sorted the wish list for next weeks stoneleigh. glad i have just cleared the credit card off 
drove an armoured personnel carrier
dont ask me what model it is though... i dont remember 
...recovered from Cambridge Winter Beer Fest'!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Badged up my tunic and cut up a winter parka to make it into a lightweight smock. Busy busy!
4 Sqn (4 CS Regt), SRR (MT)
x2 Tours of Iraq, 2yrs N.I
Let us know how you get on at the IWM. Some recent comments on the re enacting forums that it was none too good. I have not been to main museum for years as well. I did get to the film archive late last year and that was really good. It was both for the films that I had booked to view and the displays on AFPU they have in the corridors.
I last went to the IWM a couple of years ago, still pretty good IMHO. Depends what you are interested in of course. Sean Bean is still doing his gruff sergeant thing in the WW1 trench.
Chers
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
The IWM was THE Holy Grail of museums when I was a kid in the 1970's. I remember going there the first time, knocked out by the massive naval guns outside and my breath taken away by everything inside.
It still had interest for me, but it seems to have become an "experience" rather than a museum, and I didn't feel that excitement and wonder anymore, and I didn't go away thinking I'd learnt anything. The moral of this tale is don't go back to what you loved as a child!
I took my boys up there just before Christmas, and they loved it.
It still had interest for me, but it seems to have become an "experience" rather than a museum, and I didn't feel that excitement and wonder anymore, and I didn't go away thinking I'd learnt anything. The moral of this tale is don't go back to what you loved as a child!
I know what you mean, but then again, we're not kids anymore and we probably already know a lot about the things in the IWM. I went last year and thought that if I had known nothing about the subject it would have been quite informative, if that makes sense.
Oh, and today I finished strengthening the Doughboys' .30 cal only to discover that the steel bracket I had put in to stop the utterly butterly aluminium on the handle end from bending now interfered with the trigger actuator preventing it from firing. 
Still, at least the barrel end is straight. Back to the shed tomorrow.
Watched myself on a Military Channel documentary about Stalingrad.
Filmed years ago but this was the first time I had seen it all.
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. "
Think I've finally figured out a way to get a standard v2 gearbox into an M1 carbine, with a decent bit of modification though.
Finishing sanding, staining and oiling the stock of my K98 and put it back together again.
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
Went to Stoneleigh!
And bought stuff!
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Put polish on my belt and Y-straps... and managed to get away with not messing up Frau Steiner's kitchen! 
You've got nothing to ein, zwei, drei, vier
Went shopping at stoneleigh.
Haggled and got a couple of bargains.
New BD trousers 4 inch smaller waist size than last time! 
got some work for the first time in nearly a year 
Being unemployed is arse
4 Sqn (4 CS Regt), SRR (MT)
x2 Tours of Iraq, 2yrs N.I
Cleaned my boots after the weekend and counted how many hobnails I'd lost (only two).
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
stiched on a chest eagle and added eagle and flag transfers to my new helmet,all supplied by epic of who i cant speek highly enough off for prompt service 
looking a bit better with some insignia on my kit
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
Hello 'today I' thread, it's been a while. What's that? Well yes I do still do things... no it is not that they are secret things... look, calm down 'today I' thread, you are only embarrassing yourself.
Anyway, today I sewed a couple of Polish collar tabs onto my Battledress, well actually it was yesterday but I was... What? OK, yes, I know you are not called 'yesterday I thread'.... no it wasn't an.... I was just busy and didn't have time yesterday evening...Right, if you are behaving like that then I am walking away!
If we're writing what we did yesterday then I'll push it one step further and say what I did the day before yesterday.
Which was to convert Rachel's post war Gynmastiorka to take WWII shoulder boards... and wash it. I must say it looks damn good now.
Oh and the day before that I fixed the cocking handle onto my Viva Sten and oiled it to remove the large amount of rust that had appeared...
Today, yesterday, the day before that and the day before that - filed and drilled bits of metal to attach to my No4 project. Can I post what I'm doing tomorrow here? Okay, good - see above.
