Now that sounds like a really good idea...!

Does anyone have any info on what standard Dundee would have flown?

I know he raised the Royal Standard in 1689, but I'm looking for a personal standard for my model of him.

tbh I'll be using a darker, more crimson, colour for my rank and file, with only the ensigns and other officers getting scarlet. Remember in those days they were using vegetable dyes which are much more subdued than the chemical dyes we are used to now. In addition, weather and wear and tear would r...

Beautiful looking regiment Ray, just like the rest of your postings... tbh, fur cap will be the least of my 'errors', after all I'll have them fighting on the side of the Stuarts! :shock: Currently undercoating my first regiment of Warfare Miniatures which will be finished as Cannon's, post Killiecr...

I was wondering what they were on about as well...

Thanks Tim, I've decided to go with fur caps for my unit, just 'cos I like them!

Did the Royal Scots (Orkney's) have a grenadier company at the time they remained loyal to James and mutinied in 1688?

If so, what headgear would they have worn?


Many thanks.

Thanks Ray, I had seen your models on a different thread and admired them. Very nice indeed. I'll be using mine as Jacobite (assuming they never defected to the Usurper) in 1689 - 91 period. You seem to be correct with the fur hats as one source (Charles Grant and Michael Youens, Royal Scots Greys, ...

Good point, I'd got it into my head for some reason that the 'Royal' designation occurred later.

OK, grey coats, blue facings and I've created my guidon for them...

Will be ordering them (along with my Royal Scots) from Barry once he returns from his travels.

Thanks Rebel, much appreciated. Earl of Dunmore in 'stone grey' it will be as I'll be modelling them as remaining loyal to James VII.

Still none the wiser re facings though...

"In 1681, by Royal Warrant, these three troops were combined, with the addition of three further troops, into what would be named the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons.[4] Lieutenant-General Thomas Dalziel would be the regiment's first colonel. In its original configuration, the Scots Greys were con...

mmmmm... Might have to move His Grace's Lifeguards up the to-do-list!


Yet MORE to paint...

My first couple of Scots Jacobite colours for my post-Killiecrankie army...

Still to paint their edges to hide the white of the paper.

dark wood? light wood? painted wood?

Anyone got any idea of what colour a unit's flagpoles should be for Jacobite Irish / Scots?