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by peiper1944
Wed Jul 03, 2019 9:24 am
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: Personal kit, show us yours !
Replies: 1
Views: 5239

Re: Personal kit, show us yours !

No one intrested then ??
I thought people were complaining about nothing happening
on the forum yet no one has bothered to respond to a new thread ?
by peiper1944
Tue Jun 25, 2019 11:19 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: Personal kit, show us yours !
Replies: 1
Views: 5239

Personal kit, show us yours !

Hi all Just trying to spark up some intrest and get a thread started. Personal kit, show us yours is the title, i'll kick off with a pic showing your basic Infantrymans staple kit found in the bread bag, comprising wash kit (razor, period blades, shaving brush, soap, toothbrush, period comb and &quo...
by peiper1944
Sun Mar 17, 2019 5:10 pm
Forum: Weapons and Equipment
Topic: MG42 firing rate
Replies: 11
Views: 15425

Re: MG42 firing rate

A German machine gunner who had served at Normandy claims to have inflicted at least 2000 casualties using an MG-42 on Omaha beaches, his knickname was "The beast of Omaha" According to his memoir's he fired over 13500 rds until 15.30hrs, it didn't say what time he started but apparantly w...
by peiper1944
Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:45 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings from Germany
Replies: 2
Views: 8437

Re: Greetings from Germany

Greetings Tigerfahrer
Regards Pipes
by peiper1944
Thu Feb 14, 2019 7:57 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6. Panzerjäger impression
Replies: 4
Views: 16235

Re: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6. Panzerjäger impression

A couple more Falshy pics,
one tropical and the other ETO camo
Enjoy
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(Tropical Falschirmjager)
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(Falschirmjager European Theatre)

Regards Pipes
by peiper1944
Thu Feb 14, 2019 3:13 pm
Forum: Uniforms and Insignia
Topic: The different repro-uniforms offered in Europe
Replies: 3
Views: 6723

Re: The different repro-uniforms offered in Europe

Howdy, apart from the dealers mentioned you have Barry Lyndon on ebay, his company is based in Singapore I believe, the stuff he sells is mainly Asian made uniforms, the camo bone sack he does is quite good but there is a hefty postage. There is also "Lomax Antik" on ebay too, this guy is ...
by peiper1944
Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:15 am
Forum: Photos
Topic: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6. Panzerjäger impression
Replies: 4
Views: 16235

Re: Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6. Panzerjäger impression

Looking good, are those US Paratrooper trousers btw ?
Here's a couple of mine from back in the day lol
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Regards Pipes
by peiper1944
Wed Feb 13, 2019 4:18 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

Cheers Halle, hope you are well,
thought I would show something different on here

Regards
by peiper1944
Tue Feb 12, 2019 11:53 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

Hi guys, hope everyone is ok ?
Thought I would pop on and see what's happening.

Here's a couple of pics from my Allied portrayal in an
"Arnhem theme", enjoy.
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Cheers Pipes
by peiper1944
Tue May 08, 2018 11:22 am
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

Thanks moderator :-)
Now back to the topic "realistic looking reenactment photo's"
Here's a few more German pics of mine i have tinkered with,
enjoy.
Dead SS Grenadier  .jpg
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SS Officer bw version.jpg
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Gebirgsjager K98 0.jpg
Gebirgsjager K98 0.jpg (71.84 KiB) Viewed 12533 times
Cheers Pipes.
by peiper1944
Tue May 08, 2018 10:22 am
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

I don't see how bragging about your own work and playing one-up with other reenactors is helpful? Or am I missing something here? I don't think you've read the previous post correctly or are you cherry picking what you want to read I posted a pic in good faith and was set upon by your mate "G4...
by peiper1944
Mon May 07, 2018 9:10 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

askhati wrote:
G43 wrote:
The attachment 16864635_1242397155813394_2395447986851572295_n.jpg is no longer available
This is excellent. Looks like a colourised shot from a Signal issue.
You want to see a WW2 German period looking pic
This is more like a pic from the WW2 Signal magazine :-)
SS Grenadier with mortar-1-1.jpg
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by peiper1944
Mon May 07, 2018 8:40 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

askhati wrote:
G43 wrote:
16864635_1242397155813394_2395447986851572295_n.jpg
This is excellent. Looks like a colourised shot from a Signal issue.
Err...no it doesn't
We looking at the same pic lol :-D
by peiper1944
Mon May 07, 2018 8:36 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

MaxAdams17101 wrote:More stens
Of course..................what a stupid comment :-(
by peiper1944
Sun May 06, 2018 4:57 pm
Forum: Photos
Topic: most realistic looking reenactment photo
Replies: 321
Views: 226418

Re: most realistic looking reenactment photo

Here's a couple more, British Paras in the Dutch countryside 1944
Brit Para at rest.jpg
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Para with Bren.jpg
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Cheers Pipes

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