"15mm British 23 and 71 regiment" Topic
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alexkalinin | 21 Sep 2018 2:28 a.m. PST |
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deadhead | 21 Sep 2018 6:00 a.m. PST |
71st, one of my favourite units, even if the cap is a challenge to do. You have made a great job of it. Buff belts too. Well researched. Fusileers, like many British regiments, were a law unto themselves in uniform detail. Most regts had wings only for flank companies (grenadier and light) but in Fusileers even centre cos had red wings with white lacing (I think!). Minor issue however. #Will they get flags? |
Garde de Paris | 21 Sep 2018 9:56 a.m. PST |
It may be popcorn time again! Someone will surely add that all men of the fusiliers had white hackles, not white over red. 23rd Royal Welch has been quoted as so in the past, even for the light company. Speak up, ye men of Harlech! GdeP |
alexkalinin | 21 Sep 2018 10:45 a.m. PST |
Thank you for appreciating my work, @deadhead! Many thanks for your comments and clarifications, @Garde de Paris. I always use them in my future work. My friends, could you recommend good sites with information on uniforms? |
deadhead | 21 Sep 2018 11:30 a.m. PST |
White hackles…I missed that. He is right…..of course he is. God help anyone trying to understand British army uniformology. |
Garde de Paris | 22 Sep 2018 5:46 a.m. PST |
My 23rd's light company will have green hackles, but a note under each stand will record this "imaginations error" for those who may inherit my troops in the future. They will be part of my "Royal Brigade" with the 1st Royal Scots (30mm Stadden British Waterloo line); 7th Royal Fusilier, City of London Regiment (Staddens converted for full-dress duty in London with bearskins, white breeches, black gaiters, light company with stovepipe shako); and 23rd Royal Welch (Victrix in Spain, stovepipes, wings for all). I enjoy making up my own uniforms when I want to do a unit, but know nothing unique about it. For example, one of the Divisions in the II corps in Spain had the 2eme leger; 4eme leger; 15eme de ligne; and the 36eme de ligne. I had – as all "newbies" to the ere – back in the 1960's – converted Stadden Old Guard Grenadiers to French line, and painted the 33eme de ligne in white uniforms faced "violette." This regiment never served in Spain, but I used it as the 36eme. The along came Victrix plastic French in bicorns, so I painted a unit with 8 or 9 companies as for Austerlitz. The unit was also to have had a white uniform faced violette, and I have no information about the drummers, so I painted one with a buff coat, violette facings edged aurora – totally mythical! I know nothing about the 4eme leger, so that brigade sized "division" is now the 2eme leger; 15eme de ligne (white faced black); 33rd (bis) de ligne (white faced violette); and 36eme de ligne Victrix in bicorns. Sometimes I just like to wander away from absolute fact
GdeP |
alexkalinin | 22 Sep 2018 6:01 a.m. PST |
I do exactly the same thing when I do not have information. But it's always dangerous to spread here. THEY are watching us! :) |
deadhead | 22 Sep 2018 9:26 a.m. PST |
Design your own uniforms? What an interesting thought, with so many plastic figures now available, just ready for conversion. Now that could be great fun……… I think someone did that in reality for Louis XVIII, in time for his first Restoration. Wonderful uniforms resulted, on terrible Household troops. |
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