"Here comes the the 60th foot" Topic

The 60th royal Americans from Galloping Major

Mixed with some AW miniatures

The senior officer

Hope you like them

Jeff

Nice figures and good to see a mix of manufacturers being deployed.

What rules will you be using?

Nice.

Musket and tomahawks

I just got my figures from the KS the other day. They look great!

Not sure what year these represent, but a couple of nits since the 60th is one of my favorite units:

1. Gaiters would all the same. The type and color would change based on the year. 1758 likely all black. 1759 green or blue (have to check notes at home) wool leggings.

2. Officers would have worn the same at the men or boots.

3. No lace on the officer's coats. There are at least two portraits of 60th officers (including the Colonel Commandant of all 4 battalions) and none have any lace during the F&I period.

Nice job. Enjoy your RAR guys. :-)

Thanks for these precision historygamer
My sources indicated brown canvas or black gaiters in campaign and leggins in blue or natural leather, so i've done a mix of all these.
The senior officer is a "generic" one so i can use it for different units
Thanks all for the comments! next are the 27th inniskilling and the 47th (with white facings)
Regards

High gaiters were made of linen or wool, blackballed for water proofing. Some had leather tops. Blue ones (common in 1759) were wool, and wore Indian fashion (sewn up the side to the shape of the leg) with a tie below the knee.

Apparently the 60th (or elements thereof) wore green at some point -likely as it was easier to get than blue. I believe there was a shortage of blue wool in the colonies during 1760, so perhaps then.

To my knowledge, brown was only worn during the Braddock campaign in 1755 by the 44th and 48th regiments.

The gaiters/leggings would have all been issued at the same time, and thus they would all have the same color – at least in the same regiment.

Many years ago I had a chance to see what was left of a 60th regimental colour in the National Army Museum in London. It has a very unusual arrangement of the L and the X being intertwined – in that the lower part of the L was used as one of the arms of the X. Surprisingly, they also had a mannequin of a 60th grenadier on display.