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Post by Tuuka Gustafson on Jul 31, 2008 6:38:22 GMT -5
Please tell us something about yourself.
I'll start. My name is Thor and I've been a German WWII reenactor for 11 yrs. I've done Heer, SS and even Eastern Volunteers (Georgian), but since Scandinavian blood runs in my vains, I've always had an interest in the Finnish Army of WWII. That was a major reason for the creation of this unit. My Finnish name is Tuuka Gustafson, and if you've got any questions about the unit or what you need to acquire for your impression, please feel free to PM me or you can find me at Pzgren21pz on AIM or Heer3945 on Yahoo messenger.
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Post by matiaspaavolainen on Jul 31, 2008 23:25:16 GMT -5
My name is Matthew, I've been reenacting German WW1 for 3 years, and German World War 2 for 2 years, and I have WW1 landser, Fallschirmjaeger, Heer, and Australian impressions in addition to Finnish. I started the unit with Thor in December of 2006, and spent the next year researching and preparing for its introduction to the CHG. As with Thor, please contact me on any and all questions you may have on the unit itself and the impression. My AIM is VonMudra2, my msn is rigelsys@cox.net, and my email is vonmudra@cox.net.
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Post by Christian Simonov on Aug 1, 2008 16:12:07 GMT -5
Guten tag! Hi My name is Christian. Ive been doing WW2 German reenacting for about the last year or so. I decided to portray Finn when my friends Thor and Matt started the 2nd Jäger group. I perferably like to stay within German but Finnish is a good secondary in my opnion as it uses some of the German equipment and is just plain different from the usualy Allied/Axis groups.
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Post by chris on Aug 2, 2008 17:32:04 GMT -5
Hello all, my name is Chris Christenson. I have been reenacting since 1997. I began as World War one French at Jack Rabbit trails. I then started WW2 40 french, Russian , Italian and even went German. I think the Finn unit is a great idea for those who want to venture off into the less than traveled impression. I have all the basic gear and am looking forward to making the next battle. Hopefully, the idea of the Finn unit catches on and the ranks grow.
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Post by jmatchlock on Oct 1, 2008 13:52:15 GMT -5
Hello - Jay Matchlock - I am in to Finnish Know and like to see it grow.  |
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Post by daviken on Oct 2, 2008 14:51:41 GMT -5
Hi ,my name is Stefan, I 'm french. My hobby i s more oriented on Tailoring than living history. I like recreating uniforms from the past. Right know I have made a bunch of german uniforms from WWI and WWII and some french ones. I project to make finnish M22 and M36 uniform for fun. For M22 Ihave a good fabric, for M36 I have some troubles to find the right shade of gray, maybe this form will help me! Anyway I 'm glad to see a new site about finnish army, Kiitos! My web pages : vikenslf.skyrock.com/ |
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Post by theswedishfish on Jan 31, 2009 4:39:25 GMT -5
Terve ystävät! Hello, my name is Aiden Jönsson! I am a Swedish American Finn, my father is Swedish, my mother Finnish! I have lived in Sweden in the past and have spent time in Finland... I absolutely love the culture most of all and hope to live it better! I speak Swedish and German, and am teaching myself Finnish. I realize this is invaluable to this unit.  I have been reenacting WWII only recently, with the 39th AIB. However, I have done my research and been interested for quite a few years now! I first did reenacting at Ren Faire - as an English pikeman and German Landsknecht. I am definitely looking forward to being with this unit!! Kiitos to you guys! Hyvä Suomi!! Aiden |
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Post by matiaspaavolainen on Feb 2, 2009 14:07:42 GMT -5
Welcome Aiden, good to see you! This is Matt, the other guy you met at the Fort Mac reenactment. We'd love to have you in our unit, and look forward to seeing you soon!
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Post by Niklas Øverland on Feb 2, 2009 19:56:39 GMT -5
Hello!
I've been asking random questions over on your Yahoo group. I'm located in the vaguely Scandinavian state of Wisconsin. I personally reenact as the Swedish as my main impression because they have a neat history. Norwegian is also something I am attempting down the road. Anyways, there are a few of us in SE Wisconsin and Northern Illinois that are looking to put together a small unit of regular Finnish infantry.
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Post by Tuuka Gustafson on Feb 4, 2009 6:01:30 GMT -5
Daniel, that's a great site! I'm especially interested in the Norwegian impression since I've never, EVER, seen anything quite as cool as that! One question though; what about the Danes?!? I'm Danish myself and would love to see that impression put together!
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Post by Niklas Øverland on Feb 4, 2009 18:41:57 GMT -5
Thanks. I am in the process of putting a quick article on Danish uniforms soon. They were VERY outdated even for a Scandinavian army. It should be fairly easy to put together, since a lot of Finnish gear crosses over. Down side, is that the helmets are really hard to find since they were even rare in the 1940s. sites.google.com/site/ww2scandinavia/danishuniform |
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Post by Tuuka Gustafson on Feb 5, 2009 4:37:06 GMT -5
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think IMA had Danish helmets and I see them occasionally on Ebay. I'm more interested in the actual day-to-day use uniform. Also, I dug out one of my old Swedish tunics, apparently it's WWII issue but doesn't have the shoulderboards. Do you have a diagram to show me the dimensions of the shoulderboards so I may resew them?
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Post by Niklas Øverland on Feb 5, 2009 14:39:33 GMT -5
I can give you the measurements for the Swedish stuff soon. I need to add them to mine still as well, just don't have enough wool lying around. For some reason a lot of the surplus places like to cut them off.
As for doing Danish. Everyday uniforms were a grey-brown-yellow wool.Swedish uniforms ones are probably the closest that I can currently find. As I mentioned on my site, a lot of the early model 1923 tunics and pants were made out of Swedish wool, so it is not far off.
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Post by Tuuka Gustafson on Feb 5, 2009 23:43:55 GMT -5
I see, it's alot like Finnish/German/Swedish...they all seemed to use similar colors. Yeah, I've made shoulderboards for my Finnish conversion tunics (from M40s and M43s) so all I really need is the dimensions. From what I see in the pics, they are more similar to Finnish style (sewn down) than German (detachable) and much less complex than the German type! All I can say on that last point is "THANK GOD!".  |
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Post by Niklas Øverland on Feb 6, 2009 13:39:47 GMT -5
The Swedish shoulderboards are 4 inches long and about 1.5 inches across.
For Danish tunics, it looks like you could also go with Schipper's Australian tunic since it is the same cut and brownish color.
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