I've been promising a parade for a while so here it is, my complete force of Austrian infantry - 240 Hinton Hunt figures - enjoy!
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| L to R, back row: IR 4, 23, 26 third row: IR 32, 51, 59 second row: Grenadiers and Grenzers, front row: Jagers. |
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| Archduke Charles leads the review. |
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| Don's flag rather showing up my own efforts to be not quite right but I'm not going to change them now! |
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| The two Grenadier units are my favourite. |
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| That's a whole lot of white - the Austrian army laundry bill must have been huge. |
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| Will there be more? Well, who knows... |
This time last year I was struggling to find the figures to make up a force of five units but thanks to the generosity of Don and the labours of Goya I finally have a force that General Mack would be proud to surrender to Napoleon.
31 comments:
Superb parade of your lovely collection, great to see them all together, you must be really happy with them.
Phwooooar! But several ‘ooooooooo’ short of Jenny Agutter.
Fantastic, thanks for sharing. Please stop posting 🤣 am a weak man and you will force me into going down the Napoleonic rabbit hole.
Willz.
Splendid parade!
According to Duffy, in the SYW the Austrians rejuvenated their white uniforms with chalk......
Neil
Thanks Donnie, yes happy indeed!
Thanks Jeffers and of course you are right...
Willz, as rabbit holes go it's not too bad - come on in!
Thanks Neil, chalk would be an easier option than washing I guess!
I was hoping for this. Magnificent!
Thanks WM I certainly never expected to have such a large force!
One look at them and the Little Corporal will deginitely be turning a Whiter Shade of Pale. They look super impressive en-masse - white uniforms always stand out most on the wargames table.
Absolutely marvellous!
Great looking Austrians, nice to see them en masse, not sure how they might perform on the table, but they will certainly look the part.
Paul
Thanks Rob!
Cheers Matt, they almost look as good as chaps in red!
A magnificent sight, well done. Looking forward to seeing them in action.
Well that was fun. Congratulations on reaching this point. I guess whether there will be more depends in part of what figures become available. I shall look forward to seeing these in action against your French sometime. Do these pictures of a completed force mean you are beginning a new force or adding to another existing one i.e. what next.
All power to your brushes,
Stephen
Superb….
That sure is a lot of white uniforms…. But they still manage to be very colourful as well…
All the best. Aly
Thanks Paul.
Thanks Stephen, hopefully it won’t be too long before they get another crack at the French.
I do have plans for a few more but next I will be working on something British!
Thanks Aly, who would guess Austrians could turn out to be so colourful.
Opps I meant Simon!
"a force that General Mack would be proud to surrender to Napoleon." Thanks for that, Ian! I had a nice belly laugh. The troops look glorious!
Thanks Bob, although looking at the size of the force now they might just fancy themselves in a fight!
Well., I should be proud to lead them in a fight. If you would just leave those lancers in the stables......
Come come Nigel, you would have Uhlans!
Well that made me snort my coffee! Teenage me agrees with you whole-heartedly!
That one gave me a good chuckle as well. Why is it that beautiful troops fight so poorly? Scuff them up a bit Ian and I am sure they will fight just fine...
I'll go on vacation more often if you will take advantage of my absence to upload posts like this one! Astonishing work!
Thanks David glad you enjoyed it!
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