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Ian, yall forgetting the trench warfare inspired long bbl 1911 ww1 experimental project? 007 would prolly have one of those prototypes, don't cha think?
@@markgolden1418and Kel-Tec didn’t exist in the 70s but sure as hell they would make a coked out version made out of bakelite al lá german korobov style. 😭
While it might be overwhelming for the scope of the book, I wish it'd also cover guns from some of the 007 videogames like Goldeneye and Nightfire. They were huge childhood influences on my lifelong love for firearms.
From Russia with love, purchased from a bookshop in Torquay, was my introduction to Bond. I quickly sought out and bought the previous five books. After seeing a friends Walther PP 7.65mm at Bolton Rifle and Pistol Club, I managed to buy a prewar Zehla-Mehlis manufactured PPK in mint condition from T. Stensby and Sons in Manchester. I think it was £12 in 1964. For a small cartridge the muzzle blast and kick was impressive due to the guns short barrel and light weight. I hate to think it might have been crushed after the handgun ban following the Dunblane cover up.
@@commandobond Very proud of them, and they are both rare. The PPK is an "L" model in 22lr. Meaning the lower frame is made of an aluminum alloy. Hence the L, for Leichtmetal. Only a few thousand of those were produced. The P99 is a very early one with a four digit serialnumber, and 16 round magazines.
I’m not surprised that Bond has had an effect on real world intelligence operations. It’s much the same way Star Trek has affected aerospace. He’s a character that captures the imagination and motivates people in the field.
Before my father passed he gave me all of his guns, while sorting through stuff later. I discovered a Walter ppk in the original box along with all the paperwork and a red stamped 5 dollar bill. I will never know why, just a fun mystery moving forward.
The red stamped money is backed by the US Treasury instead of the federal reserve. Before they changed the laws, you were able to go to exchange the red stamped currency directly for Gold (later silver). They did away with this once the dollar went to a fiat currency, since US dollars weren't backed by gold (or silver) anymore. It's a collectors item along the lines of a rare coin.
@@toastedt140 I did look that up, I just didn’t understand why he had that gun hidden away. In all honesty it’s completely possible he just forgot. Time can be cruel sometimes.
The guns of the literary Bond are my area of interest. I wonder what the author ended up doing about the non-existent Colt Army Special in .45 caliber. Colt did make a revolver called the Army Special, but it was never made in a .45 caliber cartridge. Also, later on, we learn that the gun had a safety catch, which is not a fearure on Colt revolvers. My opinion is that it was a Colt 1911, and that Fleming mixed up the names. He had probably heard the name 'Colt Army Special', and remembered that the US Army used a 45 caliber Colt pistol. He also messed up in The Spy Who Loved Me - Bond refers to his Colt Police Positive as a 'Smith and Wesson Police Positive'.
@@ForgottenWeapons Yeah I saw, just wondering what the conclusion was. Looks like there is both an Army Special and a 1911 in the photo, so I guess the author was thinking along the same lines as I was. Can't wait to read it!
"Nice and light... in a ladies' handbag. No stopping power, of course.". SIS Armourer, explaining to Bond why he has to give up his Beretta in "Dr No."
I chose the 00 Agent Bundle before the video was finished. 🤪 Never been dissatisfied with Headstamp. But..... Mr. Ian McCollum You must consider selling heavy duty book shelf in the next Kickstarter campaign. The book collection i got is getting very HEAVY. My current book shelf is making noises it has never made before. 🥵
Big kudos for swapping out pistols sitting on the globe as the video goes on. Glad to know the book will cover Fleming's oddities with things like the long-barrel .45 and the mistake with the spring-clip revolver holster, Berns-Martin, something or other... anyways, more people need to know about those things, as they're all a big part of what made the modern Bond, including the creation of the character Q just to start tightening some of these things up.
Fun fact - The real James Bond was an American ornithologist who specialized in birds of the Caribbean region. Ian Fleming encountered his name on a bird guide and liked the good, solid Anglo-Saxon sound of it. One version has it that the Bonds were unaware of this until they started seeing odd comments being made in regards to his work while another version has it that Fleming did approach them prior to using the name for his main character.
I've always felt sorry for the people called Alan Partridge and Harry Potter and so forth. They're living their best life, and then suddenly people burst out laughing whenever they introduce themselves.
@@AshleyPomeroy I went to school with a 'James Bond' although that was in '73, well after the character was established, so his parents did that to him.
There is definitely something supernatural going on with Bonds PPK. It's a .32 but he frequently gets 1 shot kills with it at 50~100 yards. He even shot down a helicopter with it in Spectre. The thing is a pocket anti-aircraft gun. Major Boothroyd wasn't lying when he said it has a delivery like a brick through a plate glass window.
"Bond Physics" are a very real thing haha! Let's not forget the pre-titles of GOLDENEYE, where Bond rides a motorcycle off a cliff, only to catch up to a falling airplane, get in, and take flight. Can't beat it
Technically there’s been 7, not 6 James Bonds on the big screen. I suspect you missed the David Niven version in Casino Royale, from 1967. But it is a bit shite, and probably best forgotten anyway.
6 EON, technically more than 7 if you count ALL the James Bond's in 67's Royale, plus "Card-Sharp Jimmy Bond" - these characters will also be discussed in the book, albeit briefly as the gunplay is relatively minimal in both.
Fleming admitted his deficiencies in firearms knowledge. In an interview he mentioned some of the furious letters he'd gotten from readers after the first couple of books and took on board the advice of one of them, who was an established authority. It also bugs me when I read books with sloppy fire-arms description. I'm a big fan of the Murdoch Mysteries TV show and was so disappointed when reading the first book which depicted a 'supposed suicide' and described the 'revolver' and then casually mentioned the 'single spent casing' on the ground next to the body 😂😂 That told me that Maureen Jennings didn't take research very seriously....
Geoffery Boothroyd, who wrote an outstanding history of the development of the pistol, provided inputs to the later books. Because Fleming knew damned near nothing on the subject.
@@caeserromero3013 The statements above are absolutely right. I was just about to post the same comments about Geoffrey Boothroyd. He was a regular writer in Shooting Times for many years. After he finished Bill Harriman took his place and he is equally knowledgeable about all sorts of guns.
My favorite Bond anecdote is from the book side (none of my friends would be surprised). In the first book (Casino Royale) Bond has a tiny Beretta with a "skeleton grip" which he keeps in a shoulder holster, a Colt .38 with a "sawn barrel" that stays under his pillow while he sleeps, and the "long-barreled Colt .45) which is in a special compartment in his Bentley. After he'd written several books he got a letter from a guy named Boothroyd, who told him that Bond's main pistol (that .25 Beretta) belonged "in a lady's handbag" and that Bond should have a PPK instead. Fleming took Boothroyd's advice and actually (with the man's approval) included him in the next book as the SIS "armorer". He's essentially the precursor of "Q", who doesn't appear in Dr No. Fleming wasn't a firearms expert, though he did have intelligence experience. He actually founded a unit of soldiers named "30 Assault Unit" which spent the war trying to steal German technology before we, the Soviets, or even other branches of the British military got them. A commando platoon was redesignated 30 Commando just a few years ago, with the same mission. Pretty cool, huh? As an aside, I've always thought it very British that a .32 ACP pistol is said to hit "like a brick through a plate glass window." Not that .32s don't have their place, but they're not exactly known for their stopping power.
I'll see if I can find the link, but there is a short film on YT featuring Sean Connery opening up about the guns of James Bond and then goes on to interview James Boothroyd who was a Blackpool gun enthusiast who wrote to Flemming to criticise the use of the .25 Beretta. Honoured in the films as Major Boothroyd. Ian Flemming worked with Ewan Montague on Operation Mincemeat. If anyone is interested, I believe they lied about why they went to Scotland, why not let the submarine come south. What was in Scotland that they wanted, what had just happened off the coast?
Yes! The video of Connery was a promotional piece done during the filming of Goldfinger! Classic bit, you can find it on the special features of most Goldfinger physical copies!
The link ua-cam.com/video/18V0DJvPRdI/v-deo.html This isn't the link I was thinking of, and I don't like linking anything to that thieving organisation that is the BBC, but it is a few seconds longer than the film posted 15 years ago. There is also a Wikipedia page on Boothroyd.
@@commandobond First, my reply with the link in it disappeared. Fair enough, many sites do that automatically. Then my post telling people what to look for went too. By the way, there is a film of the story of Operation Mincemeat, The Man Who Never Was. One of those stories where truth is stranger than fiction. Jesus not in a forgiving mood today?
Although born in Blackpool, Geoffrey Boothroyd was a member of a Glasgow gun club when he wrote to Ian Fleming. He wrote an excellent article in the May/June 1985 edition of Handgunner magazine which I still have. I used to have an immaculate Zehla-Mehlis manufactured PPK 7.65mm but that probably got destroyed after the handgun ban.
Sadly, especially for a book about MI6's greatest agent, buyers in the UK are going to struggle. I guess we can get delivery from France (even though we're no longer in the EU), but either way the postage is cripplingly high - Any chance of getting a bulk shipment to the Royal Armouries to sell at the US list price plus a small uplift for shipment?
Greetings from Hungary! As a guy who works with and stacks and packs a lot of books on a daily basis,(after all, I'm working for the largest book selling company in the country) I have to say that the cinematic tribute cover is excellent. The spine of all three books would look pleasant on a bookshelf though.
Haven't read all the books, but in Diamonds Are Forever, iirc, Fleming wrote in that part of Bond's maintenance of his Beretta .25 involved *sharpening the firing pin.* Fleming's response to reader feedback was upgrading to a .32, and having the humility to die before his superior, Christopher Lee.
My favorite bond flick still is and always will be Goldeneye. Simply for that russian aks 74-u he was rocking. I'm pretty sure that's the movie that made that gun so iconic.
Hey Ian! As a gun enjoyer and a James Bond fan I'm absolutely excited about this book. I'm definitely going to buy it About the covers: I'll get the base one so that it fits nicely with the other Headstamp books I own - but the artistic ones are outstanding anyways.
Is the on-screen gaff of having the wrong gun for the "that's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six" line from Dr. No discussed in the text? That aside, I'm thoroughly excited by this release! Coincidentally, I just recently started re-watching the Bond films from the beginning, and I eagerly look forward to having this book as a companion. Now the only difficult thing will be deciding which cover variant to choose!
Did you have to cover the air pistols they used in some of the film poster. I remember one of the Sean Connery posters used a BSA Scorpion and I think On Her Majesty Secret Service used a unique very expensive Walther Air pistol (with the spring and piston in the grip. Not sure I can get the book in the UK but it looks brilliant Ian.
Of course I'm in. Being Bond-related makes it all that much cooler. I went with the Skyfall cover. Never got into the books and Craig's Bond is my favorite version.
Can confirm, I know Caleb, he's the guy to write a book like this. A couple of years ago he jumped into one of my low light classes and shot the whole thing with his pre war PPK in .32
Wait, I can't buy Scaramanga's golden gun? DANG!!! Well at least I'll get to see it in the book. The multiple covers has me definitely scratching my head. I've never read the books have watched all the movies (multiple times). I just may have to get two, one for the bookshelf (retail) and one for the coffee table (cinematic). 😉
3:10 Those _You Know My Name_ style pages are amazing! The movies (mainly the Brosnan-era films, and Nightfire) are such an important part of my childhood and I love the whole series, I should definitely pick this up. :O
So AWESOME. I did a series of videos on the literary Bond weapons but I'm confident it's nowhere near as good as this. For the record, Mark Hazard wrote a book about the cinematic Bond weapons.... even down to their serial numbers (in some cases) ... called 007 The Armoury. It's available on Amazon and well worth the price. As for myself, I'm heading over to kickstarter to place an order. Thanks you guys!
I have a copy of it - the biggest difference (aside from photo quality) is that he covers primarily the props used, where we are covering the real guns.
In what movie Bond used WA2000? Never even seen a screencap of a scene there he's using it. Also love the fact that you change the guns displayed on the globe for each scene and that they are all relevant to Bond.
@@commandobond Thanks! I've only seen all the movies between Connery and Brosnan era and the first of Graigs era. You may have just convinced me to hunt those older flicks down and watch them.
I'm going to have to watch this one again. I can only focus on one thing at a time and the guns being swapped every chapter is my focus. 4 and counting...
As much as I know it’s not one of the best, and I’m a huge Bond guy, the man with the golden gun was one of my childhood favorites bc of the focus on the duel and specifically the PPK. Do you know if a .380/9mm Kurtz was used in this movie? Hard to prove from my research but I’ve always assumed bc of the dialogue about magazine capacity. I had to buy a German PPK in .380 to go with my 7.65 none the less lol.
Canadians get slaughtered on shipping costs as is tradition, sadly. Still more than happy to make a pre-order - this project looks like it will be a very fun read.
I know this is controversial, but my favourite Bond gun is the Fitz special from the cover of From Russia, with Love. Also, I wonder what will be included on the cocktail sheet...
While I trust headstamp to deliver, I'm still not a fan of running multiple projects at once... Previously headstamp has delivered or been close to delivery of their previous products before launching a new Kickstarter. This is still pretty close to the Rifles on the Danube kickstarter. I'm on the fence as to whether I want to back this one for that reason. Also, it'd be nice to know of the stretch goals will apply to all books this time. I was very annoyed to find out after the fact that the retail version did not get some of the stretch goals.
They should have introduced a PPQ in Skyfall - a perfect fit given the *Q* designation. At the start on the train when Bond tosses his PPK after it runs dry - giving the notion that both the mag capacity and stopping power was ultimately ineffective; this would have been the ideal time to transition to a better weapon. Instead we just get another crappy, tacked on retrofit PPK 😔
I know this would probably be more complicated, but is there any possibility of making the artistic covers as dust jacket for the books as an add-on or other method? I ask because I like all three covers but can't justify buying 3 books.
If it isn't too late, you might want to change the cover of the book on CIA weapons & equipment: The sub-title and date is the same as on the OSS book which doesn't make a lot of sense.
Not a huge Bond fan but still like the movies. So what’s everyone’s favorite firearm from the Series? Mine is definitely Craig’s Anderson Wheeler Double rifle! 👍🏼
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Ian, yall forgetting the trench warfare inspired long bbl 1911 ww1 experimental project? 007 would prolly have one of those prototypes, don't cha think?
"I'm a Licensed Troubleshooter" is the line Connery utters at the spa's nurse, at the beginning of "Thunderball".
Indeed! Classic stuff
No, Mr McCallum, I expect you to buy,,,
😂😂😂
I get it .....
"He knows what I know"
🤣
Wait you mean Scaramonga's golden gun isn't made by Kel Tec?
No because it's gold not beach plastics 😂.
@@markgolden1418 actually because it's interesting but never available.
@@ftdefiance1 fair enough.
Yet...
@@markgolden1418and Kel-Tec didn’t exist in the 70s but sure as hell they would make a coked out version made out of bakelite al lá german korobov style. 😭
While it might be overwhelming for the scope of the book, I wish it'd also cover guns from some of the 007 videogames like Goldeneye and Nightfire. They were huge childhood influences on my lifelong love for firearms.
We have a stretch goal for a section on Goldeneye64...
@@ForgottenWeapons oh shit. that would be awesome.
I’m a Bond fan, but I do like Lucky Gunner’s description of Bond as “a mildly psychopathic British government employee”.
That's my childhood right there.
Night fire as a game was and is pure an unadulterated dog shite
Pay attention 007, a new book is being released!
I hear this in the voice of Desmond Llewelyn.
"Problem solver?"
"More like a problem eliminator..."
"I got a problem solver, and its name is Revolver" - Dr. Dre
It's all Goldeneye's fault I bought a PPK/S
For England?
@@WH250398ha ha, no.... for me
Everyone bought a PPK lol
@@g6otu cp88 is a GBB air gun
@@g6otu No, none of the bonds used it to my knowledge. Perhaps you're thinking of Octopussy? In that movie the PPK is replaced by the P5.
From Russia with love, purchased from a bookshop in Torquay, was my introduction to Bond. I quickly sought out and bought the previous five books. After seeing a friends Walther PP 7.65mm at Bolton Rifle and Pistol Club, I managed to buy a prewar Zehla-Mehlis manufactured PPK in mint condition from T. Stensby and Sons in Manchester. I think it was £12 in 1964. For a small cartridge the muzzle blast and kick was impressive due to the guns short barrel and light weight. I hate to think it might have been crushed after the handgun ban following the Dunblane cover up.
Proud owner of a Walther PPK from 1968, and a first gen P99 from 1997. Not just pretty looking guns, but great ones in my opinion!
Nice!
Exceptional pieces!
@@commandobond Very proud of them, and they are both rare. The PPK is an "L" model in 22lr. Meaning the lower frame is made of an aluminum alloy. Hence the L, for Leichtmetal. Only a few thousand of those were produced. The P99 is a very early one with a four digit serialnumber, and 16 round magazines.
Nice I loved the look of the p99 when I first saw it I think in twine.
@@joshlovescotch For me it was Tomorrow Never Dies, when it gets its own scene. I think it's the most beautiful polymer pistol ever made.
Ooh this will go well with my bond gun collection. Beretta 418, PPK 32 and 380, P99, P5, Beretta jetfire, walther Lp53
I'm moving to Tucson this weekend if you want to borrow some of them for a video when the book releases
I’m not surprised that Bond has had an effect on real world intelligence operations. It’s much the same way Star Trek has affected aerospace. He’s a character that captures the imagination and motivates people in the field.
Before my father passed he gave me all of his guns, while sorting through stuff later. I discovered a Walter ppk in the original box along with all the paperwork and a red stamped 5 dollar bill. I will never know why, just a fun mystery moving forward.
The red stamped money is backed by the US Treasury instead of the federal reserve. Before they changed the laws, you were able to go to exchange the red stamped currency directly for Gold (later silver).
They did away with this once the dollar went to a fiat currency, since US dollars weren't backed by gold (or silver) anymore. It's a collectors item along the lines of a rare coin.
@@toastedt140shame he never got a gold coin instead haha
@@toastedt140 I did look that up, I just didn’t understand why he had that gun hidden away. In all honesty it’s completely possible he just forgot. Time can be cruel sometimes.
"A Walther PPK. "That line got stuck in my head for so long.
Just remember. He really didn't want to give up his Beretta!
Lots of love for the Beretta and its history with 007 in this book!
The guns of the literary Bond are my area of interest.
I wonder what the author ended up doing about the non-existent Colt Army Special in .45 caliber.
Colt did make a revolver called the Army Special, but it was never made in a .45 caliber cartridge.
Also, later on, we learn that the gun had a safety catch, which is not a fearure on Colt revolvers.
My opinion is that it was a Colt 1911, and that Fleming mixed up the names. He had probably heard the name 'Colt Army Special', and remembered that the US Army used a 45 caliber Colt pistol.
He also messed up in The Spy Who Loved Me - Bond refers to his Colt Police Positive as a 'Smith and Wesson Police Positive'.
We have a section on exactly this question... :)
@@ForgottenWeapons Yeah I saw, just wondering what the conclusion was.
Looks like there is both an Army Special and a 1911 in the photo, so I guess the author was thinking along the same lines as I was. Can't wait to read it!
@@thepenultimateninja5797cheers! That was a favorite section to put together
"Nice and light... in a ladies' handbag. No stopping power, of course.".
SIS Armourer, explaining to Bond why he has to give up his Beretta in "Dr No."
I chose the 00 Agent Bundle before the video was finished. 🤪
Never been dissatisfied with Headstamp.
But..... Mr. Ian McCollum
You must consider selling heavy duty book shelf in the next Kickstarter campaign.
The book collection i got is getting very HEAVY.
My current book shelf is making noises it has never made before. 🥵
Big kudos for swapping out pistols sitting on the globe as the video goes on.
Glad to know the book will cover Fleming's oddities with things like the long-barrel .45 and the mistake with the spring-clip revolver holster, Berns-Martin, something or other... anyways, more people need to know about those things, as they're all a big part of what made the modern Bond, including the creation of the character Q just to start tightening some of these things up.
Fun fact - The real James Bond was an American ornithologist who specialized in birds of the Caribbean region. Ian Fleming encountered his name on a bird guide and liked the good, solid Anglo-Saxon sound of it. One version has it that the Bonds were unaware of this until they started seeing odd comments being made in regards to his work while another version has it that Fleming did approach them prior to using the name for his main character.
I've always felt sorry for the people called Alan Partridge and Harry Potter and so forth. They're living their best life, and then suddenly people burst out laughing whenever they introduce themselves.
@@AshleyPomeroy I went to school with a 'James Bond' although that was in '73, well after the character was established, so his parents did that to him.
There is definitely something supernatural going on with Bonds PPK. It's a .32 but he frequently gets 1 shot kills with it at 50~100 yards. He even shot down a helicopter with it in Spectre. The thing is a pocket anti-aircraft gun. Major Boothroyd wasn't lying when he said it has a delivery like a brick through a plate glass window.
In most movies, where weapons appear, nonsens is the Norm.
"Bond Physics" are a very real thing haha! Let's not forget the pre-titles of GOLDENEYE, where Bond rides a motorcycle off a cliff, only to catch up to a falling airplane, get in, and take flight. Can't beat it
Technically there’s been 7, not 6 James Bonds on the big screen. I suspect you missed the David Niven version in Casino Royale, from 1967. But it is a bit shite, and probably best forgotten anyway.
6 EON, technically more than 7 if you count ALL the James Bond's in 67's Royale, plus "Card-Sharp Jimmy Bond" - these characters will also be discussed in the book, albeit briefly as the gunplay is relatively minimal in both.
The David Niven Casino Royale was a spoof. But I read somewhere that Ian Fleming originally wanted David Niven as Bond.
Wasn't it Danny Dyer?
Fleming admitted his deficiencies in firearms knowledge. In an interview he mentioned some of the furious letters he'd gotten from readers after the first couple of books and took on board the advice of one of them, who was an established authority. It also bugs me when I read books with sloppy fire-arms description. I'm a big fan of the Murdoch Mysteries TV show and was so disappointed when reading the first book which depicted a 'supposed suicide' and described the 'revolver' and then casually mentioned the 'single spent casing' on the ground next to the body 😂😂 That told me that Maureen Jennings didn't take research very seriously....
Geoffery Boothroyd, who wrote an outstanding history of the development of the pistol, provided inputs to the later books. Because Fleming knew damned near nothing on the subject.
@@Hammerli280 ...hence why it's a "Major Boothroyd" who gives Bond his PPK in the movies.
@@Hammerli280 I believe Fleming named Q 'Major Boothroyd' in his honour...
@@caeserromero3013 The statements above are absolutely right. I was just about to post the same comments about Geoffrey Boothroyd. He was a regular writer in Shooting Times for many years. After he finished Bill Harriman took his place and he is equally knowledgeable about all sorts of guns.
@@philhawley1219 👍
I've been fascinated with the WA-2000 ever since playing Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear. Looking forward to reading about it.
Hello, I actually work at the escape room you filmed part of the opening at. It's really cool seeing our safe here.
My favorite Bond anecdote is from the book side (none of my friends would be surprised). In the first book (Casino Royale) Bond has a tiny Beretta with a "skeleton grip" which he keeps in a shoulder holster, a Colt .38 with a "sawn barrel" that stays under his pillow while he sleeps, and the "long-barreled Colt .45) which is in a special compartment in his Bentley. After he'd written several books he got a letter from a guy named Boothroyd, who told him that Bond's main pistol (that .25 Beretta) belonged "in a lady's handbag" and that Bond should have a PPK instead. Fleming took Boothroyd's advice and actually (with the man's approval) included him in the next book as the SIS "armorer". He's essentially the precursor of "Q", who doesn't appear in Dr No. Fleming wasn't a firearms expert, though he did have intelligence experience. He actually founded a unit of soldiers named "30 Assault Unit" which spent the war trying to steal German technology before we, the Soviets, or even other branches of the British military got them. A commando platoon was redesignated 30 Commando just a few years ago, with the same mission. Pretty cool, huh?
As an aside, I've always thought it very British that a .32 ACP pistol is said to hit "like a brick through a plate glass window." Not that .32s don't have their place, but they're not exactly known for their stopping power.
The PPK/S would hit like a brick through a plate glass window compared to his previous .25 Beretta
This history in rich detail is covered in our book, in addition to HOW Fleming's personal history and knowledge directly impacted the tools of Bond!
It's not very British, it's very Fleming. He was clueless on firearms.
I'll see if I can find the link, but there is a short film on YT featuring Sean Connery opening up about the guns of James Bond and then goes on to interview James Boothroyd who was a Blackpool gun enthusiast who wrote to Flemming to criticise the use of the .25 Beretta. Honoured in the films as Major Boothroyd.
Ian Flemming worked with Ewan Montague on Operation Mincemeat. If anyone is interested, I believe they lied about why they went to Scotland, why not let the submarine come south. What was in Scotland that they wanted, what had just happened off the coast?
Yes! The video of Connery was a promotional piece done during the filming of Goldfinger! Classic bit, you can find it on the special features of most Goldfinger physical copies!
The link ua-cam.com/video/18V0DJvPRdI/v-deo.html This isn't the link I was thinking of, and I don't like linking anything to that thieving organisation that is the BBC, but it is a few seconds longer than the film posted 15 years ago. There is also a Wikipedia page on Boothroyd.
@@commandobond First, my reply with the link in it disappeared. Fair enough, many sites do that automatically. Then my post telling people what to look for went too. By the way, there is a film of the story of Operation Mincemeat, The Man Who Never Was. One of those stories where truth is stranger than fiction.
Jesus not in a forgiving mood today?
@@COIcultist Nope. All UA-cam's doing. They don't like people posting links. They also don't like guns (obviously).
Although born in Blackpool, Geoffrey Boothroyd was a member of a Glasgow gun club when he wrote to Ian Fleming. He wrote an excellent article in the May/June 1985 edition of Handgunner magazine which I still have. I used to have an immaculate Zehla-Mehlis manufactured PPK 7.65mm but that probably got destroyed after the handgun ban.
There'd better be a Klobb in this.
One of the stretch goals is for a section to cover GoldenEye64...
@@ForgottenWeapons Woohoo! Grew up playing it and now own both a Klobb and Spectre because of it.
@@ForgottenWeapons All right. I may have to get this - you ship to Australia?
The title page for that section better simply read "NO ODDJOB".
Lol
Sadly, especially for a book about MI6's greatest agent, buyers in the UK are going to struggle. I guess we can get delivery from France (even though we're no longer in the EU), but either way the postage is cripplingly high - Any chance of getting a bulk shipment to the Royal Armouries to sell at the US list price plus a small uplift for shipment?
I can see Jonathan opening a crate of 'machine parts', removing some straw, raising a knowing eyebrow, and removing the first tome.
Greetings from Hungary!
As a guy who works with and stacks and packs a lot of books on a daily basis,(after all, I'm working for the largest book selling company in the country) I have to say that the cinematic tribute cover is excellent. The spine of all three books would look pleasant on a bookshelf though.
The intro looks like it was produced by Albert R. Cauliflower...;)
Lol
Haven't read all the books, but in Diamonds Are Forever, iirc, Fleming wrote in that part of Bond's maintenance of his Beretta .25 involved *sharpening the firing pin.*
Fleming's response to reader feedback was upgrading to a .32, and having the humility to die before his superior, Christopher Lee.
In Europe, pistols in .25 Acp/ 6,35 Browning, had been seen up to 1960s as useable selfdefence pistols.
I think those variant covers will look fantastic as end papers for the main style book
Please do a video on the Krag-Petersson next time you’re at Royal Armouries!
And no one is commenting on the ever changing guns on the globe?
I think it goes without saying
Cool touch changing the guns on the globe.
Never have I been so stoked from a trailer for a book
My favorite bond flick still is and always will be Goldeneye. Simply for that russian aks 74-u he was rocking. I'm pretty sure that's the movie that made that gun so iconic.
And movies like Black Hawk Down and Metal Gear Solid 2 solidified the the AKS-74U in the popular imagination.
Hey Ian! As a gun enjoyer and a James Bond fan I'm absolutely excited about this book. I'm definitely going to buy it
About the covers: I'll get the base one so that it fits nicely with the other Headstamp books I own - but the artistic ones are outstanding anyways.
Thanks!
I can't wait to read this. Anyone who loves guns needs to watch the James Bond films, then read this to learn the history of those guns.
Cheers!! Appreciate the support!
This is wonderful to see! I'm still deciding which level to pledge, but I'm all in on this kickstarter for sure.
This is fun timing, I've been rewatching all of the movies
Is the on-screen gaff of having the wrong gun for the "that's a Smith and Wesson, and you've had your six" line from Dr. No discussed in the text?
That aside, I'm thoroughly excited by this release! Coincidentally, I just recently started re-watching the Bond films from the beginning, and I eagerly look forward to having this book as a companion. Now the only difficult thing will be deciding which cover variant to choose!
Many of the accidental moments are lovingly described in the copy! That’s a great one, and more than one stand-in during that scene!
Okay that may be the best trailer for a book I've ever seen.
Thanks! We had a lot of fun filming it :)
Did you have to cover the air pistols they used in some of the film poster. I remember one of the Sean Connery posters used a BSA Scorpion and I think On Her Majesty Secret Service used a unique very expensive Walther Air pistol (with the spring and piston in the grip. Not sure I can get the book in the UK but it looks brilliant Ian.
Yup! That was the Walther LP-53, and it's in the book.
The AK-74SU that Pierce Brosnan carried in Goldeneye was the same one he carried in the DAD in the pre title sequence.
AKS-74U. Sorry.
Backed, been a Bond fan for a long time. Might need to put up a new shelf at this point.
Appreciate the support!!
@@commandobond You're welcome. Congratulations on getting your first book published.
Awesome project, had to back this as if there are two things I like its Guns and Bond.
00:44 "Mr. Bond."
"Mr. Wick. I have the documents MI6 asked me to give you."
People taking coffee seriously is an understatement. Been at jobs where the coffee makers go down and people take the day off.
Of course I'm in. Being Bond-related makes it all that much cooler. I went with the Skyfall cover. Never got into the books and Craig's Bond is my favorite version.
Backed with all three books can't want to add them to my collection.
My first firearm I’ve ever bought was a Walther P99AS- all because of Bond
You made a good choice.
Brilliant selection! Beautiful sidearm.
Can confirm, I know Caleb, he's the guy to write a book like this.
A couple of years ago he jumped into one of my low light classes and shot the whole thing with his pre war PPK in .32
Cheers Chuck! Had to do it properly!
@@commandobond I'd expect no less.
This says Forgotten Weapons. I like it.
That "Skyfall" cover. 🔥
Wait, I can't buy Scaramanga's golden gun? DANG!!!
Well at least I'll get to see it in the book. The multiple covers has me definitely scratching my head. I've never read the books have watched all the movies (multiple times). I just may have to get two, one for the bookshelf (retail) and one for the coffee table (cinematic). 😉
Just signed up to support this. As a huge Bond fan (both literary and the movies) and a firearms enthusiast I am really excited about this one.
Cheers!!
@@commandobond I've followed your site since it's inception, so I was especially excited to find that you were the author.
@@andrewhopkins1010 Means a lot, thank you!
I just ordered the one with the literary cover.
Exceptional, thank you!
So excited to back this project!
3:10 Those _You Know My Name_ style pages are amazing! The movies (mainly the Brosnan-era films, and Nightfire) are such an important part of my childhood and I love the whole series, I should definitely pick this up. :O
Kickstarter pledged!
This will probably be the most popular book you guys have published, to date... Congratulations, Ian!
"Do you expect me to die?"
"No, mr Bond. I expect you to cause trouble."
I can’t wait to read this book !
Alright everyone! Lets make this the monster it deserves to be!
Most badass intro ever, Garandthumb eat your heart out.
So AWESOME. I did a series of videos on the literary Bond weapons but I'm confident it's nowhere near as good as this. For the record, Mark Hazard wrote a book about the cinematic Bond weapons.... even down to their serial numbers (in some cases) ... called 007 The Armoury. It's available on Amazon and well worth the price. As for myself, I'm heading over to kickstarter to place an order. Thanks you guys!
I have a copy of it - the biggest difference (aside from photo quality) is that he covers primarily the props used, where we are covering the real guns.
@@ForgottenWeapons And your intro video, by the way, was supurb. Bravo.
Respect for putting this out
SUPER COOL!
In what movie Bond used WA2000? Never even seen a screencap of a scene there he's using it.
Also love the fact that you change the guns displayed on the globe for each scene and that they are all relevant to Bond.
The Living Daylights! Brilliant use of it during the sniper/countersniper scene
ua-cam.com/video/0qlsjYWmUGs/v-deo.htmlsi=eESm6ebre1_KwNd3 1.55 onwards
@@commandobond Thanks! I've only seen all the movies between Connery and Brosnan era and the first of Graigs era. You may have just convinced me to hunt those older flicks down and watch them.
Thanks Ian!
That intro! WOW.
great video
VERY fun intro!!
'Problem eliminator.'
I just ordered my copy.
I'm going to have to watch this one again. I can only focus on one thing at a time and the guns being swapped every chapter is my focus. 4 and counting...
Already pledged.
I have a couple of Paris Theodore's guttersnipes, given to me by an old friend who at one time worked for the "company".
Kept having to rewind the video in case I missed a new pistol in the background lol! Ian, take that ASP to a BUG match!
stay tuned ;)
@@JordanFlayer watching it now...again 😁😁😁
As much as I know it’s not one of the best, and I’m a huge Bond guy, the man with the golden gun was one of my childhood favorites bc of the focus on the duel and specifically the PPK. Do you know if a .380/9mm Kurtz was used in this movie? Hard to prove from my research but I’ve always assumed bc of the dialogue about magazine capacity. I had to buy a German PPK in .380 to go with my 7.65 none the less lol.
Ian, never before have I been agnry with you.... I am now only because I want ALL of the editions 😅
Ian in his Scaramanga era with that safari jacket
I still love the W2000, sadly I'll probably never get my hands on one.
Canadians get slaughtered on shipping costs as is tradition, sadly. Still more than happy to make a pre-order - this project looks like it will be a very fun read.
wish we would be able to buy the EU shipping version of the cinematic cover or the 2 extra book add ons 😢
I know this is controversial, but my favourite Bond gun is the Fitz special from the cover of From Russia, with Love.
Also, I wonder what will be included on the cocktail sheet...
While I trust headstamp to deliver, I'm still not a fan of running multiple projects at once... Previously headstamp has delivered or been close to delivery of their previous products before launching a new Kickstarter. This is still pretty close to the Rifles on the Danube kickstarter. I'm on the fence as to whether I want to back this one for that reason. Also, it'd be nice to know of the stretch goals will apply to all books this time. I was very annoyed to find out after the fact that the retail version did not get some of the stretch goals.
The Walter PPK will always be James Bond's Signature Pistol
They should have introduced a PPQ in Skyfall - a perfect fit given the *Q* designation. At the start on the train when Bond tosses his PPK after it runs dry - giving the notion that both the mag capacity and stopping power was ultimately ineffective; this would have been the ideal time to transition to a better weapon. Instead we just get another crappy, tacked on retrofit PPK 😔
The UK is no longer part of the EU, does that mean shipping costs?
Yes. Our shipping cost form the EU is still less than the US, but you will probably have customs fees, which we cannot predict or control.
Swedish police used the PPK before they switched to Sig P225 in the mid nineties. And last year they changed to Glock 45.
I know this would probably be more complicated, but is there any possibility of making the artistic covers as dust jacket for the books as an add-on or other method? I ask because I like all three covers but can't justify buying 3 books.
If it isn't too late, you might want to change the cover of the book on CIA weapons & equipment: The sub-title and date is the same as on the OSS book which doesn't make a lot of sense.
Whoops! Getting the graphic designer on it now.
maybe one day I'll get a bond firearm
The danger of a book like this is the sheer number of Bond firearms you’ll **need after reading 😂
Not a huge Bond fan but still like the movies. So what’s everyone’s favorite firearm from the Series? Mine is definitely Craig’s Anderson Wheeler Double rifle! 👍🏼
Martini : Shaken, not stirred
ITYM Martini- Henry.
Heh, I backed the book before this video dropped.
An SOE/MI6 weapons and equipment stretch goal would be much appreciated.