Today I....

... walked into a charity shop, spent a tenner and left with this....

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Blimey! That's what you call a bargain. I won't say how much I paid for mine!

Awesome! Well done for rescuing it!

Welcome to the world of McVickers...

Welcome to the world of McVickers...

I would love a chance to root through your loft/ Garage it must be a treasure trove

... walked into a charity shop, spent a tenner and left with this....

Nice. And I thought the days of such finds were long gone, what with Charity shops being much cannier these days.

Made a helmet band from a cut-down length of inner tubing, with some helpful pointers provided by the fine gentlemen of this forum.

My stahlhelm looks much more handsome now.

Having a bit of a kit clear out. Some German and American stuff to list up later.

Fitted a stronger spring and a better barrel to my P38 springer.

Made some new goggles. As a glasses wearer I need to wear mesh to reduce fogging but the mesh goggles that will fit over my glasses look a bit out of place. I had tried some biggles style motorbike goggles but they fogged up like a bitch so I got some mesh and took the lenses out. I cut the mesh larger than the lenses and bent the excess back until they fitted. Lots of epoxy glue to fix the mesh in place and a dusting of matt brown plasticote to hide the visible glue and give them a dirty look and job's a good'un. Very pleased with the result and the seem a lot more sturdy than the mesh goggles I have been using.

Make sure you thoroughly test them before use - don't take any chances with your sight even if worried about issues of authenticity! Eye protection is unfortunately a necessary evil of this hobby.

I would not have even attempted this if I had any doubts that I could make them at least as safe as my existing goggles. The steel mesh I have used is stronger than on my existing goggles, the glue I have used is very strong, the goggles have a lot of foam padding which will soak up most of the energy of an impact and even without the mesh there is only a tiny gap that would allow a bb past my glasses underneath anyway.

Made some new goggles. As a glasses wearer I need to wear mesh to reduce fogging but the mesh goggles that will fit over my glasses look a bit out of place. I had tried some biggles style motorbike goggles but they fogged up like a bitch so I got some mesh and took the lenses out. I cut the mesh larger than the lenses and bent the excess back until they fitted. Lots of epoxy glue to fix the mesh in place and a dusting of matt brown plasticote to hide the visible glue and give them a dirty look and job's a good'un. Very pleased with the result and the seem a lot more sturdy than the mesh goggles I have been using.

Sounds good, man. I was considering doing something similar with a Jerry or Brit set of goggles.

Today I fitted a hop to my Webley without too much trouble. Results are very positive!

.... cant get the Board Index to load. Just get a blue blank screen with the WW2Airsoft Banner showing. Any ideas???

.... cant get the Board Index to load. Just get a blue blank screen with the WW2Airsoft Banner showing. Any ideas???

Occasionally happens to me too when I'm not using Tapatalk. Usually I just refresh the page and it loads fully.

Now that I live in North Wales, I went on a visit to SOF on my day off.

Let's just say, you can go to the checkout any time you want, but you can never leave...

After seeing photos, I painted my goggles a lighter colour (khaki) to try and avoid the lone ranger look

Hollowed out and fitted an original 1928 stock to my king arms thompson. Happy happy

Day without uni or the kids so I've spent today fixing up my Zb26. It is officially alive and ready for kasserine pass.

Passed a Willy's Jeep during my driving lesson...................Stalled the car

Passed a Willy's Jeep during my driving lesson...................Stalled the car

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