The last post was supposed to be about Austrians but got hijacked by the Prussians so here is what I had planned to show you - two units (count them) of Austrian Hussars.
These are AN81 Austrian Hussar. |
Those of you who have followed this blog for a while will know that I had a hybrid unit of hussars for many years comprised of half figures in blue uniforms and the other half in a rather fetching parrot green. These were all figures donated by Don quite a few years back that I pressed into service with just a minimum touch up of chipped paint. The recent influx of figures from Don contained more identically uniformed hussars that have allowed me to make up two separate full-strength units.
The ones in green are the 4th Vecsey(?) and the blues are the 6th Blankenstein. |
I haven't done much work on these so most of what you see is Don's original painting. I have just touched up around the horses legs (which was necessary after de-flocking the bases) touched in any chipped paintwork, then gave them a couple of coats of gloss varnish.
The Replacement Depot bugler in the front rank. |
One interesting find in amongst the new recruits was a bugler that at first I thought was either a DK figure or a conversion but the code AC5 on the base didn't fit in with this. A query to Don suggested that it was a figure from the Replacement Depot of New York who had a range of rather Hinton Hunt looking figures back in the 70s. Goya was able to rustle up a copy of the catalogue (of course he did) that proves this correct.
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A detail from the Replacement Depot catalogue. |
Thanks again to Don for passing on these figures and also to Goya for his sleuthing work.