Belgian Cockades

[Plynkes]

Currently painting a Belgian officer for East Africa and as I'll soon be getting to his hat I realise I don't know which way the colours went on the Belgian cockade.

A quick web search comes up with this...



But this also came up, which is a fez cockade from the Congo...


As you can see, the colours are reversed. They both seem to be genuine. Is there no "right" way to do the colours on a Belgian cockade? The first style certainly seems more common (Edit: the Osprey book has them done this way - only just remembered to look in there - idiot!). Could any of our Belgian LAFers help enlighten me?





Nothing to do with the above, but while web searching for cockades I found this rather wonderful hat:



A Schutztruppe straw boater! Gotta do a conversion to give one of my guys one of these. It just looks so inappropriate. Like you're going to a garden party rather than to fight in a bush war.  

[pyrrhicvictory]

If its any help I once saw a colourised photograph of a Belgian officer and the cockade locked like the first one.  Unfortunately I cannot remember where I saw this photo, but it is out there somewhere in 'the depths of internet'.   If I ever do see it again I shall post it.  I would love to see this Belgian chap once his painted...

[Johan]

It doesn't matter as long as yellow is the middle colour between the black and the red.
In the beginning our flag was also in so many different forms with yellow/red and black in different orders horizontal or vertical until they fixed that to what it is now. Cockardes weren't regulated until very late.

[Plynkes]

Thanks very much, Johan. Just what I needed. 


Cheers, Pyrrhic. Yes, no doubt I'll get around to posting him here at some point. Gotta paint his men first I think, though and then I'll post them all together.