I seem to have some conflict in uniform information for Russian artillery crews. Osprey shows them with red turnbacks and black shoulder epaulettes. Another book of mine shows black turnbacks piped red and red epaulettes.
Any idea which I should do?
Thanks
Russian artillery crews
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Re: Russian artillery crews
Paint them blue and send them across the table!
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Re: Russian artillery crews
Sacrilege!!! Green is the in color this year, blue is so old and tired. You should paint more Italians.
Re: Russian artillery crews
Liliane and Fred Funcken show Line Foot Artillery of 1809 with red shoulder boards( no piping), black cuffs and collar with yellow AND red piping. They show Line Horse artillery of 1814 with red shoulder boards ( no piping) and with black collar and cuffs piped red. They say in the text " black facings" but you can't see the turnbacks to tell if they are black piped red or just red. Pre 1809 may have been different ( shako and horse arty headdress were) so not sure.
If you weren't confused before .....
If you weren't confused before .....
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Re: Russian artillery crews
Great Scott! Confusion reigns, fortunately I rarely have any clue anyway so it's situation normal here. Perhaps those artists for the books read the same material....
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Re: Russian artillery crews
Black turnbacks piped red.
Here's a link to the English translation of Viskovatov - your one stop shop for Russian uniform information.
http://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/#Viskovatov
Here's a link to the English translation of Viskovatov - your one stop shop for Russian uniform information.
http://marksrussianmilitaryhistory.info/#Viskovatov
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Re: Russian artillery crews
Makes me glad I went that route in the first place, and red epaulettes.
Thanks for the link
Thanks for the link