The Kit Pic Thread

This is based on a fictional character with fictional gear, but hey, i have enough of the historically accurate stuff already...Major Konig Impression from Enemy at the Gates:

Opted for white corduroy instead of sheep skin for the collar liner as i live in a tropical country and would die of heat stroke otherwise. Also, the wool heer collar is actually mounted on a vest made of very thin cotton instead of an actual tunic. All for more fun in the sun...

Looks great! Just needs to get all Stalingrad dusty. Like the idea for the tunic.

My 326th AEB impression...the M1A1 carbine is currently being fixed at Shoot N Scoot ! All the webbing is original, and did the helmet myself -- attachment is not available --

Cheers mate ! Love the desert kit !

Brit recce corp, and further pics or previous impression... I realise the webbing needs blancoed, however I'm just up on leave and totally forgot to order the stuff ! -- attachment is not available ---- attachment is not available ---- attachment is not available --

Officially jealous of the fact that Europe has such a thriving WW2 airsoft scene.

Here's a photo of the average player here in the middle of nowhere, USA:

those guy's look just like most uk airsofters us ww2 enthusiasts are something of a minority sadly.

Officially jealous of the fact that Europe has such a thriving WW2 airsoft scene.

Here's a photo of the average player here in the middle of nowhere, USA:

The horror! The horror!

those guy's look just like most uk airsofters

I was going to say, what is wrong with people just going out to play the game for fun?

Agree with Poacher, airsofters range from the fairweather, open day player (in trainers with a hired gun), to the geardo with £5,000 of gear. Each to their own is my perspective, don't want to get all bitchy like some other styles of airsoft do.

I can of course be both.

In fact I can be both even WITH the wrong helmet or buttons - it depends what your, or more important that particular game's - priorities are.

Are 12 people with spot on Soviet uniforms of the era of the war and Papashas less 'airsofty' than 12 people with a mix of Russian uniforms from early war to the 1960s and rifles? For instance.

I dunno, I have my opinions but that is just me, as a grown up I am quite aware people will disagree with me.

anyway, my point is that
1. a game/event can definitely be BOTH Airsoft and Living History
2. that a game/event does not stop being airsoft and become living history simply by having 'more accurate uniforms', or aping what is acknowledged as the right approach 'behind the ropes'.

I think that's my point? it has been swelling around in my head for a few months now and I am still not sure I know what it is yet.

anyway, my point is that
1. a game/event can definitely be BOTH Airsoft and Living History
2. that a game/event does not stop being airsoft and become living history simply by having 'more accurate uniforms', or aping what is acknowledged as the right approach 'behind the ropes'.

Point 1 is point 2
I personally would like 24 Russians there where people have as accurate kit as they want along with participants who have the basics. When I started I had the basics saw others with great kit so bought more and more until I have a good accurate load out but I certainly don`t punish anyone for not having the correct standard as long as they make the effort. The standard will grow if nurtured.Best of both worlds. By being too fussy on the kit puts people off. A recent thread asking for somone to remove a small badge I think not only puts that player off but people reading see that also as a "Its my ball and if you don`t have re enactor kit then you are not playing" Inclusive every time

Not sure I should extend the off topic on the kit pic thread but the ill defined point in my head as I approach a year of airsoft is that I like WW2 airsoft because it is less airsoft than airsoft and because it is less living history than living history.

As in everything there is a sort of sliding scale and I would put myself much closer to the Living History end - I personally want to get it right (i have just received my engineers' tabs from Schuster to sew on for Sevastopol) but limits of budget and dedication mean that that will be achieved to varying degrees depending on the scenario but I like to see others making the effort to get it right too.

When friends ask how's the airsoft I say oh no it's not really airsoft - it's not as sad as that. Or if they ask how's the re-enacting I of course have to reply it's not really re-enacting - it's not as sad as that. I like to fool myself that I have somehow managed to find a peak of credibility along that sliding scale.

I have attended 6 (WW2) airsoft events and have somehow accumulated a rather disproportionate 9 airsoft weapons yet have (discounting the ones acquired for Dadio's most excellent Bren) only just finished my second bottle of BBs and a very high proportion of those still seem to be with me on the floor of my house or my car.

So I have NO interest in airsoft at all and cringed at the picture but each to their own as others have said. Everyone has their own internal credibilty scale which is generally in a format unreadable by anybody else.

sorry, but I think I may have made my point unclear with my example focusing on kit, when really I am talking more about attitude... I think... (But definitely NOT kit, that is entirely up to the organisers of events to dictate) and certainly only in an hypothetical and 'wandering mind' kind of way, not a reference to anything that has existed (I am wont to do this).

Thing is the only reason I can think of for someone not removing a badge, no matter how small, is bloody mindedness. If whoever is organising a game wants their players to look like a unit, and someone is badged as something else and is unwilling to remove said badge, then they are acting completely against the mindset that I, and I feel sure, the organiser of whatever, would want.

I also completely reject and dismiss this termed 'inclusiveness'. I think it has been used as an, admittedly clever, politicised term within the community to take on a new meaning and achieve a goal.
I was aghast when CiA felt like they had to say they were running an more 'inclusive event'. ALL of their games I have ever been to have been inclusive, as has every single thing I have ever attended from on this forum. The need for pukka kit has never been a requirement, and every game which has requested some level of definition of uniform has gone out of it's way to make sure people can attend with little hassle.
The only problems have arisen form people who have chosen not get into this, and demanded their inclusion on their terms. Wanting to compromise, as someone with a nicer turn of phrase then I put it, the game, rather than themselves.

I have yet to see any game that only allows a privileged minority to play.

the WW2 scene can be just as bitchy as the mainstream - "this button wasn't used til x" "that badgewasn't worn by y" is heard all too often,

I'm very guilty of that. Not shy at all of getting anal over details on the forum.
It used to worry me that those details might not be corrected. Now it doesnt. If I know about the detail in question I pass on what I know, what anyone does with the info is down to them. I dont get uptight if I turn up at a game and see the uncorrected detail. That isnt what the game is about.
I do find it frustrating that people still rush to buy kit without really knowing what they should be buying. Thats a good way to spend more than you need.

WW2 SAS beret

About 6 months of WW2, unless you are Paddy Mayne?
The girlfriend looks a little shocked? Is she alright?
You might also want to tighten the cross straps a little and move the pouches away from the buckle a bit?

Do you not find bald women attractive?

Oh, er, the straps, right. Yes lad, pull them on a bit.

Ha, good pics.

Nice

No need to blanco the rifle sling.