Items and services for sale
Drop ropes, made here out of pure cotton, no plastic fibres, just 100% pure cotton. Slight variations in each rope due to the fact that I am doing them, these are not mirror clones of each other. Some have what I call the handle, others do not. You get what I make. Realy though... there is no difference. £14 (£10 to members)
Coffee cans and Powdered Milk cans. These fantastic reusable cans come in several different designs. opens just like a paint can, easy to open with almost anything on hand. £20 for 3 cans, that includes free UK shipping. These come in sets of 1 Coffee (5 variations), 1 milk (only one type) and 1 Sugar (3 variations).
The cans are all brand new, straight from a large packing manufacturer in the UK. So please don't think I am washing out hundreds of used paint cans that could posion you when you start filling them with coffee!
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The cans are air tight and you can use them over and over as long as you don't start doing crazy things with them. Should the lables get worn, wet, torn damaged, I can always print more for you to replace them with.
£20
for a set of
three cans
£4
members price
(cans sold individually)
Although wartime invasion currency can be printed from some free pdfs online, these not only cost you in ink and paper, but the worst part is that all the serial numbers are the same.... and usually an unrealistic '00000000'. Every note in our books is unique, not only do we supply the military notes that were printed in the US, but have also included a small amount of civilian notes that were also issued in really small numbers by the military. These can be seen being issued in the video of the 82nd being issued there invasion currency.
Each book contains vast amounts of notes, so you get plenty to give away, gamble with, loose, get wet and discard. Everyone who has purchase one so far has been over the moon and find it hard to believe the quality of the printing which is all done professionally... best still the price is kept down nice and low. Like everything we do... it literally is made by re-enactors... for re-enactors.
£15
each book
£8
members price
Fuel tablet packaging.
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A rather strange product that we were asked to produce, but after creating these, we found that we use them and love them! You'll need to purchase the correct size 'hexi' blocks. These came in two sizes. Both of those are cheap and easily available on eBay. Those are the 'Highlander' and 'KOMBAT' brands of hexi and can be purchase in varying amounts.
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You simple cut the boxes out, fold them on the lines and glue on tab down. Nothing more to it. Because hexi is solid, the packets are fairly resilient to being bashed about in packs or pockets.
Sold in lots of 10 packets (5 pages, 2 packets on each page). Price includes free postage.
£10
per 10
£5
members price
At last, stop carrying empty map cases; or in a worse case filled with Cornish pasties, Mars bars and cans of coke.
Lets start filling them with the actual contents they were intended. We have reproduced the 6 most commonly seen maps for the 101st / 82nd in Normandy. These have been professionally printed and look fantastic, I'm in the process of framing a couple up as they really do look that good!
Printed on a decent quality stock paper that will last if looked after of course. Don't open up in a thunderstorm and then complain to me that it eventually fell to bits! I will only laugh at you.
There is an overview of France map in a much smaller scale, the other 5 maps all contain all the famous towns/villages you'll instantly recognise. Carentan, St Mere Eglise etc. Only sold in sets of 6.
£35
the set
of 6 maps
£15
members price
We wanted to have a load of items thrown around foxholes and camps like rubbish, so I came up with this booklet of period correct food can labels. There is over 20 inside and they look amazing, all printed on high quality paper and professionally printed. Keeping the price as low as possible, but with the quality high I found a good balance. Each can is slightly larger than a normal can, so these will fit all cans from various nations. Even UK food cans and pet food cans vary in size slightly. So cut these to the size of each can needed. Almost all of them have a border around the can that can be trimmed as needed.
£10
1 book
£5
members price
Another of the random products I ended up making, for the hobby. A member of Miss Drop 44 asked recently what were the options for toothpaste... basically it was £10 a tube, that comes in a correct period box, but that you discard... OR use toothpowder from an original can. So this clearly needed solving as cost effeicently as possible. So here we go, 5 correct labels, almost identically reproduced, scalled down to fit the MARVIS brand of toothpaste. Why Marvis? It comes in the correct alluminium tubes and has excellent peroid looking caps that come in all sorts of different colours depending on the flavour. So you can pair these labels up with the caps you like most, or with the flavour you prefer. Also, it may not be the cheapest tooth past, but wow it is good! I don't know if they fit other brands of toothpaste, but probably!
These are waterproof vinyl gloss stickers, so once on look amazing. Take your time in putting them on. It can be best to use a pair of scissors just to snip the bottom where it folds over the very end of the tube, as the stickers allow for them to be folded over. Easy to apply.
5 different labels to choose from, or buy all 5 with discount.
£8
£5
set of 5 stickers
members price
or
£2
each sticker
Another of the random products I ended up making, for the hobby. On the back of the toothpaste tube labels we made came 5 different designs of shaving cream...Almost identically reproduced, scalled to fit the PRORASO brand of shaving cream. Why PRORASO? It is a little on the large size, but it does comes in the correct alluminium tubes and has peroid looking caps that come in all sorts of different colours depending on the scent. So you can pair these labels up with the caps you like most. The shaving cream is cheap too... two big tubes for around £10. If you only used these at events, you're looking at well over 1 year per tube!
These are waterproof glossy vinyl stickers, so once on they look amazing. Take your time in putting them on.
These worked out more expensive to print as they are bigger and a sheet comes with two stickers on each. So these will be sold like this.
If you want mulitples of these, the more you buy the cheaper they'll be.
£4.50
1 sheet - 2 stickers
£8
2 sheet - 4 stickers
£16
or
all 5 brands - 10 stickers
patches / INSIGNIA
After the disappearance of GAP and everyone suddenly asking me about patches, I promised if nobody did what GAP did, that I would try. Leathley started making patches, a did a fairly decently type1/2 comb, but has since hunge up his spurs. StandInTheDoor1944 has also started making them and they are very good, but are all the way out in the US, combine the price with postage and the import tax gamble they can get costsly. So, I eventually thought fuck it. Lets see what we can do, never doing anything by half measures I chooses 3 101st patches, Type 1 (most common), type 3 with white tongue (for variation) but will be done in red also and the type 15 'Ugly Bird'. As well as those 3, I was asked about glider patches. So... then we started on those, in all branches of service that I could find originals of. Medical, MP, Signals, Ordnance, Infantry and Artillery being an assortment of fully embroidered and emroidered onto felt/wool. As well as those the parachute cap badge too. Again in fully embroidered and onto wool/felt in all the variety we could see. There is 20 versions of the glider and parachute badge in total.
Click the photo above for more on our patches
Above shows a selection of how we dived head first into the patch world. Of course starting with the patches that we needed and the 101st glider patch that a friend of our wanted for his group.