This Waffen SS Grenadier wears a fully reversible camouflage helmet cover and pull over smock, with green summer patterns on one side and brown autumn patterns on the other. These camouflage patterns were designed by a Munich art professor named Johann Georg Otto Schick, then the director of the German camouflage research unit, and were unique to the Waffen SS. By 1938 Helmet covers, smocks, and groundsheets (zeltbahns) were field tested and adopted into service. The early patterns of camouflage cloth were screen printed by hand, which did not allow large quantities of material to be produced efficiently. As the war progressed there was a huge increase in demand for camouflaged field clothing and production was increased by using machine roller-printed versions of the cloth. This roller-printed design appeared in two distinct styles which are today known as Oak Leaf A, introduced in 1941, and Oak Leaf B introduced by 1943. Both patterns continued in use until 1945, and were used alongside several other patterns of printed camouflage items, including the “pea”or “dot” patterns introduced in 1944 and 1945.

1/30 Scale
Matte Finish
Single figure in box