Matt Richards Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 (edited) I'm painting up some miniatures of World War I German dragoners and I'm finding it hard to find any references for feldgrau uniforms. There's tons of information on all the dunkelblau waffenrock pre-war stuff, but not much on what was actually worn during the war. Are there any reference charts with colors of cuffs, piping, shoulderboards, etc. that anyone knows of, or any book with descriptions of these details for all the dragoner regiments while worn in the field, 1914-18? Edited March 19, 2013 by Matt Richards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prussian Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Hi Matt! The book of Kraus is brilliant (The field grey uniforms of the german army) http://www.militaria.at/Book.aspx?book=727650&Language=de Here are a few of my photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmosher Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 There are several different color pipings and piping combinations for dragoons. All dragoon feldgrau waffenrocks have a piped standing collar, Swedish piped cuff and are piped along the bottom of the skirt. What regiment are you trying to paint? This is the M-1910 waffenrock worn by a Rittmeister for 2. Badisches Dragoner-Regt. Nr. 21. The piping is "lemon" yellow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Richards Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 Ay, there's the rub! I'm not quite sure which regiment I should paint them as, and was looking for all the variations to try and choose from. From what small amount of research I've been able to find, yellow piping like in your photo was very popular in Dragoner units. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwmosher Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Actually, out of the 28 dragoon regiments, only five wore yellow piping (Dr. 4,8,16,21 and 26) and Dr 16 actually wore white piping on the collar and cuff and yellow everywhere else. Your color options for line dragoons (w/o litzen) are poppy red, black, pink, yellow, white and burgandy red. Of these, there are a few with the white piping on the collar and cuff (like Dr 16 above) but with the other color options You just have to decide which piping color you like or which regiment you want to represent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Richards Posted March 20, 2013 Author Share Posted March 20, 2013 (edited) That a big help! While the pink piping could be interesting, I like the sound of poppy red piping best. Edited March 20, 2013 by Matt Richards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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