The 42nd Highlanders, aka The Black Watch.
The rank and file are DK 188, the officer is BN 37, the piper is BN 38, the sergeant is BN31. I'm not sure what the ensigns are, there is no listing for a highland ensign in my HH catalogue, they could be castings from a conversion.
The DK figures and the BN 37 officer have sporrans, the others were without. I know the Black Watch wouldn't have worn sporrans in the field, but I don't like to remove bits of original castings if I can help it, so I added green stuff sporrans to the figures which were lacking them.
*EDIT" I just found the following link, indicating the ensign was a David Clayton creation, BN39.
http://www.vintagewargamingfigures.info/rblack/hinlist.htm
Good work on the sporrans! HH never made Highland standard bearers but they may be a David Clayton creation, nice to have them though as I had to convert officers and use paper flags for mine.
ReplyDeleteI think you could well be right about the ensigns being Claytons. If they are home castings they are very good ones.
DeleteYou are definitely right, they are Claytons. http://www.vintagewargamingfigures.info/rblack/hinlist.htm
DeleteNice job! I didn't realise until I saw yours that the 42ns's grenadier and light plumes were half red to echo the red hackles of the line companies. Clearly I'm not too old to learn something. Mine, who are a long way down the paintng queue, are also DKs and fairly rough castings so I won't feel constrained from removing their sporrans mainly to make the painting simpler by giving a bigger area to try and create something that looks like tartan. I want mine to be the 1/79th, Cameron Highlanders.
ReplyDeleteThanks Rob, actually the line companies have red hackles, the grenadiers red over white and the lights have green. That is based on minimal google searches so could be wrong!
DeleteThat is a tremendous amount of dedication to add the sporrans. Good for you! The plumes threw me for a loop when doing my own, and interestingly (if you're into this kind of thing) the grenadiers probably had a red stripe in their kilt pattern as well. You can see it in Smith and Haythornthwaite's Wellington's Army plate 32. I would have never known had not the original painter, Dick Tennant, done so.
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