| GrandKenyon84 | 31 Jul 2012 8:55 a.m. PST |
Are there any paint guides for Luftwaffe Field Divisions? did their uniforms closely mirror those of the fallshirmjager? or another arm of the wehrmacht? |
| Stuart at Great Escape Games | 31 Jul 2012 9:19 a.m. PST |
Their equipment would mirror the Heer, but the uniform was a blue-grey; Vallejo make a Luftwaffe uniform colour. They also used smocks with Splinter B Camo and the Tan and Water Camo. Equipment might be blue-grey with belts in brown, or standard Field Grey with black leather. A mix of gear would suit late war Luftwaffe Field troops. Helmets vary from the M35, M40 and M42. For figures just use standard Grenadier and/or SS figures (without the SS insignia, of course). |
Sundance  | 31 Jul 2012 9:34 a.m. PST |
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| jdginaz | 31 Jul 2012 3:43 p.m. PST |
The camo garment worn by the LFD wasn't the same as the pullover smock worn by the Heer & SS. it was a full size jacket. Once the Heer took over responsibility for the LFD they pretty much wore same thing as Heer troops. |
| Bunkermeister | 31 Jul 2012 4:56 p.m. PST |
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 31 Jul 2012 5:50 p.m. PST |
field blue trousers not the field grey of the FJ, I have never seen them wearing FJ helmet, have seen FJ wearing infantry coalscuttle..as may of the jaeger continued to be drafted from supernyumery Lufwaffe personel they wore the ludtwaffe flieger bluse..in colour and cut not matched by ant wehrmacht or SS tunic.. |
| Johny Boy | 01 Aug 2012 3:01 a.m. PST |
Found these hope they help,
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Generally it would appear they did'nt wear the para helmet, using a standard infantry heer helmet often with camo cover and Zaltban.
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| Marc33594 | 01 Aug 2012 4:07 a.m. PST |
Concord #6527 "Luftwaffe Field and Flak Divisions" by Robert Kirchubel & Dmitriy Zgonnik has plenty of information, photos and several color plates. |
 Legion 4 | 01 Aug 2012 9:22 a.m. PST |
Great pics !!!  |
| Stuart at Great Escape Games | 01 Aug 2012 2:37 p.m. PST |
Bunkermeister, they did not use the FJ helmet. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 01 Aug 2012 3:37 p.m. PST |
that looks like a helmet sprayed dark sand, not a helmet cover,,
brown lutwaffe straps..and the fliegerbluse..are shown off well |
| Jemima Fawr | 03 Aug 2012 4:15 a.m. PST |
Helmets were very commonly painted dark yellow in all formations. They also often added green and brown camouflage. I've even seen MG-42s with an all-over camouflage job. Here are some soldiers of 16. Feld-Division (L) on patrol near Colombelles Steelworks in early July 1944:
And some more soldiers of the same division (note the NCO/officer at the back has a very pale helmet – probably dark yellow. The lad with the MP-40 also looks to have a light-coloured helmet – possibly painted yellow but partly worn off?):
Rank badges and waffenfarbe piping were jaeger green:
Note that strictly speaking, these formations ceased to be 'Luftwaffe-Feld-Divisionen' in November 1943, when they were switched from Luftwaffe to Heer control. They became 'Feld-Divisionen (L)' from that point forth. Their constituent regiments also dropped the 'Luftwaffe' title and instead got the '(L)' suffix. The 'Infanterie' regiments also became 'Jaeger' at the same time. So for example, 16. Luftwaffe-Feld-Division became 16. Feld-Division (L), while Luftwaffe-Infanterie-Regiment 31 became Jaeger-Regiment 31 (L) and Luftwaffe-Artillerie-Regiment 16 became Artillerie-Regiment 16 (L). |
| Sierra019 | 11 Aug 2012 7:00 a.m. PST |
Check out the Flames of War website, as I believe they have a paint guide for Luftwaffe Feld Divisions. |
