Sunday, February 4, 2018

'Music/Musician' from PeteF: Fraser Piper - 71st Foot - AWI


The 71st Highland Regiment needed a piper - so here he is. Pipers were not official musicians and I think they were hired and equipped directly by the regimental colonel. They may or may not have worn a different tartan. This piper got government set tartan for his trews but a Fraser (ish) tartan on the bag of his bagpipes.





He's a firey redhead belting out Scotland The Brave (over a 100 years before it was written?) or some similar patriotic melody.

There's a lot of disagreement among the experts about exactly how various troops were attired in the Revolutionary War - and in any case wargamers have always made choices between parade ground and campaign appearance - so I feel like there's some freedom to stray from the 1768 warrant. Since my highlanders didn't have a drummer the piper got the official musician's jacket. . 

I got the piper from Kings Mountain Miniatures along with a couple of other figures and a bunch of highlander heads for converting the regiment. He's 26mm foot to eye - so slightly slighter than some of the 28's available.




1 x 28mm foot for 5 points. Kings Mountain Miniatures.

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful work this piper, Pete! Your work on the tartan is brilliant.

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  2. Nice Tartan....you obviously have a steadier hand than I!

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  3. Nice tartan! Lovely figure, at least when I get around to painting tartan it'll be pre clan tartan!
    Best Iain

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  4. You have done a fine job on that tartan Pete.

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  5. Finely executed piper here Peter, and a really distinctive uniform

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  6. Great work on the piper, the tartan is perfect!

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  7. Great work, the tartan came out very well.

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  8. Pete that is awesome: tartan and reversed coloured uniform, what's not to like?!

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  9. Grand work, Peter! I see you just couldn't be happy with one tartan pattern...you had to do two and glam up the bonnet too! If he wasn't wearing gaiters and trews, I betcha would've argyled the socks too! ;)
    Grand work!

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