Recent content by KariJ

Hello Gents. Long time to post here. Now after 3 years of wearing Ken*s bespoke A4/42 (pocket flaps designed) I still am very satisfied. In Finland time for wearing A2 style or any short jackets is really limited. Despite of these facts I have been using my A2 in summer time when it is possible...

An interesting detail of personal equipment of this one pilot. A traditional knife of my home area. Probably a heirloom. So called "kaksineuvoonen". A hand made knife from Osthrobothnia

Not in colour and not leather jackets. We could not afford that kind of luxury. Just cotton coverallas. Summer 1944 Yes it is. It was not anyhow capable plane at that time. It was our main fighter plane in 1939-1940 .In war 1941-1945 we had a coctail of planes, mostly German American, French...

A Finnish ace Captain Hans (Hasse) Wind in front of his Brewster B.239. Decorated and honored twice with Mannerheim Cross, 2nd Class, of the Order of the Cross of Liberty

Here is some pictures from our War Archives. The first is a fighter Fokker DXXi used by Finnish Air Force. The second is a Finnish pilot inside soviet Tupolev SB-2. It is not known that the republic of Finland never bought one, but we used everything what we found :)

New load of BW T-shirts just arrived from Germany. I really like these. Well made, cotton is strong and reasonable price

Wonderful fit !

Tampere Finland

If You are from Sweden, how come You can wonder that. Here in Nordic countries development of prices of products and services has even been more harsh than in UK. Taxes, social security taxes, pension security payments etc are really not on same level as they used to be 10, 15 or 20 years ago...

Al the best my neighbour. Dimitry So sorry to hear about this. The best is that You still is among us. Dimitry stay strong, said by Your neighbour from Finland

Not by me yet, but soon there shall be, if i pull the trigger. Anyways much cheaper than buy any shoes from our local shops...

Thank You very much for this information. My problem always are my shoulders and the width of my feet and thickness of my calves. When Finnish Defence forces still were using those Russian style boots I always had to "customize" those with knife, but the widh of the sole was always "more than...

Hello Gents I am seeking for Your advice for size of roughout boots. I like the style and i have been looking of a pair from https://qmi.be/en/shoes-service-reverse-upper-ankle-boots.html My question is that how wide this type of a boot really is. I happen to have Donald Duck feet, typically...

Today I tried this Chinese UV glue pen for fixing frayed zipper tape. Seems it works well. It is flexible and you can use it even for ”casting” missing pieces. Easy to use and cures fast.