Rubber Bayonet 10 Inch ,Painting, I used Thamya Color
near M3
The original WW2 (Thetford) Sergeant's mess hand painted Regimental plaque for the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars.
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
GI's collectors guide Vol I from those good people at The Book Depository for £25 brand new
Impressions:
U.S. 35th Inf Tech Sargeant
British Royal Artillery Gunner
Generic SS Mann
Weapons:
Cyma M1A1
ASG Sten MK2
ASG MP40
TM M1911A1
WE Browning High Power
HFC Mauser C96
To go with my Brit and Commonwealth dah;
A 1940 dated Brit machete! Again, from a carboot sale! Blade is still nicely blackened, rather than being polished up. Scabbard is in as good, if not better condition than the one shown below. - £8!!!
I really should start to put a Chindit kit together...
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
I really should start to put a Chindit kit together...
No need ,they were issued in each section in NWE ,regular D Day kit not to everyone I don't think,but quite common to cut through french hedgerows.
Got one at a local steam show last year for a £1 !! dated 1917 with matching dated scabbard.
They were issued 1 per section to british troops in NWE.
Didnt Sandy just say that?
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Didnt Sandy just say that?
He didn't specify the quantity.
A pair of soviet infantry shoulderboards, field ones to supplement my everyday ones.
Cheers
Martin
"Mistakes in the initial deployment cannot be rectified" Helmuth von Moltke
Toys: AGM MP40, Cyma M1A1, TM M14/G43/SVT40, TM VSR/K98, SnS No. 4, ASG Sten, Ppsh.
Arnhem3,Gumrak,Campoleone
A brand new ST ppsh just in time for saturaday, import and handling cost £40 
but very happy with the gun 
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High leg *or* DMS?
Eithers cool it's just DMS tend to be ankle boots like ammo boots (i imagine thats what you wanted for WWII) and the 'boots combat high' are the high leg 80s type that folk sometimes use to represent FJ boots.
Edit: From your avatar i reckon it's probably the second option 
Nice, i always regretted trading mine in for assault boots.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Nice, i always regretted trading mine in for assault boots.
Really? You'd rather have a pair of "Boots, Cardboard, Horrible" than a pair of Assaults'? 
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Really? You'd rather have a pair of "Boots, Cardboard, Horrible" than a pair of Assaults'?
I would. Assault boots are crap in my experience, whoever thought of the speed lacing system should be hung by a pair of his own boot laces! I've walked thousands of miles in BCH and, never had a problem. It's a myth that they're no good.
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
The man speaks truth.
When Assault boots came in we were gutted as recruits we had BCHs issued (did all my recruit training in BCH and never had a single blister), i deliberately 'sabotaged' one of my pairs of BCH to exchange them for assault boots and regretted it for ever after.
Not as comfy as BCG, scuff up really easily, the speed lacings crap like Pete says.
In the end i 'organised' a pair of pro boots for the winter and bought a pair of junglies for moocing about and used my other pair of BCH for most other things (and I had a pair of RAF aircrew boots that were comfy a for day to day duties... they looked like normal army boots but were really soft and had next to no tread on them somore like shoes underneath).
Boots you can never have too many!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
The main gripe I've had with BCH is they're not as submergable as Assault boots, and they've got as much purchase with the grip of the sole as that of a greased turd.
I do prefer the look of BCH, and they're in my common attire when out at clubs.
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
4 original US carlisle tins, unopened, 2 green, 2 orange
typical, like bloody buses, waited ages to get 1 and 4 come along at once 
ESS advancer V12 goggles at a bargain price and delivered in under 24hrs
Impressions:
U.S. 35th Inf Tech Sargeant
British Royal Artillery Gunner
Generic SS Mann
Weapons:
Cyma M1A1
ASG Sten MK2
ASG MP40
TM M1911A1
WE Browning High Power
HFC Mauser C96
I ordered a few bits of German and American insignia from Morigi yesterday lunch time, nothing massive, a few bevo bits for chest and cap and an original div badge for arm.
They were here this morning.
aka Stigroadie
AFRA
better by design
"Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. "
Luftwaffe shirt and cap from Stof
original ppsh sling for £5 from local antiquities shop
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