I'm going to have to pop over to one of these doncaster car boot sales.
Keepmoat Stadium - get there as early as you can! (I arrived at 7:10am last Sunday... ...I had to be back in Bessicar by 8:30am for a full English breakfast being cooked for me!)
Carboots are always hit and miss. I've been looking for a decent Commando bergan at carboot sales for nearly 10 years. I found a very rare 'mountain troop' bergan (basically a commando bergan made to fit an everest-frame/everest-carrier/whatever-the-heck-they're-called) for £1 at a Cambridge carboot back in 2005 IIRC, after all this time I've now found two normal ('43 pattern) within a week of each other up totally different ends of the country, both for super-cheap!
My motto when carbooting is; even if you don't currently want it or need it, haggle it cheap and buy it anyway - 'cos it saves these historic items of militaria from being thrown away/abused and they'll always be someone else who'll want to buy it/borrow it off of you. For example, re-sale of such commando bergans will easily raise a minimum of £30 each - shame I just hoard them and never do sell them though...
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Some replacement German buttons, a new cap eagle to replace my frayed old one and a wound badge. Well, I've sustained enough airsoft injuries now to warrant one...
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
2nd class War Merit Cross ribbon and Eastern Front ribbon (of which i've got double the amount i need, so i'll be putting 1 length up in the for sale section shortly).
A pair of Luftwaffe M35 trousers. Thanks Angel.
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 pair of American 42 jump trousers.
Best trousers in the world as they actually fit me!
Well that proves it; I always knew American kit was designed for girls.
From The Victory Show today:
WW2:
A 'real steel' fusee-spring cover for my custom airsoft Vickers MMG - £30
A 'real steel' trigger safety catch, also for the above - £10
Signals field telephone webbing strap - £3
Brit' jackknife lanyard - £4 (yeah, a bit expensive, but I was bored of looking for one for any cheaper that also was long enough to fit nicely around a waiste bigger than the usual tiny 1940s waistes)
Non-WW2:
Two unissued East German black tanker's jackets - £1 each
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
From Derby's Cattle Market carboot:
A Brit' wartime style (albeit post-war made) grey wool blanket with the red stitched edging - £2!
A set of old trolly/trailer wheels and axle for making a trolley for my WW2 Brit' generator to roll about on - £6 for the set.
A mains-powered Carter Gent GP1 air-raid siren!!! - £2!!! It's the single rotor version, so doesn't sound as awesome as the dual tone ones, but still great for the price! Here's a video of a newer Secomak made GP1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ4izj2OJ7Y
Another British B167*-type ammo tin, but this one is 1953 dated - £5
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
15 shotgun mags to fit my garand.
has taken quite some time but almost got everything
just need to put it all together.
I know it's gonna be a good custom job
I know it's gonna be a good custom job
going to get this one firing pfc's del, but hopefully have enough spare parts to make a gbb using maybe a we svd.
jay
Rather dull but two US Army singlets, keep the cold out without looking like I got GI underwear at Next.
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. "
A very nice set of webbing and other bits courtesy of a member here:
Belt
Long cross straps
Size 3 gaiters
L straps
Small pack
Waterbottle+ holder
Mk 3 (?) pouches
Other bits and bobs
All it needs now is some blanco!
Rather dull but two US Army singlets, keep the cold out without looking like I got GI underwear at Next.
Vests ! Now, where'd I put ma banjo....
Tracer & bottle of green BBs ready for the December game. Bought the cheap B&T thing - seems fine! Discovered it works nicely just dropping the BBs into the tube - so the cat and I have been having a great time in the dark, flicking them around the living room. She said it made a nice change from marble flicking, our more normal evening activity.
dboys k98 wood springer and........its not orange! its an almost brown colour near to the g+g k98 but not quite,its almost going to be a shame to strip and re stain.
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
possible acquisition...would this be acceptable in a German camp
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Surpl ... 5ae65adab5
usually anything green or brown canvas is fine as period tentage.
though now ive said it, someone will have a zeltbahn only event
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Got myself a very nice custom Garand with 30 (yes, count em) 30 shottie mags! Very cool!