Correct shade of leather??????

[dog green 1]

Can someone post up pics showing the correct shade of brown for things like belts, FJ Y straps, etc. want to make sure I get it right before I order in.

Thanks

Chris

[dagda]

Natural!!and add dubbin!! sorted!

[Sheikh Al Stranghi]

Dagda, I think he needs a better answer than that, I know you can mate!

[dagda]

Luftwaffe leather equipment was a natural, uncoloured leather, lederfett,dubbin and so on was applied as and when it was needed!

[dog green 1]

OK. Thanks for the Dagda. But would people really buy items that were natural leather????? Seems all the kit I've seen has either been an earth brown or a red brown.

Would you guys really want everything, including D rings in natural leather and have to add lederfett or dubbin????

I need feedback gents. Surely there are more of you who have an opinion on this. You have a supplier here asking what you people out there want. And no, I'm not justing looking to make a quick couple of quid, I'm trying to get things right instead of throwing money down the drain and you guys telling me its all wrong.

[Gliderinf]

"Would you guys really want everything, including D rings in natural leather and have to add lederfett or dubbin????"

Yep Neatsfoot

[dagda]

Leather being a natural product comes in various shades anyway! The colouring thing again is due, various conditioners and polishes added!! You cant go wrong with natural! D rings, straps and Y straps! Ah the Neatsfoot debate!! I only use it on the soles of leather boots/shoes! Dubbin for everything else!

I only ever get my kit in natural leather!

like these lovely gentlemen



The chap on the right has a natural leather P38 holster with a natural leahter belt, which has had ox blood polish added! The chap on the left has natural leather kit of various age and natural treatments added!

[Jaws]

Please forgive my ignorance on this subject, but what should the d-rings be? a plain steel, dull in appearence? I assume the chrome d-rings i see on some y-straps are incorrect as chromium would have been scarce, only for specific machine parts?

And I assume natural leather will get darker with age and usage, looking... dirty? Would falshy's have used boot polish to darken the light leather before going into combat?

Regards,

Gary.

[dagda]

Leather does darken with age and use, also the use of dubbib,etc, darkens it further!!

Plain steel for d rings!!

[Stigroadie]

Blue is the only true colour for Luftwaffe. bread bags, gaiters, water bottles and everything else were blue. or not?

[Hans Gowert]

not water bottles stig

[carentan]

Breadbags and gaiters can also be Army, especially late war.

[dagda]

I thought this discussion was about leather??

[Stigroadie]

Yes, that should be blue too.
Sorry to be glib but it's rather a naive question. There is no one correct shade. Brown in any number of shades, tints and hues can be found and later Black which is never uniform either.

[Stadler]

In early period leather was natural (just like early army's leather equipment) . About 1940 chocolate brown equipment was being produced also. Production of brown equipment was halted in 1942.

BUT- for example officers belts in LW Verordnungsblatt (don't remember exact number) about 1936 were regulated as "Havanabraun" colour
And what would you say about it?