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rwdfresno - if that is what it takes to feel good about yourself, that is fine. The M16 does have propane/oxygen guns on it, and they are quite loud, but not close to the real thing. Most people have never heard a real .50 cal, so the propane/oxygen guns sound good to them. As for the jeep, it is a similar story to the Marine in the photos. It happened to be close by, and the owner did not mind giving up his weekend. The .30 is just static, so it would have looked a little funny with someone up there making machine gun noises with the mouth. I am not sure which reenactors you have interacted with, but all of the guys here were very nice, and did not care that the netting on the M16 was Nylon or the halftrack driver had the incorrect helmet on. The helmet was actually borrowed from one of the reenactors because we have the vehicle, but no accurate reproduction gear for the crew. Our area of focus has been on the aircraft, and we are just starting to expand into ground vehicles. The gear that goes with them will be expanded, and maybe next year we will have the proper netting and helmet so that you can go back to feeling bad about yourself.
kmiles
Let me just first apologize for even posting that stuff on your thread in hindsight it was pretty rude.
It is just sort of something kind of fun to do I suppose if you are a nerdy sort of guy like me and my friends we pick apart this or that...for instance we watch a movie like Patton and make fun of how the tanks are modern and the jeeps are all wrong etc etc. Same thing goes for when us nerdy computer engineers watch a movie about hackers we laugh at these "action" scenes of people hacking into a computer system. Perhaps I am just too nerdy or an a**hole or who knows but we usually get a kick out of it. Sort of the grown up version of the back of the cereal box where you have to pick out all the things that don't belong. Anyhow, I am certainly not a member of the "all or nothing" history crowd who thinks if you have an inappropriately marked Wildcat you may as well have a paper airplane.
As for re-enactors, I'm not sure which re-enactors you have dealt with but most of them that I know of will argue for hours, days, weeks, months, years....oh wait the argument is still not settled on what color the M1 steel pot is supposed to be painted or if the the horn on an MB is bolted on after priming prior to painting or after the subsurface was painted (as if anyone is going to unbolt the horn on a restored jeep just to check if it is primed or paint underneath).
Really my comments were for entertainment value, and meant mainly in jest but obviously that didn't come across. Anyhow, regardless it was your post and it obviously bothered you so I am sorry that I interjected my comments.
Ryan