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Feb 13, 2026
Will you be MINE this Valentine's Day?
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We are launching a line of "cheap and cheerful" reenactment ordnance and to start off this series, we have Schu Mines and Stock Mines. These are very visually accurate pieces, which you can easily put together and they are quite inexpensive. The thing about mine fields is, they usually have mines (plural) in them, lot of them. To realistically achieve that without the budget of an army, they need to be cheap. To lay a proper minefield at an event, you need to have enough to lay them several rows deep and across an area of the event that is large enough to have a real impact on the battle. These mines can completely change an event. A single mine might be ignored as annoying, a proper mine field gets respected; it slows down movement, or completely redirects efforts. This is why we opted to make these as inexpensive as possible and tried very hard to maintain as much accuracy, both visual and functionally as possible.
These generally all need a little work and tinkering, but all of the hard parts are there. Since I can not afford an army of lawyers, I will not tell you how to make them go pop, nor will I even recommend you try to do so, I am sure the reenacting community will figure out how to use these on their own. These are not indestructible or infinitely reusable, they are cheap enough that loosing a few won't hurt too bad. Some parts may break or get lost but replacements are cheap and readily available. The Wehrmacht didn't plant reusable mines, ours are at least a little better than that.
Unfortunately, due to shipping delays on some components, complete mines are extremely limited in supply right now, luckily many of the components are standard off the shelf parts you can buy elsewhere. You are not reliant on us alone for all the parts. I am very short on the clips I am using on the fuses, so I do not have as many to offer as I was hoping. I probably should have just waited to get the parts and list these in larger numbers but I already planned space for them in the Valentine's update so I could make my silly joke. I was thoroughly committed. Yes, I thought this joke was so good I couldn't possibly change my plan for practical business reasons.
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Jan 16, 2026
Show of Shows 2026
Read more →We will be setup at the Show of Shows militaria show in Louisville, KY. If you want us to bring anything specific, please let us know!
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Jan 08, 2026
Upcoming New Products in February
Read more →I have been working almost non-stop on new stuff and restock. I should have flashlight batteries available again soon and I am working on a series of cheap and cheerful reenactment items. Many of the new items will not be hitting the website until February. This delay is partly due to scheduling and partly due to manufacturing.
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Dec 09, 2025
Christmas Mail
Read more →The post office hasn't been exactly fast as of late, so get in any orders you want to arrive before Christmas! I would suggest ordering before Dec 12 if you want to give it the best chance of making it (still no guarantees, of course!).
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Nov 18, 2025
Christmas Update Nov 21
Read more →We decided to list the Christmas items in the November 21 Friday update to allow more time to arrive for the holidays. The cutoff for US orders arriving in time for Christmas is December 15 (international is Dec 7) this is not a guarantee, just saying it should be there (for international, I would be wary if that is actually enough time).
We will have our annual Black Friday sale Thanksgiving week, more info to come.
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Jul 27, 2025
D-Day Conneaut 2025
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Jun 18, 2025
Saccharin Restock
Read more →Just restocked saccharin and K98 take down tools. We also added a lot more options to our mystery German book listing. We shipped a lot of packages back from Germany and those are starting to arrive. We'll have lots of "new" items and hopefully a lot of reproductions done for D-Day Conneaut.
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Mar 15, 2025
MAPS Militaria Show
Read more →We will be set up vending at MAPS Militaria Show in Canton, Ohio on April 13 2025. This is a great show and the cost of the show includes museum admission. A great way to spend a Sunday. If you want us to bring anything, let us know ahead of time.
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Feb 01, 2025
Show of Shows 2025
Read more →I will be set up vending at the Show of Shows in Louisville, KY. The largest militaria show in the US (I don't know about the world, but that's what OVMS says).
Click the photo to go to the OVMS website for more details.
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Jan 17, 2025
Sunglasses Restock!
Read more →We have restocked our German round MG sunglasses in tortoise shell and clear.
We also restocked Dextro Energy and repro mess kit brushes.
