I had this hat that I had bought and put up for review in an earlier thread.
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=736792
As it turned out to be good, I had been looking for someone to bring it back up to snuff. Our fellow member, tgn, took care of things in a really outstanding way!! I know that he had just recently reattached some SD insignia to an SS/SD tunic that someone had mistakenly and foolishly stripped, thinking that it was a repro.
First are a few "before" pictures. I had him reapply the metal insignia because I wanted it done right...not my fumble fingered attempts. I know I would have been unhappy with what I would have ended up with, had I done it! He also resewed the visor back onto the body of the hat itself. A really top-notch job.
In the after pictures, any little spots that you might see are a little misting on the lens. Really humid here today, just wating to turn into a storm.
What I don't understand is how the Germans used the same piping, the same waffenfarbe, for 2 different branches of the Heer. Burnt orange for recruiting and for Feldgendarmerie??? It doesn't make sense, knowing the orderly German mind, the organizational skills that they had. Can anyone explain this for me??? I am really puzzled by it. I haven't found anything in the literature that helps, not at all!
Thanx for looking.
Tim
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=736792
As it turned out to be good, I had been looking for someone to bring it back up to snuff. Our fellow member, tgn, took care of things in a really outstanding way!! I know that he had just recently reattached some SD insignia to an SS/SD tunic that someone had mistakenly and foolishly stripped, thinking that it was a repro.
First are a few "before" pictures. I had him reapply the metal insignia because I wanted it done right...not my fumble fingered attempts. I know I would have been unhappy with what I would have ended up with, had I done it! He also resewed the visor back onto the body of the hat itself. A really top-notch job.
In the after pictures, any little spots that you might see are a little misting on the lens. Really humid here today, just wating to turn into a storm.
What I don't understand is how the Germans used the same piping, the same waffenfarbe, for 2 different branches of the Heer. Burnt orange for recruiting and for Feldgendarmerie??? It doesn't make sense, knowing the orderly German mind, the organizational skills that they had. Can anyone explain this for me??? I am really puzzled by it. I haven't found anything in the literature that helps, not at all!
Thanx for looking.
Tim
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