"Portuguese Backpacks" Topic
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| Bernhard Rauch | 05 May 2013 9:34 a.m. PST |
Does anyone have information about the color of Portuguese line infantry backpacks during the Peninsular War? |
 Extra Crispy  | 05 May 2013 11:46 a.m. PST |
Google is your friend: link |
| Garde de Paris | 05 May 2013 4:16 p.m. PST |
Front Rank and others who do Portuguese in the early Barretina shako seem to have the "typical" European cowhide backpack, and varied brown colors would probably work. Figures in stovepipe usually show the British squared pack (made of canvas?), and black is probably safe. I would love to hear they adopted a British system of painting – and waterproofing the cloth material – the outide in some other colors, as sky blue for the 11th or red yellow or white for the (Portuguese) "division" color. GdeP |
| Bernhard Rauch | 05 May 2013 5:34 p.m. PST |
I am painting AB with the stovepipe shako. The miniatures seem to depict a backpack which shows straps on the sides which indicative of cloth material. |
 Mserafin  | 06 May 2013 9:44 a.m. PST |
I just finished 120 of the Victrix Portuguese, and I painted them brown. I got this idea from a Portuguese re-enactment site (which I can no longer find). Their take seemed to be that the Portuguese got British backpacks and canteens, but did not paint them like the British did. I certainly hope that's right, 'cause I'm not going to back and re-paint them now. |
| AICUSV | 06 May 2013 9:52 a.m. PST |
I did mine black, assuming they were oil cloth that was made with lamp black. |
| summerfield | 07 May 2013 4:50 a.m. PST |
Most of the backpacks were supplied by Britain and were the "Trotter" type. So would be black.
Stephen |
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has a tip to help with your paint storage (and recognition).
