WW2Steel.com
page last modified 3Jul'09

General info...

This is not a business.  I do sell stuff, but just as an individual, and usually make less than $1 an hour!  Maybe in the future, but for now it is just a hobby for myself to share with others!  I know the "not for sale" gets repetitive, but I still get regular emails for things I haven't sold in years (or ever sold)!

My Goal:  My goal is to provide equipment to make WW2 reenacting more like WW2.  While it may be fun to run around in the woods with bolt action rifles all day the real war was very mechanized, and there were many automatic and large caliber weapons on the field.  My goal is to produce replicas of these war machines- from large guns to heavy armor. I can produce anything, but some designs are preventatively expensive or oversized.

I am no longer building dummy guns, due to increased kit prices and parts availability, and so that I may concentrate on my larger projects.
While I do enjoy the satisfaction of the finished product, they take a lot of shop time to build.

All projects on hold until my new shop (yet to be started) is built and wired.
In the meantime... as it is taking forever to gather the cash (loans suck)...
I will be trying to update this website on my fabulous dial up connection!

Maintaining this website is very costly (in ISP server fees). 
If you would like to help with even a small amount, please click the icon below.
Thanks!  Mike

CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO VIEW RELATED ITEMS:

Quick Links:

Stuff I Have Sold (links below)  :(	Items for Sale (links below)	My Panther Turret Project
2cm FlaK30 I built a few years ago	My Transit Chests for sale!	My Bren
My Bren Carrier	Steve Smith's Gas Gun kits	My DShK
My 1951 Studebaker 'Deuce and a Half'	My 'Gas Gun' build manual	My MG42
My Thompson Dummy Gun	Items for Sale!!!	My 'Combat Mission' page.

My Panther Project! (No, this one's not mine.)

My Carrier Project! (armor restoration completed, sold)

My 'Deuce and a Half'! (also sold)

Steve Smith's Gas Gun kits

My 'Gas Gun' build manual - only $14.99

My custom built Transit Chests (for sale)

My 2cm Flak 30 (Sold a couple of years ago)

The DShK pics... (not for sale)

If you have one of these in good condition, with the armor, I'll give you $1500 for it!
(You can't exactly hold a DShK when you fire it!)

I ALSO NEED AMMO!

Thompson (Sold a couple of years ago)

Bren (not for sale)

MG42 (not for sale)

My MG34 (not for sale).


My PPSh41 and DP28, both barely more than parts kits and in the same condition they have been in for several years.
I'd really like to make these into semiautos.  Thye DP is just a mini DShK which I have a semiauto conversion for.

Contact Information!


My Combat Mission charts

    Combat Mission is an excellent SIMULATION (as opposed to a game), focusing on land combat in WW2 Europe.  As of right now there are three in the series, 'Beyond Overlord', 'Barbarossa to Berlin', and 'Afrika Corps'.  They pertain to the Normandy Invasion, East Front, and Africa/ Italy - in that order.  BTS/ Battlefront.com has spent a lot of time developing this game.  I really like how well it simulates armor combat.  They take into account things like shatter gap, differences between cast and rolled plate, face hardened armor and homogeneous plate, applique armor, the capabilities of SPECIFIC ammunition versus the slope AND obliquity of armor, performance differences of AP, AP shot, APC, APCBC, APCR, APDS, HEAT, etc, etc.  There are a couple of items that are debated, such as the too low performance of Russian 45mm guns, overly high quality of the StuG's 80mm armor, overmodeled large HE rounds, and for me- the WAY too low first round accuracy of gunnery.  (When a veteran crew misses another stopped tank at 100m twice in a row, or that a crack Panther crew only has a 9% chance of hitting a stopped T-34 at 2000m, for instance.)  Despite these items I believe that this is, by far, the most accurate armor penetration model, and it encompasses literally hundreds of armored vehicles and guns.  This portion of my website encompasses this 'game'.

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About me:   I was born on a US Air Force Base in California.  Since I was young I have been interested in military equipment and that has manifested itself to focus on WWII, especially Europe, and largely the conflict between Russian and German forces.  I work as a pilot. 

An F-105G at George Air Force Base when I was very young.

In Italian theatre reenactment.  I'm not particularly fond of the pants we wore that day, but the unit had to match.

My Aviation Career