Real newbie question here.... I've figured out what an event is (!) and ops days, but there are various references to 'open days' and I don't know what these are. A trip to a regular Airsoft site in WW2 kit meeting up with other people? or is it something else?
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
Open days are run all over the country every weekend at local airsoft sites. An open day has no kit restriction whatsoever - just turn up and wear what you like.
like playing crazy golf in the park or playing the Open at Gleneagles ......
Open days are run all over the country every weekend at local airsoft sites. An open day has no kit restriction whatsoever - just turn up and wear what you like.
Wot he said 
Unfortunately you can feel a bit of a knob being the only one at an open day dressed in WW2 gear, so you'll sometimes have a bunch of guys who will arrange to go to a regular open day as a unit.
Unfortunately you can feel a bit of a knob being the only one at an open day dressed in WW2 gear, so you'll sometimes have a bunch of guys who will arrange to go to a regular open day as a unit.
LOL. I'm used to feeling a knob already when we turn up in our Cold War gear, helmets festooned in fresh foliage, or the snow suits we all bought last winter...
OK, so Open Day is just a regular spray & pray airsoft day. There are a couple of WW2 guys who go to our local site already and now that Dukla Pass has been cancelled (I couldn't make it anyway) I floated the suggestion last night that we might just want to turn up at Phoenix in our WW2 kit.
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
Its one way of raising interest in the WW2 genre 
Heh, I and a couple of others used to turn up at the old Phoenix woodland in WW2 kit years ago, never felt silly - just a bit incongruous. That's one of the reasons why we kicked this all off - to give WW2 kit context and purpose.
A few of us up north do meet up at open days in WWII kit relatively regular, I've never felt out of place (though why they insist on putting the 'red tape' on us is beyond me? Do they not realise we look measurably better then everyone else? 
), though I wouldn't want to go on my own.
Sometimes we go as one unit, sometimes in a miss match to use kit we do not get much chance to use otherwise.
We're going to Matlock on the 31st July... or at least planning to. Something else has come up which "may" change that.. It's not been decided yet.
There's a forum that discusses various open day visits so that we can all meet up. Keep an eye on it and post when you're going to a site as well!