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Offline HerbyF

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Re: Galloping major provincials
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2012, 07:19:28 AM »
I do believe that browns & greens were a lot more common than blue for provincials. Red was even used more than blue. Blue really came into fashion with the continentals during the revolution. Even then many of the state and millitias wore browns & greens. Hunting shirts were popular.
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Offline H.M.Stanley

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Re: Galloping major provincials
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2012, 08:25:04 AM »
I do believe that browns & greens were a lot more common than blue for provincials. Red was even used more than blue. Blue really came into fashion with the continentals during the revolution. Even then many of the state and millitias wore browns & greens. Hunting shirts were popular.

Excellent! I didn't want to do green coats as i have the Rangers. Brown is looking in pole position

ETA on the new figs Lance?  :)
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Re: Galloping major provincials
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2012, 08:55:51 AM »
Excellent! I didn't want to do green coats as i have the Rangers. Brown is looking in pole position

ETA on the new figs Lance?  :)

Still a bit vague  ::) (that's why they're still available to pre-order  ;) the deals will change when the pre-orders are ready).

Beware the hunting shirt, I may do some militia in them later, but it will be the hunting shirt of the period, not the later fringed item often depicted for the AWI although frequently questioned recently even for that period.  :-I

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Re: Galloping major provincials
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2012, 10:52:44 AM »
Nice painting!

Nice miniatures as well  :D

A book which was recommended to me and that I have found useful is 'REDCOATS, YANKEES AND ALLIES - A History of the Uniforms, Clothing, and Gear of the British Army in the Lake George  - Lake Champlain Corridor 1755 - 1760' by Brenton C Kremmer and illustrated by Joe Lee.

http://heritagebooks.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=HBI&Product_Code=101-K0905&Category_Code=

The illustrations are plain line drawings, not colour plates like those by Osprey, but the information provided is very informative.

All the best,

Barry
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Re: Galloping major provincials
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2012, 03:48:09 PM »
Nice painting!

Nice miniatures as well  :D

A book which was recommended to me and that I have found useful is 'REDCOATS, YANKEES AND ALLIES - A History of the Uniforms, Clothing, and Gear of the British Army in the Lake George  - Lake Champlain Corridor 1755 - 1760' by Brenton C Kremmer and illustrated by Joe Lee.


The illustrations are plain line drawings, not colour plates like those by Osprey, but the information provided is very informative.

All the best,

Barry


I'll second Barry there, a very useful book to have  8)


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