"What Parliamentary Regiment first?" Topic
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Flashman14 | 17 Sep 2019 8:20 a.m. PST |
I have the Royalist King's Lifeguards nearing completion and need an essential and ubiquitous Roundhead force to oppose them. |
BillyNM | 17 Sep 2019 9:48 a.m. PST |
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KeepYourPowderDry | 17 Sep 2019 10:04 a.m. PST |
Gell's. We know they wore grey coats, and we can see their standard at the National Army Museum. One of the few certainties in the uncertainty of ECw colour schemes |
Timbo W | 17 Sep 2019 10:46 a.m. PST |
Thanks for the link Billy, how about the Earl of Essex as counterpart to the Lifeguard? |
Glengarry5 | 17 Sep 2019 1:36 p.m. PST |
Brooks! C'mon, how often do you get to paint purple uniforms? |
Timmo uk | 17 Sep 2019 2:13 p.m. PST |
Paint a London Train Band – if you have separate command stands and don't put the flags in with the pike then you can change the ID as you please. There were LTB units with both Waller's and Essex's armies throughout the war, well from 1643 onwards. |
Wackmole9 | 17 Sep 2019 4:16 p.m. PST |
Go big! go classic! Heselrig's Lobsters |
Narratio | 17 Sep 2019 7:34 p.m. PST |
Agree with Timmo, one of the London Trained Bands is a solid choice. My favourite, as I've friends in the regiment, is the 'Blew Regiment'. They wandered all over the place, turning up in many battles, filled with lower class oiks. |
Shagnasty | 18 Sep 2019 11:06 a.m. PST |
Another vote for Essex. It would be the counterpoint for the Life Guard of Foote. |
Timmo uk | 18 Sep 2019 1:46 p.m. PST |
If you do Essex's do you paint them wearing Tawney coats that they might have only worn for a relatively short period early in the war or do you do them in the grey or red that they probably wore for a much longer period? If you make separate command stands you could paint a red or grey coat unit and field it as a many different regiments with a change of command group. You could also use it for either side. |
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