How Do You Paint Plastic Toy Soldiers (part two)?

NEXT up from the Armies In Plastic Franco-Prussian War special set are these four Prussian infantrymen.

Four Prussians … as with the French zouaves, there was no flash that needed removing

I am again using Blandford's Military Uniforms Of The World In Colour as my main reference

My figures will be based on the officer of the 3rd Garde-Regiment zu Fuss (top left) from the Seven Weeks War of 1866

Again I washed the figures in soapy water, but also scrubbed them with the rough side of a scouring sponge.
Unfortunately I forgot to coat them in PVA before adding black primer, so I cannot say if the scrubbing made any difference.
In fact the result was very much the same as with the zouaves - there were small patches the primer would not cover, but these were not a problem once the top coat was added.
However, a very definite problem was that the figures' blue tunics turned bronze overnight - perhaps the result of painting them before the primer had fully dried? A second coat of blue fixed this.

The Prussians after their tunics were given a second coat of blue

One drawback of using a smartphone, and a relatively cheap one at that, for taking photos is the difficulty of getting the colours to come out clear and true.
Using the phone's flash is often not the solution as it can easily distort colours.

Details show up much better when using flash, but the blue tunics appear much brighter than they really are

You may have noticed the soldiers' pickelhaubes have no brass plate at the front. This may be because the men have been told to cover them to avoid sun flashes giving away their position (or maybe painting plates was just too intricate for me).