| HappyHiker | 20 Dec 2016 2:03 p.m. PST |
Hi, I'm about to start painting some hussars for Waterloo era. I have the perry painting guide and I'm doing the 10th hussars, but can't work out if the stripe down the gray trousers is yellow or gold, does anyone know? There's a lot of gold braid so if figure gold is likely but it looks kinda yellow in the picture. |
| bc1745 | 20 Dec 2016 2:16 p.m. PST |
This site is pretty good…..for uniforms for 1815
link
I would go for yellow for OR's and gold for Orifcers!
Bc1745 |
 deadhead  | 20 Dec 2016 3:26 p.m. PST |
agreed, as per top left figures, even for guards units, gold (or silver) was the mark of occifers or senior NCOs
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| HappyHiker | 20 Dec 2016 3:59 p.m. PST |
Ok thanks. All the braid is gold though, right ? That's not yellow too ? |
| bc1745 | 20 Dec 2016 11:41 p.m. PST |
Gold for officers, yellow for everyone else……. |
| HappyHiker | 21 Dec 2016 1:04 a.m. PST |
Oh dear…. maybe I have a company entirely of officers then…😩😩 The perry art makes them look gold… and I've done a bunch gold…oh well |
| deadhead | 21 Dec 2016 4:01 a.m. PST |
Even Imperial Guard did not go to that expense for lowly guardsmen…aurore for most lace, but gold for officers! you have a wealthy colonel……….. Not sure I would worry too much, if they fight as well as they look |
| HappyHiker | 21 Dec 2016 4:32 a.m. PST |
yeah they look good gold, so I'm sticking with that. Plus heres my new source
which suits my purposes so I'm sticking with it. Looks gold to me and was a uniform actually worn at waterloo (though not 10th Hussars) |
| bc1745 | 21 Dec 2016 8:34 a.m. PST |
brown busby…..so 7th Hussars but it's an officers uniform…. |
| HappyHiker | 21 Dec 2016 10:33 a.m. PST |
maybe, the web page says Hussar uniform worn by Private Robert Smith at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 From the Colchester and Ipswich Museums. I figure I have a yellow-ie gold so it looks good anyway. I suspect there is a whole other topic on Aesthetics over History and how far you can take it. It does mean I have made the Trouser stripe and sash the same gold, rather than try to do some yellow and some gold which is what I as thinking before. I've looked a various images on the internet and some people have painted yellow, some gold, which is what prompted the question, but I wasn't thinking the braid should be yellow too. There's a lot to this historic stuff, more than I expected! |
| wrgmr1 | 21 Dec 2016 4:27 p.m. PST |
The ones I painted, OR yellow painted with bright yellow from Liqutex. Officers Gold. Sorry no pics I did them for one of our group. |
| Swampster | 23 Dec 2016 4:21 a.m. PST |
I don't know if the fur could have faded, but I think the braid is faded yellow rather than gold. It doesn't seem to have the lustre of gold braid. |
returns to Flintloque to paint an Ogre.
