Airborne Cap

depends at what point in the war you want to depicted marsha. There are some variations depending on early, mid, or late war.

Have a look on SOF in the hats section...i did try and upload there images but they didnt work

when i asked about this, headshot came up with a cracking idea, go for the late war badge, it can be worn with m42 and m43 combats.

Make sure you get the OD overseas cap with blue piping:

Talking of piping; I was wondering what piping colour to get.

The theme of my M42 uniform is that of an 'official war correspondant'. The 'story' goes that I`m embedded with the 82nd (PIR). [This way it doesn`t look too wrong when I`m covering shows and carrying a big camera]

I thought 'normal' blue piping for infantry, but also wondered if it should be the piping for 'signals'?

Any thoughts (with references?)

.......maybe my uniform shouldn`t have the 'correspondant' patch at all........in which case I`ll just get 'infantry', and claim artisic licence.

Embedded correspondent huh? That's an odd one to go for in airsoft. The pen might be mightier than the sword, but a K98 has a slightly longer range methinks.

Flibble will be able to answer your question. He does Signal Corps as part of his photography.

The theme of my M42 uniform is that of an 'official war correspondant

I have a 16mm clockwork film camera you could borrow - it's post war but would look the nuts.

Simply buy a few thousand feet of film, load it (in darkness, 100ft at a time) shoot it, take it to a processing lab, have it developed and printed, get a cutting table, edit it, take it to a negative cutter, print it again, buy a projector and invite us all round to your front room to see the finished result.

Makes me wonder why video ever overtook home movies...

.......thanks for the offer, but I`ll stick with digital.

The embeded journalist bit really stems from my magazine work, for example here`s me at Beltring, with one of the Band of Brothers veterans

Thats Earl "One Lung" McClung aint it?

Yup.

Sure was. I was covering Beltring and got to meet both him and Mr Malarky. Lovely gents.

Awesome, bet he was a bit begrudged to see an All Americas patch on your arm Ade! Nice photo though!

I don`t think they minded. There were a few of us '82nd'................

I find that most Veterans are just happy that what they did is remembered, and these gents were no different. They told me they were en-route to Normandy, Holland and Germany.

There's our Donald in the photo too!

Where's a good place to cap a garrison cap from? been umming and ahhhing about getting one...and well maybe i shud for Husky.

So recommend me a retailer. I was gonna go SoF, but im always hearing mixed things, about quality although last few items have been ok.

yes i was looking to get mine from sof

Epic Militaria have some in at £16 + p&p (although they have the mid war badge on them). Has anyone bought from here and can advise on the quality?

I have bought from them, and the service was excellent, all questions replied to very quickly, and i feel what i bought has lasted very well!

I would certainly buy from them again, hope thats of some help!

I looked at epic but the colours looked off on the piping. IT looks very blue

well ive ordered mine from sof hope to get before husky