Just an observation

[Count Belisarius]

I'm never painting my figures to look like that. It can look great on the table if done well. Shitty if not. And mine are toy soldiers so will be as I want them...

[Spanner]

Wargaming ACW troops often look like tattybogles. I wonder if this is because the fairly widespread use of cameras captured how shabby they looked in the field?

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Good point, mate. For perhaps the first time there were "candid" photos of troops on campaign, not the stylised portraits of the previous years.

As regards SYW "campaign dress" type this into your search engine:-

Prussian infantry advancing to meet the Russian Army before the Battle of Zorndorf 25th August 1758 in the Seven Years War picture by Carl Röchling.

That's a great painting, mate. Röchling produced a lot of paintings full of energy and feel, like the one of the storming of the church at Leuthen. After the long approach march, lifting a siege and then another march to get behind the Russians, I'm a little surprised that he didn't choose to show the uniforms in even worse condition. His one of Freddie after Hochkirk is similar. I wonder if he had a chance to view troops on campaign, possibly in the Franco-Prussian or Austro-Prussian Wars? He seems to get the feel right.