Luftwaffe Luftwaffe General Staff

[Laurence Strong]

Hi Gary No but I was watching, in case I could snipe it cheap.....no such luck Congrats that was a nice set :cheers:

Edited November 23, 2008 by Laurence Strong

[Paul R]

Lets see the boards!!!!! :jumping:

[hirevr13]

Paul, your old (hand me down)GS tunic is on it's way to me. I plan on getting a manikin(I refer to them as DUDE's) with a head. I am now in search of a visor. Anyone ever seen a carmine piped LW officer visor? I would like to find one but I'm not going to mortgage my house. I assume I will have to settle for a standard white piped? Once I get that rolling I will put my wood working skills to use. I will probably build some type of wood-framed glass case. It's been quite a search. As Paul knows I tried to track down that tunic a while back. It has been through several hands in a short time but will have a nice home.

[Paul R]

Hi,

I am glad to hear of your new purchase. I am sure that you will love it, as I did. All officers wore a standard officer's visor. They were not piped with a waffenfarbe.

[hirevr13]

I will try to complete an upper torso mannequin for a parade dress officer spectator.

I have: Tunic, Aguillette, Brocade Belt,

I need:

[hirevr13]

Not sure what happened there.

Anyway, I need a Parade Mount medal bar, Visor, blue shirt(probably use a modern), tie(probably use modern, I assume black?), white gloves if I can find originals.

I have an original KC but will use my Repro KC w/oaks & Swords. Probably use repro badges also. Up in the air on a dagger or sword. It would have to be mounted in a different way with half man.

Edited September 21, 2009 by hirevr13

[hirevr13]

Another small piece of the puzzle solved. Relating to discussions on what ranks were possible for a General Staff Officer. Gary quotes something in one of the Angolia books in an earlier post. To summarize Hauptmann through Oberst but there has been debate on Hauptmann. While looking for something else I just found another quote in Angolia Vol 1 bottom of page 159. <General Staff Corps Officers of the ranks Captain to Colonel(line officers only)while on duty with the General Staff or in duty positions accorded to general staff >..........yada yada...

In short this is the second different mention of Hauptmann rank in the general staff. I no longer have doubts about the tabs I just received from Gary9 and posted in this thread. They are without doubt Carmine. I will post eventually.

[all1knew]

would like to share some updated photos of this uniform display.
 

I was fortunate enough to add this uniform to my personal collection and wanted to share some photos of the grouping. I am still trying to reunite the ribbon bar to the jacket and had to use what I had on hand for the photos. The uniform is named to Torsten Christ (a Blood Order recipient) and while he was not a WW1 Veteran I still think the photos turned out nice. Enjoy and I apologize in advance if some of the photos seem redundant.

William Kramer

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