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Decided to get some photos of my senior NCO kit (Oberscharführer) before a milsim next weekend. Odds are I'll be using my mp40 but it's currently with a tech who's fixed it up for me. Honestly even with full wool on under my camo it still didn't feel too warm surprisingly so I think I'll definitely stick with the over layers for this one I think. I hope you like these pics and the second set is the basic panzergrenadier kit most of my guys will be running.

Managed to get a few photos of my platoon leader (feldwebel) kit for 2nd battalion, 7th company 125th regiment panzergrenadier kit 21 panzer division near Ranville on the edge of the Orne river on exercise spring 44. This company would be the one that's pushed away from Pegasus and Horsa bridge by Brit para's on d-day. It's been fun doing lots of research for this kit and with a much higher quality smock I feel a lot happier with my impression now.

Managed to get a few photos of my platoon leader (feldwebel) kit for 2nd battalion, 7th company 125th regiment panzergrenadier kit 21 panzer division near Ranville on the edge of the Orne river on exercise spring 44. This company would be the one that's pushed away from Pegasus and Horsa bridge by Brit para's on d-day. It's been fun doing lots of research for this kit and with a much higher quality smock I feel a lot happier with my impression now.

Been working on my feldwebel 2/Pz.Gren.Rgt.125 for the winter of 44-45 mainly operation wacht em Rhine and Nordwind. Decided to give my a-frame another go set up with zeltbahn and blanket instead of my pack. Hope you guys like it and I've got my winter 44 wacht em Rhine windhund impression to photograph next.

Finally decided to photograph my feldwebel Pz.Gren.Rgt.125 kit for winter 44. So this is for the period of operation wacht em Rhine and operation Nordwind under the command of Hans Von Luck. If only I had snow instead of bleak cold rain and mud lol. Hope you guys like it.

Some fun images I did in my kit this evening, hope you enjoy as much as I did being a big kid playing pretend soldiers 🤣 Unterscharführer Zimmermann signals to his section to hold position while he checks the next set of hedgerows with his dienglas for enemy movement. When the time is right he signals them to move up quickly to capitalise on the situation.

If you get the tnt upgraded s&t k98k it's a very competitive platform compared to say an ssg 10 and guys in my group use them as such when at 500 FPS. Having tried both side by side I feel the k98k has the edge but lacks any real scope options but if your eyesight is good you will be fine with lower powered optics anyway. Even the lower base s&t is pretty damn good and is great for WWII events especially as you can use it with no minimum engagement distance and your not fighting for one of 4 sniper slots for the entire weekend. The g&g gas k98k is far from competitive though and in my opinion really not worth buying. Its passable for WWII events but skirmish play its lacking to much. When the s&t no.4 drops I'm going to be all over that for my Brit para nco kit!

Yeah braces are a must for pretty much any WWII kit. Personally I use retro looking braces as braces weren't issued and were only ever made at a regimental or company level with the Germans so you see a huge mix and not a uniform mix of braces in use especially late war 43-45. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/303173363949 It's awesome seeing more WWII kits being posted up too. Keep it up everyone 😁

Decided to do an aged photo to try and look more like a reference photo. Hopefully it's worked.

Decided to try and make my kit photo look like it was taken in 1940's. Hopefully that's come across in find edit 🙂

I'll have to do some more hunting or I may just convert a AGM sten into a Mk5 to be honest. Been working on my unterscharführer 4/Pz.Gren.Rgt.19 kit for Normandy and Arnhem. Just need to buy a wool tunic for the kit now. Love how effective erbsenmuster is especially with a mosquito net on you can pretty much vanish most times of the year anywhere in the UK.

Wait the Mk5 is out?!? 😮 Hmmm I may have to go hunt one down but I'll look more into their performance if that's the case.

Personally I would wait for the s&t Lee Enfield over the g&g any day of the year. All the g&g WWII guns other than the mg42 have all been a bit lack luster and mostly a bit useless so far from my experience. For example, the k98k is kind of crap especially compared to the s&t k98k. The ICS garand is far better than the g&g garand ect. When it comes to the AGM sten, it's really not that hard to work on just like the mp40. The only real proprietary parts are the gearbox shell and the first thing you do to them is hop mod them so that's the only other main proprietary part that gets removed anyway. If you want the king of all stens then the northeast sten is shaping up to be an amazing gbbr with some of the best externals I've seen but I've not handled one as they are pre launch still. Previews seem very promising though and I might get one for my British para kit at Arnhem too. Currently working on a 9th SS kit so I can do both sides when the event happens hopefully next year but everything from this year might push that back For the British kit have a look on soldier of fortune in the reenactment section and that should give you an idea but honestly your best off joining some of the Facebook reenactment sales groups and buying kit there.

Yeah it also depends on your hight and waist too with them as if you've got a small waist and are tall they often don't fit so you have to tie them around your ankle like some of the guys in my group. Have you got any braces for your trousers yet as they are a game changer for keeping your trousers in the right place as they sit much higher than normal modern trousers (almost to your belly button). Do you still want a photo or are you ok? I can dig my trousers out for you if you like.

If your interested in WWII events definitely look at the most common factions for events as you are in squads according to your kit. So Heer grenadier/panzergrenadier, Luftwaffe field division/fallschirmjäger and SS or say British para, US airborne or US infantry ect. There is a movement to try and get more Soviet WWII players though as there's a big call for ost front events these days. It's well worth looking into at first just doing a basic kit and officer's kits are always reserved for game organisers as they are the ones briefing you so makes sense they use those kits. We do also have a lot of bolt action rifle a these days thanks to s&t/snow wolf making very useable and accessible k98k's and are working on a no.4 if I remember correctly for British kit which will be awesome! Definitely going to want one of those for my WIP Brit para kit. K98K vsr conversions are totally doable with a real stock and a few external parts as they can go into a lot of the real parts as a few of my guys use them. Does mean you need to cast some of the parts though to make it work. Fair enough dude, I'll get you some photos in a bit that should show you how they go. Basically the big bit goes under your foot and the two tails go into the little trouser holes the other side and you tie them off.

It's probably taken me around 2 years to build up but it's been the last year mostly where I've gone for it and just focused in on this kit. To be honest even I don't want to know the cost at this point 😐 The mp40 is the AGM one so only around £90-100 new. I've replaced the entire barrel and hop set up with an ak hop which I modified as out of the box the range is awful. Once that simple mod is done though it's surprisingly an ok little SMG but not amazing by modern AEG standards. It's a gun of its time really but at WWII events it's not too bad and definitely has its place. The AGM stg44 is definitely better with the same level of modification to the hop and barrel. I tend to use that for other kits or skirmish events as it's basically just a M4 internally.

Bit of an update on my feldwebel 7. Company II battalion 125 regiment panzergrenadier of 21 panzer division kit for 1944-45. Looking forward to normality returning next year so I can go to WWII events again 😁

Bit of an update on my feldwebel 7. Company II battalion 125 regiment panzergrenadier of 21 panzer division kit for 1944-45. Looking forward to normality returning next year so I can go to WWII events again 😁

Not for German WWII troops 🙂 the arm brought down on the move would be used to signal speed up not halt. I hope these references help.

The guys at frontline events did a fantastic edit of one of my old WWII German winter kits for me. "Feldwebel Reinhold Zimmermann signals to his section to speed up their pace after they knocked out a T34 on the ost front"

The guys at frontline events did a fantastic edit of one of my old WWII German winter kits for me. "Feldwebel Reinhold Zimmermann signals to his section to speed up their pace after they knocked out a T34 on the ost front"

No one else run WWII kit on this forum then? Or is there really that little traffic on forums these days? 😟

Ahhh ok so it's quite a large are that needs protection. Have you considered making something that fits to your body form of say tough leather and have it fit to say a sports under armour t-shirt that's tight fitting so it's almost completely invisible especially with a shirt on over it. Add in your tunic and camo smock on top of that and you would never know. Is it solely to protect from bb's or is it knocks too as if it's just bb's you will be surprised at how much your tunic will soak up. You always know your being hit but it takes most the sting out of it normally. Camo smock and just a shirt though can sting like a sod as they are both so thin lol. You also have various Soviet units who used armour in WWII if you want to go to extremes lol.

Lmao yeah there's always WWI kit but very limited on events, maybe 1 a year at best where as WWII events we have normally every few months. Just food for thought there. British para's had armour plates for Arnhem. This is an image from a trial on Canadian troops iirc. This might be worth looking into as it's genuine kit that was used in combat.

Yeah it's the AGM version I have. The src is ok but again needs a bit of work from what I've been told by guys who have them. That said the AGM one is often only around £100 new so it's kind of expected at that price so I don't mind working on it. Yeah the g&g are a pain and my guys fold theirs after 1 game and all went to spring k98k's. We had a shell ejecting k98k and yeah it's great fun until it breaks and as you said totally useless for events. Thanks, it's taken a long time to finidhy up. Yeah the Lee Enfield no4 does look very promising but from what I've heard has been pushed back in favour of other guns that are more popular and covid 19 has pushed it back further which is a shame. Out of curiosity how much protection do you require? There might be solutions available for this hidden within kit. That's a fun idea and I know there was talk of an event specifically about that but I've not heard much about it recently probably due to the lockdown.