for hitting his commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes when Stirling met him. This story is untrue. A hand-written entry in Keyes' personal diary proves conclusively that he was not at the officer's mess of No. 11 (Scottish) Commando at Salamis on Cyprus on the evening of 21 June 1941, the date on which Mayne was accused of beating up a fellow officer, Major Charles Napier. Keyes had stayed the night elsewhere, and arrived at Salamis the following day, 22 June 1941, when the trouble was already over. Keyes states in his diary that he conducted an investigation and found Mayne responsible.

Keyes' diary makes it clear that Mayne was brought before the divisional commander, Brigadier Rodwell, on 23 June, for assaulting Napier, the second-in-command of his battalion. Mayne had a grudge against Napier, who had not taken part in the Litani raid, and who, according to a serving member of 11 Commando, had shot Mayne's pet dog while Mayne had been away. Mayne was attached to his pet (there is a famous photo of him carrying a dog on his shoulders), and was furious about this. Keyes' diary records that, on the evening of 21 June, after drinking heavily in the mess, Mayne waited by Napier's tent and assaulted him when he returned. Keyes also records in his diary that Mayne was dismissed from 11 Commando the following day, 23 June, but does not say that he was arrested.

From November 1941 through to the end of 1942, Mayne participated in many night raids deep behind enemy lines in the deserts of Egypt and Libya, where the SAS wrought havoc by destroying many enemy aircraft on the ground. Mayne pioneered the use of military jeeps to conduct surprise hit-and-run raids, particularly on Axis airfields. It was claimed that he had personally destroyed up to 100 aircraft.

His first successful raid at Wadi Tamet on 14 December 1941, where aircraft and petrol dumps were destroyed, helped keep the SAS in existence, following the failure of the previous initial raid behind enemy lines. For his part in the Tamet raid Mayne was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO). He also received a mention in despatches on 24 February 1942.

Mayne's official report on the Tamet raid notes:

The following damage was done on or in the vicinity of the aerodrome:

(a) Bombs were placed on 14 aircraft. (b) 10 aircraft were damaged by having instrument panels destroyed. (c) Bomb and petrol dumps were blown up. (d) Reconnaissance was made down to the seafront but only empty huts were found. (e) Several telephone poles were blown up.

(f) Some Italians were followed, and the hut they came out of was attacked by sub-machine gun and pistol fire and bombs were placed on and around it. There appeared to be roughly thirty inhabitants. Damage inflicted unknown.

Mayne took part in the most successful SAS raid of the desert war when, on the night of 26 July 1942, with eighteen armed jeeps, he and Stirling raided the Sidi Haneish Airfield. They avoided detection, destroyed up to 40 German aircraft and escaped with the loss of only three jeeps and two men killed. The regular Army wanted to disband the SAS but the success helped keep the critics at bay.

Following Stirling's capture in January 1943, 1st SAS Regiment was reorganised into two separate parts, the Special Raiding Squadron (SRS) and the Special Boat Section (the forerunner of the Special Boat Service). As a major, Mayne was appointed to command the Special Raiding Squadron and led the unit in Sicily and Italy until the end of 1943. In Sicily, Mayne was awarded a Bar to his DSO. The official citation reads as follows:

On 10 July 1943, Major Mayne carried out two successful operations, the first the capture of CD battery the outcome of which was vital to the safe landing of 13 Corps. By nightfall SRS had captured three additional batteries, 450 prisoners, as well as killing 200 to 300 Italians. The second operation was to capture and hold of the town of Augusta. The landing was carried out in daylight – a most hazardous combined operation. By the audacity displayed, the Italians were forced from their positions and masses of stores and equipment were saved from enemy demolition. In both these operations it was Major Mayne's courage, determination and superb leadership which proved the key to success. He personally led his men from landing craft in the face of heavy machine-gun fire. By this action, he succeeded in forcing his way to ground where it was possible to form up and sum up the enemy's defences.

In January 1944 Mayne was promoted to lieutenant colonel and appointed commanding officer of the re-formed 1st SAS Regiment. He subsequently led the SAS with great distinction through the final campaigns of the war in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Norway, often campaigning alongside local resistance fighters including the French Maquis. In recognition of his leadership and personal disregard for danger while in France, in which he trained and worked closely with the French Resistance, Mayne received the second Bar to his DSO. The official citation stated:

Lt-Col. R.B.Mayne DSO has commanded 1 SAS Regiment throughout the period of operations in France. On 8 August 1944, he was dropped to Operation Houndsworth base, located west of Dijon, in order to co-ordinate and take charge of the available detachments of his Regiment and co-ordinate their activities with a major Airborne landing which was then envisaged near Paris. He then proceeded in a jeep in daylight to motor to the GAIN base making the complete journey in one day. On the approach of Allied Forces, he passed through the lines in his jeep to contact the American Forces and to lead back through the lines his detachment of twenty jeeps landed for Operation WALLACE. During the next few weeks, he successfully penetrated the German and American lines on four occasions in order to lead parties of reinforcements. It was entirely due to Lt-Col.Mayne's fine leadership and example, and his utter disregard for danger, that the unit was able to achieve such striking successes.

During the course of the war he became one of the British Army's most highly decorated soldiers and received the DSO with three Bars, one of only seven British servicemen to receive that award four times during the Second World War. Additionally, the post-war French Government awarded him the Legion of Honour and the Croix de guerre.



The dates for his promotions here don't entirely tally with the history above, since they have him commissioned in February 1939, prior to joining the Territorial Army:

Promotions:

February 27th 1939: commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant;
December 2nd 1942: Captain (war sub);
December 21st 1942: Major (temporary);
April 7th, 1944 Major (war sub);
April 1946: Lieutenant-Colonel (temporary).


Blair Mayne's actual uniform and medal ribbons (the parachute wings differ to Ujindou's):

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Most of the awards are post 1942, and some weren't even instituted until 1945.

To set the figure as 1942, or up to July 1943 (before he received the first bar to his DSO) only a small part of Ujindou's medal ribbon strip needs to be used.

Just need to cut the strip and retain the short blue/long red/short blue section for the DSO, which is visible in two of these black and white photos:

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It's the top one here. minus the bars:

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With the rank, since he only has the pip and crown for a Lieutenant Colonel, the only option is to lose the pips and have him as a Major, narrowing the figure's timeframe to December 2nd 1942 to July 1943 (though that's dependent on when he actually applied the bars to the ribbon!)



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This is a colourful biography from The Mirror:

The Lions King: Hard-drinking, brawling rugby star who became war hero and original member of the SAS​

By
Rod McPhee
  • 20:09, 7 Jul 2017

Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne carved out a stellar career with the 1938 touring Lions then took the courage he showed on the rugby pitch into the Second World War, joining the SAS as a founding member.

When the British and Irish Lions psych themselves up to tackle the All Blacks in New Zealand tomorrow morning, they should draw on the heroics of one of their greatest legends.

Blair ‘Paddy’ Mayne was the ultimate, old school, action man who juggled rugby with battling Nazis and boozy brawls.

After carving out a stellar career with the 1938 touring Lions, he took that stealth and courage he had shown at rugby on to the battlefields of the Second World War.

There, he became a founding member of the elite Special Air Service, the SAS, in 1941.

Mayne was the archetypal commando, too, with a love of drinking, brawling and practical jokes. But he also became Britain’s most decorated soldier — only narrowly missing out on receiving the Victoria Cross.

And it was all down to a series of daring raids in which he proved himself as fearless as he was ruthless. In one incredible incicent, he went 250 miles behind enemy lines to attack German army barracks inside a hut at Cairo in Egpyt.

Martin Dillon in his biography, Rogue Warrior Of The SAS: The Blair Mayne Legend, writes: “With a crash, the door of the hut burst open. Framed in it stood a giant of a man in khaki battle gear, a sandy-coloured beard under an officer’s peaked cap.

“The Tommy Gun clenched to his right side spoke. The talk and laughter turned to shouts, screams and gasps of horror. Burst after burst, he fired.

“There were 50 rounds in the drum. Within seconds, the hut was littered with dead and dying. As the wounded tried to crawl for cover, any cover, a final burst blew out the lights. Only the firelight now played on the bloody bodies. Then, Paddy Mayne was gone.”

The raid on the troops of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, took place on December 14, 1941, just a week after the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor and brought the US into the conflict.

But it was just one of many attacks Mayne spearheaded in locations across the North Africa, the Middle East and Europe. He earned himself a long line of honours — and not just from the British military.

He received the Distinguished Service Order with three bars, one of only seven British servicemen to receive that award four times during the Second World War. The post-war French Government also gave him the Legion d’honneur and the Croix de Guerre.

Born in County Down, Northern Ireland, in 1915, Robert Blair “Paddy” Mayne grew up to become the ultimate alpha male. Not only was he handsome and sporting - excelling at golf, cricket and rifle shooting - he was also intelligent, taking a degree in law with a view to becoming a solicitor.

But it was his rugby union skills that showed the greatest promise, and by 1938 he rose through the ranks to become a member of the British Isles team - the forerunner of the Lions.

One match report recalled how he played with “ruthless efficiency” and marvelled at the way he: “covers the ground at an extraordinary speed for a man of his build, as many a three quarter and full back have discovered.”

During the First Test in South Africa in 1938, however, he also displayed other characteristics associated with old school rugby players.

His most notorious bit of tomfoolery came when he went on a late night hunting trip and returned to his teammates’ hotel room, broke down the door and announced: “I’ve just shot a springbok.”

And sure enough there was an antelope draped over his shoulders. “Jimmy Unwin (another teammate) has been complaining that the meat here isn’t as fresh as it is back home.”

After taking it to Unwin’s room, where he threw it into his bed and cut his leg open with the animal’s horn, he then dumped it outside the room of the South Africa manager, with a note saying: “A gift of fresh meat from the British Isles touring team.”

He drank copious amount of booze and would smashed up the hotel room of one or two of his colleagues.

His teammate, centre Harry McKibbin recalled how he’d burst into their rooms in the middle of the night, knocking the doors off the hinges, and smashing up all the furniture until: “all the chairs and tables and things were just so much bits of kindling around us in the room while we were still in bed.”

Not to mention the legendary story of when he met a team of convicts working on the Ellis Park stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, who were being shackled as they slept at night underneath the seating. Sympathising with one of the men, who said he’d only committed a minor crime, he returned after dark and sprung him using boltcutters.

Mayne’s partner in crime was Welsh hooker Bunner Travers, and they’d both go off, dressed as sailors, to get into scraps at the docks of Durban, just to satisfy his taste for violence.

Colonel David Stirling, one of the men who knew Paddy best, said he was prone to “outbursts of satanic ferocity.”

He believes he had two sides to his character. The action man he had become, but also the frustrated, cultured lawyer. His law career had been stifled by pursuing rugby then by the outbreak of war in 1939, when he received a commission in the Royal Artillery.

Col Stirling said: “This frustration explained at least some of his violent acts and his black moods. Among its positive effects it also explained Paddy’s astonishing intuition and inspiration in battle.”

And Col Stirling would know. He was the man who first recruited Paddy to join what would become the SAS, carrying out the most dangerous missions of the war.

It was a field of war which required someone as brave and single-minded as Paddy, particularly in the Western Deserts of Egypt. It was there that defeating the overwhelming forces Rommel, who had a stranglehold on North Africa, was essential to winning the war.

Col Stirling said: “On one of his early operations Paddy was brilliantly successful but he pushed ruthlessness to the point of callousness. His temperament and moods made him a difficult subordinate....quick-tempered, audacious and vigorous in action but not one who took kindly to being thwarted, frustrated or crossed in any way.”

Mayne carried out raids in France, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt and Libya. His speciality was using Jeeps to carry out hit-and-run raids inflicting maximum damage on the enemy - not just troops but also their war capability. It’s claimed he personally destroyed more than 100 Nazi aircraft.

Many of the procedures and techniques which are still used by the SAS were devised and implemented by Mayne during the first four years of the service.

After another daring raid, one of his last, on Oldenburg in North West Germany on April 9, 1945, he was initially awarded a VC. But this was downgraded six months later to a lower honour, the Distinguished Service Order with three bars.

It’s a move which has baffled military men and military historians. Even King George VI enquired why the Victoria Cross had “so strangely eluded him”

Some say it was because hot-headed Mayne, who’d became Lieutenant Colonel by the end of the war, had punched the second in command in his battalion during one heated exchange. Others say it was down to a technicality - because the raid in question was multiple acts of bravery, not a single act.

Either way, an Early Day Motion put before the House of Commons in June 2005, which was supported by more than 100 MPs, called on the VC to be reinstated. Though it failed, there’s still hope it might eventually succeed, though it will have to be awarded posthumously.

After the war Mayne had to quit rugby due to back pain, believed to be an injury caused by his time in the SAS. Though he achieved his ambition of becoming a solicitor, he still retained a reputation.

Legend had it he’d frequent multiple drinking dens in his home town of Newtownards and nearby Belfast, where he’d challenge any man in the bar to a fight. Legend had it he’d always win too.

Even his death, aged 40, was far from usual. He was killed in 1955 when he was in collision with farm vehicle as he staggered home after yet another boozy night on the tiles.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/lions-king-hard-drinking-brawling-10757429
 
This line was gold for those collectors that had the SAS desert raider Willys jeep.
 
This line was gold for those collectors that had the SAS desert raider Willys jeep.

I wasn't collecting WWII when they came out, but since I started collecting DID's North African range Paddy Mayne has been on my radar, but eluded me at a good price.

That was until Kit Chen managed to find one for me for a very good price. :)


I found a very good three part BBC documentary the other day about the creation of the SAS and their wartime operations: SAS: Rogue Warriors (2017).

The SAS kept a war diary which was revealed for the first time, assisting in the making of the series. It also included footage made in 1987 of interviews with David Stirling and other wartime members of the SAS.

Between the interview and the written records, Stirling all but called Paddy Mayne a psychopath. He was appalled by Mayne's uncalled for brutality during the first successful mission blowing up the aircraft at a German airfield in Africa. Mayne and two others went into the barracks where the pilots were and opened fire, Mayne with his Colt .45 and the others with their Tommy guns. It was a cold blooded massacre.
 
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I wasn't collecting WWII when they came out, but since I started collecting DID's North African range Paddy Mayne has been on my radar, but eluded me at a good price.

That was until Kit Chen managed to find one for me for a very good price. :)


I found a very good three part BBC documentary the other day about the creation of the SAS and their wartime operations: SAS: Rogue Warriors (2017).

The SAS kept a war diary which was revealed for the first time, assisting in the making of the series. It also included footage made in 1987 of interviews with David Stirling and other wartime members of the SAS.

Between the interview and the written records, Stirling all but called Paddy Mayne a psychopath. He was appalled by Mayne's uncalled for brutality during the first successful mission blowing up the aircraft at a German airfield in Africa. Mayne and two others went into the barracks where the pilots were and opened fire, Mayne with his Colt .45 and the others with their Tommy guns. It was a cold blooded massacre.
Awesome that you were able to get the Paddy Mayne figure you gotta get him his jeep that would make such a cool display!

Does Kit take requests for figures and sees if he can acquire them for you? and how would you do that?

Wow! that's crazy, It sounds just like one of my favorite missions in the old Hidden and Dangerous 2 game where you had the SAS Willys jeep and had to destroy all the Italian planes on the airstrip and then go inside the buildings where you find the pilots and the other poor Italians that you had to deal with.
 
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Awesome that you were able to get the Paddy Mayne figure you gotta get him his jeep that would make such a cool display!

Does Kit take requests for figures and sees if he can acquire them for you? and how would you do that?

I happened to mention in a conversation that I wished I'd taken more interest in Ujindou when Paddy Mayne was released, and that I'd tried and failed to find one for a good price, and Kit offered to help. Within a very short time he'd located one!


Wow! that's crazy, It sounds just like one of my favorite missions in the old Hidden and Dangerous 2 game where you had the SAS Willys jeep and had to destroy all the Italian planes on the airstrip and then go inside the buildings where you find the pilots and the other poor Italians that you had to deal with.

There were a lot of stories about Paddy. He was a heavy drinker and prone to violence. As a rugby player before the war he smashed up hotel rooms! During the invasion of Italy he lead the SAS on a looting party, filling a pram with stolen booze, and even blowing up a bank safe, only to find some silver spoons inside. One of the SAS who was with him said Paddy once took out a hand grenade, pulled the pin and placed it on the table. They thought they ought to run, but at the same time couldn't believe he'd do that with a live grenade. It only smoked since Paddy had already removed the fuse, but they said it was a testament to his strange sense of humour.

He was apparently literally fearless. Late in the war he came to the rescue of SAS trapped under fire by racing a Jeep down a road and back while his gunner blasted the Germans. He later contradicted claims that he had suicidal tendencies by saying that he always weighed up the risk.
 
This is a screencap I took from the BBC documentary series. It's the document that records the formation of No. 1 Special Air Service Regiment.

The unit had previously been known as "L" Detachment, Special Air Service, in the fictional '1st Special Air Service Brigade' which had been created to deceive the Italians into believing there was a British airborne brigade in North Africa.

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This is what makes these figures even more special - The historical significance.

A Darth Vader figure is cool but a figure based on an actual soldier is truly special.
 
Paddy Mayne arrived from Kit today.

I only just started taking the pieces out of the box but he looks pretty good quality.

Ujindou modelled themselves very much on DID with the box lid that flaps over and removes to form a photographic backdrop. Inside the figure and parts are packed securely in rigid foam.

Paddy himself is too short, as I expected he would be. He was 6' 3" but Ujindou used a standard narrow shoulder body. The sculpt is also a little small, but it's nowhere near as noticeable as on the British Commando.

Clothes and boots are good. The shirt has working buttons, which is another take from DID. All the leather parts are in perfect condition, which was a concern for an older figure that's been stored in the far east.

The Thompson is nice in wood and metal, with its impressed markings on the side. Getting the drum magazine in wasn't easy. You have to hold the bolt back and slide it through the grooves, but there was a lot of resistance until it finally lined up centrally. The stick magazine is metal, and the drum plastic.

The little Webley & Scott flare pistol is metal, but at the moment doesn't want to break open. The flare itself is metal, as is his smoking pipe. However, the white enamel mug that should be metal, is plastic! The Fairbairn-Sykes dagger is also plastic, so there were some strange choices made.

The finish on the hands was much improved since the prototype photos. They aren't cheap, shiny plastic, but painted. They also have some unique gestures, as with the pipe and mug holding hands.

The monkey is a little cheap in the paint department, but the sculpting is really good. He sits quite naturally on the shoulders - on the left shoulder he leans inward towards the sculpt, and on the right outwards giving the effect of stretching out to peer at something.

I thought the cap was going to have wire in it like DID's so it could be crushed down, but it doesn't. Though photos of Paddy show him with his cap popped up, it would be simple to add a wire .

All in all I'm pleased with him.

So far all I've done is add the crowns to his epaulettes to make him a Major, the parachute wings and just used the DSO part from the ribbon. This is to set him in 1943.

The parachute wings are the wrong design, but I'll live with it.
 
On the ends of his ankle pegs are cups that slide into the boots. So to get him to 6' 3" I took those cups off and cut down a pair of pen lids to the right length. They slide over the ankle pegs and slot into the boots, secured at both ends with a bit of white tack.

The lanyard thread for the flare pistol was far too thick to go through the ring. I don't know how the reviewer, Remington 300 managed it. Unless they fudged it by gluing a knotted end to the ring.

There's a fatal flaw with the flare cartridge: it drops almost completely out the end of the pistol! If you load it you'll have to keep the pistol upright.

I added some sandwich tie wires inside the cap and bent them down to give it some shape.

The only other amendment I made was to stuff the ammunition pouch with cotton wool.

So here he is, 6' 3" Major Paddy Mayne, DSO:

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I gave his leather jerkin, pipe, mug and their respective hands to the Army Commando I put together with leftover parts from Ujindou's Commando.
 
Great work on "Paddy" and a sharp looking display shelf, Asta!

I like your handwritten name plates, too. You may want to try giving them a coffee or tea stain to weather them.
 
Great work on "Paddy" and a sharp looking display shelf, Asta!

I like your handwritten name plates, too. You may want to try giving them a coffee or tea stain to weather them.

Thanks.

I keep going back to futz him a bit more.

They ought to be weathered but I have an aversion to doing permanent things to figures unless it's unavoidable. :lol
 
The BBC mini series, SAS: Rogue Heroes, aired in full yesterday.

I'm only fifteen minutes into the first episode but it's a bit surreal. So far there's a lot of satire...

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David Stirling is played by the headmaster's son in Sex Education (I knew I recognised him from somewhere):

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6' 3" Paddy Mayne is played by a 5' 7 1/2" actor:

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But he captured Paddy's rage and brutality!

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The BBC mini series, SAS: Rogue Heroes, aired in full yesterday.

I'm only fifteen minutes into the first episode but it's a bit surreal. So far there's a lot of satire...

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David Stirling is played by the headmaster's son in Sex Education (I knew I recognised him from somewhere):

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6' 3" Paddy Mayne is played by a 5' 7 1/2" actor:

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But he captured Paddy's rage and brutality!

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I just watched the trailer, looks pretty good I see a lot of spicy SAS Jeep action and you can definitely tell it was made by the peaky blinders creator, I'll for sure give it a watch when the season is completed.
 
I just watched the trailer, looks pretty good I see a lot of spicy SAS Jeep action and you can definitely tell it was made by the peaky blinders creator, I'll for sure give it a watch when the season is completed.

The season is already complete as all the episodes dropped yesterday.

I got over half way through the first episode before having to go and do something else, and it's very watchable. It has it's own style.


EDIT:

I looked on the Wiki page and see that the US has different air dates, running up until 18th December.
 
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