CaptainSwoop

WD-40 is good as a fish bait. Carp and Chub go mad for the smell of it.

Black Cable ties always help

Looks good. Glad your getting a real helmet though

I would be up for it but Coventry is a hike although my Brother does live in Coventry.

'Due to the price we are unable to offer a warranty' I bet Trading Standards would argue with that.

Magenta - Untouchable

Frank turner - The Road

that's pretty

They were issued in the War to keep heads warm under steel helmets. Up till then 'unofficial' headgear was worn. They were very much an austerity design. US Comforters were a lot better, they had a little 'peak' knitted on to the front. Using a Wully-Pully sleeve isn't such a bad idea. If you get the right one they are Acrylic, not wool so you should have no problem.

Be careful of the old filters. They can contain Asbestos if they are WW2 vintage. the definitive Gas Mask Website http://gasmasksukreferences.webs.com/britain.htm

That is the 'Light Anti Gas respirator' Gas Mask used from D-Day onwards up until it was replaced by the S6 in the 60s.

Same here, weird.

It's a good show. They do the 'army' stuff well the writers were both WW2 vets who were in ENSA (every night something awful) like a lot of that generation of entertainers and a lot of the audience were vets as well so they would always complain like hell about anything too obviously wrong.

To see the Jungle Kit watch an episode of 'It ain't half hot Mum' Corny as the show is they get the kit right and you get to see them in colour unlike a lot of period pics. a mix of Jungle Green and Desert Sand, all sun and sweat faded and stained. http://tokyofox.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/0.jpg http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/944x531_b/p01n64hn.jpg

they are useful helmets, you can use them for anything up to the 80s

In the Jungle you would wear a Bush hat. That helmet looks horrible by the way!

It's not too bad if it is depicting Canadian Denims. Denims were greener than Battledress and the Canadian stuff even Battledress was greener all round.

In 'Nam' it was uncommon. Most of what people think they know about 'Nam' is myth. As for the British Army until fairly recently the prospect of Firing Squad or hanging was a pretty big incentive to obey orders and not kill you superiors. Between 1941 and 1955 47 soldiers were sentenced to death and executed by British courts-martials for offenses including Murder, Mutiny and 'Treachery' Hundreds of prison sentences were handed out up to life imprisonment. We should start a separate thread. We are hijacking this one so I knock off here.

I still call bollocks on it. A trophy pistol maybe. and what does 'any body of armed men with live ammunition is governed very much by consent' even mean? lol.

Nope don't buy it at all. I don't see how you would keep it secret from the NCOs and Officers, they aren't going to let you lug the damn thing around. Illegal weapons are taken very seriously by the army now and then. As for using it in case you run out of ammo at 'close quarters' that's just daft. Carrying a few extra clips of ammo is a different thing to carrying a shotgun and ammo around. Maybe it would happen in the movies or make believe like an airsoft game.

Why would you want to lug around a shotgun? Where would you get it? where would you get ammo? Why would you want to lug around all that extra weight and use up space in your pack? Shotguns (pump) were used in the Jungles, the 'point' man in a patrol would carry one. It was a practice started by the British in WW2 and later picked up by the US in Vietnam.

To be correct you need a Webley or S&W 38/200, the US service revolver, we got loads of them, it was preferred to the Webley.

How about a colt 45? Could have been acquired from one of our US Allies?

Sorry, that was for a completely different Forum!!! I don't know what I was thinking

remember when ordering the sizes on Denims are different to the size of Wool battledress. Denims were designed to be worn over Battledress when doing any kind of dirty work so they are actually bigger than the size would indicate. WW2 sizings are less generous than modern sizings. When you order Denims find out from the supplier what the actual measurements of the garment are.