Thanks! I will stop discussing the weapons as I now see it may get my post moved.

The tartan itself I'm not sure of. A tailor who makes and wears kilts sold me the philabeg and enough cloth for a plaid. I did a burn test on some scraps, it is wool with maybe a touch of cotton, but no synthetic. It is a dark blue, dark green and black tartan with one red stripe. It was the closest thing I could find to "gov't sett with a red overstripe". First that was for the grenadier company, then in '46 Lord John Murray made it the tartan for all companies of the 42nd until the end of FnI period. Then in the Rev war it was apparently kept for philabegs but plaids went to undifferend gov't sett.

I am finding that people don't like my box pleats or the red stripe when I go to events. People seem to want undifferenced gov't sett with knife pleats all the way back to when Hadrian built the wall, and it simply was not so.

If I manage to recruit anyone into the unit I can cut up the plaid into two philabegs. If it grows beyond that I'll have to find a reliable source for a more historically accurate tartan. Some of the ancient Murray hunting tartans are very similar to what the 42nd wore in the 1750's.