 Flashman14  | 21 Apr 2019 8:59 a.m. PST |
Just what is the guy – second from left – wearing for head gear? The crest is painted as a brown/tan, but that seems to me even more unusual. |
| RittervonBek | 21 Apr 2019 9:07 a.m. PST |
An old potemkin uniform helmet? |
| Gunfreak | 21 Apr 2019 10:20 a.m. PST |
Looks to me like a felt hat with fur or wool strapped around it, kinda like ear muffs. |
 deadhead | 21 Apr 2019 12:28 p.m. PST |
Surely. Ear muffs worn tied up. 'er indoors bought me a furry hat for Moscow and Leningrad (OK, I know St Ps) about five/six years ago. Been there before with both earlier wives in winter. This then was February and, fabulous clear skies, but the coldest I have ever experienced there. -23C in Red Square and my Altama US Marine boots froze in minutes. They cracked right across the instep by the time we got into GUM. I still wear them for the garden, but these are 20th C tech kit (OK for the desert, but still, cannot survive those conditions).
Anyway, my hat. I swore I would not be seen dead in this hat, let alone with the flaps down. Like his. I rapidly learnt. Down they came
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| Gunfreak | 21 Apr 2019 1:52 p.m. PST |
Surely. Ear muffs worn tied up. As I said, it looks like wool or fur tied around the head.
Problebly because he seems to wear just a felt hat, and that's not very warm. |
| Flashman14 | 21 Apr 2019 2:10 p.m. PST |
Ritter is correct – it's the Potemkin uniform helmet – I know nothing about the Russo Turkish War and had thus never come across it.
and link |
 The Beast Rampant | 21 Apr 2019 2:21 p.m. PST |
That is an odd design, sure 'nuff! |
| deadhead | 21 Apr 2019 2:25 p.m. PST |
Well I will concede this, but also say that, on a scale on 1 to 10, that is a piece of military headgear that rates a -1. I thought some of the Perry Scandinavian figures looked like something out of a pantomime…but this poor chap.
You know all those fora that ask about the best turnout of the Napoleonic Wars…….?
Could we start one for the very worst rig in which to meet your maker?
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| Gunfreak | 21 Apr 2019 3:01 p.m. PST |
What do you have against the beautiful Scandinavian head gear, it's all perfectly normal stuff, tophats, shakoes, bicornes, grenadier bearskins and the sexy tarleton. |
| deadhead | 22 Apr 2019 8:48 a.m. PST |
Check out DAN4 in the Perry range. Those poor Norwegian Grenadiers. Their only hope is the opposition are just creased up and weeping with laughter, quite unable to load.
How can anyone have been so cruel?
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| Gunfreak | 22 Apr 2019 10:29 a.m. PST |
It's just a 1806 prussian grenadier hat.
In fact the entire dano-Norwegian army seems to just be a copy of 1806 Prussia. |
| deadhead | 22 Apr 2019 12:38 p.m. PST |
If it is, then, I almost imagine these chaps saying "EEEH, I got caught in the rain today and I simply cannot do a thing with it" This is a Prussian Grenadier on a bad hair day
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| Gunfreak | 22 Apr 2019 12:46 p.m. PST |
Only difference is the fur is white instead of black. |
Perry Miniatures  | 23 Apr 2019 9:18 a.m. PST |
Hello, Only just noticed the thread. It is an old Potemkin cap from the 1780's. He's supposed to be an old ex-soldier.
Alan |
| Flashman14 | 23 Apr 2019 2:25 p.m. PST |
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| deadhead | 24 Apr 2019 5:02 a.m. PST |
His mother should have told him "You are not going out in that hat". The Perry 1812 range is just superb though. Some great imagination gone into the posing; not just the very familiar figures recycled. |
