Parka's?

Funnily enough, I have never felt it to be cold enough to wear an overcoat except at an evening social. I remember going to an open day at Worthing in January, lying on frozen ground, and feeling quite toasty in my wools with a wool jumper underneath my tunic. Anyway, maybe that's just me.

In answer to your question Steve, I think parkas started being introduced late 42, and for me they conjour up very much a mid-late war look, which is not really what we're aiming for. Save your money - get some nice grey wool gloves, and ask Mrs Shellshokt if she could knit you a grey jumper! (OK, my wife doesn't knit, so my mum made mine.)

You certainly would not have seen the sumpfmuster camo [thats tan and water]at that time. It did not appear until 1943.
Also parka and trousers were issued as a set, if it was cold enough for the parka it was cold enough for the trousers too. You dont often find just the parka in photos.
They are not comfortable to wear in a tactical situation either. Big and bulky they restrict movement to a degree and you need to be able to add a couple of inches to your belt to get your kit over them.
Stick to the greatcoat, much easier to fight in.

Ok, any recommendations on:
Jumpers , shirts and I was looking at a swedish greatcoat as a 'lookalike' If you have any ideas on lookalike jumpers and shirts that would be cool too as the repro shirts seem to be a ridiculous price!
'shokt

I'm not sure if there were issued jumpers (anyone?) - many were knitted by family. I spent a long time looking for (and failing to find) a crew neck grey jumper, although V neck ones are quite common - try ebay. As for shirts, I got a couple of collarless ones for a few quid - again on ebay. They look the part.

I don't know about the differences with Swedish greatcoats, but often converting non-German items to look German can take a lot of time and effort.

Thanks for the great advice guys

I'm not sure if there were issued jumpers (anyone?) - many were knitted by family. I spent a long time looking for (and failing to find) a crew neck grey jumper, although V neck ones are quite common - try ebay. As for shirts, I got a couple of collarless ones for a few quid - again on ebay. They look the part.

I don't know about the differences with Swedish greatcoats, but often converting non-German items to look German can take a lot of time and effort.

Not an expert in anyway on German kit (apart from East German ) Ostfront did a repro M36 issue jumper, light grey, V necked, ribbed collar and cuffs, with a green band below the edge of the collar and cuffs. Soldier of fortune do german shirts, but look to be limited to eastgerman jumpers £20.

Ok, any recommendations on:
Jumpers , shirts and I was looking at a swedish greatcoat as a 'lookalike' If you have any ideas on lookalike jumpers and shirts that would be cool too as the repro shirts seem to be a ridiculous price!
'shokt

For the purposes of this game a Swedish coat will be fine. Any "traditional" style jumper is also fine. Surplus green British Army shirts are a budget alternative to repro shirts as you can hardly see them under a tunic.

The mistake is always to wear too much. Comfortably warm at 8 in the morning when standing around becomes dripping with sweat by lunchtime after you've been running around

Comfortably warm at 8 in the morning when standing around becomes dripping with sweat by lunchtime after you've been running around

Or digging foxholes...!

epic militaria are currently selling some post war soviet great coats for only £25, not sure if they will be near to the look you want but..

Those are Bulgarian. The cut, colour, buttons and insignia are all different to soviet patterns.

oh well, better wear 2 pairs of socks instead.