AWI Scottish Regiments

I had been putting off these two units until all the other British foot had been completed as I knew they would be fiddly, the 71st Fraser's Highlanders because of the dicing around the bonnets and the 42nd Royal Highlanders due to the tartan and the red and white diagonal dicing on the stockings:

The 71st is one of my favourite Napoleonic regiments and went through four iterations during the late 1700's. At one stage there were two regiments numbered 71st, but the one that served in America during the AWI was raised by Lieutenant-General Simon Fraser of Lovat as depicted here:

These were lovely figures to paint due to their relatively straightforward advancing pose:

Although the drummer was fiddlier than usual, being red-edged white lacing on white:

The flags are from GMB as usual:

The command set also contains a bagpiper, which I mounted alongside one of the NCOs but in such a way that he will be standing next to the officer when in line:

I painted the 42nd in the Government tartan, with dark green on dark blue. Not the most exciting combination and I did think about putting a red stripe through it, but that was only on kilts worn by the grenadier companies which aren't represented here. The tartan also seemed to come out a bit shiny under the lighting in these pictures in spite of a couple of applications of Dullcote:

These are very robust sculpts and remind me more of the traditional Front Rank sculpts than the usual Perry figures:

I put ten diagonal stripes on each stocking, five going each way, which I thought was enough to provide the necessary impression and more than enough when I realised I had forty-eight stockings to do.

That is all the British regular foot now completed, with sixteen battalions in total:

Next up will be the loyalist Queen's Rangers Regiment along with some Native American allies.