Immersion 1944 is a - finally - Singleplayer Mod for Company of Heroes 1. It provides tons of historical skins, several new missions and enhanced campaigns that are altered to better mimic the historical engagements, with more correct units, bigger vehicle choice and lots of random stuff that makes every single vehicle or soldier look unique.
All my Luftwaffen skins have been revised, thanks to Ernestin1 and his Luftwaffen reenactor comrades I learned quite a bit and incorporated that in the new HD skins. Contrary to the common belief , Luftwaffe units did NOT wear brown belts & straps anymore in late war, nor were blue gaitors or canteen covers very common. So these are now Luftwaffen Infantry soldiers of the 16th Field Division, wearing either blue Fliegerbluse ( Flying servce jacket ) uniforms, sometimes Zeltbahn covers ( especially if it rains ) or the Luftwaffen Camo smock.
fieldgear model by BurtondrummerNY.
A welcome improvement! Immersion strikes again!
I wouldn't say that Luftwaffe units DID NOT use brown belts/straps nor blue gaitors or canteen covers, just not as much common as early 42 doesn't means they don't use those things. Even after war there's tons of stockpiled M36 field blouse in the storage.
More often they use what is available at the period. Which depends current logistik at the time. This is why you'll see West front soldiers use what's left over from Afrika Korps like those canvas straps or canteen covers.
But, yes most of Luftwaffe units use black belts and Y straps as Heers are.
ah... btw.. belts: I also changed the WH officer belts as you recommended.
Brown Leather equipment was not stored, it was painted black by order, you can paint black a belt, but there's no point in converting a m36 tunic into a later model (hence why some EM and NCO's got access to them late in the war)