Hi Guy's, Just wondering if suggestions made in manuals, can be taken as ok to use, I've been reading up in the Home Guard Fieldcraft Manual, about the sniper suit, and found a bit at the end of the chapter that I'd like to make and use. The manual say's that 8 to 10 oz Hessian should be used to make the suit as illustrated, however if a heavier grade of hessian is used ie; vegetable sacks, then pieces of wool should be attatched in order to lessen it's solid appearance, and the other interesting bit goes along the lines of just using a large hood that comes down to the waist, just enough to cover the belt and pouches, so as to maintain mobility, If both ideas are combined it would make a modernish ghillie suit, but is this allowable as no photo evidence or genuine examples exsist.
I think you can do whatever you want to do, nothing (within the normal societal restrictions) is forbidden but why? 
I am not totally anal and believe that there was a fair bit of customisation of kit, particularly once the sitting in mud and then the shooting started. But my approach is to look at the scenarios that the organisers put up and then do my best to fit in to a unit that was in that theatre, starting first of all with the kit I already have. British Battledress is an excellent blank canvas for an awful lot of things being worn by Airborne, Commando, Home Guard, Infantry, Signals, Engineers and so on. When Craig drags the Poles in a couple of badges and a black epaulette and it’s Polish. 
Personally I've always had an interest in the Royal Artillery but as the nanny-state Government won't allow consenting adults to throw artillery shells at one another there is not much call for the RA in WW2 Airsoft, one day I will try and convince somebody of the need of a FOO or a unit from a Survey Regiment setting up recording apparatus but until then if I was to turn up as RA I would feel obliged to try and make my way back to HQ as I had obviously got separated from my unit.
So if you’re being true to your concept then fine dress as a Home Guard sniper but you will have a VERY long wait for anything to legitimately shoot unless another fictional scenario of Nazis in the UK is run.
Otherwise it is your vanity project, which as I said is OK and yes some people will say “oh, that’s very nice†but others will ask why, for example, a British Home Guard sniper is attached to a US unit fighting in Italy.
And some like me will probably say both... 
I have a small skewer hidden in the collar of my jumping jacket, and a razorblade in my gaiter, as well as my knife.
is this allowable as no photo evidence or genuine examples exsist.
There are some photos of Home Guard gillie suits out on the web. Give me a while and I'll try and find them for you.
Here we go;
http://www.blitzandpeaces.co.uk/video.asp
4th video down. 2.40 onwards.
http://www.wwiireenacting.co.uk/forum/v ... 72&t=64666
Check this thread out and be sure to follow all the links to see all the photos.
They don't resemble what we now think of as a gillie suit that closely but the concept is the same. Alter your shape and colour.
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