What holds you back from doing WWII Airsoft?

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Postby Jebus! » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:07 pm

You could be the average Wehrmacht soldier without being a Nazi. Like that one from Oregon in "Band of Brothers". :)
Most would not wear swastikas on their uniforms.
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Postby Cap n pickles » Thu Apr 22, 2010 9:23 pm

Jebus! wrote:You could be the average Wehrmacht soldier without being a Nazi. Like that one from Oregon in "Band of Brothers". :)
Most would not wear swastikas on their uniforms.


Only cool kids wear a swazi.
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Postby Colosseum » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:09 am

Top of the morning fellas! Enjoying the war?
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Postby DevilPup93 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:24 am

Where you from son?
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Postby Variable » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:13 am

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Postby DevilPup93 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:36 am

Eugene? Popeye you hearin this? I'm from Astoria. What gives, why are you in a kraut uniform?
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Postby Snake Doc » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:42 am

Expensive, hard to find. Not enough willing people.
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Postby DevilPup93 » Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:43 am

Well if you compare it to a modern loadout, it isn't that expensive at all. I think it is just because people are too lazy to get the period outfit. I mean for $300 I was able to get a WWII Paratrooper loadout put together.
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Postby TexanKraut » Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:40 pm

"...hard to find..." you're kidding right??? There are tons of WWII reproduction stores around the world and most loadouts and uniforms are cheaper than modern stuff. It just depends on what nationality you want to portray and how lazy you are to not get online and look for the items.
I'm a Texan born and bred, how in the hell did I end up in the liberal and socialist d@mned Pacific NW!?!?!
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Postby TexanKraut » Fri Apr 23, 2010 7:41 pm

"...hard to find..." you're kidding right??? There are tons of WWII reproduction stores around the world and most loadouts and uniforms are cheaper than modern stuff. It just depends on what nationality you want to portray and how lazy you are to not get online and look for the items.
I'm a Texan born and bred, how in the hell did I end up in the liberal and socialist d@mned Pacific NW!?!?!
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Postby Colosseum » Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:36 am

DevilPup93 wrote:Eugene? Popeye you hearin this? I'm from Astoria. What gives, why are you in a kraut uniform?


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Postby Cap n pickles » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:23 am

Haha, a 15 year old, with the user name of "TexanKraut" , with a signature about being a Texan and being in the "liberal Pacific Northwest"....

I'm sure you have either heard this, or have said it you're self, if you don't like it here, you can GTFO*
Until then, enjoy Oregon and Washington for what it is, a sexy patch of land with plenty of good airsoft!


*When you're 18.



ON TOPIC: I plan on putting together a Russian uniform as soon as they hold that Bolt/AEG work shop around here..

I think a Russian uniform without Boots is like 180$, then there are sling system's to get, Mosin's, PPSH, hats, Trench coat, the list goes on and on.
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Postby k3gn3123512 » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:19 pm

Whenver I get around to buying some WWII German gear. I like the MP40.
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Postby Colosseum » Sun Apr 25, 2010 5:49 pm

Here I is today:

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Postby DMitri » Sun Apr 25, 2010 7:44 pm

Nasty wrote:Well technically since the Nazi Swastika is a reverse of the cultural Swastika from Asia, it does actually represent Nazis.


That's certainly true, the Swastika does represent the Nazi party, but that's not all it's represented, in both forms, in the Western 20th century. ;)

http://www.gosai.com/krishna-talk/80-sw ... cross.html

I hate to link Wikipedia, but this article is heavily cited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_us ... ted_States

There's even a movement to end the disposition: http://reclaimtheswastika.com/

As an anecdote, you guys remember Snap Cubes?

In third grade, during recess myself and a friend made what we considered to be "ninja stars" out of Snap Cubes. Given the central topic of this post, the conclusion the majority of you are surely holding right now as to what form these "ninja stars" took is most likely accurate. Let's be clear, I was 8 or 9 years old and had never seen a swastika in my life. My teacher saw these and flipped a lid, I vaguely remember her actually getting hysterical--she was definitely irate. Being a German boy in America shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall probably didn't help. I thought we were in trouble for making "weapons", haha.

Either way, the next day my ninja star was displayed to the entire class followed by being subjected to the Disney propaganda film, "Education for Death: The Making of the Nazi"

How ironic, eh?

I'm glad I was further ignorant even after seeing it, along with all of my classmates. Had something happened like this a few years later, it might have actually caused tension between myself and my classmates. At least, I don't remember it affecting me. Maybe I blocked that part of the memory out of self-preservation. ;)

I have to assume my parents never knew about this incident, and especially about showing that film.

If you get upset at seeing geometric shapes, remember the story of this 8 year old.
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