Are you getting on in years?
Is your fitness well below par?
Do you have absolutely no military training?
Is your kit a cobbled together mish-mash of stuff?
Then join the VOLKSSTURM - now officially the cheapest loadout ever.
Kraft durch Pilsner (strength through lager)
or,,, how about the early war LDV ? didnt even have weapons, broom handle with a kitchen knife bolted to the end.
Are you getting on in years?
Is your fitness well below par?
Do you have absolutely no military training?
Is your kit a cobbled together mish-mash of stuff?Then join the VOLKSSTURM - now officially the cheapest loadout ever.
Kraft durch Pilsner (strength through lager)
OK, so that's 95% of the Germans on here....!! 
Now that really would be good reenacting! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
That's my point. For once we'll actually fit the profile of the real combat soldier 
This works well on so many levels:
If you're on a budget, a day going through charity shops would get you a set of 1930's looking civilian clothes for under £30. Add an armband and bingo, you're 100% authentic. If you have a load of surplus kit that doesn't match, well guess what? - it does now! And if you feel the need to feed the habit then you can drop Sanjay a line and be the first on your block with a Reichsbahn uniform. Add a Luftschutz helmet, bid up for that WWI german field equipment on Ebay and everybody's happy.
I also have romantic daydreams about attending open days and seeing some Delta wannabes soundly thrashed by a bunch of old geezers that look like rag & bone men.
In all seriousness I'm definitely making this my next impression. If anyone can recommend a good book I'd be grateful (I've spent at least 15 minutes trawling the web for source pictures to no avail).
Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
Now there's a project weapon
Sounds like a top idea B&H!
This site is in Polish but has a few good pics:
http://wilk.wpk.p.lodz.pl/~whatfor/volksst.htm
I'm liking this one, notice the guy in the front row carrying DP28 Mags!
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
Good link Boshman.
Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
Now there's a project weapon
See - that's what I'm talking about
must...spend...money...making...ugly...gun
also found this:
Presumably these are re-used SS rank tabs?
Volkssturmgewehr 1-5
Now there's a project weapon
or how about a MP3008? Easier that a custom sten as the mag is still vertical!
“I wanted to come to the Volga at a specific location at a specific city. By chance it carries the name of Stalin himself. So don’t think I marched there for this reason – it could carry another name – but because there is a very important goal... this goal I wanted to take – and you know – we are very modest, we have it already."
Adolf Hitler, November 1942
"Comrades, Red Army men, commanders and political workers, men and women guerrillas! It is on your perseverance, staunchness, fighting skill and readiness to discharge your duty to the country that the defeat of the German-fascist army and the liberation of the Soviet land from the Hitlerite invaders depend! We can and must clear the Soviet land of Hitlerite vermin."
Joseph Stalin, November 1942
It turns out that my aunt's "boyfriend" (he's 77) was a kid soldier in a Volkssturm unit. They were all between 14 and 16 years old with some doddery old nazi as a CO. His battle plan was to erect a street barricade, inflict a stunning defeat on the Bolsheviks, then hop the barricade and do the same to the Amis when they arrived. The boys thought of a better plan, ditched their weapons and headed west at speed in order to find an American or British unit to surrender to.
I feel a bit stupid asking him what kit he carried though 
Osprey do a good book on the subject 
http://www.ospreypublishing.com/store/book.aspx?bookcode=T0137
This apparently is a VK98, made specifically for the Volksturm near the end of the war, there is also another model which looks the same but with a short mag...looks enormously like an MP001
