So I'm thinking of painting my Civil War Royalists as Newcastle's Whitecoats (I live in Sunderland, which is close enough to count as being 'local'). Has anyone else done this? Can anyone suggest any paintings (other than the Osprey ones) showing these soldiers?
Thanks as ever!
I've heard tell that at least one unit of the Whitecoats wore red coats. Many of them were issued with Scots bonnets, but how long these lasted before being replaced with hats and Monmouths I don't know.
Yeah, I read that somewhere about red coats. I guess I could do a few red ones to break up all that off-white
My Whitecoats are only some forty figures, in a mix of white and gray coats. A whole army in uniform sounds a bit ambitious for that period, chai mai?
Quote from: FierceKitty on 03 July 2014, 12:18:59 PM
A whole army in uniform sounds a bit ambitious for that period, chai mai?
That's true. Just wanting to break up all that brown...
I like to have my royalist units looking as if they're trying to have uniform coats but sometimes compromising (so some buff, some brown in a tawny regiment, etc.); whereas I'm much more uniform with the rebels, who had more cash as time went by. Just my three farthings' worth.
That's a great philosophy to go with regarding colours. This is my first ECW army. I'm really interested in the period, and I can't wait to make a start (I'm amassing a substantial number of figures...).
The grey/dun colouring of coats would work well as many of Newcastle's "white coats" were in fact undyed wool.
Eager to see the results of your labours.
Being from mackemland you are in the right place as most of his regiments were from Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland
Quote from: Sandinista on 03 July 2014, 05:10:16 PM
Being from mackemland you are in the right place as most of his regiments were from Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland
Quite. I've not got a white coat though. A devil to keep clean in the grim north.
Have you read David Cooke's "The Civil War in Yorkshire"? It is a good read and full of info, I'd recommend it to any one interested in the period.
Quote from: Sandinista on 03 July 2014, 11:05:18 PM
Have you read David Cooke's "The Civil War in Yorkshire"? It is a good read and full of info, I'd recommend it to any one interested in the period.
No I haven't. Thanks so much for the heads-up. Will try to secure this today.
That picture of yours makes it hard to remember your gender. BTW. I'm curious whether it'll make people more courteous towards you.
I always use that picture. Bride of Frankenstein's my second favourite film of all time. That, and I have a face for radio!
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 July 2014, 07:31:01 AM
That picture of yours makes it hard to remember your gender. BTW. I'm curious whether it'll make people more courteous towards you.
This is the internet FK, where men are men .... women are men and children are FBI agents :)
And where I'm a cat, of course.