"Painting Kilts" Topic

I have recently got hold of some late war highlanders and am going to attempt to paint the kilts. Can anyone offer advice on painting technique and also colours. I understand that the kilt was covered at the front by a khaki coloured piece of material. Saw some in the new 'to the last man' whose kilts looked purple from the back.

E-mail me at stuartcpmodels@btopenworld.com and I'll provide you with an idea I use.

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I did a full "How to" on painting Tartan for a Painters Workshop article in a previous issue of Fictional Reality.

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Which colours you use depends on which regiment you are going to paint. Regimental Tartans are all different.

My WW1 highlanders all wear eminently sensible khaki covers over their kilts.

the purple looking kilts would be the hodden grey of the London Scottish..the first territiorial unit to fight in WWI in an action that included the then young, later to be famous hollywood actor, Ronald Coleman, as I remember..my great uncle was a menber of this fine regiment in 1918 but lucky for him never went into action..

The London Scottish kilt was a single colour , not tartan

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This useful technique-wise. I am going to use this method when I start my Sudan Highlanders

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I'm probably typing rubbish, but I thought there was a back khaki cover as well in WW1, after experiments with just a front cover in the Boer War had shown that the colours were still too prominent when the soldier was prone. Presumably this means that there were a lot of Scots shot in the buttocks.

Thanks Gents, all of your comments greatly recieved. I will now attempt to do justice to my Highlanders!!