Ok, so I’ve forgotten to update this as I meant to earlier.

So I’ve continued to try and make my kit along the lines of what has been “laid down” by the team. However, I’ve not updated my progress here!

Imperial Guard

As you can see, I’ve made some progress. Since this picture was taken, I’ve bought myself the correct headgear (a rifle green beret). I’ve also bought a foam sword from Tesco that I intend to paint up to represent a power sword or close combat weapon ( those familiar with warhammer will know that guard officers always seem to carry swords, however much they suck in close combat!)

This will be just a prop generally for standard airsoft games and probably wont be used but there are plans for the guard “regiment”  to get together and play games where this sword would come in handy. This isn’t really one of the exepsive LARP weapons you can buy, but it is LARP safe however which is a bonus! I guess LARP safe is actually harder to satisfy that being kiddy proof obviously!

I’ve also bought myself a blank firing grenade. Now this was an impulse purchase and my initial reaction after buying it off a forum was that if I didn’t get on with it, I’d sell it to my pyro happy mates who love them. I’d never got on with these before really. I mean they were good fun but a useless in woodland and far to expensive in case you lost them in the woods. However, now I seem to be playing urban more, they seem to come into there own. This was seen at the weekend when I used said item at The Temple (First and Only’s new site in Leeds, stay tuned for a review!)

I’ve painted this with what appears to be an Imperial Eagle, however it’s more an eagle shapd blob and I feel it needs some other method of making it identifiable as mine. I saw some at the Temple on Sunday with neon “streamers” and this seems like a reasonable idea but to me, a bit to tacky. I think I’ll head down the Russian way and use some blue electric tape for my next game!!

I’ll also try and get more photo’s of myself and my kit next game. With luck, one of the other Scarovar regiment may be in attendence as he himself is also based in Leeds and it would be good to have a mini meetup.