| Mark J Wilson | 20 Nov 2025 10:55 a.m. PST |
See image, link what are the stick things and are the colours regimental |
| Prince of Essling | 20 Nov 2025 12:01 p.m. PST |
Short sword – I believe no to regimental colour. I think I have seen it suggested a mix of blackened or natural colour for the scabbard: link
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| 14Bore | 20 Nov 2025 12:43 p.m. PST |
Shame I only go 1813 -15, that's some good stuff to go on |
| BillyNM | 20 Nov 2025 2:34 p.m. PST |
Do you mean the short sword or the axe (handle) or tent pegs? |
| NapStein | 21 Nov 2025 12:03 a.m. PST |
Ian provided one of the best resources next to the "Kling" … as he mentioned the scabbard had been of brown leather and the field axe, which the soldier carries, had a brown wooden stick. I published a larger study about the Prussian infantry of 1806 some time ago on my site at link – just go to the several captions and hopefully the translation tools are sufficient to get the content; don't wonder about the different layout of the sites, but I need more time to convert them to the lates design of my site – but content is the main feature :-) Greetings from Berlin
Markus Stein P.S. next year a larger book about the Prussian infantry of 1806 with detailed war histories, biographies of the regimental owners and of course uniform descriptions with lots of infographics for all 60 regiments will be published at the Zeughaus Verlag (also in English) – it is written and done by Peter Bunde, who's quite famous for his well-researched uniform plates |
Red Jacket  | 21 Nov 2025 5:05 a.m. PST |
Is the lighter blue (cornflower?) shown for the 1806 Prussian Army accurate? I am a novice, however, I always thought that Prussian uniforms were generally very dark blue, as shown in the Army of Friedrich Wilhelm II slide? |
| Oliver Schmidt | 21 Nov 2025 5:19 a.m. PST |
The plate is wrong (artistical license maybe), uniforms of the line infantry were dark blue (of course they could and would fade out). Here one contemporary example of many: link Or this, Schiavonetti 1806:
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| T Corret | 21 Nov 2025 7:16 a.m. PST |
For NCOs, a cane was hung on a lapel button. Used for "correction and encouragement." |
| Richard 1956 | 21 Nov 2025 8:28 a.m. PST |
Is there an article on 1806 Cavalry Regiments? |
| Mark J Wilson | 21 Nov 2025 9:11 a.m. PST |
@ Essling, @BillyNM I don't mean the scabbard I'm talking about what Billy describes as an axe handle and tent pegs. I wondered about tent pegs myself and funnily my wife said the brown square looked like an axe head. It did occur to me as long as I know what colours they are I can paint them regardless of what they represent, but now I know so thanks gents. |
| von Winterfeldt | 21 Nov 2025 11:03 a.m. PST |
those are tent pegs which each soldiers had to make before a campaign, on that image you also see the handle of a field ax, which was carried by a proportion of the infantry. As further guideline, look at the Perrys homepage for infantry and cavalry there are good concise articles there – and visit also Markus Steins web site with numerous contemporary illustrations for that army, about the blue in the Heer and Tradition prints – in those copies it is too light, there are other editions where the blue is darker. |
paints the Dogman from the Flintloque starter set.
