Interwar US uniforms

[SirRoystonPapworth]

Hi All,

I have been trying to find out what US army uniforms looked like from ~ 1925 to 1938. There seems to be very little out there on this...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

TIA

Tim

[carlos marighela]

For temperate dress a new tunic was introduced in 1926/7. Khaki wool single breasted, open, stepped collar showing the shirt and tie. Essentially the same thing as the service uniform worn by the US army at the start of the war. Along with that, WW1 era style webbing and equipment, with canvas gaiters and shoes. A uniform I might add that nobody makes in 15mm or 28mm to the best of my knowledge but if you are good with green stuff you can convert WW1 figures.

Hot weather kit changed little so the kit worn in Haiti pre war was largely unchanged up until 1941/2. The Brigade Games or Pulp marines would have you covered for the period.

This will give you an overview from p.78.

https://history.army.mil/html/museums/uniforms/survey_uwa.pdf

[vodkafan]

I read somewhere there was also an experimental blue uniform.

[FramFramson]

There's an older thread on the boards with a fair chunk of info on the exact same question. Phoneposting means I can't search at the moment, but I'll have a look later if no one else has dug it up in the interim.

[SirRoystonPapworth]

Thanks guys.

Carlos, the link doesn't work for me, privacy error unfortunately.

I'll have a search for the old thread, if I find it, I will post a link...

Rubbish with green stuff, would National Guard still have the old uniform I wonder...

[vodkafan]

I still think the blue looks cooler...1937 experimental blue denim

[commissarmoody]

And those are some cool looking uniforms.

[commissarmoody]

Double denim, one of the most egregious of fashion faux pas. 

Still it could have been worse....

I suspect that the NG would have used the old WW1 era uniform into the late twenties early thirties at least until stocks ran out. Of course it's just possible that they had them recut with new collars.

Getting flash backs of the 70s, 80s, and mid 90s.

[commissarmoody]

*Dunno why he didn’t just go with the Prince example and call himself ‘The Artist ass formerly known as Dipshit’.

Because that would be too on the noise. Got to keep his fans guessing. 

[commissarmoody]

it really does help people dig their own graves. 

[Driscoles]

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[FramFramson]

Found some of the old threads (no wonder I remembered... I started the more recent one.  )

https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=85849
https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=70847

Some pictures are lost to the ages, others are still there.

In that second thread there's a fairly long post of mine detailing some research I'd done. One key reference photo I'd linked is gone (post above the long one), but by chance genew49 had a family photo of his dad in the same interwar uniform in a following post and that link is still good. Great example of the sort of uniform we'd be looking for, oddly flared-but-not-flared trousers and all: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27058906@N02/15282767421/in/set-72157647764550831

So we're back to "WWI figures but with some fiddly conversion" being your best bet, the one exception being the various interwar Marines Bob Murch has done. For regular US army, we're all still out of luck, though converting Bob's Marines might be a more direct route than converting WWI figures. Especially since it appears the shortage of American WWI figures seems to continue even today.

Is the only source for WWI Americans really just the ancient one from Great War Miniatures? That seems shocking to me in our current era where you can get obscure polish artillery tractors, that plain old WWI Americans are unheard of.

[Ray Rivers]

I still think the blue looks cooler...1937 experimental blue denim

Especially with a BAR! 

[carlos marighela]

Long before the Great War Yanks there were the particularly gruesome Old Glory versions. They had everything that makes OG figures what they are. Poor sculpting, grotesque poses iffy casting and a general requirement that you place them about 50 feet away and squint. Vaguely anthropomorphic would be my verdict. Avoid. That said their Pershing in Mexico range seems a lot better.

If you care to justify them as being in shirtsleeve order, then Brigade Games make very nice Marines and a small range of dismounted US Cavalry. The latter are Paul Hicks sculpts. The cavalry would need head swaps and work on the leg wear if you wanted to use them as anything other than cavalry. Always mystified as to why they never made mounted versions.

[commissarmoody]

I need to figure out how to paint blue denim using my Vallejo paints. They just look horrable and I want to paint up some guys in that get up.