Crazy Feldgendarme wrote:
As Dave says makes a difference in the leather colour, also it makes a difference in the piping colour on the Tunic and shoulder boards as well as the colour of the Police sleeve eagle.
Credit to you for looking at this but i have to say you will struggle to get the uniform togeather i have spent 6 years trying to complete my Rural Gendarme set up and still cant find a few bits (brown riding boots for instance). the leather work for Rural police is Brown and piping is Orange, i know thats not what you are after but in the main you will have to buy genuine stuff since whilst there is some about it is little and far between for this reason you will unless very lucky pay a premium price, for instance a reasonable wartime Shako for the Rural Politzei cost me over £600 about 5 years ago and depending on head size you may struggle to get one to fit.
Repro Shako,s i have only ever known one who made a coulpe but the prices were over £1000 and he doesnt make them any more.
I would suggest before going into this you do a fair bit of research and decide what branch you want to do and go from there, remember the colour of the Police uniforms is totally different to a Heere or SS one in that it is what is known as Police or Toxic green (very similar to the post war police uniform colour.
Dave you posted a graph of the various Police leather and piping colours plus ranks and rank epaulettes a long time back maybe you could place it here please.
Cheers now
Dave
Thanks
Yes after doing a bit more research, i think ill put this impression on hold, will think of another one. May do Feldjaerkorp, a little bit less expensive.