Hello community.
Special question for 7YW-Austrians:
Where the Prussians display a very colourful mode of distinction between their regiment's facing colours, their Austrian opponents seem to have used a very restricted chart of colour.
Their facings seem to have been only in darker kinds of red, blue and green.
The sources I have available (kronoskaf, Funcken and a reprint of the "Bautzener Bilderhandschrift") make me suppose, that there was just ONE dark blue, dark green. With the red, I might recognize 2 different shades, but I'm quite unshure...
Do you use different "dark-blue-colours" for the single regiments, or just one?
The same applies to the red/green-part of my question...
A glimpse to the napoleonic period doesn't bring me further... there the Austrians definitely invested in some more colour-pigments...
Thanks, if there would be some input...
Cheers,
Alarich
SYW Austrians had regiments in red, crimson, dark blue, light blue, violet, dark green, light green, black and orange facing colours. Regiments also differed in whether or not coat turnbacks were in facing colours or not. Apparently right at the start (1756/57) many units were still wearing coloured breeches and/or waistcoats and the change to white was not completed for all units until the 1760s. So an Austrian army most definitely does not look boring - especially if you have grenadier units made up from different regiments and a few Hungarian line units as well.