Trinity has been achived!
After years of searching I have finaly found a Hilleberg Unna tent of the model and
generation I want!
(The one in the middle.)
I now have a complete collection of the three Hilleberg tents that I like the most: Akto, Unna and Staika.
- - -
Those three models are also the three that have been manufactured by HB in a thicker military fabric, have green
low visibility lables and are sold by ColdSkills, but the price of those are truely astronomical...
You'll have to fork out 1.5 to 2 times the cost of a regular new HB tent.
Of course I'd like to have those, but at the moment I haven't got the financial strenght for that.
http://www.coldskills.com/Default.aspx
There are no such military HB tents in stock at the moment, but here's a pic of one:
(Pic stolen fron ColdSkills.) A Hilleberg Unna tent in thicker and olive green fabric.
- - -
Anyway, I'm more than happy with the three tents I've found!
They also have different number of tent poles, one, two and three.
Staika is generally regarted as the most wind secure tent on the market, but Unna
comes very close to that if you use all 12 tent pegs and all the guy lines.
Old Hilleberg tents of this generation represents for me an unbeatable combination
of quality, minimalism and aesthetically pleasing design. You can see that the tents
want to go out on an adventure!
This is what a really old Unna looks like. Notice the colour difference between the floor and the extra floor, or
"foot print", which I also got included in the price.
All elastic bands has lost their elastic properties, so I'll have to replace all of them, but that's something
I'll be happy to do. And it's very easy to do.
When I spoke with the seller I told him I was interested in the old original packing bags, and that I could
provide him with brand new ones instead, if he was planning on keeping those. Later when we met he asked
me if I was autistic because of my "special interest" in old Hilleberg tents... 
Though, after some chatting about outdoor life, building DIY gear and star gazing we managed to get similar
views on most things.
He wanted about £ 80 for the lot, including some old and damaged extra tentpoles, but I wanted to give him
at least £ 120, which I did. I still doubt you'll find a cheaper Unna anywhere...
The seller had bought the tent about 20 years ago and all the small damages it had accumilated over the years
he had let Hilleberg repair for him, so the repairs were professionally made.
The ones of you with good eyesight can see I've been here with my sawing machine...
...because there has to be a flourecent Emergency Exit sign by the doors of all my tents!
Most zipper handles have gotten short lines, to make the handling easier and to distinguish between them.
The Unna has gotten old swedish army boot hooks in the roof, so I can hang thing there easily.
The Unna has begun to recive a spa treatment and upgrade!
Check the quality of the sewing...
...or the carefully placed reinforcement where the tent poles meet.
It's been a while since ITW made their Nexus buckles this square looking!
It's wonderful to see these old metal rings on a HB tent!
I've replaced the lines for dark green ones of the same quality and painted the metal line runners with MoD issue
hardened paint.
This is the old leather lable that's on the Akto tent, but it sits down by the opening.
Look at the colour of the old packing bags. It's so dark and feeble that it gets invisible as soon as the woods
begin to get dark.
The bags have also gotten green cord and I've labeled each of them with wich tent they belong to, even it it's
not that clear in the picture.
The bag closest one to the camera, which has a lighter green shade is one of many that I have made from a very
thin and strong german rip stop fabric.
- - - - -
The next project for these tents will be proper camo.
I've got military camouflage nets for all my high quality tents, but these days some of the Barracuda nets are getting hard
to find and starting to be quite expensive. I'm not sure I can be that cruel to them and cut them up into pieces that exactly
fit the different tents. This I would do to save weight, but I'm not sure about doing that...
The pic is for comparison between different nets. If I wanted to hide the tent it would be difficult to see.
There are these modern and snag free nets also, but they're quite expensive. But I might succumb to irrational
desire to have these anyway... Who knows?
- - - - - -
Akto.
Unna.
Staika.
After years of searching I have finaly found a Hilleberg Unna tent of the model and
generation I want!
(The one in the middle.)
I now have a complete collection of the three Hilleberg tents that I like the most: Akto, Unna and Staika.
- - -
Those three models are also the three that have been manufactured by HB in a thicker military fabric, have green
low visibility lables and are sold by ColdSkills, but the price of those are truely astronomical...
You'll have to fork out 1.5 to 2 times the cost of a regular new HB tent.
Of course I'd like to have those, but at the moment I haven't got the financial strenght for that.
http://www.coldskills.com/Default.aspx
There are no such military HB tents in stock at the moment, but here's a pic of one:
(Pic stolen fron ColdSkills.) A Hilleberg Unna tent in thicker and olive green fabric.
- - -
Anyway, I'm more than happy with the three tents I've found!
They also have different number of tent poles, one, two and three.
Staika is generally regarted as the most wind secure tent on the market, but Unna
comes very close to that if you use all 12 tent pegs and all the guy lines.
Old Hilleberg tents of this generation represents for me an unbeatable combination
of quality, minimalism and aesthetically pleasing design.
You can see that the tentswant to go out on an adventure!
This is what a really old Unna looks like. Notice the colour difference between the floor and the extra floor, or
"foot print", which I also got included in the price.
All elastic bands has lost their elastic properties, so I'll have to replace all of them, but that's something
I'll be happy to do. And it's very easy to do.
When I spoke with the seller I told him I was interested in the old original packing bags, and that I could
provide him with brand new ones instead, if he was planning on keeping those. Later when we met he asked
me if I was autistic
because of my "special interest" in old Hilleberg tents... Though, after some chatting about outdoor life, building DIY gear and star gazing we managed to get similar
views on most things.
He wanted about £ 80 for the lot, including some old and damaged extra tentpoles, but I wanted to give him
at least £ 120, which I did. I still doubt you'll find a cheaper Unna anywhere...
The seller had bought the tent about 20 years ago and all the small damages it had accumilated over the years
he had let Hilleberg repair for him, so the repairs were professionally made.
The ones of you with good eyesight can see I've been here with my sawing machine...
...because there has to be a flourecent Emergency Exit sign by the doors of all my tents!
Most zipper handles have gotten short lines, to make the handling easier and to distinguish between them.
The Unna has gotten old swedish army boot hooks in the roof, so I can hang thing there easily.
The Unna has begun to recive a spa treatment and upgrade!
Check the quality of the sewing...
...or the carefully placed reinforcement where the tent poles meet.
It's been a while since ITW made their Nexus buckles this square looking!
It's wonderful to see these old metal rings on a HB tent!
I've replaced the lines for dark green ones of the same quality and painted the metal line runners with MoD issue
hardened paint.
This is the old leather lable that's on the Akto tent, but it sits down by the opening.
Look at the colour of the old packing bags. It's so dark and feeble that it gets invisible as soon as the woods
begin to get dark.
The bags have also gotten green cord and I've labeled each of them with wich tent they belong to, even it it's
not that clear in the picture.
The bag closest one to the camera, which has a lighter green shade is one of many that I have made from a very
thin and strong german rip stop fabric.
- - - - -
The next project for these tents will be proper camo.
I've got military camouflage nets for all my high quality tents, but these days some of the Barracuda nets are getting hard
to find and starting to be quite expensive. I'm not sure I can be that cruel to them and cut them up into pieces that exactly
fit the different tents. This I would do to save weight, but I'm not sure about doing that...
The pic is for comparison between different nets. If I wanted to hide the tent it would be difficult to see.
There are these modern and snag free nets also, but they're quite expensive. But I might succumb to irrational
desire to have these anyway...
Who knows? - - - - - -
Akto.
Unna.
Staika.
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I'm a wreck... 
