PakefieldFusiliers

I have already created a thread asking about the history of the Regiment (here if anyone can help me), since I really do want to make them as accurate as possible. Essentially I'm an Instructor with the Army Cadets, we're very shortly going to recapbadge as Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and I'm planning on making historically accurate 1/6th figures of the entire regiment throughout it's entire history. Saying it like that is a real facepalm for me since I have never made a single 1/6th figure before. Doh. I have done some research on making them and I'll definitely be using either Dragon figures or basic 1/6th bodies with Tony Barton's heads (they look amazing). I've got to email him later anyway regarding the 1/6th capbadges he makes and ask him nicely if he could make me a RRF one (mentally adds it to her vastly increasing "to do" list). My plan at the moment is to start at the very recent uniforms and work my way back through the four previous regiments of Fusiliers. My very first one that I'm already working on is the "blues", with the navy blue jacket and infantry trousers, ammo boots, white belt and red sash (I'm making my first one a Colour Sargeant) as in the pic below. The second will be in the scarlets with Busby (and I might even add Bobby in his colours), and the third will be the Pioneer Sargeant. I'm also hoping to do the Piper, Drum Major and Bugler before I move on to the four other Fusilier regiments that amalgamated to make the RRF. The one major problem I'm having is with making the hackles. I'm thinking the only way I might be able to do it accuratey is to get white and red feathers, cut the actually feathered parts off the central quill and make the hackle from scratch with glue on a central wire frame but it's going to be very labour intensive! I'll post pics as I go, but any help, tips or advice you can all give me would be very much appreciated! :)

This will probably sound a wee bit nuts, but please bear with me. I'm completely new to this forum but essentially I'm an Instructor with the Army Cadets. We're going to be recapbadging very shortly to Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and I've come up with the idea of making in 1/6th scale the uniforms of the regiment all the way back to it's very beginnings. That probably sounds completely bonkers already, but add to that I've never modelled in 1/6th before, and have no idea about the history of the regiment itself yet, I'm starting to think I've bitten off way more than I can chew. Considering I'm a stubborn sod though, I will do it. I'm aware that this is not the modelling forum so I'll be posting things in there relative to that, but what I really need some help with is the actual history and regiments that came before the amalgamation of the RRF. I know that prior to the amalgamation, there were four fusilier regiments: Lancashire Fusiliers, Royal Warwickshire Fusiliers, Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and Royal Fusiliers (City of London). I also know that at some point in time, they were also numbered the 5th, 6th, 7th and 20th of Foot Regiments but other than this, it's still very murky. Ideally what I'd like is some kind of timeline with the names of the regiments as they've been changed in what time period but I know it's a big ask. I'm not getting very far at all with it since I've been looking so in sheer desperation, I'm asking here because I really want to make these as accurate as possible. Thanks for any help you can all give me, it'll be very much appreciated. :)