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Bavarian infantryman - 1870-1871 summer outfit

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Copyright Eagles of Empire.

A little sample of what I'm doing within this miniatures project. Here's a Bavarian infantryman of the 4th regiment's summer uniform (distinctive yellow cuffs and collar). Everything is pretty accurate: the only mistake I noticed (too late, but maybe I'll fix it) is that the buttons of the Waffenrock are supposed to be silver for the 4th, 5th and 6th regiments, not golden like most other regiments.
The helmet (boiled leather) is the famous Raupenhelm who's characterizing the bavarian army since the Napoleonic era. The pattern represented is the older one M1861 (two patterns were used during the war, the M1861 and the M1868).
The rifle represented is once again the old Podewils, a muzzle loader pattern (Lindner) converted into a breech loader (hence the funny breech position in the back) just before the war, but it still uses the old percussion system. Still a very bad rifle for its time, below the 300m effectiveness range (and in reality was below), it started being replaced by the top-notch Werder patterns (production started in 1869) during the war but only a couple regiments were fully equiped with Werder rifles when the conflict ended.
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