Tears of the Sun Knives (Help identify them)

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Kroenen

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First of all... This not the "Hey guys what is the knife used by Willis" "Use Google, they are Emerson and SOG" kind of thread. No.
The objective of the thread is trying to identify all knives used during the movie by the Seal Team, wich are a lot. And probably you didn't notice many of them.
Why I'm interested on this? Since few months ago I simply fell in love with TotS loadouts (I'm airsoft player and a geardo/reenacter) and started "Googling" about them, just to find all kit list are wrong (even the kits sold on eBay as used during movie are wrong. Could sound crazy, but I can prove it...) so I decided to do that kit list by myself. And now the few things that last are precisely the knives and a couple things more (if you are interested on the kit list feel free to PM me).
So here we go...

Bruce Willis Photo1 Photo2
Emerson Police Utility knife (sattin finish, no serrations) on the right shoulder.
SOG X-42 Recondo (kydex sheat) right side of belt.
Emerson Kandahar on it's left leg.
Well that's the easy one. Most of people agree on him having those knives.

Red Atkins (Cole Hauser as "guy with m60") Photo1 Photo2
Emerson PUK on shoulder.
Some Ontario knife on its leg inside a Blackhawk OD sheat.
Yeah, it could be any of the Ontario catalogue. So I'm happy if you just confirm it's an Ontario knife.

Zee (Radio man) Photo1 Photo2 Knife grip Knife blade
Emerson LaGriffe on chest
On thew belt... Could be a Kabar Army?

Slo (Gunner with M249) Photo1 Photo2 Kit Photo

It's an Ontario knife, a big one. And considering the 6 silver buttons I'll say the Ontario Spec Plus SP6 Fighting Knife.

Lake (guy with remington M870) Photo1
Hard one... It only appear those 10 seconds on whole movie... Looks similar to KaBar BK7 but with 4 screws (or whatever those holes are) instead of three.

Silk (guy with M14) Photo1
This is difficult too. The two silverclips remind me to Ontario sheats.

Doc (just... the doctor) Photo1
For me, it looks like another Onterio knife.

Flea (Sniper with M4) Grip1 Grip2 sheat1 sheat2
The hardest one, wich is the most interesting for me (as I'm making his loadout), and other of the difficult to notice. It's attached to the botton of his buttpack. Unfortunally there's no good screen captures of it.
It's a big knife and my latest thoughts area about a SOG Seal knife. But I wonder that the sheat could be.

And that's all folks. I'll thank you all light you could bring me with this hunting.
 
Yeah, good job on cataloging those knives, if you're into dressing up like movie star "operators" which btw, I don't have any problem with at all. ;)
 
Cosplayers might have a problem with it. It takes zero creativity to buy equipment to play out a fantasy when you could carve your own weapons from foam. I'm actually inclined to agree with them, as crazy as it sounds.

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I rest my case.
 
singularity35 said:
It could go both ways but I was really just shaking my head at the "dress up" guys. ;)
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I never understood the whole 'dress up' routine be it airsoft, cosplay, or larping. I do like to dress up like a welder... but that's only because not dressing like a welder while being a welder at work is painful.
:D
 
Blais said:
I never understood the whole 'dress up' routine be it airsoft, cosplay, or larping. I do like to dress up like a welder... but that's only because not dressing like a welder while being a welder at work is painful.
:D
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Hehehe.
 
Blais said:
Cosplayers might have a problem with it. It takes zero creativity to buy equipment to play out a fantasy when you could carve your own weapons from foam. I'm actually inclined to agree with them, as crazy as it sounds.
I rest my case.
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I agree in the case of cosplay, because making your own is part of the hobby and the fun. You can buy one alredy made, but will be expensive, poor made, and poit of critics from other cosplayers...
But reenacting is just a different thing. It's about investigating the gear ussed to build a perfect kit while trying to get as many excatly items as possible (instead of replicas) and if used by the guys you area reenacting, better.

Knives area a hobby, "dress up" is a hobby. I see no difference.
 
Kroenen said:
I agree in the case of cosplay, because making your own is part of the hobby and the fun. You can buy one alredy made, but will be expensive, poor made, and poit of critics from other cosplayers...
But reenacting is just a different thing. It's about investigating the gear ussed to build a perfect kit while trying to get as many excatly items as possible (instead of replicas) and if used by the guys you area reenacting, better.

Knives area a hobby, "dress up" is a hobby. I see no difference.
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Neither does Dr. Frankenfurter.
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Never could figure out why it was so important for some to identify what knives where carried & used in a movie, or anime, or video game. Pure fantasy.

I'm more interested in the real knives & techniques that somebody used to survive when stranded in the wilderness for 30 days... of left afloat on a liferaft for 120 days, or what those Japanese soldiers used to live & survive for 30 years while hiding in deep jungles after WWII. (these are real examples btw)
 
CWL said:
Never could figure out why it was so important for some to identify what knives where carried & used in a movie, or anime, or video game. Pure fantasy.

I'm more interested in the real knives & techniques that somebody used to survive when stranded in the wilderness for 30 days... of left afloat on a liferaft for 120 days, or what those Japanese soldiers used to live & survive for 30 years while hiding in deep jungles after WWII. (these are real examples btw)
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This^^.
 
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