My latest little toy
Kodak No.2 Box Brownie (model F from 1924)
Film holder, reel and back plate
Shutter internals
Replaced the red window at the back with a piece of plastic cut out of a CD cover and coloured it red with a marker.
Replaced the top viewfinder window with another piece of plastic but covered it with Scotch Tape to give it that frosted effect.
Shutter was cleaned and I used a few droplets of gun oil on the pinions of the mechanism. It fires like it did 83 years ago 
Kodak produced literally milions of them, they're cheap and easy to fix and clean. I already love it to bits!
Taking it with me to Passchendaele this weekend
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My Marine Corps dog tags arrived today! 
youll be needing them webby 
ill take great pleasure removing them from you BB ridddled "corpse"
ill post them to you next of kin 
well also pull out any gold teeth youve got too
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Like to see you get near me! hehe!
I have modified my Airborne musette pack to be like the Marine's M41 Pack, top pic is mine, bottom pic is an original pack
Not quite WWII, (it's a 1983 Series 3), but I've just secured this:
Finally - another thank you to our lass, yet again she's put her car off so I can get something shiny, she's a star!
Blimey, I thought you said she's just okayed another gun!
well where to start......
thompson mag bag, ww2 dog tags, several ww2 history type books, several ww2 dvd's(some historical, some movies).
gotta love birthdays now to decide what to get with my birthday cash
Just received my Garand belt, suspenders, water bottle, 1911 holster and mag pouch, and first aid pouch with carlisle box from SoF. was a bit worried after the kicking they got on here, but decided to have a blast as all that was well cheap - came to just over
I hope the buckle on your garand belt lasts a bit longer then the last one I ordered from 'Cost a Fortune'. It's made from the same monkey metal as the outer barrel for the TM Thompson. It's rather fragile. 
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from the sounds of it, the ways you two use are almost the same, mine on the other hand....
Do you chew the blanco block and then lick the webbing?
lol
Well allmost
Two M1 Carbines arrived in the post from joker. Yet more for the collection.
2 tins of 
arrived in the post this morning
Evo got a load of that and i coudlnt bloody have any wiht my no caffeine and no chocolate diet!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
2 tins of
arrived in the post this morning
2 tins won't be enough, it's gorgeous.
2 tins won't be enough, it's gorgeous.
Yeah was impressed with the samples I had at CR, I'll be stockpiling for PW
Had my CR rations arrive this morning :p
Oh well. Saving them for Wotan
Just received my Garand belt from SoF.
Dont put too much strain on the buckle at the front, I had 2 snap on me within minutes of hooking it up
Just received my Garand belt from SoF.
Dont put too much strain on the buckle at the front, I had 2 snap on me within minutes of hooking it up
I was a bit worried about that, but I've had it on three times while I set it up, and even my mighty Belly Savalas didn't break it. Yet.
Watch this space.
Hehehe, I would try and re-enforce it somehow, i use cable ties on the two uprights of the buckle, seems to do the trick nicely
Does nobody else make decent US webbing?
I'm amazed that somebody doenst if the sof stuff is the wrong colour and keeps breaking.
Year s ago i bought some orignal dated late war US webbing for not much form springfields in burton upon trent.....
they might still have some.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Cool, thanks for the advice. You couldn't send me a pic of yours, could you? I'm struggling to visualise.
I have an original Garand Belt now, which is made out of proper metal, but I rarely play with my M1 so only wear it for photos like:
