I've seen crates and vehicles markings being stenciled with a roller, and wondered if people used a roller on helmets. If you had a 1000 to do with th...

Looks like the one in the main pic is a rangercamp, early type, and it looks different to the other pics which might be of the later langercamp type. ...

That raises a good qustion: are the collar tabs in the right position/orientation on that jacket? I am sewing mine on soon and want to get it right.

Cant find any detailed ones but if you look in this pic I'm pretty sure *all* the helmets in it have been done using the liner method. Mine has for s...

I'm not sure of the technical charge (I don't know if "posessing an imitation firearm in a public place" is even the correct or complete phr...

Okay, he should have put his guns in a case, any sensible person would. But I am curious, if the offence is "posessing an imitation firearm in a...

About as far as the end of the mag catch. If you had more Garand like woodwork which is deeper under the receiver then it probably wouldn't.

It is possible to cut down M14 mid caps to shorter mags. There's guides about somewhere, maybe on the US WWII Airsoft site. So we can all have proper...

9) Cut down the spring guide to about 20mm long. Glue it in by the bottom end only to one side of the mag as shown. -- attachment is not available --...

Excellent, it'll be just like old times, Heh, That's historical reenactments for ya.

Looking good. I would change one thing: as you already have a garand, I would get a cartridge belt to match, it is what an infantryman would have be...

Chinese M14s are the same, but the hole isn't even threaded. Similarly I had to shim the bevel gear first to make sure it meshed with the pinion gear.

Hah, after all that I found it on the garage floor in the dust today. I'd had no idea where it had gone astray! Still, I have a homemade spare now.

Well, the film canister wasn't too bad an idea, but not thick enough. Luckily I just found a random soft plastic eyelet of unknown origin and approxim...

In the past I have sprayed them silver, then black, then used a cutting polish on the raised edges until the silver shows. Then sealed the whole thing...