WW2Steel.com
page last modified 14Jul'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.

 

All projects on hold until my new shop (yet to be started) is built.
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

Contact Information!
EMAIL!

 

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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.

 

PantherASmall

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

 

Carrier

My Carrier Project! (armor restoration completed, sold)

 

Studebaker truck.
My 'Deuce and a Half'! (also sold)



Steve Smith's Gas Gun kits

My 'Gas Gun' build manual - only $14.99

 

My Transit Chests
My custom built Transit Chests (for sale)

 

My 2cm Flak 30

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

 

DShKBanner

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

Thompson (Sold a couple of years ago)

 

View Bren Items!

Bren (not for sale)

 

MG42 (not for sale)


My MG34
My MG34 (not for sale).

Dummy guns under construction!
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.

Combat Mission
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.  (Such as when a veteran crew misses another stopped tank at 100m twice in a row.)  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'.




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... when the  highly unstable industry allows it.  (I've had three positions eliminated from under me since Jan'08.)

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

Me defending Italy!

In Italian theatre reenactment.  I'm not particularly fond of the pants we wore that day, but the unit had to match.
Just to make something clear... I like German equipment because it is high tech and very cool looking,
not because a bunch of  mindless, willpower-less, ants followed a crazy guy (a bunch of crazy guys) to their country's destruction.
I have nothing to do with politics, and hate war... but tanks are pretty cool!


My Aviation Career 



(Earthlink's web mail... had to put this here because they make it so friggin hard for me to find...)