"Movie painting guide for my Jacobites" Topic
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John the OFM | 02 Feb 2017 9:24 a.m. PST |
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Silent Pool | 02 Feb 2017 10:55 a.m. PST |
Movie painting guide for your Jacobites is great and allows you to have very colourful tartans. Hitorically, colourful tartans came in with the Victorians. In the mid-18th century they were basic colours, predominantly the colours of local plants. Or so I'm told … |
ColCampbell | 02 Feb 2017 3:45 p.m. PST |
Boy that brings back some memories. I was one of the chorus in my college's production of Brigadoon in 1969. I also guess that "dates" me as well. Jim |
JimDuncanUK | 03 Feb 2017 6:37 a.m. PST |
If you paint your figures using this guide you can only play with them one day in every hundred years. |
Winston Smith | 03 Feb 2017 10:30 a.m. PST |
Considering the pace of my painting Highlanders… |
Roderick Robertson | 03 Feb 2017 12:11 p.m. PST |
Colors are likely to be duller and muddier (both in color tone and what's splashed on to your clothes), but you can still get lots of color in there. Local plants yield up everything from yellow to purple. Painted not long after Culloden, by a (possible) eyewitness, who certainly had access to Jacobite clothes, weapons and prisoners.
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spontoon | 04 Feb 2017 1:38 p.m. PST |
You can get some pretty bright colours with vegetable/plant dyes! |
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