If you do get them and cut the pockets off, I'll take the spare pockets. I'll PM you. Cheers Martin

As above, you need to get the hooks into the loops on the belt and possibly tighten them with a pair of pliers. I usually have to use a screwdriver to...

They sound like a different pattern to mine. MIne are just plain field grey trousers with ankle ties, slash pockets at the waist and braces buttons. 1...

My father in law had a revolver just lying around on the mantlepiece. It wasn't loaded Cheers Martin

Mine have ties at the bottom like M43 trousers (I left those on). The things I took off were the boot hooks which dug into my ankles when wearing gait...

I wear my Swedish trousers with one of Steiners old M40 jackets all the time. They have a pleasing steingrau look to them and are vastly better made a...

Lucky boy I had a drum stick as a rifle and two bits of wood nailed together for a Sten I had the Airfix Thompson & SLR which 'shot' plastic bull...

Hello and welcome, hope to see you at an event 'down south' some time! Cheers Martin

Excellent. Is this site likely to be 'shorts friendly' or is it covered in gorse & nettles? After Seans great look at Crete I'm thinking of joini...

I have seen photos of iirc Canadian paras in Corcorans. Cheers Martin

what are his new ones firing at? The website says the options are 350 or 400, 'specify when ordering'. My SLR did 420 when I got it, neither fish no...

Nice, is that one of Warrens new No. 4s? I am now the proud owner of hosetops and KD shirt & shorts, too late for Crete of course, but one step b...

Hmmm, yes you are quite right, I'd not really thought about it that much before. If we are just an invisible niche activity, then given the rate at w...

If fed through from the correct side, the straps should lie behind the carrier, rather than going over the top as seen in the picture: Ooh, that is ...

It is all very easy for those tanker chappies to have a change of clothes, they don't have to carry them like infantrymen do Cheers Martin

I also used to do the buckle up the wrong way (on 58 pattern webbing) until an ex NCO showed me the error of my ways. It isn't an obvious way of doing...

Like Gadge said, for most troops, denim was workwear/overalls. The British denims were meant to be worn over the BD (just watch the scene in 'The Way ...

Hello and welcome, With German stuff you will always get a game, but it is also good to have some other options. Hope to see you at an event soon. C...

I never realised there were different thicknesses Cheers Martin