Your "Army Room"

[YankeeDiv26]

Thanks 101steasy. To say I'm pleased with how my garand looks is an understatement, it looks great. I think 2nd bat himself even said it was one of his best.

[migmadmavis]

Heres my collection!! The M1 Garand is real, and as you can notice the serial number shows it was made in early 1941. The Marlin Repeating Rifle was my grandfathers when he was about my age. Ive also got a Tokyo Marui Thompson, and AGM MP40 and an HFC Box cannon, and also a U.S 1st infantry uniform and gear I use when I go reeanacting :DMy newest edition is the K Bar knife. Let me know what ya'll think of my collection

[YankeeDiv26]

uhh, that knife isn't a k-bar I dont believe. It's an m3 fighting knife. Also it looks like it needs a proper scabbard. Other than that, great stuff.

[migmadmavis]

awww your right!! It is an M3 camillus. The Scabbard also sais camillus on the back Engraved into the leather.

[YankeeDiv26]

yep, your probably best off with an m6 or i believe m8 for later in the war (not m8a1, didn't come out until korea i think). fyi, these are the designations for the scabbards, people sometimes confuse them for the knive's designations. Any knife expert feel free to correct me if any of this information is wrong.

[binarypunisher]

Now that I am in college...I have reserved some space...

[Red]

screamineagle101 said:

yep, your probably best off with an m6 or i believe m8 for later in the war (not m8a1, didn't come out until korea i think). fyi, these are the designations for the scabbards, people sometimes confuse them for the knive's designations. Any knife expert feel free to correct me if any of this information is wrong.

It remained the m3 trench knife that was housed in the m6 then the m8 scabbard towards the end of the war. the M6 scabbard was the leather scabbard which I use. And then there is the M8 scabbard is more of a plastic looking material... isn't plastic though im not sure what it is made of.

Red

[YankeeDiv26]

Also, our idea of plastic is very different from what it was in the 40's, I shoudl have just specified it as some other material. Is it the same material as a bayonet scabbard?

[Adler69]

it's the same material as as far as i can tell from looking at my Garand bayonet scabard and an M8 scabard.

[YankeeDiv26]

Adler, I dont think we've seen any pictures of your war room have we?

[Adler69]

I'm still moving in with my G/F so most of my gear is in boxes , but as soon as i have set up my war room i'll post some pics.
Here's my WWII webgear , this is what i wear for Living History events and parades.



and a closer look at the scabards

[YankeeDiv26]

"moving in with my G/F"-famous last words for a reenactor(jk)

One minor minor suggestion. I suggest moving the canteen onto your left side. For parades especially, when you're doing drill it gets in the way, and when you try to sling your rifle around it it can sometimes be caught, or stick out to your rear too much if in close formation. In combat, guys essentially did whatever they felt was comfortable, but for parades and ceromonys where drill is important, then it becomes more of an issue. lol, I happened to learn this first-hand today when doing drill with the squad and had it on my right, and got chewed out a little bit for it too.

[Adler69]

I actually met her a one of our groups public reenactments , and she likes the whole history deal , her dad is a Vietnam vet.
I used to have the canteen on my left , but being left handed it bugged the hell out of my, don't ask me why , it just did , so i switched it to the right .

[YankeeDiv26]

wow, nice. my gal's not into military history very much, but she likes to sew and is just starting to get into civilian peroid stuff. She lets me do the running around in smelly 60 year old army clothes, her dad's a vietnam vet too.

Fine enough if it's on the left if its more comfortable, because guys obviously just moved them to their preferable side when not on review, inspection, parade, ect. When we do those types of things everythings by fm 21-100, so we may be pickier then others. I just switch things to "by the book" for that type of stuff, because its usually very short term or inactive.

[wade]

screamineagle101 said:

She lets me do the running around in smelly 60 year old army clothes

Smelly?! SMELLY!? That "smell", sir, is a sweet perfume to me! ;D

[YankeeDiv26]

"That "smell", sir, is a sweet perfume to me!"

I wish she could say the same

If only it came in febreeze.....

[wade]

"Old Canvas Febreeze". Ahhhhhhh. Sounds (and smells) like a dream to me....

[p51]

adler69 said:

I actually met her a one of our groups public reenactments , and she likes the whole history deal , her dad is a Vietnam vet.
I used to have the canteen on my left , but being left handed it bugged the hell out of my, don't ask me why , it just did , so i switched it to the right .

Gotta watch out for those strap hangers, Adler! You'll have to bring her to an event so we can check for the lobotomy scar!
As for canteen, you often see if off that hip in period photos, as most men are right handed and naturally grab that canteen first. When I was active duty (cue the violin music), I noticed that people's right canteen always went dry first, probably for that reason. I'm predominately left handed, but I'm "right handed canteen" as well as with the trigger...

[biged]

I'll get around to photographing my gear someday. Here are some guns...



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[gunfreak]

I don't have an army room

I have a livig room/bed room/army room/ media room going on

[glymov]

some of my Red Army stuff

[gadge]

My study is my war room, most stuff is in here but the spare room has most my soviet kit and cold war stuff.

Bit of a mess at the moment.

Aegs are all along the wall i stupidly didnt picture.

Uniforms shelf:
Top vietnam and cold war soviet (and some wwiisov)
next one down all my old issue kit and private purchase from the army
Then german field kit
the wwii brit webbing
then german uniform
Then Brit uniform




Various bits and bobs, mainly russian and bizzarly a spare monitor


Misc wargames stuff and scenery


Reference books, a bit of fiction and computer.

[jmhpa]

I envy all of you so much... All I have is an army drawer/box/trunk...

[gadge]

Ah i've been collecting since i was 12, liek i say theres another two wardrobes of stuff upstairs (mainly dress uniforms). I've recently streamlined the collection and sold a lot of stuff i had duplicates of or was never gong to use (i had about four sets of modern brit soldier 95 and four pairs of assault boots which was silly really, and about ten modern Russian loads that i've reduced to five)

I hate getting rid of stuff as a collector as you never know whats going to become collectable.

I nearly shifted my set of east german kit but its now becoming desirable.

[toboggan]

Heres some of my stuff, ive gotten more since ive taken these pictures!










~Toboggan

[toboggan]

I just got about 600$ worth of stuff about an hour ago, here it is