Went to the Imperial War Museum and marvelled at how spending £40m can result in a building and collection ten times worse than before the revamp. Awful.
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That is a real pity, visiting the Imperial War Museum has been on my to-do list for the longest time, thought I'd wait till the refit was done...
I've fired a bullet on every continent. Nearly hit someone, too.
Today I await the morning post that may have the date for my knee operation ,it's all agree'd and will be sometime in the next 2 week's ,then 4 - 6 weeks recovery ,so realistically no WW2 event's till January 
still after that it's just withdrawal from the Painkiller's that I'm very respectably addicted to and I'll be back inaction .
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
Went to the Imperial War Museum and marvelled at how spending £40m can result in a building and collection ten times worse than before the revamp. Awful.
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The London one?
Went to the Imperial War Museum and marvelled at how spending £40m can result in a building and collection ten times worse than before the revamp. Awful.
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The London one?
Yep.
Norman Foster and friends have taken a spacious, brightly lit museum that had a fascinating and well maintained collection and turned it into a cramped, dingy mess where everything seems to be written on post it notes.
Went to the Imperial War Museum and marvelled at how spending £40m can result in a building and collection ten times worse than before the revamp. Awful.
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The London one?
Yep.
Norman Foster and friends have taken a spacious, brightly lit museum that had a fascinating and well maintained collection and turned it into a cramped, dingy mess where everything seems to be written on post it notes.
Agreed chaps. It is now dreadful and a real let down. We went as a family a few months ago and it has changed from one of the best museams to one of the worst. Really very poor. Information was impossible to find for most exhibits as it was not next to what you were looking at and all in all it was not logically laid out at all. The only thing that saved it was the WW1 exhibit.
Current Arsenal: ICS Grease Gun, ICS M1 Garand, MP40, Viva Arms Sten Mk2.
Thought the WW1 exhibition was passable, but a shadow of its former self. Used to have so many great little odds and ends that are now absent; like parts of the SMS Konigsberg and some wonderful little mementoes from East Africa and Palestine. uThe 'trench' walk was awful, a shadow of what it used to be.
I suspect they'd cocked the timetable up for re-opening and just hurried to get everything done in time.
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well I'm glad I made it along before they did that. They've managed to ruin a lot of museums up here recently too. Really dumbed down the exhibits.
The 'trench' walk was awful, a shadow of what it used to be.
That is a shame, I used to enjoy the trench walk, especially Sean Beans voiceover as the gruff sergeant.
The new trench walk at Bovingdon is very good, with a nice surprise at the end 
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
Ordered spare mags for my ZB26, as well as a tracer unit for an upcoming night game. Now I just need an appropriate ammo can for the mags...
... had to stop a fight between two girls in class who were ABSOLUTELY railing on each other. The room looked like a bomb had gone off afterwards. 
... had to stop a fight between two girls in class who were ABSOLUTELY railing on each other. The room looked like a bomb had gone off afterwards.
Pics or it didn't happen 
At massive personal expense I've hired a sketch artist to recreate the drama. I think this superbly encapsulates the scene. 
At massive personal expense I've hired a sketch artist to recreate the drama. I think this superbly encapsulates the scene.
Feck me! Its Bill Tidy!
I'm a hero with coward's legs.
today i..
bought my Christmas presents on my family's behalf. one full US Paratrooper uniform, Suspenders, Musette bag and jump boots will be waiting under the tree. that's the major US & British bases covered. (infantry and para for both) i might have to start looking into axis kit during 2015 
Current ww2 armoury
King arms Thompson, ICS M1 Garand, ACM ZB28, ICS M3 Grease gun, ACM M1918 BAR, Kjw M1911, 2x WE Highpowers, Kwa Tokarev, Webley VI, PPS Bazooka, AGM STG44, Custom M1919 .30cal
At massive personal expense I've hired a sketch artist to recreate the drama. I think this superbly encapsulates the scene.
At massive personal expense I've hired a sketch artist to recreate the drama. I think this superbly encapsulates the scene.
I'll put a tenner on the brunette winning.
A Proud Member Of 'Team Spleen!' who play mainly at Gunman Airsoft, Tuddenham, Suffolk.
Dug out all the parts to finish my K98. almost there, it's starting to look really nice. Got a bit more work to do on getting things to line up so it holds solidly in the stock. Hopefully I'll get that all taken care of tomorrow in the workshop. Fingers crossed there's a decent piece of round stock to make the barrel shroud.
Stripped down my S&S Lee Enfield.Gave the woodwork a coat of Linseed oil the night before so cleaned that off and applied some bees wax polish. Painted the metal bits as they'd taken a few hefty knocks and were badly chipped.
I wasn't entirely happy with it at Candleston; no matter what I did I couldn't seem to get the hop 'right'. I dismantled the hop up chamber and applied teflon tape around the join. Also put a small bit of silicone on the spring of the mag catch as it was sticking and causing it to double feed.
The result was pretty dramatic. It's shooting much straighter and the range seems to have improved dramatically, with a fairly consistent trajectory with 0.25 bb's.
Also cleaned the inner barrel out.
I'm also mildly chuffed that I managed to dismantle the bugger and put it back together again!
Last couple of days, I decided to see what would happen if I made a concerted attempt to recruit some people locally into WW2 airsoft. Potentially got 4 so far. I have a feeling we may end up fielding the most mixed up squad possible.
Began giving all of my webbing a second coat of blanco. Now that I've finally developed an incredibly cheap method based off the tarrago shoe cream idea, I can happily keep my webbing in tip top condition.
On another note, I and a friend of mine have been developing a middle ground WW2 Airsoft group for ourselves. It's the middle ground since it doesn't go all out since taking the plunge is incredibly expensive for people (As we all know). So, to tackle that problem, we decided to commit possibly a mortal sin in WW2 airsoft and find the cheapest alternative to British camouflage smocks, as used by the 52nd Lowland. We decided on slightly modified DPM trousers and jackets, by removing the huge buttons, decreasing the size of the button holes and replacing them with plastic 4 hole British buttons.
Chances are further modifications will be made to these "lookalikes", but since they can be obtained for practically a pittance. It's the best we can do.
(EDIT)
Quick picture of I and my friend modelling our group's uniform. He's wearing the denison smock and denim BD while holding my Thompson. Meanwhile, I am kneeling in my wool BD, DPM jacket modded thing and his L96 (We've already got a Sten and M1911 since these were taken, so that won't be seen again).
Weapons:
King Arms M1928 Thompson Submachine Gun
AGM Sten Mk.II
CYMA M1911 EAP
