Post by slick63 on Oct 9, 2009 4:06:43 GMT -6
This is probably reasonably easy to achieve as a lot of the kit remained virtually unaltered into WW2.
For the trousers, jackboots, belt, ammo pouches and breadbag you can use the WW2 pattern items.
The waterbottle in WW1 came without a fitted cup so something like the Swedish waterbottle wouldn`t look out of place.
The tunic was quite different in that it had fewer pockets, the postwar Swedish tunic is very similar and with the addition of epaulettes could pass for WW1 German. www.armynavydeals.com/asp/products_details.asp?SKU=JK192&ST=2
Headgear can be the old soft 'pork pie' hat which can be got from Schipperfabrik at a reasonable cost, or the picklehaube or M1916 stahlhelm. The latter two are now turning up on fleabay from Hong Kong fairly cheaply.
For the trousers, jackboots, belt, ammo pouches and breadbag you can use the WW2 pattern items.
The waterbottle in WW1 came without a fitted cup so something like the Swedish waterbottle wouldn`t look out of place.
The tunic was quite different in that it had fewer pockets, the postwar Swedish tunic is very similar and with the addition of epaulettes could pass for WW1 German. www.armynavydeals.com/asp/products_details.asp?SKU=JK192&ST=2
Headgear can be the old soft 'pork pie' hat which can be got from Schipperfabrik at a reasonable cost, or the picklehaube or M1916 stahlhelm. The latter two are now turning up on fleabay from Hong Kong fairly cheaply.
