Hi Matthew,

It is not my intention to "rain on your parade" here, but I thought it might be useful if I pointed out that this particular figure set would be most unlikely to be suitable for representing Prinz Eugen gebirgsjager. The windproof gear that they are wearing does not seem to have made it into the use of Waffen-SS mountain troops; at least not this unit. A better set to work with might be 6037 handschar Division (replacing the heads with more suitable ones).

On the other hand, you might use the set you have just as designed, for mountain operations in Italy. Italian armor was used locally by some German units.

FWIW,
Ron Volstad

Matthew,
I think Dragon do a couple of sets that actually include members of Prinz Eugen. One is "Fragile Alliance" that has an SS man in camo smock, the other is called "Partisan Assault" or something similar which has an SS machine gun team in it. To answer your original question, at least some Prinz Eugen tank crews wore the Black Panzer uniform complete with Odal rune on the right collar and normal SS ranking on left. (Source : Bender/Taylor Volume 3, picture p6-7.) The vehicles used by Prinz Eugen were ex-French, they seem to have had some Somuas and a few Char B1 bis in a Panzerabteilung. I would anticipate the actual strength of this tank unit would fluctuate somewhat due to the spares situation. Much of the division's equipment was captured or otherwise foreign, as it was considered a "second string" unit.