ECW Relics at the Tower of London

Some eye candies we found while visiting the Royal Armouries exhibit at the White Tower recently:

Harquebusier's Breastplate, buff coat and equipment (but not the colt .45 next to it though!)

Helmet detail

The inlaid armour of King Charles I

Cuirassier armour

Period pikeman's uniform

Long barrelled cavalry pistols

Period Falcon cannon

ECW Uniforms

I recently found another useful article at Warlords Games, which depicts some of the ECW displays at the Combined Military Services Museum - here

The museum’s English Civil War collection is one of the finest in the country, with armour, swords, polearms, muskets and clothing from the period on display.

http://www.cmsm.co.uk/collections.php

Alan and I clearly need to find an excuse to go on an ECW pilgrimage to the UK I think...

To the Colours!

The diversity of the Colours used in the EWC is quite interesting to me because they are not well documented.  I am also intrigued at the diversity of depictions from simple colours and shapes, to complex icons without much in the way of the traditional heraldry behind them.

Anyway, among my wanderings I found this interesting graphic was I thought would be appreciated here (from http://imgkid.com/english-civil-war-royalists.shtml)  Its a start anyway!

BattleFlag produce 28 and 15mm flags that may be of interest also:

http://www.battle-flag.com/15mm-english-civil-war-parliament.html

http://www.battle-flag.com/15mm-royalist-wargame-flags.html

http://www.battle-flag.com/15mm-scots-covenanters.html

ECW Coat Colours

A very handy reference of ECW Uniform coat colours found at:  

http://www.wargamesdesigns.com/history.html

Backed up by the Baccus guide here: 

https://www.baccus6mm.com/includes/howto/ecw/paintguide_ecw_text.inc.php

And the neat stuff at the Warlord site here:

http://www.warlordgames.com/painting-english-civil-war-army-uniforms/