"Enterprising SS officer" Topic

Got himself a splinter pattern greatcoat.

Gave me an excuse to finally try ak interactives splinterpattern paint set.

Im happy with how it come out, I wanted a dull and plain appearance without the need to paint visible rain marks. Decent colours were more important and I can always tweak the process with future attempts, think il repaint his scarf as im not sure about the blue, or at least make it less bright.

Ab 20mm fig.

Nice. It has the subdued look of real camo without looking 'murky'. Absolutely nailed it.

Excellent – well done

Superb, as always, how were the paints to use?

Wow, that is a truly fabulous piece of work! I'm really impressed! Do agre with you about the scarf tho. Maybe a burnt sienna wash if you want a duller hue?

original and different. I like it.

very nice

Thx everyone.

Troop, id say the ak paints are slightly thinner than vallejo but no where near as thin as mig ammo paints. The sets are pretty good though I tend to tweek them a little bit.

Meant to include original pic (the guy in the middle)

I quite like how the blue scarf looks!

Excellent!

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Very life like

Thx one and all….though his coat could be italian camo rather than splinter, oh well good excuse to paint an italian camo greatcoat.

I was thinking Italian also--probably because that's what I've told people about some of my splttermuster "fails"--which,I hasten to add, don't look half as good as yours!

God Will It, do you have a blog?

Very nice work! I'll have to get some ak paints when I paint up my water pattern troops for the 21st Pz.

Hi, thx chaps.

Dave, no blog im affraid.. im always on the guild forum.

Wrg, when you say water pattern…is that also called marsh ?

GWI, here is an example of the water pattern. My understanding was it this was produced for the Wehrmacht, a one piece pullover smock with hood that was not reversible. This was issued to some of the 21st Pz in Normandy. This example is a reproduction.

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Mick, from Artizan Designs seems to think it is a variation of the Sumpfmuster 43 pattern.

Yes thats a nice pattern, its what id like for my fallschirmjager, id also paint some of my SS wearing it but youre right its a wehrmacht pattern… will post pics if I get anywhere close to it.

Interesting pics of the sumpfmuster pattern.

BTW, the West German Border Guard continued to wear a sumpfmuster pattern at least into the 1970's (I think--not an expert). I have a jacket similar to the one here:

Someone on a collector forum said the Army was still using splittermuster at the time.

FWIW, I was told by a collector that the Border Guard uniforms are hard to find,because they were never released for surplus. The only way to get one was from a Border Guard,who would have to report it as lost or stolen,which would be frowned upon. So if you ever see a piece,it might be worth your while!

I am Mick Farnworth and I am working on updating the painting guides. One of my current projects is to make collages to get the full print repeats for patterns.

I think that God Wills It has the right pattern for his officer – Splittermuster 31. The greatcoat was probably made from Heer Zeltbahns.
I don't think the Greatcoat is Italian because this is the full print repeat. I think that this collage of the Italian Telo Mimetico is about 100cm wide x 45 cm repeat

With regards to Wrgmr1 and the mystery smock, I still think it is a Sumpfmuster 43 pattern but Sumpfmuster 43 appears to have some wide variantions. This is an Imperial War Museum Sample which looks very unlike the smock above.
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This is a genuine Sumpfmuster 44 Smock which reverses to white like the mystery garment. In fact the pattern is also similar.
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By the way, I do not work for Artizan but they have been kind enough to host my Painting Guides for the past eleven years. They are also supporting the current project to update the guides.

I looked at this again this morning. The mystery smock appears to be the identical cut (hood & vertical chest pockets) to the Imperial War Museum reversible smock sample. If you look closely, the same style of garment is shown bottom left in the Artizan Sumpfmuser 44 Guide.

The difference is that the Artizan picture has saturated colours and high contrast and hence is a bit too bright for the base colour and the green.

I adjusted the colour saturation on the painting guide very slightly so that it is closer to the mystery smock

I think that now looks better, not that I know what an original looks like.

Im guessing many late war fallschirmjager still used the original coloured splinterpattern (as in my pic) with the tan based version a later type which would of been issued when available?

As far as I recall, Splittermuster 41 (the grey pattern) was still very common for Knochensacken (Bone sacks = Para slang for smocks) with Fallshirmjager during the 1944 Normandy campaign.
I think there were also several in the plain olive green. I think that the Sumpfmuster patterns were quite rare by comparison.