Yes Kjeld, it is indeed a personal choice ...
i hate to paint series of same characters, nd the middle Age was too early, I presume to have French armies all deressed with the same uniform, for low class people ... that colours were not muche varied, it is the same today, with everyone dressed with a t-shirt dark, a blue jeans and white baskets .... as we see in the streets nowadays ..
ouuuups, I indeed undersetimated this pont on the colours, paying more historical attention to the weapons, but I knew about the colours at the Roman times, centuries earlier.
It gives me some choices:
- Wrong historical figure according to the denomination used
- Acceptable as "fantasy" character, (like the peplum movies of the years '60's )
- Never post also in a show in the catégory "historical", but not really a "fantastic" !!!
- Repaint the colour to a neutral red, like Magenta+gery, or venitian red (but was France in close contact with Italy then ? Yes for the crossbowmen) ... or another sade red...
- Keep in my personal collection
I painted another fantassin too with this violet, I'll think about a solution too.
Thank you for your advice, it is a very useful remark for all my grey army !!
