Hi,
As a retired soldier of 44 years service in the British Army I am lucky enough to be still connected through being a friend of the Small Arms School Corp Weapon Collection held at the Combat Training Centre on Salisbury Plain in UK.
It is a large collection of Primarily Small Arms from Pistols to Heavy Machine Guns dating from earliest times up to the present. If any member of the Plane Figure Fraternity needs help with weapon details or needs photos taken to assist in a project I am more than happy to help.
The collection can be visited but as you can appreciate it is held on a military base and clearance has to be sort before any visit, particulalry as most of the collection is in working order. Again if anybody wishes to visit please contact me through this medium and I will see what can be done.
Hope this can be of help to any fellow modellers. Yuma2452

Hi Yuma2452
great offer thanks

John

Nice one, aah lovely Salisbury plain, who were you with Yuma ? There's a fair few of us ex service blokes on here

NO you can't make me go back there...its a trick isn't it!?

Ha ha good god no!

Only time I want to go back there (other than said collection) is to see it turned into a giant car park without a blade of grass to be seen

Helm, I joined in 1964 as a junior leader, then went to 1st Battalion the Queens Surreys, which later became 1st Battalion The Queens Regiment. In 1981 joined the Small Arms School Corps. Left the Regulars in 1989,then became Assisant Author Infantry Publications as a Non Regular Permanent Staff until 2008 when I left. Spent the last 3 years as Editor in Chief for the Publications Department of the United Arab Emirates Armed Forces in Abu Dhabi.

Nice one interesting career I had forgotten about the SASC. Looking forward to seeing your figure work and I know one bloke here who will be all over you for info when he sees this!

I for one would definitely be very interested in having someone with first hand access to weapons to help me with producing more scale firearms, is the Combat Training Centre the old School of Infantry? I spent my last two years there before discharge.
here is a link to my website which primarily sells scale firearms for modellers. https://sites.google.com/site/reedeesminiatures/
look forward to chatting with you soon, would be great to get back down and visit the place again.

Steve

Haha told you so. ;-)

I was a day behind on this one, must be slipping

Steve

Old age mate comes to us all.

Steve, it was the old School of Infantry, now called the Combined Arms Training Centre. If you need any help please let me know. I can arrange a visit, they will be happy for visitors as they are trying to widen the appeal and the more that visit the better. Geoff

Excellent Geoff, I hope we can sort something out sometime so I can come down for the day.

All the best

Steve

You just know Steve is hopping up and down with excitement bless

You just know Steve is hopping up and down with excitement bless