Uniforms (1 Viewer)

[Rossbach]

I am worry about the historical correctness of the K&C WW1 Germans.

First of all the uniforms. German Infantry didn`t wear uniforms with a golden piping on collar and sleeves in the
Enlisted rank. Only NCOs and Corporals did so.

Officers never wear collar strands in the line regiments (it is also wrong by Britains Regiment 84 von Manstein). Strands like this wre only worn by the guard regiments.

Second: The flag. Indeed we see the "reichskriegsflagge". But this flag was only used by german Marines and Navy. It was also used on the fortresses in Elsass-Lothringen but NEVER by line Regiments. I think. that is also wrong with the Beau Geste Askaris. They - indeed wore the black-white-red flag.

 

[theBaron]

...Second: The flag. Indeed we see the "reichskriegsflagge". But this flag was only used by german Marines and Navy. It was also used on the fortresses in Elsass-Lothringen but NEVER by line Regiments. I think. that is also wrong with the Beau Geste Askaris. They - indeed wore the black-white-red flag...

To offer a defense, or perhaps, an excuse, it's been a convention of toy soldier manufacturers to use the Reichskriegsflagge with infantry sets, going back to the war itself, and by makers/painters of flats and rounds alike. But I can see your point and I would agree that for the level of quality that K&C and other contemporary makers aspire to, and the prices you guys pay for figures, I'd expect these things to be accurate.

Prost!
Brad

 

[cantinetozzo]

The question about the golden piping is old..i addressed it in a post some year ago(i can not it found at the moment).Same for the "litzen" (bars on the collar).