Plastic Combat Badges?

[münster]

Hi

When I was back in The States I ran into a little group of platic cobat badges- PAB etc

I did not get them because I had never seen anything like it before and the take a chance throw some money away price border was crossed.


What are they?? They looked good, when I seen them in the case I thought they were real metallic badges and grabbed at them. Were the WHW type deals? Childrens toys? Fakes from 2002?

Anyone ever encountered something like these?


Happy Holidays
Dion

[Graeme]

Hi Dion

From your description they could be anything...IMO unlikely to be real combat badges.

cheers
Graeme

[münster]

Hi Dion

From your description they could be anything...IMO unlikely to be real combat badges.

cheers
Graeme

Hi Graeme

They were really strange. Actual size of metal badges. They appeared to be made out of the same material as those WHW pieces. I wish they would have been cheap to toss them up here for everyone to see. Maybe someone else has encountered them.

Best
Dion

[Gran Sasso]

Hi Graeme

They were really strange. Actual size of metal badges. They appeared to be made out of the same material as those WHW pieces. I wish they would have been cheap to toss them up here for everyone to see. Maybe someone else has encountered them.

Best
Dion

There was a thread already for them - for an IAB if I remember correctly.

[münster]

There was a thread already for them - for an IAB if I remember correctly.

Found it


http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...tic+IAB&page=6


The ones I seen were like the FJ badge Bob H posted. Wonder what they were. Just an odd thing that stuck in my mind.

[Gran Sasso]

Found it


http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...tic+IAB&page=6


The ones I seen were like the FJ badge Bob H posted. Wonder what they were. Just an odd thing that stuck in my mind.

Great - there was also one for wound badges, just came to my mind.

[münster]

Great - there was also one for wound badges, just came to my mind.

I remember the WB one. I think it was bakelit. The badges are made out of that WHW type material, its sort of brittle.

[Johnny R]

There reportedly were Bakelite wound badges. I cannot give you the reference but I know I saw it somewhere.

[David Fettes]

I saw my first ever "plastic" IAB back in the late 80s

[Robin Lumsden]

Imagine.

You are part of The Thousand Year Reich.

You manage to survive three infantry assaults in the barren wastes of Russia.

And.................you get rewarded with a PLASTIC badge!

[Nordmark]

Imagine.

You are part of The Thousand Year Reich.

You manage to survive three infantry assaults in the barren wastes of Russia.

And.................you get rewarded with a PLASTIC badge!

My thoughts exactly...

[Robin Lumsden]

Hitler answers a telephone call from the first soldier to receive one of the new plastic badges.................

[Mike Coleman]

Dion,
There are a couple of places that make TR badges either in very cheap cast metal or cast resin. The make and RTV mold of the real deal and then cast them up. Some have pins and some are just flat back. I am familiar with them because I make models and we often use them as decoration on display bases. Here is a U-Boat model display stand that I did using a couple of them together. They also make large badges. I have a couple of PAB's that are about 6 x 9 inches.
Mike

[Dennis J]

I saw a lot of those plastic badges in their blue cases in a museum here in Virginia,this was about 1969 and from the out side looking in they looked like the real deal.I was there when they moved the case and had to take it apart to move it,I asked the guy if I could look at the back of the badges to see who made them,that's when I found out that they were plastic.I told the guy and he said the badges were real and that the Germans at the end of the war had to use plastic to make their medals and badges.I knew this was BS and thought that somebody a long time ago replaced plastic copies for the orig. badges.If I remember right most of these badges were luft(para,pilot etc).

Dennis J

[Robin Lumsden]

Dion,
There are a couple of places that make TR badges..........in cast resin.

Anyone here remember Gordon Owen's shop in the 1970s?

What a great collection of fibreglass awards that guy had.