How to Stripe Kilts with a Micron Pen

I decided to go with the 42nd "Black Watch" Highland Regiment. The reason for this is the multiple colored stripes of the 79th's tartan pattern - which would not only be really difficult to execute, but also make the kilt look too "busy" IMO. Switching to the 42nd didn't pose any historical problems either - the two regiments, along with the 92nd, all have outstanding service records. They also all served in the Peninsula and Waterloo, as well as the Egyptian Campaign - in the same battles most of the time too. I do have to print out the 42nd's colours - but even that was obtained off the internet from Warflag.com.

Thanks to this tartan painting tutorial, I learned of the use of Micron Pens for the thin black stripes. When I did a search on TMP about it, I found one thread, but all the comments were positive for its use. After having lunch with my wife today, we stopped in a Michael's and found a 005 Micron Pen. It took less than 10 minutes to do all the black stripes on the 30-odd tartans. A couple of them need a little touch up - where my pen stroke was a bit flaky. Otherwise, this is an indispensable tool for any tartan painting arsenal. I highly recommend it.

I may add red stripes to a few of them to represent grenadiers. Apparently their kilts had red stripes - at least up until 1812.

The piper is painted in the Royal Stewart pattern below:

His tartan actually looked better before the white lines were added; now it looks too much of a "good" thing. I should've stopped after the yellow lines were added between the blue ones - oh well, I'm not redoing it.

The stockings were pretty easy - the sculptor, bless his heart, only has the top of them exposed above the garter - which the gaiters come up to. The top of the stockings were painted white and pink was dabbed evenly around it to represent the cross-hatching. The gaiters were dry-brushed a light gray. I'll probably give the gaiters a black wash too. This completes the Highlander-specific painting. The rest of the painting will be like regular British infantry.