A classic example is many military vehicle owners.
While their wagons are correct to the rivet and have the right paperwork in them and stowage is loveingly set up... they tend to ride around in jeans and t-shirt as to them the part they are recreating is the vehicle, they dont really care about the men who drove them. 
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
A classic example is many military vehicle owners.
While their wagons are correct to the rivet and have the right paperwork in them and stowage is loveingly set up... they tend to ride around in jeans and t-shirt as to them the part they are recreating is the vehicle, they dont really care about the men who drove them.
Since getting the combo, i've been doing a lot of research on MV forums, and it's a common joke/comment that MV enthusiasts are quite happy to skimp/be vaguely correct on the uniform side of things, while reenactors are quite happy with repro/slightly innacurate vehicles.
I would rekon that would be due to not having the funds to do both at similar times? 
I would rekon that would be due to not having the funds to do both at similar times?
Compared to the cost of some of the vehicles i've seen recently, a full top-notch uniform loadout is peanuts!
I mean, at Beltring, I saw loads of Brit 'reenactors' wearing post-war grey elasticated braces (only saw two chaps with the correct white cotton type), quite a bit of black hardware webbing, non-blanco'd webbing with BD (i.e: they weren't the guys portraying Africa/Italy etc) was rife and I didn't hear a word against it, all were just having a good time trying the best they could with what they had.
Best not show you what I wore at Beltring...... 
Which reminds me...
What a miserable looking sod I am! The glasses are Chommers' by the way, hence I look a bit stuck in the headlights.....
Any pics of the dancing or was the light too crap?
dancing vid is OK, I'll post some time...
I would rekon that would be due to not having the funds to do both at similar times?
Compared to the cost of some of the vehicles i've seen recently, a full top-notch uniform loadout is peanuts!
Yes but it takes research into an area they're not interested in.
Just as I'm not interested in Jeep manifolds. (whatever a manifold is)
I would rekon that would be due to not having the funds to do both at similar times?
Compared to the cost of some of the vehicles i've seen recently, a full top-notch uniform loadout is peanuts!
Yes but it takes research into an area they're not interested in.
Just as I'm not interested in Jeep manifolds. (whatever a manifold is)
Its something thats been folded alot 
I've leaped from the airsofter mind set and embraced the re enacting side. Dog company attend both events and have been well recieved at both. As has been pointed out kit level vary dramatically but the constant is the striving to achieve a level of realism and that does include the mindset.
Standards of kit have nothing to do with being a re-enactor or not. Most of you have passed the standards of many people who look at themselves as re-enactors.
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I mean, at Beltring, I saw loads of Brit 'reenactors' wearing post-war grey elasticated braces (only saw two chaps with the correct white cotton type), quite a bit of black hardware webbing, non-blanco'd webbing with BD (i.e: they weren't the guys portraying Africa/Italy etc) was rife and I didn't hear a word against it, all were just having a good time trying the best they could with what they had.
I think I was one of those... the biggest issue is the crap standard of the white gaiters (mine broke during the show)...
I find each airsoft event (usually 1 dayers) I attend in period kit with a good attitude and smile, then weekend reenacting events is taking me to acting more and more 'in period'... which is fantastisch.
Yes. I've compared the SOF braces to original white braces. They are a very good reproduction of the design. However the materials used and the finishing are rubbish beyond belief. Hence the metalwork and leather breaks very easily. The white tapes look to be okay though, if a bit too long.
Put the white tapes from an SoF pair on an original set of leather and metalwork and you should have pretty good braces however.
