Welcome all, I'm Chris, I've always had an interest in second world war history and in particular American uniforms and equipment. I started my collection many years ago and has grown to a very healthy collection now with a mix of German, French, British and Japanese. Also some items from the first world war.
Hello I have been passed down a civilian gas mask as I’m a collector mine has a tick on the top bit where it says top and I would like to know if that’s normall cause I do see you have a tick on the side
@JACYBOY_11JS no worries we all get brain fart sometimes. It only indicates that its a large you'll have to see if there is markings on the mask. Email me some pics and I'll have a look for you if you like my Email is chris19922016@outlook.com
Not sure if ive got one!....i will have to check....i know ive got a POW one from ww2 , no name on it though, does that mean unissued?, cheers chris m8😊😊😊😊
Very nice, I'm a complete novice with Japanese stuff...I don't know if you've seen 'military mad' latest video?....but if you have, is this a similar bag that he has on his mannequin?...cheers and sorry for my ignorance 😊😊😊
@flybobbie1449 yeah you would ues the cloth to clean the eye pieces and then rub the compound on to the eye pieces until a thin layer remains preventing fogging of the eye pieces.
@Luke-ty6em i live in the UK. To buy a replica you have to be in a re-enactment group, but you don't need a license for a deactivated weapon just the deactivation certificate.
@user-fb7xw3xj9i it was about £ 45 because it is in relic condition. i bought the scabbard separately to complete it. This was many years ago so the prices have gone up
Nice bit of kit....I don't know too much about ww2 American kit but your channel is giving me good info , so perhaps I might stumble across some stuff I'd know what it is, cheers Chris 😊😊
@steelhelmetstan7305 thanks Stan this canteen is the hardest to find with the 1941 date ive been collecting U.S. for about 14 years now and I've only seen this one come up for sale.
Mate, really excellent work there. did you unscrew and remove the metal parts when treating the wood? Also did you sandpaper the metal parts? Im going to do the same as yours and will post a video soon
@rm-pc3544 Thank you. yeah i removed the metal parts just to make it more easier and i also did use sandpaper to highlight the parts were it would get the most used.
Really funny, they’ve got good gas masks but they don’t even know the names of them! Which in my opinion is really stupid. They’ll just be misinforming other people which I hate. They’re calling the Civilian Duty Respirator the Special Service Respirator???? What?! They’re making the names up as they go along! Cheers, TM.
@Tmilitaria thanks Tom yeah i was thinking that too. Yep i agree that its misinforming the public when they look at the displays and think oh thats what its called but the mask is not named correctly.
I managed to get one of these for Christmas one year. The bolt is finicky, but if I lift it up slightly then I can move it back. I want to convert it to shoot ball bearing projectiles one day. But I wanna try and make it more like a real M1, not that it will fire bullets, but so it has the openable butt plate and the adjustable sights.
@layne620 nice! i think it depends on what one you get with the build quality mine works fine luckily. Hope all goes well with the ball bearing conversion. Thanks for the comment
Thanks for posting! I was a rifleman 0311 (Purple Heart) Marine in Vietnam for one-year and put Halazone in canteens the entire time because we rarely had clean water and had to fill up from stream. I recently got an empty bottle [looks new] from eBay and it lists these: 1/16 grain Halazone with sodium borate and chloride. From Abbott Laboratories, Chicago. Did taking this stuff 100s of times harm my health? Hope someone can help me with this. A quick google search of sodium borate and chloride showed that they are harmful to health. I'll do more research in an attempt to see if this stuff is "truly" harmful when taken for one year at about the rate of two tabs per canteen. We drank two-three canteens each day; while in 100 degrees and walking tens of miles with gear.
Thanks for commenting appreciated telling a bit of you time in the forces i would of thought that they would be harmful to health if they were uesed not of the intended use like taking the tablets as they are and not putting them in the water.
A nice complete set chris....im thinking about getting a denix m1 garand for my birthday next month , if i do i will be picking your brains on how you aged yours so well😊😊😊😊
Yeah the kit that i used is the AMT ERTL Fast & Furious 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo 1:25 Scale Model Kit and the only parts that i used was the body shell, chassis, glass and the dashboard. The rest was scratch built and aftermarket parts. For the wheels they were off a AMT nascar kit but recently released some aftermarket crager black wheels that are correct that you can get now.
Very nice,I just got in some frames with a 1 inch thick clearance which will take a german combat award and its certificate...cost a pound each...got quite a stash of useful frames for a rainy day!!!
Thanks for commenting. I would do a tutorial but I've now filled in the screw holes to make the rifle look more realistic. All i did is slowly tighten up the screw a bit at a time until it holds in position. Hope this helps you.
