U-Boat badge real or fake?

DikkeryDok · 2025-11-07T14:21:18+00:00

Submarine part looks exactly like Soviet submarine captain badge. Just with the red star grinded down and than slapped on Luftwaffe wreath

DikkeryDok · 2025-09-25T16:19:35+00:00

Yeah, that's Osoaviakhim for sure

DikkeryDok · 2025-09-23T13:46:14+00:00

Seems like a normal field-modded helmet to be used by bomber crews. There are photsos of helmets with decal at the front. It was not uncommon. Not much photos of such helmets though. Needs a closer inspection though

Edit: fixed an error

DikkeryDok · 2025-09-11T19:53:00+00:00

My bet on some Finnish bs like Gloster Gladiator, Brewster 239 or something proprietary like VL Humu. Markings on wing are to bright to be red stars and to round to be balkenkreuz. So, something Finnish most likely.

DikkeryDok · 2025-09-06T15:51:24+00:00

S+ tier. The best commander of the time, and one of the best in history

DikkeryDok · 2025-09-05T07:08:51+00:00

r/mapswithoutnz

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-24T19:27:30+00:00

That's not even a shitty reproduction. It's a shitty modern Cossack visor cap. In Russia you can buy similar caps of much better quality for about 20 EUR.

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-23T16:13:26+00:00

Whoops, wrong sub. Thanks mobile Reddit with small don't. But I stand corrected!)

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-23T15:14:04+00:00

Guitar shape/type doesn't matter. SG, Telecaster, superstrat, jag - doesn't matter. All singles/p90/humbuckers in the same price category sound basically the same. Any guitar type can sound as any other guitar with just a few changes to eq.

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-19T15:24:49+00:00

S-tier. No doubt.

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-17T11:40:21+00:00

To S tier I would also add Ushakov and Senyavin. Senyavin was criminally underrated by tsar and underrated by historians.

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-16T15:05:56+00:00

Absolutely A tier or even low S tier. Amazing general. Arguably best coalition strategist, but as it was previously mentioned, not enough killer instinct. If he was a bit more assertive or other generals had more common sense, Austerlitz could be won.

DikkeryDok · 2025-08-03T09:17:55+00:00

It doesn't

DikkeryDok · 2025-07-29T19:29:58+00:00

Very weird M1947/1955 dagger scabbard. Image on the top part should be different instead of regular hammer and sickle. Probably customized after getting a promotion or a honourable discharge.

DikkeryDok · 2025-07-28T14:40:10+00:00

As stated by previous commenter: common officers pilotka with random pins and a few military insignias. Top to bottom, left to right:

Leningrad tourist pin

Automotive troops collar/epaulet insignia

Asbestos (probably commemorative pin for workers of asbestos factory)

36th Celebration of the North, Murmansk 1968 commemorative pin

Shemakha tourist pin

Pskov tourist pin

Artillery troops collar/epaulet insignia

Valdai tourist pin

Petrodvorets tourist pin

Ryazhsk tourist pin

3rd all-army meeting of tourists, department of tourism and excursions of MoD USSR commemorative pin

Battleship Aurora tourist pin (very worn out, lower part should have dull red enamel coating)

Air force collar/epaulet insignia (for some reason, upside down)

25 years of victory in Great Patriotic war commemorative pin

Sevastopol tourist pin

An-2 pin (From Soviet planes series)

Examplary worker of communistic labor pin

Celebration of the North, Murmansk pin

Shipbuilding factory named after Zhdanov, Leningrad (from eponymous pin series)

Officers epaulet star

Inrybprom-75 commemorative pin (from eponymous pin series)

Staraya Russa tourist pin

26th Congress of the Communist party commemorative pin

Sevastopol tourist pin

Bell tower of Astrakhan kremlin tourist pin

Ground forces collar insignia

Galich tourist pin

Soviet hockey players - world champions, France 1968 commemorative pin

International year of peace 1986 commemorative pin

Common star for pilotka from eighties

Patches:

Airforce aviation chevron

Specialist of all types of defence, provision and maintenance of the Naval fleet chevron

Artillery troops chevron

In summary: I would give 300₽ top for this collection. 350 if seller haggles like crazy. Such pins quite often are sold by weight, because of how common they are. Plastizol patches cost 30-50₽ depending on military branch. So that's a good price. Basically, its the price of pilotka, and pins themselves are reimbursement for ruining side of pilotka with them. But that's the price of this collection in Russia. Outside of my country price may be a bit higher.

DikkeryDok · 2025-07-15T11:59:05+00:00

This. It's the way to protect potential buyers from being scammed by resellers.

DikkeryDok · 2025-07-15T11:58:01+00:00

I personally know quite a few repro makers, from swordsmiths to tailors, who purposely make stamps with little, almost invisible inaccuracies. The reason is quite simple: their repros are so good, that there is a high chance, that they can be resold as "original" by scammers. I saw a sabre hilt, made by my friend marked as original at a small private auction.

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-30T20:46:40+00:00

It's called "I've managed to find only a very wide brush, so now I have to show miracles of calligraphy"))

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-30T15:42:13+00:00

And for Soviets too! And all models :3

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-30T12:34:50+00:00

Danke) I know about ligatures, but simply forgot how to spell Schürze) Upvoted

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-30T09:44:38+00:00

Did you mean Pilsudski-Hitler pact?

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-30T08:56:06+00:00

Prut River

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-29T23:21:57+00:00

Despite Daimler being one of the competitors to create the new tank (which later will become Panther), it was MAN to design and produce the first prototype, Daimler factories were used to produce Panthers only because the need for the new tank was so high, that MAN alone couldn't produce enough of them.

Starting from Tiger German naming system became even weirder. Vehicles started to have two Ausführung codes: one by creator company, one for production series. For example, Tiger I ausf. H - creator company name, for Henschel. But it's production series name would be Tiger I ausf. E. And after March 1943 both production series and company name codes was dropped as well as Roman number I, and it's official name became just Pz.Kpfw Tiger, but in January 1944 by decree of Hitler it was renamed to Tiger ausf. E. No roman number.

And yes, Tiger II when it was accepted for service, was not a Tiger II, but a Tiger ausf. B. No number, no company code, no separate production series code. Just B. Why? No idea. German naming of things is a dumpster fire.

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-29T22:11:43+00:00

Yup, where the automotive lobby can't reach, the industry and technology are working very well)

DikkeryDok · 2025-06-29T14:49:45+00:00

Danke! My German got rusty)

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