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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 25, 2012 10:26:20 GMT -5
I have been looking around for some SS collar tabs but they are either horrible reproductions, or way to expensive.
Does anyone know where I can get these? Accurate and for a decent price?
Thank you!
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Post by aj czarkowski on Mar 25, 2012 11:17:45 GMT -5
You might not even need them... I reenact SS but my unit is of conscripts from conquered countries and they didn't wear them. Italy, Austria, Czechoslavakia, Hungary, Ukraine, Latvia, Greece, India, didn't wear them.
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 25, 2012 11:59:59 GMT -5
I wan them though haha. Any place that's good?
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Post by Reacher on Mar 25, 2012 12:18:08 GMT -5
The same websites that were given in your other post about a German impression sell them. As you know, this hobby isn't cheap, and details are what matter. After doing some research, you'll find less is more in portraying battle weary soldats of the Second World War...
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 25, 2012 12:54:17 GMT -5
Oh I know this hobby isn't cheap. I just assumed that since they were patches they wouldn't be so expensive.
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Post by cairo1 on Mar 25, 2012 19:26:18 GMT -5
honestly, ATF insignia is teh best way to go awalys. i was severly disapointed with my hessan insignia i just bought.
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Post by gadge on Mar 25, 2012 19:39:52 GMT -5
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Post by cairo1 on Mar 25, 2012 19:46:17 GMT -5
get TotenKopfs
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 25, 2012 20:41:36 GMT -5
My dad wants SS patches, we aren't really going for a specific period, just a general SS impression.
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Post by Reacher on Mar 25, 2012 21:17:44 GMT -5
My dad wants SS patches, we aren't really going for a specific period, just a general SS impression. Different patches are for different units. Find a unit, or randomly pick a patch that he likes. There's tons of them. |
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 25, 2012 21:28:17 GMT -5
I guess it's an Aryan unit then  |
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Post by aj czarkowski on Mar 25, 2012 21:42:21 GMT -5
Only "aryan" 100% German SS units were "honorable" enough to wear them... My God I forgot how crazy those bastards were
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Post by gadge on Mar 26, 2012 5:50:13 GMT -5
Indeed. Initially the SS wore runes on both sides and rank on the epaulette only. (with exceptions like the totenkopf or 3rd ss)
As the 'germanic' ss units were created from Denmark, Norway, France etc Himmler was unhappy about those not of pure aryan descent wearing the runes and insisted that foreign volunteers had different collar tabs.
Remember that as early as 43 there were MUSLIM ss units, by 42 it was more important to be anti communist than white...
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 26, 2012 6:37:40 GMT -5
Wow, I thought that if you were in the SS you had those on your collar to show that you were SS. Those collar tabs also look pretty nice on the uniform though!
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Post by gadge on Mar 26, 2012 6:49:56 GMT -5
The collar tabs just show the division and after 1940 your rank (as its impossible to see with a smock over the top otherwise). What would mark you out as being in the SS would be the eage worn on the sleeve not the breast. Remember SS police divisions used army style gorget patches. SS runes just mean (generally) its an aryan (or german national) division. Confusingly the 'germanic' divisions were foreigners  |
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 26, 2012 6:53:21 GMT -5
I did not know that! I guess I'm one of those guys that since I don't know much about German impressions, what I see on Band of Brothers or any WW2 movie depicting Germans is correct. If there is an SS unit portrayed, they have the SS collar tabs and MP40s. Now since being German isn't my cup of tea, ask me about a paratrooper impression! Haha I got you on that  |
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Post by gadge on Mar 26, 2012 7:19:15 GMT -5
Movies and TV series you shoudl always take with a massive pinch of salt as they are there to entertain not to educate.
While 'band of brothers' is ok its still not something you should be using as research for anything like living history. Take saving Private Ryan... absolutley riddled with innacuracies that everyone now starts putting into impressions. For example the film has the US airborne fighting 2nd SS...
2nd SS didnt get to Normandy until July. Very famously stopping off along the way to murder and entire village...
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Post by tommygunner9 on Mar 26, 2012 18:56:24 GMT -5
Yes, I did notice that too. We catch the little things, but something as little as the collar tabs evaded me. Thanks for the clarification gadge!
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