What's on your workbench?

[grizzlymc]

You must have got one of that mis labelled Cameron of Erracht batch.

ET, the scale depends on how quickly you swipe the brush, 1.25 seconds each side whether 54mm or OTS.

[Etranger]

Ahh, I'd better adjust my nozzle before it spurts too much.

[levied troop]

Just make sure you’re wearing PPE ET.

That Hannoverian looks good, an intriguing approach. Thanks for sharing that, I might experiment with a batch.

[Buff Orpington]

I once ordered tartan Velcro just because it was on the list of MOD supplied colours. It never arrived, probably restricted to Highland regiments.

[grizzlymc]

Ahh, I'd better adjust my nozzle before it spurts too much.

Not a problem I have had for a decade or two.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

You must have got one of that mis labelled Cameron of Error batch.

FTFY.

On thinking about it more, didn't the 42nd's grenadier company have a red overstripe?

[Shahbahraz]

Just make sure you’re wearing PPE ET.

That Hannoverian looks good, an intriguing approach. Thanks for sharing that, I might experiment with a batch.

I have to say, for my purposes, I'm very happy with how the sample has turned out. Now on with the rest. One of the things that has surprised me is just how few online uniform resources there are, and how much variation in lace etc there is.

So I have flags for 2nd Battalion Royal Scots and Howards 3rd (Buffs) - and the 1742 illustrations from the 'Cloathing' book. The Dragoons will be 10th (Cobham's). Picking the Buffs as one of the regiments means I have the first two lines of the Government right at Culloden, and the Buffs have white belts, so make a nice contrast.

[FreddBloggs]

I thought ghe buffs have buff belts as well as facings, or does this come later?

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

The Buffs always had buff facings, although they were originally described as "flesh-coloured" in the late 17th Century (of course, "flesh" was probably a very different colour back then, given the relative health of the nation!). White belts would have been very unusual for the British - or most any other - army in the 1740s.

[Shahbahraz]

Well, the illustration from the Cloathing book 1742 seems to show white belts, where other regiments show buff,



and here's the 2/1 Royal Scots



I would say the Buffs show white equipment and black cartridge box, the Royal Scots, buff equipment and cartridge box. In relation the facing colour, I am thinking of using Vallejo Medium Fleshtone. 70.860 as the base.