An interesting question Brad. The Mg. 42 gunner has been discussed to death on as many forums as you can think of. I cannot remember any discussion on the Fallschirmjaeger you are asking about, but for shure he is wearing a Fallshirmjaeger smock . These men were pretty rain soaked when these pictures were taken, which makes it so difficult to establish the exact type of clothing and camo patterns. Looking at vaious copies of these photographs on the net and playing about with light and contrast, I cannot see the hard demarcations that come with the splinter patterns. In the following picture I think I see softer demarcations of a camo pattern on his right arm:
For me this would point to a sumpftarn muster and not splinter or the single colour greenish version, but this is based on my interpretation of this picture.
The colourised picture below could make you think otherwise, but I think the person who colourised it may have taken a bit too much artistic liberty here:
Looking forward to see your figure progress.
DIRK
