Evilstu's Historical Tinkering

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Ecossais commenced

February 9, 2020

Have kicked off my 1745 Jacobite Rebellion project in earnest this week by getting a start made on my Royal Ecossais from Flags of War. The minis are wonderful to work on. Started with a straight white primer, then used the GW Guilleman Flesh contrast just to block out the flesh areas (I’ll revisit those later but this is a good way of bringing out the detail for later highlights). Waistcoats, collars and cuffs in VGC 72.010 Bloody Red, which possibly sounds a bit grimdark for a historical project but was the most ‘orange’ red in my collection. Might mix in a little orange for highlights later on. Also need to pick up another pot of something for the dark blue overcoats, which I understand had a slightly purple hue. Again I could mix something but not sure how I’d go repeating later if I wanted to add to the unit, so happy to wait a few days.

Also got the wash down on the AWI militia. In retrospect these guys may have benefitted from a little more buff or cream scattered about their various items of clothing, but I’ll need to do a lot more of these so the 10 shown below will likely be mixed across several units by the time they hit tabletop.