Saturday 3 January 2015

Austrian Line Infantry Perry 28mm - Finished!

Austrian mass formations - done! That's enough white uniforms for a little while! I also managed to get them all out of the way in 2014 rather than having it drag on into 2015, which was a pleasing accomplishment. Gained me 3rd place in the Analogue Hobbies Painting challenge for a day, now down to 4th! It's a painting storm near the top!


I've replaced all the flags on my first four Austrian infantry regiments with more appropriately sized ones, also used on these new regiments, which I think is an improvement. This replacement process turned out to be fortuitously easy as they were just glued on with white wood glue and removal wasn't too difficult.

The four new regiments are all 36 strong.

First two regiments with shakos.


Second two regiments with the classic Austrian crested helmet. This was phased out gradually around 1809. I favour some 1813 era campaigning in addition to the 1809 period, so these might look a little anachronistic there, but I couldn't resist including a couple of regiments in this distinctive Austrian style.


Some views of a unit with shakos.




Views of a regiment with the crested helmet.




So that's some infantry, cavalry and command done, and I've made a good start on the artillery. Pictures of that along soon hopefully...
  
And happy new year everyone!

23 comments:

  1. Wow outstanding, what a mass of white. A huge effort to get them all done!

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  2. Always great to see the Kaiserlicks in their mass formations.

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  3. Amazing beautiful and impressive! Well done, Sir! Happy 2015

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  4. That is really a massively splendid crop of The White Menace!

    Great work!

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  5. 164 figures done at a pop - most impressive, and beautifully done, Mark.

    "Diese Österreicher sind ein wahres Schneesturm von weißen Mänteln!"

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  6. Mass effect is amazing, and details wonderful...excellent job!

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  7. Fantastic looking Austrians Mark! I have a 15mm Austrian army with both shakos and helmets too. I figure it must have taken a while for all the regiments to change!

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  8. Excellent! Those Austrians are really great, you have done a splendid paint job.

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  9. Awesome sight! of painted units and figures... you did alot of work here and I'm sure you are pleased with your Napoleonnic project. I also like all flocking of bases are simlar to eachother which will look great on the table top.


    cheers,

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  10. Great work. Painting projects on this kind of scale are always so inspiring!

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  11. Thanks everyone! Indeed pleasing to have this lot out of the way! :)

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  12. Note small - not all battalions Life standards werewolf Grenadier battalions - Should be painted on the battle to watch . As a rule of the Austrian's in the Grenadier battalions first two companies by value (lowest number) had Life standards his regiment . That is , the rest of the shelves Could have white banners , if Their company in the Grenadier battalions werewolf consolidated in the second and third on the Increasing number of regiments .

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    1. Thanks Dmitry! Though having some difficulty with the translation - are you suggesting I give my Grenadier units the Liebfahne?

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    2. White flags were not considered Grenadier. But Grenadier battalion from three different regiments carried only one flags, the rest remained in the shelves, in the first battalions.

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    3. Ah yes that fits with my understanding then, thanks Dmitry.

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  13. A fantastic brigade to be sure. Well done!

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  14. Lovely stuff! Saw these on the Challenge the other day and was quite impressed with them! Even with Austrian white, it is quite impressive to paint them up so quickly and neat!!!

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  15. Great effort!

    They look stunning.

    Steve

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  16. Excellent post Mark - love the Austrians!

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  17. I have 2 questions . Is the the crisp white in the pictures from the black primer and what white paint brand are you using ? And do you think Perry should've had a bigger box to include one more command sprue and increased the price as such ? Victrix have the Battalion size worked out !

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    1. Hi, see this post, I use Vallejo rather than Army Painter white now though.
      http://chasseuracheval.blogspot.co.nz/2014/11/why-i-undercoat-austrians-black.html
      Maybe on the Perry Command sprue they could have included another, though I guess they would have to put up the price and you can still buy the Perry command sprue seperately if you want smaller Austrian battalions so perhaps better to have the option that way. Cheers.

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