War room additions.

[TWS]

This week I made two additions to the war room. One was a cheap E-bay self-assembly shelving unit. The second was a "bit more expensive" and a major purchase for me: A Feldgrau wrapper with white-piped insignia. I have only seen a couple of them previously - one of which is the reed green HBT wrapper featured in Pruett and Edwards volume 1. Naturally I consulted both Bob Edwards and Mike Pruett prior to making the purchase. The likely wearer would have been in a Panzergrenadier SPW equipped unit which never made the switch to meadow green Waffenfarbe. It is known, just as with black wrappers, that it was a popular garment and many soldiers that had tenuous authorization for such wear took it upon themselves to "organize" wrappers for themselves. I set the newly arrived wrapper up on a torso form and did an initial display on the new shelving unit - which I'm not content with and will modify until I like it. In addition to being able to display a few more bits of my collection, the shelving unit allowed me to take a lot of my books out of the home office and move them into the war room. That eased congestion in the home office quite a bit.

[rbminis]

Love the wrapper Todd!
Not as much as the black one though.
Congratulations!
Ralph.

[MAP]

Very nice Todd. Now that it is nice and neat and well organized and with spare space you are no longer an Ugly War Room member...but I'm sure in due course you will be re-inducted

[TWS]

Love the wrapper Todd!
Not as much as the black one though.
Congratulations!
Ralph.

Thanks Ralph! I love it because it is a great example of a (probably SPW platoon leader) armored infantry NCO taking it upon himself to showcase his "elite" status as a member of the Panzerwaffe.
You've seen the threads on my black ones? Hauptmann in PR 35 and Oberwachtmeister in Sturmartillerie Brigade 279 (in addition to the Feldwebel on the mannequin).

Very nice Todd. Now that it is nice and neat and well organized and with spare space you are no longer an Ugly War Room member...but I'm sure in due course you will be re-inducted

Please, just keep this between us, OK? But if I had turned around and took a photo of the opposite side of the room right now, my status as an ugly war room member would be instantly reinstated. In fact, I might be made a field marshal of ugly war rooms!