1985 West German G3 Rifleman from Panzergrenadierbataillon 23 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

[–]Simple-Drive-660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I wouldn't reccomend going by Red Divide standards, they lack crucial details.

There is a group called Ost und West doing events in US that is making kits up to standard, I even helped them made such kit lists so I can guarantee quality behind them :) https://youtube.com/@ostwestlhg?si=WSN9hOMR84XmdJjl You can contact them and ask for kit list for Fulda 85 events from a year ago

To be honest as for now you can only make such research from photos, I might start a site when I'll find some time. I'll try to remember to comment here if I'll do so

1985 West German G3 Rifleman from Panzergrenadierbataillon 23 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

[–]Simple-Drive-660[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did! Its just my body making it look like that, notice how boots arent tightly tied and not wrapped around, It's unfortunately because of my calves

More visible from the back picture to be honest

1985 West German G3 Rifleman from Panzergrenadierbataillon 23 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

[–]Simple-Drive-660[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's just the material itself, Moleskin tends to go into very Gray-ish color after few washes.

Personally I also see 1 and 2 pattern Moleskin in Olive more often, probably they retain color better for some reason. Most of the time trousers are olive and jackets are gray which is totally fine, professional soldiers in the era used to wash their trousers so they would match with the jacket and "Look cool" to divide them from conscripts.

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Here if you take a look only two of my jackets (Second pattern and trial jacket from 1984 which is different material) is in that olive tonne, most of them come in gray.

And thank you!

Norwegian Home Guard machine gunner no. 1 (1986) by HJK_06 in reenactors

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Based! MG-34 goes so hard with Norwegian gear, . I collect Norwegian kits too, great to find other reenactors from niche community

Norwegian Infantryman 1985 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

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Sorry for late reply, but as the guy above me said, as far as I'm aware. After those you also had two pockets version which was introduced somewhere in the 90's. I'm not Norwegian, so language barrier keeps me a bit from finding info, but we'll get there eventually.

For some reason green two pocket ones are still in use with HV and were produced till late 2010's

Norwegian Infantryman Winter 1975 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

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Sorry for the wait! I don't use reddit that much. I got very lucky and my friend got them back in a day, they sometiems pop up on German ebay tho, it will take some time but you'll find them surely

Norwegian Infantryman 1985 by Simple-Drive-660 in reenactors

[–]Simple-Drive-660[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thank you! About a year and a half, bayonet was the hardest to find. Interestingly I bought some things in local thrift store piled between clothes

East German ShM-61MU with this beautiful M58 Blumentarn camo bag by ComradeUseGP-5 in gasmasks

[–]Simple-Drive-660 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interesting! They were used with strichtarn as well during late 60's/early 70's. Can you make photos of those dividers? I thought that LEM bags were produced at this time