Eureka Miniatures Highlanders FIW uniforms: a question

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Hi

I am going to paint Eureka Miniatures French-Indian War Highlanders, but I am a bit perplexed by the uniforms as sculpted in the figures. Particularly, the coats. All the images I've found, both in my books and in the Internet, show the coats with cuffs and lapels, in regimental colours. However, Eureka minis have neither cuffs nor lapels sculpted. I was hoping that somebody could confirm if any Highlander regiment that fought in America used simpler coats, without regimentals.

Thanks in advance for any information!

[Nic]

Funny, I was just selling some of these in the shop 10 minutes ago.
It is fifteen years or so since we made them, but information was supplied from a chap in the US and made to his requirements. I recall the hatchet being one of the unusual features. Possibly jackets were kept as plain as possible when operating in the dense woodland of North America. Apologies I don't know the official answer.
Nic EUREKA MINIATURES

[Terry37]

Can't say for certain, but it sounds like they are wearing their waistcoat only, which would not be unheard of.

Terry

[Antonio J Carrasco]

Funny, I was just selling some of these in the shop 10 minutes ago.
It is fifteen years or so since we made them, but information was supplied from a chap in the US and made to his requirements. I recall the hatchet being one of the unusual features. Possibly jackets were kept as plain as possible when operating in the dense woodland of North America. Apologies I don't know the official answer.
Nic EUREKA MINIATURES

Yeah, I remember when you had them in the 100 Club, because I thought that I could have used them for SYW in Europe if not for the tomahawks and the leggings. What I didn't realize was that also the coat was unsual. As Terry37 says, at first I thought that they were represented in waistcoats, but the sculpt shows a jacket.

My guess is that the guy that commissioned the figures had information about the unit he wanted to represent wearing simpler coats, without tails nor cuffs, for operations in North America. It does make sense, particularly after the experience in the Monongahela. What irks me, and I know that it is absurd to obsess about such tiny detail, is that I have been unable to confirm my guess.

Anyway, thanks for your answer, Nic.

[carlos marighela]

Could be either as waistcoats were sleeved items during the period in question. Either way paint ‘em red.

[Aaron]

Yes, they are meant to be sleeved waistcoats.

[Antonio J Carrasco]

I think I've found the source of inspiration:

https://randy-steele.pixels.com/featured/faces-of-the-french-and-indian-war-royal-highlander-portrait-randy-steele.html

https://randy-steele.pixels.com/featured/battle-at-bushy-run-randy-steele.html

https://randy-steele.pixels.com/featured/highlander-moment-in-time-randy-steele.html

There are more... Anyway, thanks for the answers!

[olicana]

I have a Robert Griffing print called 'one mile to Bushy Run Station' on my wall. It also shows them in sleeved red waistcoats.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

It also shows them in sleeved red waistcoats.

That was my first thought, as the attaching of sleeves to the red waistcoat (common to all companies in the mid-18thC, but exclusive to the light company post-1768 Warrant) was a means of producing a single-breasted jacket.  Hence the "roundabout" jacket of the AWI.  However, this usually resulted in facing-coloured cuffs being present, so not sure where that leaves us - unless in this case the sleeves were specially made from uniform off-cuts?