johankreig wrote:
Ok having spoken to several people on here it seems that there isnt a cut and dry kit for lufty and falshy fg, I have been told the osprey book is innaccurate, I have also not een able to find much in the way of info on the net, found some good pics of fallshy fg which seems to be just fallshy with/without y-straps, ammo pouches gun and gorget, as for lufty I am unsure what kit would be worn, would it be the standard flieger uniform as per fallshy non tropical, with different trousers (not sure what the ground units wore as I am only sure on the green jump trousers that fallshys use) also what kind of smocks would they be using would it be army smoks or would they use the splinter b smocks of the luftwaffe. Lastly what colour shoulder boards etch would be used, fallshy seem just to use there normal ones but I cant get a consistent report on the lufty ones. any help with this and anything else relevent would be much appreciated, I would liek to atleast try and get it right, also places to source such bits that are going to be atleast slightly accurate would be nice, as I keep running into walls with splinter b items.
I think you seem to have some confusion with Fallschirmjager/Luftwaffe kit and insignia etc, you keep refferring to "Lufty" and then
"Fallshy" shoulder boards as if they were seperate, as far as i know they were the same, the yellow waffenfarbe used for LW flight
crews was the same as Fallschirmjager and the shoulder boards were in Luftwaffe blue colour.
If it is Fallschirmjager-FG you are portraying as far as i know it would be the Fallschirmjager waffenfarbe that is to be worn with a
LW gorget, although sometimes the standard Wehrmacht gorget was worn as well in some pics ive seen, the four pocket LW tunic
was also seen, mainly at bases/airfields etc, in the field gorget wearers were sometimes designated from combat units and wore the
police gorget temporarilly, it depends which type of Feldgendarmerie you wish to portray??, if it is a speciffic feldgendarmerie group
you belong to you should speak to your group and find out what it is they are portraying and what you are allowed to wear

Peiper