Just picked up my Chinese Thompson, so i can finally get on with converting it!
Also in the post, a pair of DMS boots, a green beret and a set of 2 Commando insignia.
Some new books.
Stirlings Men - A history of the SAS in wwii
The Burma Road - History of the pacific campaign
Jedburgh teams and Special Forces in France.
And a book on machine guns
All £2 each from the cheap bookshop opposite the bear factory in the Victoria center in notts.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Some new books here as well...
- British Army Uniforms and Insignia of World War Two (Hardcover) by Brian L. Davis
- D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Soldier's Story) (Hardcover) by Martin Windrow
- British Army Handbook: 1939-1945 (Hardcover) by George Forty
my rather large delivery of 37 patt. kit turned up finally:
mmmm... nice... 
now you just have to blanco it all!
The left hand water bottle carrier is interesting...
er... just noticed there are a few oddities in the way its been put together. Nothing major....
The loop on one of the braces on the front... have both braces got loops on them??
When putting the braces through the buckles the half of the buckle with a section missing always goes closer to the end of the brace. This is minor but means that the entrenching tool sits on top of the other stuff as the braces go behind it. It makes it a bit neater... I didn't know about this until a month or so ago!
mmmm... nice...
now you just have to blanco it all!
The left hand water bottle carrier is interesting...
yup, might make a start on blanco'ing it tonight!
I'm popping over to Gadge's later, so i'll show him it all then.
Arrived and first fit of Warren's Stg-44 Frontend.
Yesterday from Nick Morigi
EK1 with proper pin
Silver Wound badge , full casting with proper pin much better than SOF stamped one
Silver CC Clasp , again much better, proper pin , proper black metal insert in the middle
Officer's Breast Eagle
Superb quality if a lil costly £60 
dieselmonkey... looks like you're missing some L-straps for the small pack...
dieselmonkey... looks like you're missing some L-straps for the small pack...
apart from the green beret, insignia and holster, it all came as one bulk ebay lot, already put together like that, rather than a specific order by me.
I think it's a large pack, rather than a small one too, and yes, it is missing the straps.
Not bad though for £12, even if it is missing a few straps! 
i must admit, i know next to nothing about brit kit, so Gadge is being invaluable at the moment!
do'h... of course its a large pack... (gah!)
In which case you're missing some utility straps as well as the L-straps...
A very good deal for £12!
I have some L straps you can have on indefinate loan
pop over tomight and i'll show you how its all done
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
er... just noticed there are a few oddities in the way its been put together. Nothing major....
The loop on one of the braces on the front... have both braces got loops on them??
I think the loop on the left front of the braces is actually meant to be at the back where the braces cross over - they are just put on front to back in the photo.
If you unbuckle them and buckle them up again this time making sure that loop is to the back the other strap can then be threaded through the loop. If that makes any sense.
Get me, I sound like a pro.
Insignia:
Leutnant shoulder boards with gold LAH cyphers
Removable woolen LAH cyphers for EM or NCO boards
Both from Militaria-net -
Osprey Panzer Divisions (revised edition) £4 off Ebay
If its passed 9 there is a 95% chance im pissed.
Yesterday at the Schaffen/Diest oldtimer fly-in I bought two DI crests:
One was a rare post-war 2nd Armored 502nd Military Platoon crest,
The other was of the 2nd Armored 142nd Signal Corps.
Still need a Signal Corps BOS disk if I want to change over my Class A completely from Engineers to Signal Corps.
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er... just noticed there are a few oddities in the way its been put together. Nothing major....
The loop on one of the braces on the front... have both braces got loops on them??
I think the loop on the left front of the braces is actually meant to be at the back where the braces cross over - they are just put on front to back in the photo.
If you unbuckle them and buckle them up again this time making sure that loop is to the back the other strap can then be threaded through the loop. If that makes any sense.
Get me, I sound like a pro.
You may be right... but I do wonder if he's been sent two straps with loops on them, rather than one with and one without. So one loop has been used already and the other hasn't...
No it was a normal pair of size 'normal' braces, just had them on the wrong ends.
All that webbing was in very sound order other than he blancoed belt.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
You may be right... but I do wonder if he's been sent two straps with loops on them, rather than one with and one without. So one loop has been used already and the other hasn't...
nah, they were just put on wrong, Gadge helped me sort it all out, and picked me up a small pack and straps for the large pack from crich yesterday, so i've got all my webbing sorted now. Well, i will have when i've blanco'ed it all!
Oh, and the unusual webbing water bottle had a 1953 date on it, so it's not that interesting now! 
My Bird has bought me Osprey Elite book on the Recce Corps, I've just had to go to SOF and buy some new kecks (yup I know....) as I've lost some weight, also a few other bits, also bought speedloader and some extra mags for Colt and Tommy gun....