painting train wreck disaster-athon...

[clibinarium]

It sounds to me like all you need to do is repaint the facings orange or tawny, which ought to be straighforward over yellow, or indeed yellow might be close enough anyway given the inconsistency of dyes.

[Alan]

I think I am just going to plough on and leave them. There is enough Irish Jacobite units that we don't know what they wore to carry me through.

[lentulus]

...plough on and leave them...

Good plan!  Go forward, not back.

[SV52]

The key here is the word 'supposedly'.  Until somebody shows you irrefutable contemporary proof that you are wrong, then you are RIGHT!