Flames of War Hungarians

[toxicpixie]

Hmmm, tempting for my PBI Hungarians, except they're actually Homsved and not Gendarmarie, so maybe I need a new army... what do WW2 era Hungarian Gendarmarie uniforms look like again?!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

That's a certainty for the paint queue then!

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

They're on fleabay now... cash crisis! 

[getagrip]

They're on fleabay now... cash crisis! 

You've only just finished them   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Yup, that's the way the cookie sometimes crumbles!

[getagrip]

Yup, that's the way the cookie sometimes crumbles!

I know what you mean mate

[Chris Pringle]

There are plenty of occasions when the gendarmerie fought alongside honvéd units - certainly once the war reaches Hungary in 1944. IIRC, gendarmerie companies were formed into battalions and routinely attached to honvéd formations. You can legitimately have them on the same pitch as your StuGs or whatever.

For uniforms, this is the book you want:

http://www.hkhermanos.hu/kiadv%C3%A1nyok/sipos-andr%C3%A1s-magyar-kir%C3%A1lyi-csend%C5%91rs%C3%A9g-egyenruh%C3%A1zata-%C3%A9s-felszerel%C3%A9sei-1920-1945

Of course in action they mostly wore standard steel helmets and didn't look much different from regular honvéd infantry, but for a tabletop army you surely have to go for the more unusual millinery.

NB the paramilitary gendarmerie (csendőrség) are different from police (rendőrség).

Chris

[toxicpixie]

Drat, I thought that might be the case; from the piccies my normal Honved would be fine, assuming that everyone's put their tin hat on!

I might pick up some L3/33's or a Csaba at some point if I get round to it. Currently the Hungarian armour I possess is actually... three field guns and a Pzr 38