HermannB
Nice array of figures. The Küchenbulle is very good despicted, I am tempted to build a second Feldküche
Nice array of figures. The Küchenbulle is very good despicted, I am tempted to build a second Feldküche
Gulaschkanone, the German field kitchen in WW2 and in reenactment. This is a book by Scott. L. Thompson.
Published by Schiffer in 2011.Available in hardback on Amazon and also from multiple book websites.
It looks like the figures are resin 3-d printed. This could be a nice addition to the hobby. The figures are in much more natural poses than the good Tamiya kit released a number of years ago. I took one of the figures in an apron and added it to a German field hospital where with new head and arms worked well with the Dragon doctor from an ambulance stretcher case. I have an interest in the medical history of any nation in WW2. I worked at a University medical teaching hospital which, in the medical library was a complete set of the Army Surgeon General’s Report on medicine during the hospitals from the battlefield all the way to hospitals in the “Zone of the Interior,” the United States. It gave no coverage to the UK’s treatment of the wounded but gave some important and general as well as specific coverage to the treatment of the wounded, both Germans as well as American POWs, and cases where both Germans and Americans worked together on the battlefield to save wounded men. Also of interest to me since I love to backpack and hike, was the topic of “trench foot.” During the Battle of the Bulge more GIs were taken out permanently due to trench foot, the Germans had no problems with it because they issued boots two sizes larger than a man’s foot, then gave him thick wool socks, 4 pair. Two pair were worn in the larger boots and when the socks became damp, they were swapped for the dry pair while the wet pair were kept next to the soldier’s body so body head could dry them. So, it seems that the Germans, their nation being located farther north than most of the USA, knew a simple way to prevent a terrible affliction. But dang, this has nothing to do with the field kitchen and cooks and the aprons the cooks wore became a rabbit trail!
An army fights on its stomach.
The olde “Gulaschkanone”. Not much has changed in them since the ones that rolled during “The Great War”.
Royal Model has a set of Feldküchen utilities.
https://www.zinnfigur.com/Modellbau/Zubehoer/Royal-Model/Dt-Feldkuechen-Zubehoer.html?listtype=search&searchparam=feldk%C3%BCche
My mother once mistook the jar of Sambal Oelek for crushed tomatoes when she made minced meat sauce. Luckily my brother saw the mistake before she had added more than two full/heaped tablespoons, she was going for the whole jar (2 - 3 teacups).
She also added two pounds of minced meat and the other ingrediences to dilute down to
just HOT and spicey …
