Posts
Technomad found this picture and said he'd watch the heck out of this anime.
I said that I'd give it a miss because I was soured by the Wehraboos and their endless attempts to redeem the Waffen SS.
We know they're SS because the Heer had stopped using black leather by the time that camo smock
started being issued, to the Waffen SS... who retained the 1938 pattern
all the way to the end.
He speculated that the subject could be Finnish or Hungarian based on the helmet.
Well, no.
The Finns didn't go in for camouflage patterns. Nor did they use the 1938 pattern black leather web gear.
The finns stuck with Mosins too. The K.98k depicted isn't Finnish kit at all.
The grenade and Panzerfaust are OK.
The Hungarians used a lot more German kit, though. But they went their own way on the load bearing gear, using a conventional buckle instead of the clamshell style of the Germans. They also never issued a Waffen SS camo-pattern smock.
The Hungarians kept the 1916 helmet for the most part and didn't issue camo covers for their 1938 pattern. The one in the pic is a 40 or 42 pattern. Probably 40 by the brow's thickness.
I built a lot of 1/35 scale tanks and made several dioramas with friends.
You get to know the subtle variations quickly because when you enter your diorama into a contest the judges spot the anachronisms right damn quick.
No comments:
Post a Comment
You are a guest here when you comment. This is my soapbox, not yours. Be polite. Inappropriate comments will be deleted without mention. Amnesty period is expired.
Do not go off on a tangent, stay with the topic of the post. If I can't tell what your point is in the first couple of sentences I'm flushing it.
If you're trying to comment anonymously: You can't. Log into your Google account.
If you can't comprehend this, don't comment; because I'm going to moderate and mock you for wasting your time.