Here's a video of Shoei's FG42 model gun. Can't quite see the point myself but there you go.

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It's a modern Feuerwehr helmet, complete with DIN stamp. I'd guess from the markings that date of manufacture is either 1984 or 1972. The number on ...

Looks good. Are you going to change the chinstrap for a simpler wartime style one as well?

Excellent.

What the heck?! Isnt the Cadet place insured for that sorta thing? I'd present them with an itemised invoice.

Hi John, You can join whichever sub-groups takes your fancy - PBI, Landser, FJR2, whatever. Many of us are members of more than one. There are no r...

I find pics 19 and 20 quite disturbing - they really do look like the corpse photos you see in places like the Bundesarchiv.

There were enough units who had no cufftitle for it not to seem like an anomaly. This very informative article tells you everything you need to know:...

well thats not the end of the world as I am hoping to get australian bds which are the same colour ( or pretty close) to the canadian ones. Oooh, I w...