A Look at the Rare German Punktmuster "Dot Pattern" Camouflage of the 1976 Trials | Uniform History

A supplemental video briefly showcasing a Punktmuster jacket from Truppenversuch 76 trials that eventually led to the adoption of Flecktarn.
Full video on the Flecktarn family's history can be found here:
kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJXSXn-gYrx9f6s
Music by Julian Crowhurst: www.juliancrowhurst.com/

[@FirstMetalHamster]

*noise of german military personnel frantically going through their companies basements to find rare pattern stuff to sell on ebay*

[@volusian95]

I think they inadvertently made the first 80's style clubwear shirt

[@LedosKell]

Replace the greens and browns with pastel orange and baby blue, roll up the sleeves, and I could see a drug dealer wearing this on Miami Vice. Keep the greens and browns and I could see an arms dealer wearing it on Miami Vice.

[@LedosKell]

Those quirky Germans and their neat camo patterns.

[@batgomer7404]

The flectarm is french

[@thomas_jay]

@@batgomer7404 Is it?

[@wOrLdOfEaRlY]

@@thomas_jay No, the french based their 1981 dots camo of the Truppenversuch 76 camo which is based on the pea pattern of WW2.

[@SomeGamer1111]

Tiger tank with this pattern would be.. interesting I guess?

[@strawberrybleach7715]

@@batgomer7404 lmao you couldnt be any more wrong. Flecktarn was based off of german ww2 patterns

[@bennfisto]

I love the little irony that you present a West German Camo with the Camo of their East German counterparts as background. 😅

[@Armored_Ariete]

yo seargent I swear this is the new uniform, no I didn't go paintballing

[@jarink1]

1:00 So, one might say it's an "analog" of digital camo? ;)

[@whoelsebutmeofcoursei]

Your comedy makes my facial muscles contract in joy, figuratively

[@tankieflanker4119]

The concept of what UH was describing actually falls in line with the theory of fractal camouflage.

[@mr.billthrower7392]

I love you.

[@miriammariarojaslopez1276]

Analog off course

[@johngalt6929]

50's and 60's Bundeswehr camo would be a great topic.

[@FEINDKONTAKT.]

Yes yes yes

[@davidbrennan660]

Mostly Olive drab then... experimental trials now that would have a show.

[@thomas_jay]

@@davidbrennan660 He's talking about this pattern: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHSninxjlt95f5Y

[@johngalt6929]

@@thomas_jay - Yup!

[@demonprinces17]

@@thomas_jay kinda looked like bdu's, the way they moved look alot like the film's of them in Russia

[@haramaschabrasir8662]

spot-on pronounced "Punktmuster" 😎

[@John.McMillan]

I had a jacket of this a few years ago and didnt realise how rare it was and gave it to a friend. No regrets, He fucking loved it.

[@appalachianbandit2528]

Tiger stripe would be great for you to do. Lots of variation in the patterns and good history behind it.

[@simenon5929]

Thanks for uploading I lost my job yesterday :(

[@davidgreen5099]

that's always painful. sorry.

[@OliveMule]

SIMENON, I WILL PRAY FOR YOU

[@LedosKell]

Stay strong my guy.

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

Good luck

[@sinnerdegarah1952]

This was a pleasant time, thank you for sharing!

[@Jez.Von.Franco]

Cool camo , please could you do a vid on the British army’s DPM and Denison camouflage.

[@davidbrennan660]

You will have to cover the post war Denison Smock pattern quickly, that stuff fades in the dark .

[@scoe5908]

Awesome bit of history, thank you for showing it to us all

[@danielf1313]

For further info, the German Panzermuseum at Munster may be a good place to reach out to as TrVsu 76-89 were partly staged there and the museum used to have most of the patterns on display a few years ago.

[@BIGBOSSSAINT]

WOW, man your video quality keeps going up by leaps and bounds! This was SO well made!

[@daleluster4167]

That's actually a sexy pattern and color combo! Never seen this before, thanks for the info.

[@koalaseatleaves1277]

You should do a video on NATO vehicle camouflage.

[@simonh6371]

Dunno about other armies but in the British Army in late 80s/early 90s in Germany we just used to paint our vehicles by hand, olive drab and black paint. They were mostly pretty old vehicles so they had about 1cm of paint on them lol. But actually the newer Landrover Defenders had what looked like a sprayed on black/green pattern.

[@ReverendMeat51]

That's a really dope pattern ngl

[@mrbluesteen]

Love this channel

[@gobshite5150]

Cool video. First time I have been introduced to a completely unknown (to me) camouflage pattern in 15 years at least... kudos! =)

[@PilotPhotog]

Just came across your channel - awesome content and subscribed!

[@TheAwast2]

I served in 2008, Mountain Reconnaissance Battalion 230 and was wearing the 5 color Flecktarn Type B groß and this experimantal jacket from the 70s looks much better in camouflage in woodland than the camo still in use it is way too dark

[@tomdulski3729]

remarkable, thanks for the video

[@ctea24]

German camo patterns are always fucking great.

[@mrbluesteen]

Thank you!

[@samuelbean9928]

Awesome story! chances are the collector that has this one also has a Luxembourg flecktarn and Georgia tropentarn and isn't budging on any of them.

[@janctrnacty1215]

Great video. I have some rare German pieces myself, and can provide some info or photos if interested.

[@asconajuenger]

I can not Unterstand, that are Camouflages with quaters (digital). In oure first camo Hour, we learnd, it gives no quaters or flat shapes in the Nature. When you cover a thing, make the shapes round and accidental. Greatings from Germany!

[@tankieflanker4119]

I'd love to see an updated version of this, & sawtooth camouflage, with adjusted colors, and an array of uniform cuts. From the BDU, to the modern Russian Army fatigues.

[@robbabcock_]

That's a pretty cool pattern!

[@allyreneepenny9447]

Amazing This,, Punktmuster''

[@travpots6318]

Good job

[@merc741]

Would you be able to do a video on the Black Ops 2 mercs? I love their camo and would love to see an in-depth look into their kit :)

[@gunterstraus606]

Happy New Year

[@stinkyfinn6977]

Think I've got a parka in one of those variants and a bread bag/combat pack

[@MzRayTimo3x]

HEY! Hope you can made China PLA Type 19 video sometimes!

[@maxmccoin8573]

Nice

[@flashdamingo]

That jacket is an absolute ripper.! Closest I got is the same pattern in a Huf brand muscle shirt... 1 thing tho .... this pattern and the digital pattern shown are dithering effect patterns .... as is the fleck family ... but not so much a macro and micro camo effect maybe...

[@bassman3235]

A month without an upload and all we get is a barely 5 minute long short video

[@davidbrennan660]

Nice pattern.

[@gayleocuaman8350]

can you do the rayadillo or the pj uniforms

[@alexanderleslie3899]

Nice Camouflage pattern

[@S.G.A.R.C.O]

Such a attractive camo

[@pkt1213]

Looks like the interior of 80s exotic cars

[@OliveMule]

Love it

[@sackzandoval2383]

This reminds me so much of the Chinese PLA patterns

[@Liam1991]

I wonder how well this camo compares to flecktarn.

[@ReviveHF]

I believe the PLA's latest camo pattern was inspired by this one, but they made it digital.

[@TheMylittletony]

Some of their older patterns were inspired by flecktarn, so it makes sense

[@midknightfenerir]

Can you do a video on Indian Army’s Palm Leaf Pattern

[@mc_strobelight164]

what model blouse is that gray one because i have one just like it

[@heimdalshorn]

..it is not "gray", it is washed out. This is the "Feldbluse" (fieldblouse) of the "Feldanzug, oliv" (Field-Uniform, olive) made of "Moleskin"-fabrik and used as standard working and combat uniform from the mid 60´s to the early 1990´s (being replaced from 1990 on by the "Feldanzug, 5-Farben-Tarndruck" (Field-Uniform, 5-colour-camouflage-print aka "Flecktarn"). The Feldanzug, oliv had a dark oliv colour with some gray in it (so called "Steingrau-Olive" - stone-gray-olive) which turned (as a common thing) into this shades of grayish tone after longterm usage and intense washing, especially the early model of this uniform, the later model holds the colour better. The model shown in this video is the earlier typ (issued till the early 80´s), it is made of a heavier fabrik than the later typ and the later typ from the early 80´s up to the early 90´s did also no longer had the "loops" at the front and slightly different pockets. In 1985 I was issued this (then new type) later model when I started my service with the half-year basic training in the 1.Gebirgsdivision (mountain division) and after that doing my active service in the 1.Luftlandedivision (airborn divison).

[@thehighscalls]

Can you talk about Philippine's Uniform Patterns?

[@arturovasquez5612]

This is like the holy grail of West German Camo

[@ab5olut3zero95]

Cool. Looks kinda like a proto-Pencott pattern

[@5.7moy]

German camp is some of the best.

[@luisbaldpag2560]

epic

[@Military.FutureUrbanCamo]

Where can I get this

[@goldmanjace]

wann sell it, I want to buy

[@FEINDKONTAKT.]

More Bundeswehr please. Would like to see full review of BW Moleskin Uniform.

[@davidbrennan660]

The soldier fashion of NATO countries camouflage used as Helmet Covers would be good, American Vietham era mitchell, American woodland, British DPM, old sand bag, Bundeswehr Modell 59 kampfanzug hood, and I believe from one photo, Dutch brush strokes like denison smock.... not forgetting Bw Amoebae Zeltplane cloth... most toothsome.

[@ryanyoder2694]

Tiger stripe ?

[@quantig]

Ayo, what's that camo used for backdrop? I've seen it in a few images but don't know it's name...

[@Myriip]

It's called "Strichtarn", old ww2 german camouflage which got adopted by east-germany's army

[@quantig]

@@Myriip Cool cool. Thanks

[@Myriip]

@@quantig You're welcome

[@davidbrennan660]

Several Warsaw Treaty Organisation nations used variants of it, the Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and the Bulgarians all used something of it. The DDR and Bulgarians holding out longest, the early Czecky pattern looking the best and being best made. The Poland used it first, soon changing patterns when the DDR started to use it in the mid Sixties or so... odd that.

[@Therealguymins]

I'd wear this as a casual dress shirt tbh

[@user-ix6jb1fs6v]

@Uniform History, Are you from Massachusetts?

[@minerpepper2175]

MA gang

[@user-ix6jb1fs6v]

@@minerpepper2175 yes indeed

[@OffGridInvestor]

That green is so bright it's like they'd wear it to a rave. With the DDR soldiers or something.

[@joannefrantz5338]

Be nice if someone would reproduce the pattern.

[@averagedemographic8933]

Hey UH, I recently purchased a plash-palatka type item but it seems to be made out of German Marsh ‘44 fabric, any ideas? Could be Scandinavian perhaps?

[@hobbitilius]

Is it possible you got the German Bundesgrenzschutz (BGS) one? They used them in the Marsh Pattern for quite some time during the Cold War.

[@07peterB]

maybe old Czechoslovak tarp known as "celta CSLA"

[@FEINDKONTAKT.]

German Marsh '44, sry what?

[@davidbrennan660]

If the material is a thin, light or a closely worn cloth, white on one side with colour bleed through and five colours to the German Marshpattern of WWII , (the strichtarn strips being a little messy), Cut like a Soviet Palash palatka with wooden toggles....... (breath)....I would say it was a Czechy CSLA Celta...

[@davidbrennan660]

If the material is a thin, light or a closely worn cloth, white on one side with colour bleed through and five colours to the German Marshpattern of WWII , (the strichtarn strips being a little messy), Cut like a Soviet Palash palatka with wooden toggles....... (breath)....I would say it was a Czechy CSLA Celta...

[@whoelsebutmeofcoursei]

This is the Punktmuster. It Musters Punkts.

[@morganfreeman8618]

I think, it´s actually not "AJ" but "A5". We have a different type of handwriting here in germany. Like our numbers 1 and 7 look different than yours.

[@internetstrangerstrangerofweb]

Straight up looks like some experimental artist got paint on his jackry

[@Stank361]

I’d like a video on SS uniforms

[@leighneil]

Am I the only person that see a similarity between Punktmuster Dot and Chinese Starry Sky?

[@davidbrennan660]

What you mean “China” copied something? Never.

[@thesturm8686]

I want one, but I guess I'll put it in my "too poor to be true" bucket

[@Veritas419]

Looks like the pattern the Colombian Army is utilizing.

[@quickscopeoneeighty9158]

How to drip on boots: [experimental UCP]

[@SpartanWarriorXD]

Ah yes the camo made in Mario Paint

[@robertking2580]

Early gang.🙂

[@cornholioswag9124]

Looked like hipster shirt

[@elliswatanabe]

you said that you reached out to the german armed forces, but how specifically did you do that? i once tried to contact the Armed Forces of Malta about their adoption of various firearms, but i never got a response.

[@OliveMule]

Good question

[@bennfisto]

Well, I think, via the official Website of the German MoD: www.bmvg.de/de/kontakt There is something similar in Germany to the Freedom of Information Act, so it's possible to ask things like that.

[@UniformHistory]

Simply emailed them, just need to find the closest thing to a PAO and find their contact info.

[@patrickdavis99]

I think "lizard" when I see this.

[@JayfromTerra]

Is that an East German Nation People Army tarp in the back? If yes, NOOOOO, that was the enemy! ;-)

[@michaelmarchanda]

2:27 This assumption is wrong, coz this is a so called "Kampfjacke" and worn over the shirt, never put into the pants. I know this from my military service as a conscript. Nevertheless; i never asked about the function of this feature. I´m sorry, i have no idea about this.

[@marcoantoniolopezdelaherra3222]

Oh boy I'm early

[@goforbroke4428]

And the Chinese copied it, digitized it and made their type 07 combat uniforms.

[@benjamink6778]

Algorithm feeding commentary.

[@user-ix6jb1fs6v]

Sixth

[@user-co4rs7ob1t]

Помешались все на квадратиках( пикселях).В природе нет квадратных деревьев,кустов,и прочего....Чисто модные и бесполезные понты!!!Пятна ничего не может заменить,потому что пятна в природе естественны и не выделяются.