It all depends what you are in the hobby for, I mean I am a 'living historian' and so get the most accurate stuff I can (on a students budget) no matter how much wear and tare it will get, if it breaks I will fix it. The main reason for all this is that I display to the public so basically I don't want to show them 'wrong' kit. It is the same reason I want to get rid of my smock and get one made from more accurate material. From what I gather you are in it more for the private battle aspect so really its fair enough, if you are not going to be displaying to the public regularly and so on.
__________________
There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.
|