Thanks
French pre-Revolution ones did wear mostly white uniforms, though on the pants there is discussion, also by "experts". Durin a holliday in Southern-France some years ago, I saw some uniforms displayed in a museum and that one had rather beige or very lightbrown trousers with a white coat.
So, i decided to give mine brownish pants, to make a colour-distinction with the torso and because I thought it just looks good.
For me, playmobil-soldiers don't have to look 100% historically correct. About 75% is enough
is that torso a euro-clicky exclusive only?
Sadly yes; it came some years ago exclusively in Germany, as a pirate-captain with red bicorne and black legs/red boots and was a free gift in a German "McDonald's"-style chain of fishrestaurants ("Nordsee"-restaurants).
There were 3 such pirate-theme figures:
Besides the pirates' captain, there also was a Spanish soldier (conquistador) much looking like the captain from the lighthouse, but with a metal-coloured "1980's Nüremberg-Guard"-helmet.
And another one was a pirates' mate with red torso and darkyellow kneetrousers (like from the Roman cavalrist in the Camp/Tent-set, but without the print on the legs).
