| Garde de Paris | 23 Mar 2013 10:17 a.m. PST |
I have about 40 old Willies highlanders, 20 of which have been painted as the 79th Camerons. I intend to expand them to 40 with two colour officers, a drummer, a piper and two sergeants. The Perrys make some marvelous-looking Napoleonic highlanders, and they are tempting me to do a second scot battalion – the 42nd as at Corunna – among my eventual 15 units. Does anyone have pictures of these highlanders painted? GdeP |
| Joe Fish | 23 Mar 2013 10:49 a.m. PST |
I am not a great painter as compared to many, but I do have a unit of the Black Watch, here is the link on my blog. It's always fun to do tartans..terror, but fun. link |
| Midpoint | 23 Mar 2013 1:45 p.m. PST |
Not a great painter either, but
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| huevans011 | 23 Mar 2013 2:13 p.m. PST |
Not the Black Watch tartan. Lest any other readers assume so. |
| Garde de Paris | 23 Mar 2013 2:33 p.m. PST |
Hello, Joe Fish: I can't get into the site to see your figures. I seem to have to establish an account, but have no way to post pictures – no adequate camera. Midpoint: They look good, no matter the tartan, but not the Perrys I meant. I just dug into their site again, and find painted flank company of the metal figures I referred to. I hope I can post this correctly: link GdeP |
| Garde de Paris | 23 Mar 2013 2:41 p.m. PST |
I notice they have a brim on the front of their bonnet, under the dicing. Was this correct for the three regiments – 42nd; 79th; and 92nd – throughout the Peninsular War and Waterloo? GdeP |
| Camcleod | 23 Mar 2013 6:13 p.m. PST |
GdeP According to an article by the Fostens and Haythornthwaite in Military Illustrated #25 on the British Regts. at Waterloo:
The 42nd had the detachable peaks.(but a plate by Jones of the unit at QB shows No peak ??).
The 79th had the detachable peaks.
For the 92nd peaks were expressly forbidden by regtl. orders but a contemporary print by Finart shows a soldier with a peak ?? Cliff |
| trailape | 23 Mar 2013 10:08 p.m. PST |
Follow the link to some photos of the Black Watch as painted for me by my good friend Gunner Dunbar:
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Not Perry miniatures however,… Victrix. |
 deadhead  | 24 Mar 2013 1:19 p.m. PST |
Funny enough…tartans are more complex than that. There was a time when Black Watch did have a red stripe in the tartan, but well before our era of interest! White hackle would be odd though for 42nd. |
| Garde de Paris | 25 Mar 2013 8:40 a.m. PST |
I seem to recall that the 42nd Grenadiers had a red line in their tartans during the Napoleonic Wars. GdeP |
| spontoon | 25 Mar 2013 10:50 a.m. PST |
@midpoint: What's that huge, great, white stripe on their bonnets? |
| deadhead | 25 Mar 2013 12:14 p.m. PST |
I wondered that, but thought they might not be Napoleonic, but later……….Still think the red hackle is a very important identifier for Black Watch of any era. |
returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
