The desert squaddy look

[Lance Jackass]

Okay im looking at getting a Gulf war style load out. Since most games in the UK dont take part in the desert though ive made up a mixed colour scheme which should look allright and be authentic.

 

So what do you think of:

 

95 ripstop jacket DPM (green)

Desert cammo shirt and trousers

OG t-shirt

Black boots

Possibly a desert cam body armour cover

95 pattern webbing

Desert cr@p hat

 

WOuld that be fairly authentic? Because ive noticed that when cammo is mixed the troop normally wear the desert cam trousers with a green jacket.

 

cheers

LJ

[xRAZERx]

Okay im looking at getting a Gulf war style load out. Since most games in the UK dont take part in the desert though ive made up a mixed colour scheme which should look allright and be authentic.

 

So what do you think of:

 

95 ripstop jacket DPM (green)

Desert cammo shirt and trousers

OG t-shirt

Black boots

Possibly a desert cam body armour cover

95 pattern webbing

Desert cr@p hat

 

WOuld that be fairly authentic? Because ive noticed that when cammo is mixed the troop normally wear the desert cam trousers with a green jacket.

 

cheers

LJ

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Yep it sounds OK to meI like the desert with Green DPM look....

 

What reg are you going for?

[Lance Jackass]

Im going to stay away from looking like a particular regiment so i dont offend anyone lol. But i might get a DPM SAS smock in the future....*hint*

[Unlimited Ammo]

Should be good lance, that's what the troops wore in Afghanistan

 

cheers

[Lance Jackass]

Cheers mate. Would i look a complete tit in woodlands wearing desert though?

[Unlimited Ammo]

Where half and half woodland shirt/jacket and desert pants, it looks g00d and it works as some parts of the woodland will be light

 

cheers

[Lance Jackass]

Suppose so. Cheers mate.

[doc_newstead]

Ooh, old impression alert (apologies for the spring XM ):

 

[Unlimited Ammo]

Yeah that's exactly what i'm talking about, cheers Doc

 

cheers

[doc_newstead]

They're replica desert DPM's (I wear them out-and-about, rather than skirmishing); the real thing are slightly more pink. You'd have to see them side-by-side to get what I'm on about, but there is a distinct colour difference.

[Unlimited Ammo]

Yeah but you still get what i mean, right Lance?

 

cheers

[Lance Jackass]

Yeah. Cheers for that pic mate. Nice one. Il probably get a desert ###### hat though instead of ye olde dpm one. And black boots instead of dessies.

[rhino]

Might be worth asking BadAssTronaut. He had a Desert camo-style US loadout at last years AG. Send him a PM.

[Lance Jackass]

Cheers mate buy im a dpm fanatic lol

[Gene]

Where do you lot get your desert dpm from, doc i'm assuming the government, but everyone else?

[rhino]

for me, local Army Surplus store.

[Lance Jackass]

Ebay- dirt cheap.

[xRAZERx]

Where do you lot get your desert dpm from, doc i'm assuming the government, but everyone else?

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Yep.... Seems to be a shortage of smaller sizes at the moment though

[Lance Jackass]

Just a thought- which looks better?

 

Green DPM with desert body armour and desert cr@p hat? Or desert combats with a green smock and desert body armour and ###### hat.

[Unlimited Ammo]

I think desert trousers, DPM jacket, DPM body armour, PLCE assault vest and a desert cr@p hat

 

cheers

[doc_newstead]

If I was going to get desert gear right now (and my finger has hovered over the 'Checkout' button many a time with that in mind), I'd go for:desert trousers, desert jacket (shirt), desert hat, temperate body armour and temperate PLCE (in my case, OD belt kit).

 

I'd probably get desert assault boots as well, but that's just because I like 'em I already wear a pair of buff workboots out & about anyways (wearing them in that pic up there).

[Frangible]

Just as a slight aside I've heard that the combination of temperate DPM (say smock or jacket) with desert dpm trousers has *supposedly* been found to work slightly better in terms of concealment/blending in than just plain desert worn all over..

 

Dunno if it's true or not but like I said, I heard it (from a friend of a friend who has a friend who's a brother of a friend of a friend's friend) worked quite well in scrubby desert particularly (needless to say!)

 

I've seen people wearing desert/temperate mix at skirmishes and it looked pretty good - they certainly didn't 'day-glow' in the woods..

 

Cheers

 

F

 

PS I was having a discussion with some guys a while back about kit shortages and the British Army.. As above, probably caused by kit shortage, it's proved to be a lucky result that it (allegedly) works well but we did speculate whether the lack of kit and the need therefore to A. Be tougher B. Improvise is one (not all but part) of the secrets which makes the Brits probably (no offence to anyone else) man-per-man the best armed forces in the world? When you think about British infantry stealing kit off dead French soldiers during the Napoleonic period because it was better you realise what a long, 'proud' history the Brits have of poor supply/ingenious scrounging..

 

But, I digress (hugely)...

[Lance Jackass]

Ive decided. Desert trousers, dpm jacket, desert body armour, dpm plce beltkit and dester hat.

 

now just to find the money lol. I wont have that by ag05- so il go in noob style! And il wear black boots aswell

[xRAZERx]

[Un_FriendlyFire]

The 50/50 DPM is great. Just going into detail can i get some explanation of why and when its used (although i guess its normally used in scrub or savannah type environments i guess...or if deserts havent been issued totally yet lol)

 

On another note as a desert thing has anyone ever noticed that in the Early 90s you seemed to occasionally be able to see british troops with L85s that had desert colour handguards but now you never seem to see them?