grenzer in early modern period

[burnaby64]

There's some help here on 18th/19th century grenzer but I now have some late renaissance chaps to paint. I have the impression that they were far from uniformed troops, the empire's bashi bazouks possibly, but would welcome any suggestions as to how they should be painted.

[Leman]

I've seen some illustrations of Grenzers from the 1740s (WAS) and they were definitely not in uniform at that stage, unlike the SYW. The preferred colours seemed to be very bright.

[burnaby64]

Thanks for that tip. I've found one photo on the web of miniatures where grenzer are taking on janissaries and, yes, they are a mix of bright colours and look like brigands with cloaks etc.

[Hertsblue]

The grenzers were always known as "red cloaks" in the later Austrian army, so I would suggest that that was the predominant colour from fairly early on.

[burnaby64]

Thanks for that one, too. Certainly the figs in the online photo are in red hats too.

[Chad]

See if this link helps.

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=120436

Chad

[burnaby64]

Thanks, Chad! They are really very banditti-like and they do have red cloaks and I can see that splashing colour about {at 6mm] should do the job. Thanks for your help, everyone.