Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest 2008"

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Last Friday Jaime, Eduardo (Fuser1) and me, as passionate collectors of German militaria, along with 4 other friends from the 1/6-figure scale modeling hobby came together again to celebrate our this year's "Mexican German-Militaria-Fest".

The collections of everyone had grown, each in their own fields, so we had lots of new material to enjoy and learn from.

Jaime's mom (an angel!) prepared a very delicious Paella everyone enjoyed after having had a bowl of Fabada Jaime and I had prepared the night before moving all the different displays, etc.

Eduardo managed the appropriate musical underlay from his vast collection of German 30's & 40's "Hitparaden" (..how many GigaBytes were that again you said...??? )

But enough said, let the photos speak more about this great and fun night:

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Shot from above

The pieces everyone put on display incl. a wide range of material:

From WH, W-SS, DDR over to 'Nam era uniforms, equipment, helmets, medals & badges to paper items, photos and more....

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Another shot from above

Jaime making some explanations on Tropical headgear on the basis of some nice colour photographs....

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

Going "Tropical": Jaime's and Eduardo's pieces, incl. 1st and 2nd model pith helmets.

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Ostfront

Some nice WH-Uffz combat displays right from the Ostfront.

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

A reverse shot.

All geared up and ready for action!

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

A lot of questions about several pieces were made, by our historically-interested, non-collecting friends....

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

...and answered many times (in this case Jaime on the left ) to everyone's satisfaction.

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

Then it was time to enjoy the deliously prepared dinner, with a few nice bottles of right temperatured red wine.

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Mexican "German-Militaria-Fest" 2008

Jamie serving our traditional Fabada...

[Glenn Barbaritz]

great looking stuff there Guys. looks like a very serene, friendly get together. always nice to combine ones passion, good conversation and a great meal together. it doesnt get much better than that for a true collector. Glenn

[blinky]

Very nice! It is get togethers like this that make collecting fun.
One thing though, I didn't see any Mexican Adrian helmets on any of the tables

eric

[nostromo]

very good party and the exhibits and also the fabada typical Asturian or Mexican?

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Mexican German-Militaria-Fest 2008

Many thanks for the comments so far my friends.
I will continue to post more imagines now. (I had breakfast and discussed how to improve the garden with my wife in the meantime... )

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Mexican German-Militaria-Fest 2008

Jaime´s famous Spanish Waffen-SS volunteer and Verteidiger der Reichshauptstadt Berlin set-up.

In the background my own SS-HStuf. German Cross & TDB winner
of Rgt. "Deutschland".