1.35th vignette size can be compared to size of US Dollar bill. German Waffen-SS military research departments were leading pioneers of modern combat camouflage uniforms. Although ad-hoc military camouflage can trace its origins to 19th-century Napoleonic Europe. Nevertheless, Germans were the first to employ camouflage as standard military outfits. Waffen-SS - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffen_SS

SS in German means Schultz Staffel (Elite Guard) and was organized along racial lines in early 1930s as a special parade and protection unit for German Chancellor Adolf Hitler. By early 1940s, it extensively recruited western European volunteers to join the crusade against Bolshevism. Overall German SS organization was divided between political and military wings. Political side is called the Allgemeine-SS (General SS), they controlled tasks such as state security, racial purity certification, concentration camps, slave labor teams, etc. Military side is the Waffen-SS (Armed SS), they were organized into Panzer and Panzergrenadier Divisions, and served on Western - Mediterranean - Eastern fronts 1939 to 1945. Allgemeine-SS - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allgemeine-SS

4-step process used for pattern creation: 1) Paint entire uniform with military brown, 2) Paint 50% with irregular dark-brown shapes, 3) Use a fine-tip brush and tab light tan moth patterns on both color surfaces, 4) Add dark-brown moth patterns onto lighter military brown section to blend the two colors.

Rollover : Close-up view of the cat, stone surface, and Einzelkampfer. Thick winter boots are made of double in-line rubber insulation, Germans learned the hard way during the Dec. 1941 Moscow offensive that Russian winters on the wind-racked steppes were harsh and furious.

Katze (German for Cat) was painted gray to resemble either Russian or British Blue Shorthair cat. Former has a long body and blue eyes, but the latter has yellow eyes and a round face.