German IX Corps musters for Battle of the Frontiers

Having WWI commemorations in full swing has inspired me to keep at the painting table on the Mons project. Today I finished the first batch of German infantry for IX Corps. Irregular miniatures in 6mm – as per the BEF – with five figures a base (Irregular bases are 3 figures per base).

While the grey uniform certainly differentiates them on the table, I've also changed the basing colour scheme just to make that easy at a glance. I've not found the German infantry as easy to paint as the British troops.

In many of these Irregular sculpts the Pickelhaube is a little indistinct. To try and capture that very early war look, I've gone with painting the regimental number (well, a red dot!) on the Pickelhaube cover in red rather than the green that would be more appropriate for 1915, which I hope to stretch this early war range into.