This looks like a winter jacket, can you tell us more about the uniform, how grade was shown, etc...

Looks great! Congrats on getting the call. Filming as an extra can be like the army, hurry up and wait.

Oh it sure is... 6AM call, stand around 2+ hours before wardrobe, etc. A two hour shoot took nearly 13 hours...

But, it was an experience to remember in the end. And maybe repeat later. (I'll bring a good book!)

You look a bit like my grandmother! She was from german stock

Yarp, I can certainly get that pentacostal-face look...

Ain't I ugly?

I bet I could make a freight train detour onto a dirt road...

I did consultation for a subject matter and acting once with a local indie filmaker. I was not an extra, but I also was not a star, by any means. Director and I chatted a lot on what was happening and why as professionals, well, he was a pro, I was the source. Except in the course of doing the job from both ends, it was magnetic to true extras how close the director and I was. I would slip off for a smoke break on a bus stop for example, and one would approach asking me how I got so close to the director, telling me how they were versitile, and to put in a good word for them... You were hired to be a pax on a bus for 12 hours.... So you ride in a seat good for long trips.. what do you want me to endorse? Its an indie documentary of sorts - Hollywood is not going to be calling.

It was a trip for sure.

Wow! You make that look good. :)

Who's the Schütze the greatcoat was borrowed from? I see the white waffenfarbe for infantry on the schulterklappen, but no tresse inside that for an NCO, and the left shoulder would have chevrons for the corporal ranks.

Aw scheisse, now don't come down on me for the farbity... This was for a History Channel media entertainment thing. I arrived on set dressed in proper 30's brit civilian, and was then recruited to be a Reichswehr Hauptmann ('cept the HC people had no idea what a hauptmann was). Hell, they equipped my landsers with .303 SMLE's fer crissake... And me with a plastic luger. I didnt care, 'coz the money was just as good. The TV series tho was (1 outta 5 forks) good.

I'm not dumping on you; I'm dumping on the History Channel; you'd think that they would have made some effort to make the costumes at least grossly accurate; it's not as if there wasn't a ton of source material -- or, if they bothered, enough costumes to kit everyone out accurately. It's as if the production companies just half-ass things because they expect the viewers to know less about it than they do.