how to paint the sealed knot

[Correus]

It's a pity the old SK website went belly up.

So true...it was a pity to see it go away.

[grant]

It's a pity the old SK website went belly up.

So true...it was a pity to see it go away.

It really was! It was one of my favourite sites - did they run out of money or something? The new site is useless.

[ady2650]

just seen this, it has given me inspiration to get my Royalists sorted

[HobbitMiles]

Hi,

A few corrections on the info on Newcastle's Tercio:

Hoghton's and Newcastle's wore "sad" coloured breeches, i.e. any dull, naturally occuring colour. While some Newcastle's wore Scots' bonnets, some also wore monmouth caps, monteros or felt hats (apparently Newcastle bought a large batch of bonnets at a very good price). Lisle's coats were most certainly not turquoise - their coats are actually a dark greyish blue, similar to modern RAF uniform blue (which, I believe, is where the original SK Lisle's obtained the cloth for their coats in the 70s).

All of the above refers only to the SK and any uniform info used by the SK should be taken with a very large pinch of salt as to historical accuracy as their is actually very little reliable info available - but then re-enactors have to wear something much like wargamers have to paint something.

As another aside the organisation of SK Tercios has nothing to do with real Tercios - it was/is largely a matter of the SKs internal politics.

[Rook]

Glad you managed to safe this before the site went boom. One minor correction. Tower Hamletts LTD (Of which I am a founder member and long serving musketter / regt apothacary come and join us plug plug ) had venice red with off white tining. Oh and Lillburnes purple coats are their pre new Model Army identity of Breretons Regt I believe.

[lackey]

haha, rook! how are you doing mate? long time no speak!
do you remember the long haired, bearded pikeman in frasers at cearlaverock? thats me! assuming your the same rook anyway.
of course, youl be right about the tower hamlets. all this was scribbled from an old new members handbook from 2004, so the pictures arnt too clear on shades, and its definatly not got lilburnes new purples anyway.

and another new sk unit: army of the covenant
col. arthur erskines -a mix between hodden greys with white linings, and black ex-ministerial garbs. (over-dyed black, so red, blue, brown or grey dark enough to look like a shade of faded black)

[Rook]

Hi Lackey, Yup same Rook, Guilty as charged.

To clear u p the puzzle of why the Blue Regt London Trained Bandes dont appear in the Sealed Knot London Brigade. It was a combo of balancing the brigades numbers during musters and a bit of politics. Thew are now in London BrigadeI believe and are also Venice red with off white lining but under a blue colour with white balls to mark companies.

[hawkinspikeman]

the colour of the individual regiments breeches should not be taken as gospol some regiments were issued with complete suits in one colour ie red jacket and trousers etc as happened with the kings army in oxford ,other regiments would have just issued coats of one colour and the breeches would have been what that solider already owned so browns greens and grey would have been common (possibly not black as black was a hard colour to fix and there for mainly officers and the wealthy would have worn it ) civil war soldiers coat colours is a real minefield as not many records survive

[charge the guns]

What a fabulous topic I think some of the most interesting uniforms have been missed though.

Early King's Guard (i.e. 1980s and earlier) should sport a lovely maroon corduroy doublet and breeches twin set, but the biggest modelling headache is that every figure would need a pink sash and large pink feather (normally in the hat)! You would also need at least 10 drummers for a KG unit and most should be wearing large amounts of make-up (male/female - who could tell?).

Gilbert Hoghtons early coat of a (tiny!) black doublet with yellow and dark red striped shoulder wings and probably some braid somewhere - gorgeuous! Not forgetting the ensign should always be foaming at the mouth, and the polish crimson painted pikes.

Birches' jackets were somewhere between a doublet and a soldier's coat, but were very, very bright red and had the most awful black braid. Very good for lying on the ground groaning in agony, as I re-call - tehe .

Slanning's had those wonderful blue and white striped pikes - no idea if they were accurate but they looked great.

Of course, the strangest of the lot, the Rannoch! Pick any D&D type fantasy figure, add a small amout of Halford's picnic rug, and then sprinkle lightly with biker's leathers - nice .

[HobbitMiles]

All I want is a Birche's coat
Nice and warm wrapped around my scroat
Blood Red/Black braid
What a joke
Oh wooooouldn't it be Looooverly

Put their CO on my knee
cut him up into pieces three
eat the $&£*&!!! for my tea
Oh wooooooldn't it be Loooooverly....

I have lots more, just not sure any of them are publishable!!!

And a few old Hoghton's still have those black doublets for special occassions (some can even get into them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)