The essential of the hairdressings raised by our characters, to know except the helmeted infantrymen and the colonel in Schirmütze (cap of officer to rigid visor), consist in different models of Feldmütze (hairdressing of country in the shape of marble). For the officers it is about the Feldmütze 1938, traced on the troop's Feldmütze 1934, but achieved in thinner cloth and raising some pipings in thread of aluminum around the summit and on the curvature of the frontal headband.

   On this model the frontal headband is sewn, besides it is decorated with the national rosette and a braid in V reversed to the color of weapon (the white designates some infantrymen, our gunners of assault are always used like supports of infantry). although a guideline of September 1942 abolished the port of the braid to color of weapon on the headband of all marbles of officers as the troop, here it has been kept on the figures, first because it brings a note of color, and then because the official interdiction was at the time all recent where our subject situates the events, and that the military situation to the forehead was too critical to worry of the prescriptions of the bursary. Proof in is that the braid will be even visible in the headquarters of the Grossdeutschland during the summer 43, then...

   The non-commissioned officers and men of the rank have here the Feldmütze of troop of the model 1942, that makes the transition with the cap to visor, typical of the period 1943-45. The Feldmutze 1942 recovers, like the previous model 1934-35, a headband closed by two buttons on the front that permits in winter to fold back the fold on the ears. It doesn't have braid of weapon and, the rosette is brought back the just headband above under the national eagle. Besides, it carries itself well horizontal on the chief. It is delivered between July 1942 and May 1943 but, coexist with the model 1934.

Références:

- Special edition "Uniformes" : "The Wehrmacht" under the direction of Eric lefèvre (1979) - volume 2: Uniforms and equipment standards of the earth army (Heer.)

- "German Army Uniforms and Insignia 1933-1945" by Brian L. Davis.

- Osprey Men-at-Arms: "The German Army 1939-1945" - in five volumes: MMA n° 311, 316, 326, 330 and 336 (or the special edition compiling the five previous numbers.)

- And of course, the french magazine Militaria Magazine that comes back periodically on the topic. In its former numbers, you will find a crowd of articles dedicated to the generalities and particularities of the uniform of the Landser (to consult the general index of the magazine.)

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The Feldgrau in all its states!

   Here are several returns to achieve some Feldgrau in painting, of which one becomes aware of the extreme diversity of the nuances while thumbing magazines of uniformologie like Militaria Magazine. The references of color correspond to the colour chart (very rich) of the acrylic paints Prince August very known of the figure painters.

- Feldgrau "standard":

"Grey neutral" n°160 + "Grey middle" n°111 - "Grey middle" n°111 + "Green grey" n°101 - "Grey stone" n°104 + "German beige camouflage" n°103 - "Grey middle" n°111 + "German Green camouflage " n°99.

- Feldmütze 38 (elegant Feldgrau of officer):

"Green panzer" n°88 + "German beige camouflage" n°103 + "charcoal grey" n°161.

- Feldmütze 42 (NCO and troop, in plain sheet):

"Green black Empire" n°100 + "Green grey pale" n°106 + "Brown green" n°114.

The other hues used for the sartorial effects:

- Boots of the "Oberst" (colonel) Scholtze:

"Black" n°169 + "Yellow khaki" n°120. To solve in "Agate" n°110.

- Buckle of belt:

"Green grey" n°101 + "Grey stone" n°104 or "Mat aluminimum" n°151 + "Green blue" n°76.

- Bandoleer MP 40:

"Ochre green" n°119 + "Uniform Japanese" n°117 + "Brown green" n°114. To solve with "Green yellow" n°112 + "Yellow camouflage" n°116.

 

- Steel helmet whitewashed of white:

"White" n°1+ "Grey blue dark" n°157.

- Doubled cap made of fur of rabbit:

"Uniform German" n°85 + "Neutral grey" n°160 + "Brown Royal Navy" n°146. Fur is painted of a mixture of: "White" n°1 + "Burnt umber" n°148 + "Grey middle" n°111.

- String hood:

"White" n°1 + " Desert yellow" n°125 or "Brown yellow" n°122 (example of white variant, more luminous, that decides on holding.)

- Cover-helmet made of linen:

"White" n°1 + "Ochre green" n°119.

 

- Blackened leather of the boots "big cold weather":

"Black" n°169 + "Clear sand" n°7.

- Fawn leather of the boots "big cold weather":

"Golden brown" n°126 + "Orange brown" n°131 + "Clear Brown" n°129. To solve with "Ochre yellow" n°121 + "Flesh tanned" n°20 + "Yellow khaki" n°120.

- "Red" leather (carry-cards satchel):

"Leather brown" n°138 + "Mat brown" n°140 + "Leather red" n°136. To solve in "Clear brown" n°129.

- Feldmütze 38 1 of the "Major" (commander) in striped scarf (cloth of quality, bluish nuance):

"German Uniform" n°85 + "Grey light-blue" n°156.

- Gloves of wool 2:

"Dark grey" n°161 + "Black" n°169.

- Gloves of the "Major" 2:

"Olive drab" n°91 + "Khaki brown" n°115. To solve in "Middle grey" n°111. To shade in "Black" n°169. The sewings are underlined to oil with Titanium White + Natural Umber + Burnt Umber.

- Gloves of the "Oberst" (colonel) Scholtze 2:

"Olive drab" n°91 + "Dark grey" n°161.

- The national eagles of the marbles are drawn to Titanium White (oil painting) on a very dark black green bottom. The red point in the middle of the rosette is also aimed to oil with a brush to plant out.

- Coat of the "Feldwebel" 4:

"Uniform German" n°85 + "Grey blue dark" n°157 + "Uniform Japanese" n°117. To solve in "Grey light-blue" n°156. To shade in "Green black Empire" n°100 + "Burnt Umber" n°148.

- Coat of the "Oberst" (colonel) Scholtze:

"German green camouflage" n°99 + "Green grey" n°101 + "Grey blue dark" n°157. To solve in "Green blue" n°76.

- Grey trousers:

"Camouflage German brown dark" n°150 + "Neutral grey" n°160.

- Reverse of parka, interior of hoods:

"Grey basalt" n°162 + "Green grey" n°101 + "Black" n°169. To solve in "Flesh" n°20, n°17 or n°6.

- Schirmütze of the "Oberst" (colonel) Scholtze:

"Uniform German" n°85 + "Green 1st Empire" n°72 + "Neutral grey" n°160.

- White holdings 3:

"White" n°1 + "Green grey" n°101. To solve in "Agate" n°110. To shade in "Burnt Umber" n°148.

- Stem made of felt of the boots "big cold weather":

"Burnt Umber" n°148 + "White" n°1. The dotted lines are painted in: "Sand clear" n°7 + "White" n°1.

The hues used for the painting of the weapons:

- Bakelite of the MP 40 carcass:

"Brown Royal Navy" n°146 + "Chocolate brown" n°149 + "Black" n°169. To solve in "brown beige" n°135.

- Wood of the Mauser 98k rifle:

"Ochre brown" n°127 + "Clear brown" n°129 + a little part of "Mat brown" n°140. To shade in "Black" n°169 + "Chocolate brown" n°149. Veinings of wood: "Mat brown" n°140 + "Chocolate brown" n°149 underlined with a mixture of "Clear brown" n°129 + "Ochre yellow" n°121.

- Suspenders of the rifles and guns machine gunner:

"Mahogany" n°139 + "Burnt Umber" n°148 + "Ochre green" n°119. To solve "Base Flesh" n°17.

- Metal of the weapons:

"Steel natural" n°178 + "Gun metal gray" n°179. To solve in "Money" n°171. To shade to the oil painting in "bluish Black" (Blue Black of Winsor & Newton.)

 

- Plates of crosier of the MP 40:

"Black" n°169 + "Beige brown" n°135.

1: The red braid on the headband of the Feldmütze 38 of the superior officer "Major" (commander) some middle indicates a gunner. This one wears to the neck a checkered, non authorized civil scarf. His pocket-size lamp, hung by a paw to a button of the parka, kept a red filter for the night. So that this element detaches itself well, it is necessary to surround it of a black feature, and to surround it with a blank metallic flange. This part has been retaken from the oil painting, at a time to refine the detail, and to give a satin effect.
2: In painting the knit appears by feature sped along longitudinal, edged of a straightforward sunny spell of the basis grey, in order to accentuate the effect of relief.
3: The Feldwebel in coat carries as for him of the mittens of Feldgrau sheet, where only the inch and the index are individualized, this last to push on the trigger of the weapon. The mittens are ample enough to be threaded over the gloves of wool.
4: As a matter of principle the white is not ever applied pure but broken with a suspicion of another color. The white of a cloth must remain therefore hot, it is necessary to attach him a little part of brown, of khaki, or even of "Green army". On the other hand, the painting on a helmet keeps a cold, metallic aspect, and for that to make must be cut with blue or blue grey. A lot of nuances of white are accessible anything that by the choice of the break hue and also by the dosage that is made some. Attention however to not to exaggerate the colorful contribution, otherwise one won't ever recover the dominant of white, even while solving very strong the bones (that is to say that the white "would be colored" definitely.) The sewings are underlined with the "Neutral grey" n°160, without worry of discretion. It gives a bigger presence to the garment while breaking the monotony of the white. Every dark feature is edged, on a side at least, with a feature of white very solved (pure or added of color "Flesh"), what has the effect of melting the shade better, and to correct the possible skids.