Thunderchicken
I then hid behind the 'hey, it's VSF' excuse.
Yes, the question was relating to my England Invaded figures and I decided to use the same excuse as you in the end.
The officer was easy - nice silver epaulettes with a white cord on the left shoulder - I tried brass/gold but the figure looked like he was wearing more bling than a Persian officer in the film 300!
For NCOs I found uniform details of German troops in Africa circa 1900, in which they are wearing silver rank chevrons. I will go with this design.
Th varnish on my first Prussian unit is drying as I type this, so I will hopefully get to post a photo tomorrow.