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Miniatures Adventure => Age of the Big Battalions => Topic started by: Arteis on September 08, 2020, 10:56:44 AM
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Surely the Hanoverian Freytag Jägers wore one of the most boring uniforms of the mid-18th century!
Plain green coats, with green turn-backs and cuffs, the only hint of ‘colour’ a single white strap on the left shoulder; buff breeches and gaiters; and plain hats with no trim and just a green cockade.
And just because of that, they’ll no doubt fight much better on the table-top than any of their much more gorgeously costumed comrades in my armies!
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I can't say I agree. Green is a nice colour, and it suits them fine. They were trend-setters. Ahead of their time. Everyone and their dog dresses in green these days. Back then it was the vanguard of military fashion. :)
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Austrian white...Yaaawn...
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Jacobite humblies. White shirt and an improvised weapon, in the age of Bach and Mozart!? I mean, dammitall!
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Prussian Reserve...
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Prussian Reserve...
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A novel reading of "18th century".
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Actually, the green and brown is quite fetching. I remember as a child having one of those (possibly Blandford?) tomes on Uniforms of the World and there was an illustration of a Green Mountain Boy from the AWI, whose very similar uniform seemed both sensible and appealing.
That said I have spent much of my spare time over the past few months painting figures for Vietnam and I have to say after a while 50 shades of olive green starts to stale. I keep having to find more colourful diversions to keep me going.
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I’d go for anything British. ‘Let’s have a nice red coat. Then layer an improbable number of straps, cuffs & other impedimentia, just to hide it!’.
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Actual 18th C. Prussians. Boring blue coats, teeny cuffs and fiddly lace. Lucky they were so good or they would have been a laughing stock.
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Jacobite humblies. White shirt and an improvised weapon, in the age of Bach and Mozart!? I mean, dammitall!
The old (auld) "re-enactor in a nightie and tartan car-rug" look? Not the MOST boring I would have said - indeed, can be quite entertaining on a windy day.
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I think it also depends on the size of the figures. What might look boring in larger scales may make a great impression all ranked up in smaller scales and vice versa.
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The old (auld) "re-enactor in a nightie and tartan car-rug" look? Not the MOST boring I would have said - indeed, can be quite entertaining on a windy day.
lol I'm a nudist, so a bit jaded on the subject of accidental revelations!
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Yes, but I rather suspect you are not trying to keep your clothes from flying about whilst carrying: a targe, a dirk, a broadsword, one or more throwing pistols, and possibly a polearm or musket.
(If you are, then kudos to you - that's one tough nudist colony!)
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My vote goes to Swedish artillery. They wore blue. Just blue. Not even a scrap of hat-lace to break up the monotony.
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Yes, but I rather suspect you are not trying to keep your clothes from flying about whilst carrying: a targe, a dirk, a broadsword, one or more throwing pistols, and possibly a polearm or musket.
(If you are, then kudos to you - that's one tough nudist colony!)
You have a point.
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Yes, but I rather suspect you are not trying to keep your clothes from flying about whilst carrying: a targe, a dirk, a broadsword, one or more throwing pistols, and possibly a polearm or musket.
(If you are, then kudos to you - that's one tough nudist colony!)
Yes. Well. Each to their own, Dear. :-)
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Actual 18th C. Prussians. Boring blue coats, teeny cuffs and fiddly lace. Lucky they were so good or they would have been a laughing stock.
The stock was nothing to laugh at (or in).