Let me know the details mate. Also any ideas on how to get these extra frikkin' gulls on the collar tabs? Mine have two spikes on them but they are ...

Next question... I have 2 Obergefreiter chevron patches - one has a feldgrau green backing and the other is bottle green. Were Fliegerbluse rank pat...

OK so all Heer FJ became Luftwaffe after a certain date?

It's just a matter of time. WWII is an expanding market and I predict that this time next year we'll be able to buy decent and affordable Chinese MG4...

Welcome panzer-puffin. This is indeed the friendliest forum in the world. I believe there is an FJ Kit Guide coming online ever so soon. Until then...

Chommer's pronunciation is better "251" can be said a number of ways but the easiest is "Zwei Funf Eins" (zveye foonf eyenz)

Shoei of Japan are doing a run of escort MG42s but they are eye-wateringly expensive. The only FG42 that I know of (also Shoei) are blank firers.

Here's a link from a guy who restores Brodies. They call them doughboy helmets which always makes me laugh.

Shweet. I'll take your word for it as I still can't tell the diff. Erm... what are all these pockets, poppers and buttons for on my jump smock?? OK...

I've just read a forum from a couple of years back with a load of guys having absolute fits over FJ jump smock froms Barry and Keith being made of Spl...

I've seen a few pics with FJ wearing helmets that look as if they have a form of thick giant mesh netting. I looks too floppy to be chicken wire....

I also bought mine from Sabre and they are indeed very comfy. Be quick though, they have a great big pile of them but the guy told me that they weren...

Cobbaton Combat Sales seem to stock a good range of the harder-to-find 37 pat webbing bits

From the photo it looks like his ones are actually 2 pieces sewn together - you can see the join. At a push what about some 50mm upholsterer's cotton...