The buttons are tricky to fasten without the pole being there.
Velcro is the way forward... 
Yes Chommers your probably right about leaving it buttoned up as a tent, and I am so easily talked out of doing work!
But more expense - need to buy a fifth zelt to wear! 
You can never have too many or enough zelts.
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. "
But more expense - need to buy a fifth zelt to wear!
Yes already thought of that, unfortunately finances will not allow for a fifth zelt yet, will have to hope it does not rain
And, err, 25,000 BBs...
Blatfest alert!!! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
And, err, 25,000 BBs...
Blatfest alert!!!
Why do you think I'm bringing a rucksack to Volturno? At 600 rounds a life that is only 41 lives 
I also got some of the apparently vanishingly rare 7.2v AEP batteries from Firesupport (who have some in), so my Glock 18 can live once more.... I'll try not to cook these 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
The buttons are tricky to fasten without the pole being there.
Velcro is the way forward...
Nah it's a rip off
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
Nah it's a rip off
And, err, 25,000 BBs...
Blatfest alert!!!
Why do you think I'm bringing a rucksack to Volturno? At 600 rounds a life that is only 41 lives
Cheers
Martin
41 Live priceless for everything else there is Mastercard 
At Derby's Cattle Market carboot:
Two Brit entrenching helves, not in brilliant condition, though one looked like it might have been from WW1 - The guy wanted £10 for both, so in that condition I didn't buy...
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Mauxion Scho Ka Kola eagle tin
and ANOTHER scho ka kola tin. Two in one day 
This is a second model commercially distributed version in extremely good nick. The back printing is well off-centre so I'm guessing it's a late war, low QC production.
Or it's a fake - but for 18 euros I'm not too bothered 
Received my "Hudsons Attack" print and framed it up ready for my "man cave" wall
My great uncle was in 269 Sqn in a Hudson when he was shot down and killed over the Norwegian sea in 1940' the print is dated 1942 but still nice to have the same Sqn and plane
He is on the Runnymeade memorial
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
41 Live priceless
I am determined to get my wound badge
Latest toys, a new Heer belt buckle, replacement water bottle cup and a nice repro K98 bayonet. All arrived in time for the weekend, hurrah!
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
Last week I aquired a 1944 dated no18 set!
Whle I wasnt *given* it, it came at a price that was practically giving it away.
Needs a bit of reconditioning but the internals are all good and it came with the headphones and mike.
The odds of using it for it intended purpose are astronomically small (given I can't get lead acid batteries easily and the frequencies it uses are restricted) but it's quite likely we can put a modern radio in the battery compartment and use it as a HQ set at events!
(once I've got it back fitted with an awning and carrying straps!)
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Nice!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
A china repro Russian PU scope for my Mosin Nagant conversion
A repro 1941 Russian Leaf Pattern camo suit
Aaaand....a brand spankin new baby boy.
All in the same week!
A china repro Russian PU scope for my Mosin Nagant conversion
A repro 1941 Russian Leaf Pattern camo suit
Aaaand....a brand spankin new baby boy.
All in the same week!
Congrats mate..........
Also well done on the new boy lol
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
From Kettering Carboot Sale this morning (straight from the Volturno game!):
Brit wooden 'belt box' labelled up for 9mm ball (loose) ammunition (like the picture below, but for 9mm, not .303). Post-war (you can tell by the lid clasps), but has lovely clear markings and no date marks on it. - £5
A British military screw-wrench (very similar (but of an older design) to the type used by railway maintenance teams during the British Rail era) - 50p
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
StG-44 mag pouch from Steiner. Many thanks Andy 
Ares Grease Gun
