The most boring uniform of the 18th century?

[Arteis]

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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[Plynkes]

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.

[juergen c. olk]

Austrian white...Yaaawn...

[FierceKitty]

Jacobite humblies. White shirt and an improvised weapon, in the age of Bach and Mozart!? I mean, dammitall!

[tom_aargau]

Prussian Reserve...

[FierceKitty]

Prussian Reserve...

A novel reading of "18th century".

[carlos marighela]

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.

[Moriarty]

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!’.

[AdamPHayes]

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.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

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.

[Battle Brush Sigur]

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.

[FierceKitty]

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.

    I'm a nudist, so a bit jaded on the subject of accidental revelations!

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

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!)

[Jemima Fawr]

My vote goes to Swedish artillery.  They wore blue.  Just blue.  Not even a scrap of hat-lace to break up the monotony.

[FierceKitty]

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.