Wednesday 24 August 2016

Austrian Hungarian Infantry - 28mm Perry

Reinforcements for the Austrians. Two regiments with 36 Hungarian infantry each. I think that up to about a quarter of Austrian Line was Hungarian at times, so about time I added a few!

These are Perry Miniatures Hungarians. Nice sculpts, though not the variety of pose some other packs have. There are six different head sculpts for the rank and file but same posture otherwise. A bit disappointing perhaps, though arms folded across the chest is actually pretty helpful in cutting down the amount of painting of straps and so on - I like this pose!

I added a mounted Hungarian Officer to this unit to provide a bit more variety, and the Hungarian Infantry command pack has six variants which add some further interest.



Once again, similar to the Grenz I complained about previously, I did battle with Hungarian trousers! However it went quicker this time. Painting a yellow clover, then with a toothpick dotting in the 3 black circles, and black lining. With fine braiding like this you need to do it in a way that is stylised to look good in 28mm. Thankfully the Perry castings are done with this braid in sharp relief to assist painting. 

I also used the toothpick black dot technique for the rosette on the shako, and realised I need to go back and do this to hundreds of previous line infantry at some stage.... at least it is a quick and easy to do technique!

And here's the next regiment, with pink facings.





Glad to have this lot done! Some Austrian Jager and Uhlans will be up over the next few days.

16 comments:

  1. Splendid work Mark! Really like your basing. Very effective!

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  2. Just one thing, Hungarian Regiments were only brigaded with Hungarian rgiments, they were never brigaded with non Hungarians. Since this is a brigade of six battalions the senior regiment should have two colours the Kings and Regiments colours and the junior regiment two colours either the same as the senior regiment or with two regiments colours! Putting in a single flag in these units just doesnt look right IMHO. Since you are basing them in 3x2 you can put the Officer, and two soldiers in the front rank and the two colourseither side or the drummer in the rear rank?

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    1. Cheers Drew, and yes perhaps on the flags, but in addition to what Gonsalvo and Piccolo say below, there is only one flag bearer in a pack of six command, so difficult to do.

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  3. Great looking Hungarians, Mark. The trousers are a bit of a pain (I actually don't mind doing them that much myself), but the yellow braid on light/medium blue looks fantastic, doesn't it? You definitely need a few more Grenz and Hungarians...oh, and at least one unit of the wonderful Perry Hungarian Insurrectio!

    The flags issue is of course more one of personal taste than anything else. I have the opposite view - 2 flags per regiment (or battalion) seems to me way too many - there were only 2 flags for 800+ men, and now we're going to have 2 per 36?
    Sehr Fahnenliche!

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    1. Cheers for the thoughts Peter, yes more needed! Though you forget I already did Insurrectio last year :)
      https://chasseuracheval.blogspot.co.nz/2015/07/austrian-hungarian-insurrectio-perry.html
      Might add another unit though...

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  4. These look fantastic - well done.

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  5. Very impressive, Mark. The Hungarian Knots came out very well.

    On the matter of brigading of Hungarian units, it seems that brigading Hungarian with Hungarian was the rule but it was not without exception. Ettingshausen's Brigade of Jellacic's Division of of Feldmarschall Hiller's VI Corps comprised IR32 Esterhazy Infantry (Hungarian) and IR45 De Vaux Infantry, which was Italian according to one of my sources (on line) or German (book) or had become Italian by 1809 (the regiment was disbanded that year).

    As I was looking at my books anyway I thought to identify the regiments. That with the red facing appears to be 34th or the 39th. But the other I can't place, unless the pink is the 'pompadour' favoured by 52nd or 53rd Infantry. The slightly purplish quality to your choice of colour suggests the likelihood. Mind you, sources do vary somewhat. My other source describes the 52nd facings as 'pale rose', which is certainly pink for mine (it also says the 53rd is 'Croate' (sic)) ...

    They are bally fine looking units - as usual!

    On the flag front: I prefer one per unit - it is possible to have too many flags. Having said that, my 36-figure Marlburial wars Imperialist units get two. The reason is that I can split them up into 18-figure battalions (if I want) each with their own flag. The two-flag colour party is pruely in the interests of such flexibility.


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    1. Thanks Ion some good points. And yes as to colour of second regiment, as there is debate about colours for this period I figured it might be possible, or at least not particularly egregious - e.g. pompadour as you say, varying from dark brick red to silvery pink apparently:
      http://www.gutenberg-e.org/lowengard/C_Chap31.html

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  6. Lovely work Mark.

    We are in the middle of small encounter involving a brigade of Hungarian battalions, and I have found that it is quite a challenge to remember to leave enough space to allow them to deploy from column to line.

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    1. Cheers Lawrence, and yes it can take some careful timing and spacing! :)

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  7. Great looking Hungarians, well done on the knots!
    Best Iain

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  8. Very colourful Mark. Love the Austrian Uhlans and who said Austrian/Hungarian infantry need be boring…Great stuff.

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