Yup, pretty standard to have your gat in your gonk bag to use the squaddie parlance.
Pictures of First Allied Airborne Division during market garden. These pics are of a variety of units and all go to show how the airborne solider l...
As we can see here theonly difference between late war airborne and commando is the headdress when in field kit. (note the commando snipers are wea...
Good point, I'd not noticed that, must be a 1950s illustration.
keep an eye on hong kong keiths ebay store, he's seeling denims and showing an example of BD fabric, only a mater of time i reckon
Pretty much If i were going to do it on a budget I'd buy: battldress torusers (any pattern or material) A battledress blouse (and badge it a...
That and you tend to get beter prices over the phone if you can engage them in a bit of friendly conversation first!
Yep its concentrate on the airbonre first. The other bits are just there so if you're in a junk shop and you see something that you think looks goo...
A 1944 airborne plattoon was equipped with more smg and brens than they needed. put it this way a division had 12,500 men roughly sten guns allo...
Yep dagger points down. In heraldry its seen as 'defensive' whereas a wepaon pointing up is 'aggresive'
Good info Rich, I'll start looking about for bits and pieces.
But on a sten anything more thna 30 metres range is unrealisitc anyway!
Well... heres the beauty of doing south staffs... they were on paper an infanfry battalion so equipped thus: cpl - sten pte x6 - no4 (thi...
How about a fixd hop? like the ealry no4s have would that work as i canoly imagine its a much smaller item to install than a variable hop
good stuff pete. Imagine how pant wettingly cool it would be if we turned up to an event as a fully kitted out rifle section. I think we'd realy...