"Getting Fiction Right" Topic
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robert piepenbrink | 03 Sep 2018 3:54 p.m. PST |
Question, Gentlemen: If you wanted to paint up fictional British regiments, for which can you provide facing colors and, for highlanders, kilt setts? (Yes, of course pre-khaki.) The Royal Mallows (Arthur Conan Doyle) of course dark blue. The Mavericks (Kipling) yellow, possibly light yellow. The Black Boneen (or Black Tyrone?) black or possibly dark green? But what about the West Yorkshire Fusiliers? Or the Lennox Highlanders? And what about cavalry? Guys, never let a fussy old kraut contemplate historical fiction too long. |
willthepiper | 03 Sep 2018 4:11 p.m. PST |
Tunes of Glory (1960 film with Alec Guinness) featured an unnamed but presumably fictitious highland regiment. You'd need to watch the film closely to get the tartan etc for the regiment (in actuality it was filmed at Stirling Castle, when it was still the Regimental Headquarters of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders).
There is a series of novels by CS Skelton about a fictitious highland regiment called The MacLarens (148th Regt of Foot). And Wikipedia has this list of fictional British regiments: link |
willthepiper | 03 Sep 2018 4:14 p.m. PST |
And don't forget the South Essex (Prince of Wales' Own Volunteers) – they appear to have yellow facings
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Frederick | 03 Sep 2018 4:23 p.m. PST |
The Black Boneen (or Black Tyrone?) – Very, very dark green But what about the West Yorkshire Fusiliers? Yellow Or the Lennox Highlanders? I like Clan MacPherson And what about cavalry? Blue jackets with yellow facings for the light cavalry; for dragoons red jackets with blue facings (Royal regiments) or white facings |
Vigilant | 04 Sep 2018 2:58 a.m. PST |
I'd go white for West Yorkshire Fusiliers for the white rose of Yorkshire. |
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