Nice firepower in size less than fist. Nice pictures.

Thankew! Maybe I need to invest in a better camera for close ups, though.... they look like craaaaaaap on full view.

May I recommend that you get an old Canon 3 or 4 megapixel camera? FA's rules prevent uploading a picture that is more than 1280x1280 = 1.6 megapixels. (Anything larger is shrunk down automatically.) A 900x900 pixel image is only 0.81 MP. I got a 3.2 MP Canon S1-IS on Ebay for $91, and have gotten a lot of Faves for the scenic and wildlife photos that I have taken with it. It has 10X optical zoom, and image stabilization, so that it is a lot more than you need. I'll bet that you can find a nice old 3 to 4 MP Canon with a 2-3X optical zoom for even less. Look at the reviews here for Canons under 3 and 4 MP:
http://www.steves-digicams.com/hard.....e_reviews.html

Just check the specs section of the review to make sure that it will focus close enough - most will.
Then go to ebay. I've gotten three Canons via ebay, and they all work great! Even if the camera works perfectly, few photographers want something so old and low in resolution any more, so you can get an awful lot of fine camera for $50 to $100 bucks.

If you have any questions, I'd be delighted to do my best to answer them. Those Steve's Digicam reviews are exceedingly comprehensive!!!! You can download all the manuals for any Canon camera for free as a PDF from the Canon website. If the camera comes with the original Canon software disk, that is a worthwhile bonus. Their software will allow you to catalog your photos the way you want, and to manipulate the color, contrast, and brightness to best display details like insignia.

I will definately look one of the canons up... I need a better camera for up close work, my old Casio Exilim still works great for distance shots and it has gone to Japam with me three times, not bad for an old 2.0 megapixel, Thanks Muchly!

and that was JAPAN, not Japam... argh!

You will enjoy the hunt immensely! I sure did. Those Steve's reviews are wonderfully techy!!!

Nice!

When did you get a cutaway training example?

-Badger-

Early 07, on ebay...

Trainee: "Potatoes... Commisar, why are we using potateos instead of real grenades?"

Commi: "Because real grenades are valuable! In fact, they're worth a lot more then you are."

Trainee: "Oh...uh, of course, comrade Commisar...m-my mistake..."

D.O.P.R

har har har! And quite true!

Delightful! I never get tired of old Soviet jokes because most of them are true!

Yep!

I've always wondered how grenade fuses worked...

Do a search on the net, there are several types of ignition systems. We use the French designed Bouchon ignaiter to this day, and they developed it in WW1.