More Jacobites

 

These are the last figures for my 24-man unit. These are unconverted except for the axe man with his head turned to look over his shield; as mentioned in an earlier post he now has a woman's head which happened to be just the right size!

  It was fun painting these as I made up the tartan patterns which could be just about anything for this period. The only thing I didn't do were pink, purple and metallic! I was very tempted to do a pink kilt, though, just for devilment but then maybe someone will say there were pink and purple Jacobite kilts! The most common basic colors, I have noted, are brown, blue, green and red.

  The caps were almost invariably dark blue, with the odd contrasting pompom color. I read that there were some tartan ones. The tradition goes back to the English Civil War when blue the color for the Parliament supporting Scots.

  One thing missing from these Cherilea Scots is a firearm, particularly a pistol. The Highlanders were known for their charges with edged weapons, although they might discharge firearms prior to the charge (and presumably leave the muskets for others to gather. I like to have officers with pistols so presently I am converting a cowboy into a Jacobite officer with pistol, sword and trews.

  I have also finished a conversion of a WW1 Scottish officer into a French and Indian Wars one. I finished painting it but the battery in my camera just ran out. I also painted a knockoff of Matchbox 8th Army bagpiper. They will be in the next post.

  Looking back on my picture the Reichland Flesh wash is apparent. It is a Games Workshop product and is a quick way to add relatively subtle shading to flesh, horses, hair and so on, certainly better than black wash or black shadows. However, it does make one a little lazy as the results can be slightly slapdash; I'll do a little repainting to reduce the excessive pooling of the red-brown around the noses and elsewhere.