Here is Sgt Heide's fibre-glass helmet shell fashionably accessorised, apologies for the gurning model, and re-enactors might like to look away now. ...
Pete I'm working on getting a helmet finished with strap and foam stuck inside in lieu of a liner. Will get some pictures up by the weekend.
We'll have two - will PM Scaley with details. I think we already have a number from our PBI Issue Paybooks from the very first training day.
Here're our new recruits as regular infantry. -- attachment is not available -- It's 49 pattern trousers, Australian BD Jackets, plus webbing from S...
Also don't forget that the term "Dark Ages" covers a very wide and somewhat ambiguous period right up to early medieval. I think the end of...
Whatever happened to the "The Chap" magazine photoshoot that Porta was sorting out? Or were they holding off until they got hold of a few o...
The idea that society/civilisation plummeted into near chaos with the collapse of Rome is a misconception that seems to be propagated by school histor...
Lol it's not a massive problem and it's not that floppy, just something that happened to me unexpectedly on a couple of occasions when I was inexperie...
Just thought I'd throw this one into the pot after a bit of "research". Check out this site - - which seems to be maintained by a collecto...
I've just checked our original photo's and there's definitely no reinforced knees or elbows that I can see, which as you say makes them pretty irrelev...
No, the cylinder isn't lined. I'll get some internal pics up shortly. I'm not sure what you mean by cocking on opening. It cocks when you pull the ...
Lol just to make it clear, the above photo's are taken by us, in person, in one of the Normandy museums - so we've seen them too, not just taken rando...
Here are some of our pictures taken from one of the Normandy museums. I'm guessing these aren't the ones Poacher is referring to though. They all lo...
I'm not disputing that colours fade, or that photographs can be deceiving. Chomley, I like your colour-corrected photo better as well, however I stil...
Third picture, chap getting into the aeroplane. How come the dodgy 1940s over-exposed photography, combined with my dodgy monitor set-up, doesn't aff...
The tan colour is popular with re-enactors but isnt right from what I have seen last week. Sorry to resurrect this discussion but these look pretty t...
Disassembly and Upgrading coming soon.........
SHOOTING Ours both chrono'd at about 390 to 400 fps with 0.2g bbs. The magazine takes about 25 bbs. If you fill it right up you need to cock it to ...
Three quarter views of the receiver - -- attachment is not available -- -- attachment is not available -- The rear "combat" sight is also...
Close up views of the receiver - -- attachment is not available -- -- attachment is not available -- Purists might note that the amount the magazin...