Post Your Airsoft Field Gear Loadouts
- Thread starter Polygon
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I think I'll pick up that rifle. After reading the review, it makes it seem as though it's a pretty good bargain.
Not sure when I'll be ordering it yet, I have some other gear on the line I need to pick up first.
My Serbian helmet arrived the other day with some decals I ordered, it looks pretty nice with my Russian kit.
Nice.
Mauser is deactivated and I was too lazy to attach the sling before I took the photo. VSR can do the airsoft part, Mauser can do the photo part.
And that "nasty grey" mess kit is actually original M31 mess kit. It is unissued, stamped with DDR I in the lid and has lovely NVA "nasty grey" paint
After I find a field canteen in decent condition I'm going to collect DDR set. So far I have already Strichtarn uniform (real unissued), NVA breadbag, some random NVA **** and stuff.
But any ideas which would be beter for NVA set overall? AK47 or AK74?
Mauser is deactivated and I was too lazy to attach the sling before I took the photo. VSR can do the airsoft part, Mauser can do the photo part.
And that "nasty grey" mess kit is actually original M31 mess kit. It is unissued, stamped with DDR I in the lid and has lovely NVA "nasty grey" paint
After I find a field canteen in decent condition I'm going to collect DDR set. So far I have already Strichtarn uniform (real unissued), NVA breadbag, some random NVA **** and stuff.
But any ideas which would be beter for NVA set overall? AK47 or AK74?
Nice kit,
I have a pretty reasonable DDR impression myself, but I've never used it for any airsoft skirmishes so far. You can try http://www.gowenmilitaria.com/ to pick up everything you need for the most part.
I have a pretty reasonable DDR impression myself, but I've never used it for any airsoft skirmishes so far. You can try http://www.gowenmilitaria.com/ to pick up everything you need for the most part.
Luckily there's one store that sells lots of army, outdoor, repro stuff and other weird like that under 35km distance (from my home) with more or less reasonable prize.
I would need helmet, generic battlegear gear (belt, combat suspenders, backpack, pouches, zeltbahn, bayonet and such), parade uniform, overcoat and AK47 or AK74 to have complete overall set. I might go for the AK47, but any suggestions about that in general?
None of the above (unless you by "NVA" mean a different "NVA" than the North Vietnamese Army).
What you really want is the Real-Sword Type 56, or Type 56-1.
Review here: http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ReviewDetail?reviewID=181
T-56 here: http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=23243
T-56-1 here: http://www.redwolfairsoft.com/redwolf/airsoft/ProductDetail?prodID=23242
Both Russia and China supplied thousands of AK's to the North Vietnamese, so a Russian AK-47 would also work (but never a 74, that would just be plain wrong, even the AKM would be too modern), but the Chinese Type-56 is without question the one that will allways be remembered as the Vietnam AK, and besides, its all steel and real wood, you know you want it!
AKMS w/ Real Steel Russian Handguards & Converted 40rnd magazine.
AKS-74n w/ Real Steel Russian Handguards & Gastube, Converted Izhmash magazine, Kobra Red Dot & Tourniquet.
AKS-74Un w/ Real Steel Vented Russian Handguards & Converted East German magazine.
AKS-74n w/ Real Steel Russian Handguards & Gastube, Converted Izhmash magazine, Kobra Red Dot & Tourniquet.
AKS-74Un w/ Real Steel Vented Russian Handguards & Converted East German magazine.
My Jin-Roh mask just arrived a few days ago, and it's pretty well made. At the moment, I'm in the process of installing ventilation holes and the LEDs for the eyes. The face mask fits very well with both my Serbian kevlar helmet and German M42 steel helmet.
Well, NVA can also mean Nationale Volksarmee, which means DDR army
But yeah, kinda funny that same three letters can have two entirely diffrent meaning.
An east German AK is alot harder to pull off unfortunatley, as nobody makes them, but if Finnish law permits it, you can come quite clouse if you can import real-steel grips.
Getting a real solid stock to fit on an airsoft AK is allmost impossible, you would need to cut off so much of it im not sure it would still work, or ever fit the body properly, so your best bet is going for a folding stock version of their AKM.
The front grips are a bit hard to find, but you see them sold on eBay every now and then, they look like this:
http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/1705/eastgermanak74handguardspistol.jpg
East Germany used a coat hanger style folding stock, so your best bet is VFC's new AIMS AEG, Iokatsu also makes an AIMS, but theirs unfortunately have Russian markings on the Reciver, the VFC does not.
http://www.wgcshop.com/pcart/shopper.php?itm=VFC-AEG-AIMS_srch_1
The real front grip should fit like a glove, but the real pistol grip will never fit, so that will look a bit wrong, sadly, nobody makes east German pistol grips for airsoft.
Maybe you can paint it or something to make it look more like the German one, that could be worth a shot.
What you would end up with would be extremely clouse to the east German AKMS copy, with a few minor details beeing wrong (pistol grip, rear sight, a few markings, release button for folding stock, they are allmost identical, but Romanian and east German Coat hanger stocks use a different release button), perhabs you could also get ahold of a real German rear sight to put on there, it would be a very good replica, not perfect, but very very good.