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...
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/cock2.jpg)
But this also came up, which is a fez cockade from the Congo...
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/xg267JL.jpg)
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:
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/German_East_Africa_Straw_Hat_1151.jpg)
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.
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