Don't worry mate, I wasn't ragging on you. If anything, I'm shockingly anal about my kit - it's all repro by the way, so I don't even have an excuse!

and naa comfort isnt important look is The stitch-counter's mantra. Spare a thought for our chum in Hawaii, if you think we have it bad!

Agreed, on both counts - the M41 looks much smarter. I am gonna sweat on sunday with that all on!

Cool. I just bought a full MARPAT set, with a molle coyote brown plate carrier - was thinking of doing a version of GRAW kit for open days (to save my...

Nice pictures Kavster! If you black-out the background on that first photo I bet it will look really dramatic! It looks like your GI kit is nearing ...

That, old chum, is my beautiful gas M1 by Marushin. I love it so much I want to father lots of little M1 Carbines with it.

Here we go... EDIT: The pics were taken by camera phone, hence the shit quality. For some reason, it seems to have flipped the image,...

Watch this space; just took some photos of me in mustards with and without webbing. Tom has my M41, or that would be in too. DISCLAIMER: I am hitti...

That looks really good, and it doesn't look too difficult. I quite fancy a backup to my gas gun.

I'm up for going as a Soviet for this one. As soon as you know, hit me with a kit list.

Your wearing a seaman's hat with an officer's coat.

I suppose it might depend on numbers. For realism, though, there should be far more dismounted infantry on the beach. And boats! Tim has a boat...

I'm pretty sure the doughboy pack hooks into the M1936 suspenders, so you'd have to have them to fit the pack.

30-06 is a longer cartridge, if I remember correctly. And it's 7.62mm.