@ glenlivet: Nice stuff mate, and a great photo pose as well!
Thank you 
Guess it doesn't show that the pic was taken way up in the Austrian mountains! 
Agreed, very nice pic Glenlivet45, great kit and perfect setting!
"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."
General William Tecumseh Sherman
tried on my Isle of Man Home Guard Denims for the first time tonight 
had to use normal gaitors instead of leather till my new ones arrive, trousers are the smallest that SOF supply, will keep my nipples warm though 
Looks spot on to me. I think it is usual to tip the cap over to the right rather than the left but you capture the 'what you got was what they had' look.
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. "
cheers noticed that with the cap after I'd uploaded the pic 
Im wearing my german low boots as well, have a pair of cadet ammo boots coming (can wear them safely for airsoft then) until I find an original pair of ammo boots
29th ID non-com, June 6th
Edit; I ripped my gas brassard at a skirm, I'll have to look into making one out of fabric or something to make them a bit more "skirm-resillient"...
Very nice!
Looks great! Unhook the chinstrap and pop it round the back of the helmet though.
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
I prefer wearing the chinstrap instead of looking all nice and hollywood-ish. I always find it amusing seeing US players running about with one hand on their pot. That's what chin straps are made for people! 
But whatever tickles your pickle right.
Heh, I must say the first thing I thought was how good to see a chin strap in use (if a bit slack )
if a bit slack
It was a "brand new" Sofmil shell... Ripped the right strap straight off first use... Had to jam It double between the loops for picture time...
Yeah I know....
Heh, I must say the first thing I thought was how good to see a chin strap in use (if a bit slack
Indeed!
(although I think there was a fashion in the British Army in the 40s to wear it on the back of the head as tere was a bit of a folklore about that the blast from a nearby explosion could lift your lid up and break your neck!)
Oh and spot on look Rammix, really good. Don't worry about the trousers, denims are spposed to be really big, mine are like clown trouser but the 'correct' size to go over my BD size. They also should be really high waisted - 40s trouserswere worn under the ribs not on the hips so you look spot on!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
(although I think there was a fashion in the British Army in the 40s to wear it on the back of the head as there was a bit of a folklore about that the blast from a nearby explosion could lift your lid up and break your neck!)
Yes, that was a bit of a myth. Less of a myth (and proven in WW1, sadly), was that men partially buried under earth after explosion or earth collapse, often had their necks broken as their comrades tried to drag them free, because they had their strap under their chin.
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
had to use normal gaitors instead of leather till my new ones arrive, trousers are the smallest that SOF supply, will keep my nipples warm though
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I dont think 37 pattern is at all wrong for some units if you're using late war green denims.
My grandads home guard unit had full sets of 37 pattern webbing (and hod loads of sten guns) in the 1943 pic i have of them on parade.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
There was certainly a fashion amongst the US troops to do the same.
I had a quick look at images google threw up and it showed about a 50-50 split for chin strap up and chin strap down. A case of both ways of wearing the strap are correct.
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. "
I'd imagine it was then as now.
There is a *proper* way of wearing things and a way that becomes fashionable (usually because it looks 'warry').
Berets in the British Army for example... the capbadge is supposed to be ovr the left eye and it nearly always starts to slide round to the left side of the head 'french style'.. while the WWII equivalent being the GS cap. Supposed to be worn like a beret but in a large proportion of pics seems to be worn in a gravity defying 'balanced on the back of the head' manner.
(new) Soliders tend to copy what the veterans around them are doing and wearing... partly as it clearly must work if they are doing it and also to try and make yourself look less 'green'.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Oh and spot on look Rammix, really good. Don't worry about the trousers, denims are spposed to be really big, mine are like clown trouser but the 'correct' size to go over my BD size. They also should be really high waisted - 40s trouserswere worn under the ribs not on the hips so you look spot on!
cheers
Our new group portrays the Isle of Man HG from 1939 to 1940
My Grandad's home guard. Uttoxeter detachment.
And here you can see that my denims are mahoosive too...
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
