Starting up ww1 airsoft

[true spartan]

Hello, me and a few fellow airsofters are starting up ww1 airsoft. If you are interested please visit our forum.

http://www.forumcityusa.com/index.php?mforum=ww1airsoft

Currently since things are so expensive, our first games will be held with bolt action airsoft guns, and attempts at a good impression. We don't expect anyone to get even close to a 100% impression at start, although that would be cool. If you are a sniper, we are even organising a small (very small) amount of snipers to help out each team. If someone built a close looking period machine gun they could use it. So if you are looking into getting out of the spec ops life style then please take a look.

[T.Smith]

Please note that IF we were to join your team, we would be unable to transport our weapons over the border to play with you. Your best bet is to stick locally, show up to regular airsoft games an' just get known. People will come to you when they see you out there.

[tiger-unit]

I would of never thought as early as ww1, good luckin in finding uniforms, but ten again, I only look at ww2 uniforms.

[T.Smith]

There are plenty of sites dealing in World War 1 uniforms, so it isn't like it is a rarety. I think if I ever went World War 1, it would be as a Canadian.

[GMTII]

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[T.Smith]

You'd have to modify a Kar98 for a longer stock...an' then 'create' a Lee Enfeild, Vickers, Lewis an' a few other weapons from scratch. Only viable option. In my opinion too much work. I'd rather just go an' re-enact WW1 with one of the many organizations, an' some real-steels

[Krieg]

I found this pics somewhere around the Net.
It shows WW1 german soldiers carrying MP18's a ww1 submachinegun.

I was quite suprised when I saw these pics.


http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...WW1/mp18_5.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...WW1/mp18_4.jpg

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...WW1/mp18_1.jpg

BTW Im about to start a WW2 german impression and I am not really thinking of getting into WW1 anytime soon. But thanks for the info

[T.Smith]

As the name suggests they were produced in 1918

In early 1918, in time for the great German Spring offensive of that year, the only widely used sub-machine gun deployed during the First World War - and the model for subsequent developments - was launched, the Bergmann Maschinenpistole 18/1 (MP18). The MP18 used common but powerful 9mm ammunition rounds and was loaded via a 32-round magazine

This formidable weapon - in effect a machine pistol - was a genuinely effective forward infantry assault gun. Its rate of fire was similar to heavy machine guns.

In the event - with Germany losing the war in the second half of 1918 - by the time the MP18 saw widespread service it was chiefly used as a defensive weapon.

The terms of the Treaty of Versailles specifically banned German possession of the MP18. In post-war years the MP18 was used in the police service.

[GMTII]

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[T.Smith]

They also had M1916 and M1918 helmets

http://www.germanhelmetsinc.com/rest...20helmets.html

[true spartan]

The germans wore thoe helmets with the spikes for the first two years but allied snipers would shoot them off. So, in turn they started making them without it.

[Hudabon]

Really? Snipers would shoot them off? Thats an interesting fact. But werent those more of an officers helmet? Ive seen very old video of germans and british soldiers in ww1, and I didnt see any of the lobster helmets. Bismarck wore one, though, thats why I think they are more of an officers privilege.

[Krieg]

The Germans used the pickelhaube from 1914 to 1916.

The infantry type was made of leather, as the rank got higher the quality of the pickle hat rose as well.

Inf=leather
Bismarck, Kaiser whatever= fancy schmancy metal helmet