Hello TMP friends!
This might have been more appropriate to put in the painting guides sections, but here goes.
I have finally dove into the Rev. War, 28mm and have begun an extensive painting project that will involve several hundred miniatures. (no big news there!)
With the limited research I've done I've got the basics down for color schemes as far as jacket/coat colors, coat facings for British regiments matching the color of the field of their regimental flag, waistcoat and breeches, cartridge box, belts, some British regiments went to simpler cut down coats and cocked/slouch hats as opposed to the regimental coat and tricorne, etc.
Where I'm running into confusion is what happens down below the knee.
Rather than going into a long diatribe, I'll simply show one painting example. These are from the Perry Miniatures website:
Can you guys please explain to me what I'm exactly seeing here? Are these soldiers who are using their SOCKS to blouse their breeches? Or are they gaiters or some other form of leggings? That area of the model would be some form of gray or tan in color generally?
And then for the British minis. that I have, there seems to be several variations, some with what appear to be the breeches again tucked into "something", while other appear to have the breeches hanging loose and covering the tops of the shoe/boot. And others have taller boots, etc.
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Again, same question. What am I looking at here? Are these breeches with gaiters? Is that all just breeches? Are those socks that happen to match the color of the breeches?
I'm just trying to get paint schemes down that I'm confident I know what I'm looking at so I don't keep guessing and stopping as I'm going down a row of these guys!