The Rose Colonial British are actually quite versatile - pity there were only 4 figures in the range (plus a casualty!). The officer is Jacklex.
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Here I've simply painted the Rose figures up with blue tunics and red trousers. The French (and just about everyone else) seem to have had a lot of colour variations. In their case, different blues, sometimes including the trousers, Trousers could also be (possibly mostly?) white.
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To a certain extent it would be easy to use lots of different schemes for an army. Here, I think a more stylised blue tunic/red trousers is better than a mix. My intention is to get the 'full' battalion of these on single bases witjin the next few days - though currently working on the 25/28mm Scottish Colonial battalion at the moment. I'll probably start doing both at the same time - Scots take a long time because of all those tartan kilts!
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Having said that, the Rose ACW figures make quite good French in this scale. Next to him, the all blue figure suits as either Royal Marines or Germans. Of course, Germans could also be produced by painting the figure khaki!
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There are lots of other variations possible. Add in the use of Jacklex figures and I've got quite a project/projects ahead of me in this scale.
You could try tartan plaid paper prints. You could wrap the paper round the legs and glue them on. Never thought to even look before reading your post. I'll let you try it first!
ReplyDeleteTwo reasons why I won't take you up on this suggestion. Firstly, I would look on it as cheating - don't mind printing off, for example, paper flags, but would paint flags that are cast on the figure. Second reason - it would be harder to do and probably wouldn't work ayway. It's all those pleats that get in the way!
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