"Painting Fraser's Highlanders" Topic

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smacdowall	20 Feb 2025 9:50 a.m. PST
link It has been a while since I have painted tartan and so it is with some trepidation that I have started on a small unit of Fraser's Highlanders (78th Foot) circa 1759. The step by step process is described (with pics) on my blog. link
John the OFM	20 Feb 2025 10:33 a.m. PST
Nice job. But you can go nuts "researching" Fraser's. The Company of Military Historians shows them in a brown-ish tartan, something like this. link That's how I painted mine many years ago. But… Seeing the above photo, it might have been a take on the red. 🤷 I think you were ultimately correct to settle in the Government sett. And you did it well.
0ldYeller	20 Feb 2025 1:07 p.m. PST
Maybe I missed it – but what figures are you using?
JimDuncanUK	20 Feb 2025 1:58 p.m. PST
Here's how I do tartan. link
DOUGKL	20 Feb 2025 4:11 p.m. PST
Nice work.
Extrabio1947	20 Feb 2025 5:02 p.m. PST
I've always used artists watercolors for thin striping on tartans. Because of their dense pigmentation, you can thin them down to the point where you can lay down a hair-thin line without losing opacity. BTW, the dense pigmentation is why artists watercolors cost more than other water-based paints.
smacdowall	21 Feb 2025 7:53 a.m. PST
I forgot to mention the figures are 25mm RAFM Cheers, Simon
0ldYeller	21 Feb 2025 12:16 p.m. PST
LOL – knew I recognized those figures. RAFM make a great FIW/SYW line – true 25mm.
piper909	23 Feb 2025 10:50 p.m. PST
Excellent work! I recognized those vintage RAFMs. I have several among my Jacobite rebellion units, on both sides. I lost some to lead rot, tho, so keep an eye open but if you got a bad batch, they'd have probably already shown the signs by now. Tartan is a challenge but also a skill. The process you've hit upon is very much like what I do.
spontoon	01 Apr 2025 2:33 p.m. PST
Nice figs! The RAFM Highlanders are good figures. I've got about 7 battalions of them!
Baranovich	14 Apr 2025 7:10 p.m. PST
Those look great!!