Christmas ideas.......

Unless you have other people in your family with an appropriate VCRA defence, they are going to have problems buying you an M14.

My wife sometimes gets me airsoft bits & pieces, but it is a case of sending her links to websites and exact instructions. Not very Christmassy so I don't usually bother. She might get funny ideas about how much all this stuff costs

Christmas is usually a good time to get stupidly expensive military history books you'd never look at otherwise. Both volumes of Jentz's Panzteruppen last year, woohoo. Hoping for Cassells 'British Battlefields' and Chris Sharps 'Soviet Infantry Tactics' this year.

Cheers
Martin

Wives and relatives getting funny ideas about how much all this stuff costs - definitely to be avoided, best kept in the dark if you ask me

My better half is kindly getting me toy soldiers, and history books is another item on the list, most definitely

I usually ask for war/documentary dvd's

reference books and tools.

This year it's mostly been SoF order codes for me...

I usually ask for war/documentary dvd's

Yes, another good idea. Last year I got the old 1960s BBC series 'The Great War', brilliant as I didn't see it first time around and has lots of great footage including extracts from the German recreation of the fall of Fort Douament and a wonderful sequence showing two batteries of 6" howitzers firing in a ripple.

I got a copy of 'Threads' for my birthday this year, cheery stuff and interesting to see how much Sheffield has changed since 1983.

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Martin

I got a copy of 'Threads' for my birthday this year, cheery stuff and interesting to see how much Sheffield has changed since 1983.

Cheers
Martin

Is that in comparison from after they dropped a nuke on it?

TBH I'm not sure there is much difference although the demolition crews did a better job knocking down the Egg Box than the nuke did.

No MSC building at the bottom of the Moor, no swanky apartments and mainly, still a city based on steel and coal plus the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshires subsidised integrated bus system. Shame RAF Finningly got moved a bit just so they could have a nice shot of the mushroom cloud over it.

Eeeh, it takes me back to the good old days of impending nuclear annihilation. When I was younger we lived near Woodford and the Vulcans came in and out low over the the house to get their WE177s replaced with Blue Steel. Never thought we'd make it to the 1980s, let alone the twenty first century.

Cheers
Martin

I usually ask for war/documentary dvd's

Yes, another good idea. Last year I got the old 1960s BBC series 'The Great War', brilliant as I didn't see it first time around and has lots of great footage including extracts from the German recreation of the fall of Fort Douament and a wonderful sequence showing two batteries of 6" howitzers firing in a ripple.

Cheers
Martin

There`s a nice documentary on the Somme from 1976 online here http://www.archive.org/details/Somme_710 I missed it when it was first aired and only caught up with it recently.

I lived near Brussels in the '80s and they were always having civil defence exercises,

My friend and I used to play Frankie goes to Hollywood's "two tribes megamix" 12" single out of the window at full blast
The first 2 mins were an air raid siren
Oh how we laughed to see everybody running

Seems a bit childish now but I was only 14 at the time

Yeah i think some decent books are a god idea - the battlesdress/equipment ones by Dicky (Richard Ingram) at S&S are good and not too expensive.

Well being a sick puppy i am fascinated by the post apocolytic genre. Threads was excellent, although may lose a bit over the years to someone who did not see it at the time (and in the poo your pants cold war era). I watched it recently with a youngster (well under 30) who remarked that they were suprised that things hadnt got back to normal 10 years post attack and they could make more of an effort!

Its does beat The Day After hands down, but another excellent piece was the 60s The War Game.

With this in mind I've done a 70/80s loadout (difficult to find 68 patt trousers in larger gentlemans size!) allied with the fabby SLR. Shame there are no cold war games.

Cheers

Simon

Shame there are no cold war games.

Oh, but there are - check out Gunman, there have been others too.

With this in mind I've done a 70/80s loadout (difficult to find 68 patt trousers in larger gentlemans size!) allied with the fabby SLR.

Me too. Now to do it properly we need to be running around in noddy suits.

I too have heard rumours of Cold War games, but I can't say I've ever managed to play in one. We just turn up at our local site in our 80s gear. One young lad asked me if it was a WW2 uniform....

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Martin

http://www.coldwarairsoft.com/

One young lad asked me if it was a WW2 uniform....

I've had the same with my cold war Soviet kit.

Gunman cold war games are good. Not as well developed as the WWII scene but alot of fun. The next event is the 22nd Jan as the Assylum.

http://gunmanforum.com/index.php?showtopic=5033

I can vouch for the Gunman Cold War games. I've not been to as many of my fellow Team Spleen-ers', as I'm more dedicated to the WW2 scene. I already had all of the Brit load-out many times over,... ...but the rest of the team insisted we do NVA!

Mmmm I bet the games are as rare as hen's teeth though - but cheers for the tip. Jeez the thought of walking let alone running in a Noddy suit sounds awful - boil in the bag - especially wearing an S6 respirator.

My sister was in the Royal Sigs NATO in Germany and thier aim was to stay on air for 20 minutes or so in the event of war! I remember her saying that in the case of an NBC attack shed'd rather open the suit up that go though the horror of constant injections decontamination etc.

Anyway a cheery thought to end on! Apologies for swerving the content of the thread to Armageddon based Nostalgia!

Mmmm I bet the games are as rare as hen's teeth though

Don't be so pessimistic, dear fremsley! Last year there were nearly as many Gunman 'Cold War' Ops and Main Events as there were Gunman 'WW2' Ops and events. This year looks like it will be an even keel between both eras.

Check out the Cold War events, past and present, here: http://gunmanforum.com/index.php?s=e55ffb60328d52f2e18808039c232269&showforum=101

Cheers Dude. One has signed up and posted. Ta muchley.