The one of the marvelous things about modelling the Austrian army is how many of their regiments used the same facing colour and identical standards. This means that a handful of colours will suffice for your whole army. My own uses mid-blue, red, green and yellow. Every time I paint up a field battalion of fusiliers I paint up a company of grenadiers in matching facing colours. This ensures that my unit mix will be approximately correct.
I also designate some of my units to be Hungarian and paint their breeches and gaiters as it they were trousers. Perhaps this is less than ideal from a modelling point of view, yet when they are massed on the gaming table players are hard pressed to notice the fudge.
I'm with hefay. I salivate at the prospect of decent grenzer figures. The two units I have are conversions, featuring Airfix British Hussar heads on Airfix British Hussar bodies, augmented with cigarette paper capes. These are less than ideal but I cannot bring myself to pay the asking price for the metal grenzers available in 1/72nd, pretty as they may be.
I'm with hefay. I salivate at the prospect of decent grenzer figures. The two units I have are conversions, featuring Airfix British Hussar heads on Airfix British Hussar bodies, augmented with cigarette paper capes. These are less than ideal but I cannot bring myself to pay the asking price for the metal grenzers available in 1/72nd, pretty as they may be.[/quote]
'Airfix Hussar heads on Airfix Hussar bodies'? Isn't that a bit redundant? Or is that a typo?
In fact, some are the Hussars squatting behind their horses, with the horses removed, the pelisse reformed into a cape and the sabre replaced by the musket from the crawling figure from the Washington's Army set.