Military Surplus Thread - Quality items at low prices or overpriced garbage for LARPers?

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Dead Lion said:
You can buy surplus stuff directly from the Polish army and the prices are really good ($50 for a full uniform for instance).

I’m probably the only person who actually likes our forest panther camo and I have a set for airshit larping purposes.
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Also whoever they hired to run the web store always has a blast writing the descriptions. Though most of what AMW sells is shit from the previous regime, including a metric fuckton of Becha-Tex™ clothing. However on ArmyWorld.pl you can find a ton of modern surplus stuff that's actually useful, including crap that's currently in service like the wz. 939/MON boots that are probably the best boots our troops had since forever. Been using them for about a year or so with paracord for laces and they've been really solid, almost sneaker levels of comfort and you can feasibly run in them.

I also found leaked military technical documentation of those boots online but 🤫
Among Us Gaming said:
I'm a big fan of the field Jacket.
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Me too, though I never found a surplus US made one. I do have an Austrian copy before they switched to Gore-Tex, as well as a M65 inspired Covert jacket from Helikon-Tex. I'm generally a massive fanboy of their products and designs and from what I've heard their M65 replica is the closest thing you can get to an original US made one, according to some it's even more faithful than what Alpha Industries is selling nowadays. Then again, can't beat Helikon's design with a metric fuckton of pockets. Also got a black variant of their SAS Smock which, again, has fantastic pocket design and much more civil and in a way fashionable. But Helikon isn't military surplus, just your typical tacticool manufacturer.
 
Picked up one of those surplus wool blankets to throw over my existing bedclothes and act as an extra heat trapping layer. Paid far more than I should have but still pleased with the purchase as it traps heat wonderfully without giving me that urge to stick a leg out in the middle of the night.
 
The US Army's "woobie" is always a good thing to have for cold times, along with a Soviet (or any Pact nation's) Army Plash-Palatka. My plash has been everything from a picnic groundspread to a tent to a poncho to a workmat.
 
The Foxtrot said:
The US Army's "woobie" is always a good thing to have for cold times, along with a Soviet (or any Pact nation's) Army Plash-Palatka. My plash has been everything from a picnic groundspread to a tent to a poncho to a workmat.
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My parents used their issued woobies as mats to lay the ironing board down so they could spray starch on the clothes and not damage the carpet with iron board bare medal legs.

It's funny how its this sought out thing in certain circles but my own parents couldn't care less about these things.
 
ellroy said:
My parents used their issued woobies as mats to lay the ironing board down so they could spray starch on the clothes and not damage the carpet with iron board bare medal legs.

It's funny how its this sought out thing in certain circles but my own parents couldn't care less about these things.
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Well genuine woobies that aren't "Made In China" are getting less and less common, while the Plash was made by pretty much every Eastern Block nation and some like the Czech Republic and Russia still make new ones. I keep my GDR one in more-or-less "new" condition and baby it, while my Soviet one(s) I don't mind abusing because there's likely hundreds of thousands that are still in musty warehouses, never issued and for sale at a bargain price (like $20, sans S&H).
 
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small sample of my coat collection.
Belgian jigsaw is the best camo, also Austrian anzug 03 or 75 pants pair with basically anything, I have too much milsurp, I have so many camo coats and shirts i could go a month or more without wearing the same one twice.
 
Biggest Bubba said:
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small sample of my coat collection.
Belgian jigsaw is the best camo, also Austrian anzug 03 or 75 pants pair with basically anything, I have too much milsurp, I have so many camo coats and shirts i could go a month or more without wearing the same one twice.
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You're making me wonder about buying camo anything again with that collection. The red one's to die for. It's been at least fifteen years.

Speaking of the Bundesheer pants, my next coat is gonna be the M65. If I still lived there I could drop into any surplus and snag one, but they aren't very expensive to order online anyway.
 
Honestly, I'd just like to find someone that can make BDU patches, nametapes, and rank insignia for the Air Force BDUs.

I lost mine to mold and mildew when a leak claimed the storage box and I didn't know it. Those things are impossible to find now that there have been like three uniform changes, and my old unit is kind of niche as hell.
 
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