Airfix 54mm English Civil War - 1642 (06501)

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[James the Dutchy]

 Your detailed way of painting these figures is a great example for me. I will paint my kits soon and will show it to you when finished.

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 Thanks, I use BRITISH INFANTRY UNIFORMS Since 1660 (ISBN 0 7137 1127 2) for reference. I look forward to seeing your figures.

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Certain of the better equipped trained bands and associations like the Honourable Artillery Company (which went under various titles such as the ‘Voluntary Company of the Artillery Garden’ or the ‘Military Company of the City of London’) would include members whose personal affluence allowed them to dress well, even though serving as ordinary soldiers; some even wore totally impractical spurred boots. Some of these companies had distinctive uniform, but older styles, the doublet, breeches and buff coat were no doubt seen throughout the war.

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The musketeer has a leather jerkin atop his doublet and a cabasset helmet dating from about 1600; he carries a short-barrelled caliver with an old-fashioned stock. The Voluntary Company of the Artillery Garden was one of the trained bands in Parliamentary service.

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Just posting this in case anyone looks into the dark depths of this area.

The sergeant’s uniform was frequently as fine as an officer’s with metallic decoration. Sergeant Nehemiah Wharton mentioned having a suit for winter, edged with gold and silver lace that replaced a plush lined scarlet coat that was pillaged by Parliamentary horse. The halberd was as much a badge of rank as a weapon and remained so for the next century.The Red Regiment referred to their flag. The London trained band corps uniforms are not recorded. At the First Battle of Newbury, where the Red Regiment was engaged, sprigs of green foliage were worn in the hat as a recognition sign for the Parliamentarians.

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Airfix 54mm English Pikeman 1642 (01559-0)

Charles Gerard’s Bluecoats was one of the better Royalist regiments of the Edgehill campaign. The pikeman wears an old-style helmet of semi-cabasset shape, with earflaps, and a corselet complete with gorget. The whole suit is enamelled black, and he wears a buff-leather gauntlet on his left hand and an ordinary wrist glove on the right.

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Airfix 54mm English Pikeman 1642 (01559-0)

Earl of Essex Regiment 1642 wore orange coats and sash. They fought with the Parliamentarians at Newbury and in Cornwall before merging with the New Model Army.

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Airfix 54mm English Musketeer 1642 (01560-0)

Hampden’s Regiment 1642 were known as the Greencoats. They were raised in Buckinghamshire by John Hampden. Hampden was an MP and Knight of the Shire for Buckinghamshire. He was well known for his opposition to the crown's prerogative powers and was one of the five members of the House of Commons that the King attempted to arrest in January 1642. Following the death of Hampden (24 June 1643), Colonel Richard Ingoldsby took them into the New Model Army. Our musketeer has a matchlock musket and the usual bandolier.

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The Royalist redcoat regiment of 1642 wears a uniform suit and Royalist hat band. This may have been the dress of the King’s Lifeguards at Edgehill. Despite its name, it was not an elite regiment.

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Airfix 54mm English Pikeman 1642 (01559-0)

The Royalist yellowcoat regiment wore the traditional full corselet of breastplate, backplate and tassets, and a helmet of semi-cabasset shape.