Wow - that is really cool!
Nice work!

I'm talking about some of the ones on the board in this pic.


The two on the far right are M16A2 LMGs, which were only tested and are not used. The M79s and Stoners are no longer in service either.

The bigger issue is that the weapons are all over the place and not properly stored.

It's your dio, you can do what you want with it. Just don't try to bill it as anything near accurate.

As I don't visit often any more, a friend sent me a link to this thread and asked for my thoughts.

First off, your name and the "feel" of an SF team room led me to believe you were an 18D until I saw that you're in Spain. Nicely done.

Except that you are WAY off base - where is the beer? Every team house has beer. CONUS, OCONUS - makes no difference.





We wouldn't use a vending machine either - it wouldn't last a week. We use coolers, so we don't have to expend energy or bullets defeating the locks...

Note also the weapons. While deployed they are stored near our personal spaces, NOT in an arms room. You can see my cot on the left. Locked up weapons are about as useful to SF dudes as a boat anchor is to a NASCAR driver.

Same held true in Iraq:



The earlier photo in this thread of an "SF deployed arms room" (with the pink AR furniture) is clearly not in a COP or FOB in Afghanistan. I've never seen a team house there made of cinder block. Team houses tend to be of local construction, or commandeered structures.

This was my team house in Rabiah, Iraq - an old warehouse with CHU's in the rear. Work spaces, gym, interpreter quarters all made with local materials.



Note coolers and freezers for steaks and beer in this photo:



The wooden structure directly behind the freezers is the arms room. As you can see, not very secure - just a place to store all the guns and ammo we can't fit in our CHU's.

Here's our MWR room. Believe it or not, this is where "tactical questioning" often took place. No bad guys ever got away from us and managed to turn our guns on us.



By the way, you were spot on with the TV and the sofa:



Obviously, no two team rooms are exactly the same. Each takes on the character of its team, whether it be a HALO, SCUBA, CIF team, etc... But every team room's theme is weapons. They are the tools of our trade.
The team room of the ODA in Tal Afar had it's own share of weapons, again just laying about:



Oh my... the one above is even STILL loaded.



We use and teach whatever is available, so nearly anything goes. And yes, a few ODA's used M79's, cut down. One even had an M4 stock. If I find the photo I'll post it.



And "trophy" weapons are indeed hung up, so if you want to change your hanging weapons to "trophies" you won't be wrong. I've seen it in many team houses.



It's incorrect to say we wouldn't use this or that. Again, we'll shoot anything if it suits our purpose. This is a civilian HK 416 I had in Iraq:





Your ATV is a nice touch too. We used four and six wheelers:



So yes, your team house passes muster for me at least - an actual SF dude. Keep calm and build on!

As I don't visit often any more, a friend sent me a link to this thread and asked for my thoughts.

First off, your name and the "feel" of an SF team room led me to believe you were an 18D until I saw that you're in Spain. Nicely done.

Except that you are WAY off base - where is the beer? Every team house has beer. CONUS, OCONUS - makes no difference.







We wouldn't use a vending machine either - it wouldn't last a week. We use coolers, so we don't have to expend energy or bullets defeating the locks...

Note also the weapons. While deployed they are stored near our personal spaces, NOT in an arms room. You can see my cot on the left. Locked up weapons are about as useful to SF dudes as a boat anchor is to a NASCAR driver.

Same held true in Iraq:



The earlier photo in this thread of an "SF deployed arms room" (with the pink AR furniture) is clearly not in a COP or FOB in Afghanistan. I've never seen a team house there made of cinder block. Team houses tend to be of local construction, or commandeered structures.

This was my team house in Rabiah, Iraq - an old warehouse with CHU's in the rear. Work spaces, gym, interpreter quarters all made with local materials.



Note coolers and freezers for steaks and beer in this photo:



The wooden structure directly behind the freezers is the arms room. As you can see, not very secure - just a place to store all the guns and ammo we can't fit in our CHU's.

Here's our MWR room. Believe it or not, this is where "tactical questioning" often took place. No bad guys ever got away from us and managed to turn our guns on us.



By the way, you were spot on with the TV and the sofa:



Obviously, no two team rooms are exactly the same. Each takes on the character of its team, whether it be a HALO, SCUBA, CIF team, etc... But every team room's theme is weapons. They are the tools of our trade.
The team room of the ODA in Tal Afar had it's own share of weapons, again just laying about:



Oh my... the one above is even STILL loaded.



We use and teach whatever is available, so nearly anything goes. And yes, a few ODA's used M79's, cut down. One even had an M4 stock. If I find the photo I'll post it.



And "trophy" weapons are indeed hung up, so if you want to change your hanging weapons to "trophies" you won't be wrong. I've seen it in many team houses.



It's incorrect to say we wouldn't use this or that. Again, we'll shoot anything if it suits our purpose. This is a civilian HK 416 I had in Iraq:





Your ATV is a nice touch too. We used four and six wheelers:



So yes, your team house passes muster for me at least - an actual SF dude. Keep calm and build on!

Nacho,
A couple of things that occurred to me:

That milk crate under the table - you could put a sheet of paper on the side of it that has "BURN" written on it. We had exactly such a box in our team room.

And that prisoner figure you have comes straight from the set inspired by a few of my friends. Check the figures against the photos in this thread:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/263353&page=1#2229969

You'll see they are exactly the same dudes.

I like it ..... looks like you had fun building it and your level of and attention to the details are evident. I think the accuracy thing is pretty well buffed rebuffed and ya nuff said LOL. Wish I had half the skills to make a dio like this! The fact that it has been SF approved... pretty much means you rocked it! I only ever got to see an OFFICE space at the camp I guarded in Iraq for about 2 weeks, but judging from the pictures of the arms, I now know why the desks we used were made from ammo cans of all sizes and calibers LOL. Only thing I could think of thats missing is maybe a "hot box" for the prisoner? Place I was at had 20 of them lined up outside. might be a cool afterthought