Forums, social media platforms, gaming platforms, you name it and I’ve most likely been a member on a number of groups all related to airsoft and the British army, including its mythical special forces. Sometime within the teenage years the world of slinging plastic bbs on my friends collided with the amazing stories of UK forces embroiled in the global war on terror. The Task Force Black imagery of mixed camo uniforms, Paraclete armour wearing and L119A1 armed shock troops struck a cord in my young gear nerd’s heart.
In the old times, there were message boards and forums. It was a great time for information sharing and searching. Topics could be filled with extra long posts detailing the most obscure details on an airsoft replica. It all vanished with the advent of Facebooks, Instagram and now Discord. Great places to chat and discuss, much less to really share knowledge in a convenient way. Plus, both Meta and X networks are prone to censorship, unless you’re showing skin or want to grift old people.
Feeling constrained by all this, I wanted my own place where I could rant as much as I’d like and store the little bits of knowledge I could gather here and there. After a lot of procrastinating, I’ve finally jumped the shark and opened the Kit Chat Blog. As the name implies, you’ll be here for military kits.
My priority is to both share and store informations in a way that could be helpful for fellow reenactors and nerds alike. Everything is sorted within the following six categories and a special page dedicated to scrolling and searching the content of the blog. I’ve gathered quite a few of my past ramblings so as to launch on a base offering. Links to all of these are provided below in each category.
Again a warm welcome and hoping you’ll find this content both entertaining and interesting.
Reenactment
Here you’ll find all the different photo albums I’ve either done or participated in while cosplaying in my favourite kits.
Clone Projects
Here you’ll find all my clone gun projects. There will be both project updates as these get completed and overviews of the final clone.
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by Switch Project – L118A1 : The beginning of the Counter-Terrorism Sniper Rifle -
by Switch Project – L2A1 : SACTARASS 12" -
by Switch Project – L115A3 : the 2020 rifle -
by Switch Project – L2/L118/L115 : L17A1 stand-in -
by Switch Project – L2A1 : SACTARASS 20″ -
by Switch Project – L2A1 : SACTARASS 16″ -
by Switch Project – L2A1 : The flash hider -
by Switch Project – L2/L118 : Accuracy International QD scope mount -
by Switch Project – L115A3 : DIY cosine indicator -
by Switch Project – L115A3 : Choosing the right base
Clone Guides
As the name implies, I will also write full comprehensive guides on how to clone specific rifle families.
In The Wild
A gathering of all the interesting bits I could identify through various media.
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by Switch ITW – 2025 : Arc'teryx Assault Pack and Brigantes Deuter Guide 35+ -
by Switch ITW – 2006/7 : Surefire M73 handguard -
by Switch ITW – 20xx : B.E. Meyers and the flash hiders of the L119A1 -
by Switch ITW – 201x : The London Bridge Trading 6094B plate carrier -
by Switch ITW – 202x : ARILLS everywhere -
by Switch ITW – 2023 : 1 Mercian showcasing the L115A4 -
by Switch ITW – 2010 : Accuracy International PSR prototype -
by Switch ITW – 2021 : Special Forces Support Group in exercise NightHawk 21
Gear
While writting on rifles and accessories is great, I’m unfortunately emotionally attached to cordura and will obviously be sharing on it too.
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Books
There’s no other way to put it, I read a lot. I figured I might as well share about the various lectures that accompany me when travelling or trying to fall sleep at night.
Explore
So here’s something special. This page if entirely dedicated to the content of the blog. It lists both all the posts and all the tags used. These are strictly defined as a mean for you to search for specific items and are mostly geared toward exploring the In The Wild articles :
- – Books are listed under either the “Book” tag or the author’s name.
- – Cloning guides fall under “Clone” and “Cloning Guides” tags.
- – Reenactment content all falls under “Reenactment”.
- – My personnal cloning projects are all tagged as “Clone” and “Projectnameoftherifle”.
- – All other tags (years, manufacturers, regiments, units, accessories, rifles, places etc) refer only to the real deal. This is to offer you a quick way of checking out if something specific has been used (by whom, which year, where, etc). These are purely dedicated to In The Wild posts.