Painting tip: Pike & Shotte: English Civil War

The following was posted by Rook Heath in answer to a how to paint p&s:ecw query by someone on the pike & shotte Facebook group:

Rough rule for English troops. Infantry : Don't use the Highland bonnets. Footwear brown shades, breeches greys and browns, armour black or gunmetal, equipment undied leather, shirts unbleached linen to white. Only the jackets were uniform colours. Go reds, blues, greys and green. Mutted yellow too. Nothing garish. Powder bottles on the bandoliers were generally recorded as painted black. Powder flasks (triangular ones) wood or leather covered with brass fittings probably.

Horse. Equipment and jackets as infantry. Leather 'buff coats' anywhere between dull yellow through undied leather to mid brown but I tend to go paler rather than darker. Buff coats could be long sleeved or for variety paint a few with jacket sleeves showing. No evidence of uniformed saddle cloths. Footwear black through brown.  Btw facing colours (cuffs and collars)  and shade you like but they would be used to identify regts. Eg skippons foot, red coats yellow facings, blue regt London red coats lined with undied linked. Hope this helps

Artillery. Not uniformed so think as infantry but muted colours, plenty of undied linen for shirts etc. Dragoons as infantry.
Armour and helmets were on the way out so for English Civil War avoid helmets in anything but pike. Montaroes (the funny looking peaked hat) were almost exclusively royalist except perhaps officers. Monmouth caps (wool bobble hats with or without peaks) were very common especially for pikemen with helmets removed.used as helmet padding.

I hope Rook doesn't mind me posting this as I know its a general query that comes up a lot.

This isn't exactly how I paint mine, although I follow some of the principles; I'll be posting an article on how I do mine shortly.