Russe11

Yup I look a badass with a pistol

*****THE FOLLOWING PICTURE CONTAINS EXCESSIVE GINGER BEARDS*****

So having tested the loadout in the field: Knee and elbow pads: Can't wear them over clothing as it will look wrong, my current pads are just not comfortable worn underneath. I may have to think of a better solution Sten: Frickin awesome at mowing down groups of enemy as they advance, may try some heavier ammo next time to get a bit more range and punch through foliage (was using .25's). Battery useage is high, I have a hunch that the Burst wizard may be sucking up battery power so may ditch it for outdoors. Ammo pouches\mags: May have to sew in dividers so that mags can be kept organised to determine which are full/empty, or may just number them on the ends. May have to get more mags as when the shit hits the fan and serious suppression fire is needed, 6 mags really don't last long. Comfort: Denim battledress is really comfortable. Denison smock is great for when it rains. Pocket space is a bit on the ridiculous side, hard part was remembering what was in each pocket. The fact that a MK23 Socom fits completely in an inside pocket of the denison (silencer off) says a lot. Overall weight of the gear is rather high, it gives a good workout but it's not uncomfortable. Oh and on another note, I have a Steel helmet for my loadout due to arrive Wed/Thurs A bit more weight but who cares, its a frickin WW2 airbourne helmet

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/310880011687?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649 I bought a hat. Steel WW2 British airbourne helmet for less than the cheapest repro Watched several sell for about £200.

Gunman is fairly central in Coventry and tend to do what they call filmsim games, would there be enough interest for us to ask them to run something?

The WW2 game I linked is probably the most lax on kit requirements ever (the WW2 airsoft forum won't event let them list it with other events). Just no modern camo and disguise modern guns. An ickle bit of hessian won't hurt I just thought it might make a change for some of you and would be a very different game to a normal Sunday walk on. I will probably bring WW2 gear to whatever we do as its VE day on May 8th so in the right pub, it might get me a pint Anyway, lets have some more ideas, maybe a site we could hire for Saturday that we could camp at ready for a regular Sunday game?

Maybe we could fit a museum visit into the trip? What about hiring a site to ourselves? C'mon, lets have some ideas and let us know if you're interested! Could be fun to put faces to members of the forum. It's also an excuse for us to play at sites we don't normally play at. I do like the idea of the WW2 game as we can make Ed come with a correct period camera strapped to his gun

So Operation Shining light got cancelled and I had to book a week off work to be sure of having that weekend free. So it's a bank holiday weekend, there must be some airsoft events we could do? Any ideas for 2nd -5th May? I did come across a beginners WW2 airsoft game http://www.ww2airsoft.org.uk/php/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=98&t=17656&p=241582 which would have minimal kit requirements (no modern camo and any modern guns will have to be covered with hessian). It would be possible to do this on the Saturday and then it's not far to Combat south or a few other sites for a Sunday game. What we need is a couple of different sites or games, with one open Saturday and another Sunday. Possible places to stay/camp. Or maybe someone knows of a weekend long event?

For that particular commando look, a jumper would be better than battledress though. By D Day, commandos would have dressed like airbourne but with a brodie helmet rather than the airbourne one, a much easier look to achieve for me

Cap comforter seems to be the term used. I think it started as a way to make helmets more comfortable?

I am allergic to wool so I don't own a woolly-pully and even if I did wearing it on my head would cause bad eczema on my forehead. Green Beret or Brodie helmet would be okay though.

Just a thought but had you seen that Operation Shining light has been postponed? Maybe you would fancy doing something that weekend, that way all of us that were planning to go to that event can come and be your guineapigs

No, I am not going Commando and getting out of a vehicle for you! I don't have the right hat for a commando loadout anyway

Denim battledress has arrived, all set for a day out at Spartan Airsoft in full WW2 gear on Sunday I can see now how battledress trousers are the ideal choice for getting rid of soil from an escape tunnel. My Mk23 Socom is now officially pocket sized, actually I could almost fit my MP5 in the leg pocket As there are pictures posted on the Spartan web site after each game and every other player is likely to be in boring modern gear with some sort of M4, I'm sure there will be pictures.

Whats worse is I found it on the WW2 airsoft forums! Those guys are more militant about this sort of thing than Ed. They are currently trying to hunt down and kill someone selling a Thompson with RIS rails on the zero one forums. If you mess with a gun, probably best to leave the WW2 guns alone

I'm making a start on a mesh facemask modification myself. Tying strands of embroidery thread to it to make a Moustache. All the main British characters had moustaches, if you didn't have one, chances are your character gets killed. I take this as proof that adding a moustache to a face mask will make me harder to hit. It was apparently compulsory to have a moustache in the British army up until WW1, look at the death toll that resulted in!

Goggles have arrived. The lenses are pretty heavy duty but the way they clip into the frame isn't so I have used a bit of epoxy to hold them in more securely. Just need to give them a test and good to go. Also recieved my Burst Wizard Mosfet. It works some of the time but I do get the occasional 2 round burst. The other problem is I cannot get the screw that holds the collar with the rear sight out. The screw just turns and doesn't come out so I can't get the mosfet inside the gun Guess I will have to drill it out Goggles will take hits rather well, if you shoot them on the angle of the lens where I thought they would be weakest, it actually cuts the bb in half Got the screw out of my Sten and fitted the Mosfet inside, now for no apparent reason the semi auto started working every time.

I work in a cinema and when I googled that quote I had never heard of the film or any of the cast!

Lawrence Fishburne in The Matrix Remember what the general said; we're the cavalry. It would be bad form to arrive in advance of schedule. In the nick of time would do nicely.

M249 at an indoor CQB site, should be interesting