Hi guys,
i am planning on putting togther a number of different german uniforms, but to keep costs down i was hoping to have different tunics but use the same trousers, footwear, webbing etc, except where it needs to be changed, e.g belt buckles, head gear etc.
What i want to know is what combinations can i get away with, for example, would m36 trousers be ok with an m40 tunic etc?
All help advice more than welcome.
Cheers Phil
In short, the answer is yes. Soldiers would be issued with what was available. The beauty of the M36 tunic is that it's useable for any period of the war (and looks smarter than the others as well!).
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
Just about anything goes really, depending upon the period. Stocks of old kit were issued throughout the war so you might get an old model tunic and some new trousers. Plus different levels of wear would often lead to a mismatch of clothing types as usually trousers would wear out faster than tunics.
The beauty of the M36 tunic is that it's useable for any period of the war (and looks smarter than the others as well!).
Indeed thay do. I wish I had one rather than the 3 M40 tunics I've ended up with. Although my early war M40 is quite a deep green anyway so it looks quite smart with the early war bottle green insignia.
Would the m36 have had belt hooks attached, or were these only introduced on the later uniforms?
Reason i ask is the m36 uni i have bought doesnt have any, and dont know if i should get some or not?
I've worn my belt order, with mags, bread bag, bayonet, water bottle and gas mask tin hung off the back without Y straps and did not feel the need for the hooks at all.
I would suggest you try it out before getting the hooks as I've seen people on here grumble about them and I'm sure I read somewhere of the original German troops grumble about them to the point of discarding them. Get your belt order and give it a try before spending money on hooks.
Then join the Jäger Regiment. 
Belt hooks were used very early war before the introduction of Y-straps in 1940. If you're going for anything post 1940 you have no need of them as you can wear y-straps instead, although some people like to wear both.
I concur with all of the above. If you want to look smart in your belt-only drinking outfit I'd recommend hooks though. The tunic designers wanted the belt to sit artificially high on the waist in order to make every soldier look taller. Without hooks the belt will keep slipping down. Brass curtain hooks can be fashioned to work OK if the price of SoF ones make you wince.
I must be a funny shape then Seanebabes. I was wearing no hooks or Y-straps at the weekend because I was only carrying a breadbag and water bottle (ditched everything else for comfort!) and my belt (tighter than was comfortable) was still slipping down over the lower pockets and got me really annoyed. Wish I'd spent a moment sorting the hooks out! 
Belt hooks are essential if you're not wearing Y-straps. As mentioned, the belt is supposed to be at pretty much solar plexus level, not down on the hips. Search on ebay for cheaper ones.
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Mixing and matching is ok within certain areas, Heer probably would not wear SS garb ( oak leaf etc) although I'm sure there's plenty of examples where it did happen .
I currently wear Panzer black trousers with Feldgrau tunic, often seen later war with PZ crew "away from vehicle". "Panzers in Normandy" (After the battle Publications) has some cracking pics of Germans wearing all manner of different uniforms .
Old Un, i was only refering to the different types of field grey's not cammo, however since i have a black panzer uni that now gives me another possible combination 
There was only one type of field gray. The early and pre-war stuff was stone gray.
Any differences you have in terms of batch colour will be matched by the differences that would have existed in the various wartime production processes.