Yin717
Active member
Hey guys.
I'm currently in the process of joining the BARS, British Airborne Re-Enactment Society. Well, when I say joining, I'm in talks with the leader and I've received the membership pack. I'm currently trying to set a date to meet and ask more questions but I do want to ask you guys for some...assistance.
First thing is the uniform. I have the kit list and have gone to the various sites they suggest. The cheapest I have found is most of the kit for £340, so adding the other kit it would come to under £400, which I thought was rather goo.d But if you guys know any other site's or groups that sell British Airborne (WWII) kit I would be very grateful. Sites I have looked at are Solider of Fortune, What Price Glory, Epic Militaria and Pegasus Militaria. Any other site's I could look at I would very much appreciate.
Secondly I would just like you to suggest some thing's I should ask when I meet this guy. Me and my family have never done anything like this before so I am going in rather cold. I have some basic questions about the weapons, expenses, uniform ect but I was wondering if you had anything that might be worth asking about that I could easily over miss. (Just as a side note, I'm 17 so I can legally do it and go into battle's but I obviously rather young so you might need consider some under 18 questions I might need to ask ect.)
Thirdly, any message's of encouragement would be very well welcomed. I very much want to be a part of this group, especially since the British military rejected my application and I want to live some sort of military lifestyle. Also, this is probably the first major project I am doing pretty much completely on my own. As I've said, no one in my family has ever done this so I have no family backing, I have to put my trust in the society's members, who I am sure am fabulous but I obviously don't know them. So any encouraging message's would be fab.
Thanks alot.
Yin
I'm currently in the process of joining the BARS, British Airborne Re-Enactment Society. Well, when I say joining, I'm in talks with the leader and I've received the membership pack. I'm currently trying to set a date to meet and ask more questions but I do want to ask you guys for some...assistance.
First thing is the uniform. I have the kit list and have gone to the various sites they suggest. The cheapest I have found is most of the kit for £340, so adding the other kit it would come to under £400, which I thought was rather goo.d But if you guys know any other site's or groups that sell British Airborne (WWII) kit I would be very grateful. Sites I have looked at are Solider of Fortune, What Price Glory, Epic Militaria and Pegasus Militaria. Any other site's I could look at I would very much appreciate.
Secondly I would just like you to suggest some thing's I should ask when I meet this guy. Me and my family have never done anything like this before so I am going in rather cold. I have some basic questions about the weapons, expenses, uniform ect but I was wondering if you had anything that might be worth asking about that I could easily over miss. (Just as a side note, I'm 17 so I can legally do it and go into battle's but I obviously rather young so you might need consider some under 18 questions I might need to ask ect.)
Thirdly, any message's of encouragement would be very well welcomed. I very much want to be a part of this group, especially since the British military rejected my application and I want to live some sort of military lifestyle. Also, this is probably the first major project I am doing pretty much completely on my own. As I've said, no one in my family has ever done this so I have no family backing, I have to put my trust in the society's members, who I am sure am fabulous but I obviously don't know them. So any encouraging message's would be fab.
Thanks alot.
Yin