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RMD wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:07 pm Lovely stuff! And yes, I was wondering the same thing as the Baron. I've always been tempted by the '45 and doubly so, now that I've painted a SYW British army, but have no idea if there was any sort of clan 'theme' running through the plaids and if so, is there anything published on the subject?

A lot has been published, but this is really not a bad summary online:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan/ ... n-tartans/

I don't think there is enough information to be dogmatic about it, and there's a definite 'grey' area between the formal patterns we now have, the common sept patterns described, and simple woven checks and stripes.

If you wanted to get fancy then you could legitimately depict the better clan regiments more in 'clan' tartans, and more exotic patterns for the wealthier and better quipped clansmen in the front ranks, with the militia and pressed men tending to be from the 'humblies' - then separate the tartans into (largely) red, green and blue themes.

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:31 pm

RMD wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:07 pm Lovely stuff! And yes, I was wondering the same thing as the Baron. I've always been tempted by the '45 and doubly so, now that I've painted a SYW British army, but have no idea if there was any sort of clan 'theme' running through the plaids and if so, is there anything published on the subject?

A lot has been published, but this is really not a bad summary online:

http://www.tartansauthority.com/tartan/ ... n-tartans/

I don't think there is enough information to be dogmatic about it, and there's a definite 'grey' area between the formal patterns we now have, the common sept patterns described, and simple woven checks and stripes.

If you wanted to get fancy then you could legitimately depict the better clan regiments more in 'clan' tartans, and more exotic patterns for the wealthier and better quipped clansmen in the front ranks, with the militia and pressed men tending to be from the 'humblies' - then separate the tartans into (largely) red, green and blue themes.

Excellent stuff! Cheers!

Except I got distracted...

No prizes for recognising this...



some fettling required, door, front turret to be added, and wheels fixed up, but I can just see Apone standing beside this..

Shahbahraz wrote: ↑Wed Jun 16, 2021 11:25 pm Except I got distracted...

No prizes for recognising this...



some fettling required, door, front turret to be added, and wheels fixed up, but I can just see Apone standing beside this..

Ooo! I've long wanted one of those that matches the scale of my old Denizen Miniatures Marines...

It's a big beast of a thing. this is supposed to be 1/56. I had to split it into multiple parts to fit it in my printer. If I printed one again, I would tilt it and add the wheels to the print directly. How big are the Denizen Miniatures?

1/60 or 1/64th if I remember correctly.

Shab -

1) Thanks for all the tartan info - I must confess that I hadn't checked as to when weaving mills became the norm in Scotland, but post-'45 seems most logical, so anything before that was home-made. (All the caledonian woollen mills my family dragged me around as a child looked like they'd been there since God said: "I'm bored, let's make something.")

2) Almost forgot - thanks for the tip on the Vallejo filler. Another gamer suggested the "tried and tested superglue and talcum powder method" which sounds fraught with danger, my experience of SG being that it always sets slightly faster than you think it will.....

3) OK, I am probably the only person on here who does not know what that vehicle is. It looks not unlike the racing car from a Monopoly set.

It’s the vehicle from Aliens

As a famous lawyer once said, when a particularly dim judge pronounced himself "none the wiser" after being given a piece of information - "I fear not, my lord, but at least you are now much better informed."

(Thank you for trying, Jeremy.)

You really haven’t watched Aliens? Probably the best sci-fi movie of its, and any age? The movie that spawned more memorable one liners than any other movie since?

For shame!