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I've got a set of grenadiers from open fire lying around, would they be ok for a mid-war easter front force. id obviously swap out the panzerfaust for knackers

I'll be honest my grenadiers have fought in almost every campaign, MW, and LW

Yep. Can't go wrong with them. You could even paint them up as Hungarians.

That actually sounds really cool painting them up as hungarians!, would it work though?

Also guys just wondering if there are any other type of colours that were used for the the uniform?

ive seen some illistrations of auxillary forces that had different colour uniforms

Im just sort of tired of fieldgray

RAD units had a khaki uniform, but really only fought for a short period in the east when encircled.

Troops in Italy often wore a mix of tropical and normal clothing so you could mix field grey with desert stuff.

You could also have troops in the green reed denim summer clothing.

Some SS units had clothing produced from a material coloured in a more stone or 'mouse' grey as they termed it.

Very late war tunics, those based on British BD designs came in several different colours, one being an almost dark chocolate brown.


As for doing them as Hungarians, its up to you how many differences you would be willing to over look. For me there are too many, but YMMV.