"DMH - 7th Cavalry Painting Guide" Topic
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sotek486 | 20 Feb 2015 6:51 p.m. PST |
I just posted up a step-by-step painting guide for my 7th Cavalry gang for Dead Man's Hand: link Preview pic:
Enjoy! Jay |
Atomic Floozy | 20 Feb 2015 8:18 p.m. PST |
They look very nice. Not to be a nit picker, but I think during this period only officers & NCOs had the yellow stripes on the trousers. The enlisted man's dress uniform did have yellow piping, but not the field uniform. The neckerchief was not an official part of the uniform & could be any color the soldier wanted. |
combatpainter | 20 Feb 2015 9:30 p.m. PST |
Did the cav have the yellow piping on the field trousers? |
Atomic Floozy | 20 Feb 2015 10:19 p.m. PST |
The yellow piping was only on the dress uniform in the 1870s & 1880s. That's the dress uniform with the spiked helmet & yellow plume. There were some Civil War uniforms still being issued in the early 1870s that had yellow piping, but they wore out very quickly on the frontier. |
sotek486 | 20 Feb 2015 11:23 p.m. PST |
Given this is just for a small gang for DMH I don't mind the stripes on the trousers … for what it is worth it is actually molded into the trousers … there is only 7 of them in the gang so I though "oh well" … |
latto6plus2 | 21 Feb 2015 4:14 a.m. PST |
Don't feel bad, the Hollywood look is more real in people's minds than the historical look. I did mines pretty much the same. |
sotek486 | 21 Feb 2015 7:43 p.m. PST |
Thanks – given that Dead Man's Hand is based on "old West Hollywood movie" style skirmish I'm happy with how they came out :-) |
latto6plus2 | 22 Feb 2015 10:39 a.m. PST |
They're pretty good! I just wish someone made a Quincannon figure. |
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