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For feldgendarmerie, you'd have a Heer one. The Polizei soldbucher where in use when the Polizei were moved, en masse, to the FG but by late 1939/early1940 they were withdrawn and the Heer book was used. The tarnsoldbuch (fake version) was factually correct but gave the bearers unit, normally as a r...

Much obliged, that's really useful.

Anyone have any experiences of this dealer? I'm looking at the officers uniforms mainly. I'd be keen to hear thoughts on:
- reliability
- quality
- communications
- fit

Thanks

Dave

Who is producing RAL7028 equivalent paint these days? My previous supplier is no longer trading!

Ta

Back in early May this year 18 of us went over the Cornet Castle on Guernsey to portray the Garrison there. We were joined by a few guys from the Island (4 Germans and 7 Brits).
Here's all the photos on Flickr: clicky linky

I used 2 seals glues together off a couple of old Kilner jars on all of mine - one of them is the right diameter.

Cheers guys!

Not been able to get hold of Jon yet - does anyone have an email for him at all?

Thanks

Dave

I've got a restoration project Moskvich 400 I'm looking to sell on as I'm not going to have time to sort it - I'll put a full for sale ad in later, but PM me for details.

Dave

Looking for an email address for Jon!

PM me if you can help

Ta

jlmod wrote:That photo is ACE!
Just what I needed to help with my idea of camouflaging my tent. Do you have any more pictures. ?
one question - whats the blue square piece in the bottom corner?

It's where the previous owner put duct tape over a patch of canvas that had been eaten by mice.

Here's a shot of one of my originals with the camo applied: I've now got 11 original tents, all are of the same tan canvas colour, dated from 1937 through to 1943 apart from 2 tropical tents which are a darker shade/light brown colour.

What radio is it as this will dictate the power supply. For example, the Torn Eb and Fud2 (the most popular repro sets amongst groups) used a 2V wet cell (the 2B38 one you have posted) and a 90V anode dry plate cell. Larger sets needed dynamotors, which could run off batteries but were usually vehic...