"Painting Tartan the Royalist Way" Topic
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| Tango01 | 01 Dec 2025 4:14 p.m. PST |
"The Royalist Army at Auldearn included large numbers of highlanders and one of the most striking ways to show highland origins for a unit is to cover it in tartan. It is also the quickest route to insanity (or a new hobby) for the wargamer painting multiple large units. Reproducing tartan on a 28mm model is not that easy, and if we are honest the model is probably too small to see the details of any but the most bold tartan anyway…"
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| BillyNM | 01 Dec 2025 9:52 p.m. PST |
Did they really wear that much tartan? |
 Wolfshanza  | 01 Dec 2025 10:24 p.m. PST |
Beautiful work  And then, there's Samurai :/ |
 John the OFM | 02 Dec 2025 3:58 a.m. PST |
I try my best, but the "dicing on the hose" always gets me. Great job there! |
| Stoppage | 02 Dec 2025 4:39 a.m. PST |
samples of whatever they had in the attic Piecework Mag – Sir Walter Scott – Tartan Craze To learn of this is a little disappointing – I've got two colourways of Grandma's purported clan tartan – one I got in Edinburgh, the hunting version took me ages to locate (Hebden Bridge). Both woven in the vicinity of Huddersfield. |
| KeepYourPowderDry | 02 Dec 2025 7:34 a.m. PST |
BillyNM – no. Brightly checked cloth was the preserve of the very rich. Tartan as we know, and think of it now, didn't really exist.
Yes there were regional variations, but not clan specific (that comes a bit later) – plant dyes from local plants; a weaver might run a particular colour yarn trough a batch of cloth, but then the next batch might have been completely different. Expect the majority of your Scots to be in plain cloth (yes hodden grey is going to be dominant). Maybe a thin coloured stripe to give it some bling. If you want a fuller answer see link (and yes it is referenced to historical documents) Of course that hasn't stopped me from attempting some checked patterns on my 15mm highlanders. |
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