| The Shadow | 13 Jul 2009 12:00 p.m. PST |
Can anyone supply color plates for these figures? link link link |
bigdennis  | 13 Jul 2009 12:02 p.m. PST |
Check out John Jenkins sites. |
| The Shadow | 13 Jul 2009 12:08 p.m. PST |
>Check out John Jenkins sites.< Can you please provide a link? Thanks. |
| pavelft | 13 Jul 2009 12:17 p.m. PST |
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| The Shadow | 13 Jul 2009 1:26 p.m. PST |
The name John Jenkins sounded familiar to me and now I recognize his figures as I've seen them on EBay. They're very nice, and his Rogers Rangers will be a great help with painting Conquest's Rangers, but his French are all dressed for winter while most of Conquest's "Compangies Franches de la Marine" are in summer campaign dress. Many of Conquest's appear to be wearing a mixture of buckskin moccasins and leggings and linen shirts, or something similar that I can't positively identify or guess the color of. |
| the Gorb | 13 Jul 2009 6:58 p.m. PST |
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| Ashokmarine | 13 Jul 2009 7:27 p.m. PST |
This maybe of help as well link |
| The Shadow | 13 Jul 2009 9:17 p.m. PST |
Gorb and Ashokmarine That's a great illustration of the Marine in the stocking cap, knapsack, and blue coat. If I could find another like that in a linen shirt I'd be a happy camper. (-: Thanks. |
 Der Alte Fritz | 13 Jul 2009 10:11 p.m. PST |
Get a copy of the Robert Griffing book on the Eastern Woodlands Indians. It has everything that you need. |
| andygamer | 14 Jul 2009 4:00 a.m. PST |
There's this plate as well from Gorb's link:
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| Ashokmarine | 14 Jul 2009 4:39 a.m. PST |
They went pretty "Native" so anything goes really |
| The Shadow | 14 Jul 2009 6:00 a.m. PST |
"They went pretty "Native" so anything goes really" Everything that I've read supports that theory, but the Conquest uniforms look pretty…well…uniform. (-: |
| A Twiningham | 14 Jul 2009 6:16 a.m. PST |
The Osprey Campaign on Braddock's Biffo has some good inspiration for the French marine troops. |
| dondi63 | 24 Sep 2009 10:26 p.m. PST |
Check out Ospreys Monogahela 1754-55 Campaign 140 and Montcalm's Army Men-at-Arms 23. When in the field the marines would not wear the Justacorps. ( That is the grey white infantry coat with blue cuffs) They would have on their blue breeches and the long sleeve blue waistcoat. Or even go native wearing a breechclout and leggings with a long shirt. Head gear would be the tricorne with gold tape on the edges or the fatigue cap, which was blue with and white, or all blue or the Tuque, stocking cap, like the French Milita. I have some of the Conquest figures and they are dressed for winter. Most wear the Canadian blanket coat with a hood. This could be almost any color. The rangers uniform varied. I suggest getting a hold of Burt Loescher's books on the rangers put out by Heritage Books (www.HeritageBooks.com) and a copy of the annotated and illustrated Journas of Major Robert Rogers published by Purple Mountain Press (www.catskill.net/purple) It has a good chapter on ranger dress. |
| dondi63 | 24 Sep 2009 10:27 p.m. PST |
That was Journals of Major Robert Rogers. My fingers went walking. |
| marco56 | 31 Dec 2012 3:59 p.m. PST |
The French troops,especially in the west wore irregular clothes as they only got uniforms every couple of years so they saved their uniforms for formal occasions.
Mark |
