Digging in Norway & Kurland

**MAP** · 01-13-2019, 03:32 PM

Let me know once it is cleaned out and I'll send you a PM.

Nice new display Don't think I've ever seen the aluminum clips before

**Brig** · 01-15-2019, 02:33 AM

Spent the last couple days going through this...phenomenal...wish I had seen this a couple years ago

When I was in Norway a couple years ago, I did some treasure hunting. All I want to find was one neat little relic to commemorate my 8 months over there...I tried using a military CMD, but as you can imagine, those are meant to penetrate DEEP into the earth and sense even the slightest trace of metal...was going off non-stop. I was on a former Luftwaffe base where at least one plane crashed during the war...

All I ended up finding were two buried oil drums and some sort of cog. I posted it on WAF hoping someone could ID it as a vehicle part...never got any replies.

I also tried my hand at magnet fishing, and was able to find some shrapnel from a bridge the Norwegians blew during the invasion to keep it from falling into German hands. That was the extent of it...seeing this thread makes me wish I could have gotten out further and more often.

Have you tried magnet fishing? Might be worth picking up a setup...lightweight and you never know what water you may stumble upon, especially in Norway!

**inka** · 01-27-2019, 10:32 PM

Thanks

Brig,I m planning to try magnets as soon as season is back on up here

Right now it is -17 degree Celsius and lots of snow so it is time for cleaning up relics

Here is a few of my potatomashers,M24 and M24 Nebel

**MAP** · 01-28-2019, 03:06 AM

Stay warm and dry!

BTW...you PM inbox is still full. Can't send you a PM about relic helmets.

**inka** · 02-16-2019, 09:43 PM

I think the inbox is operational again now

Here is a new wall display I ve made, a Pz.faust 30 K a k98 barrell and a ZB vz.26 barrell, the faust was found in Norway and the two others in Kurland

**inka** · 02-24-2019, 08:41 AM

Lately I ve been hunting for Norwegian NS raven miniatures. Here is one of them, this was once attached to the NS medal "Tapper & Tro" , since I do not have such medal with its raven missing I decided to mount it up on a tiny frame

**Brig** · 02-24-2019, 03:59 PM

by inka

Lately I ve been hunting for Norwegian NS raven miniatures. Here is one of them, this was once attached to the NS medal "Tapper & Tro" , since I do not have such medal with its raven missing I decided to mount it up on a tiny frame

I have noticed these unmounted miniatures pop up from time to time at around 400kr. Just as I've noticed they seemed to have been used in supporter stickpins. I suspect, but have been unable to find any info, that when the Tapper & Tro medal was disapproved for military use and the NS converted it to a civil/political award, covering the '1941' with this crest, that they produced a massive amount and the stickpins were another way to use these.

I, too, have been searching for Raven stickpins...if they're not easy to find in Norway they must be incredibly difficult outside of Norway. I have managed to pick up a couple of party pins and a supporter pin, but no Ravens yet

**inka** · 03-02-2019, 11:24 AM

You can PM me Brig,might be able to help you

Here is a big chunk of metal picked up on a battlefield in Kurland. It is from a site where we found lots of German Panzer bits, probably from a blown up Pz. IV. Instead of keeping it as a rusted piece I cleaned it up and splashed some paint on it

**inka** · 03-05-2019, 06:03 PM

My latest miniature project, completed a few hours ago. It is a 1/35 figure from a Dragon kit, painted up and placed with a small piece of groundwork depicting a forest, to a part from a Russian RPG-43 grenade found in Kurland.