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Title: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Le Manchou on 25 February 2013, 03:09:25 PM
Everything is in the title!
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 27 February 2013, 09:08:37 PM
They used to be available in the old range. I swapped mine with a friend as he was doing 1859 and I was doing 1866. You might consider the 1848 Danish hussars if you are needing something in a hurry. I use these for French 1859 hussars (My Franco-Prussian French get used in this conflict).
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leon on 27 June 2014, 03:18:58 AM
Votes added!

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Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Hertsblue on 27 June 2014, 09:09:40 AM
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 27 February 2013, 09:08:37 PM
They used to be available in the old range. I swapped mine with a friend as he was doing 1859 and I was doing 1866. You might consider the 1848 Danish hussars if you are needing something in a hurry. I use these for French 1859 hussars (My Franco-Prussian French get used in this conflict).

They were in there at one time.

(http://i1220.photobucket.com/albums/dd448/Hertsblue/DSCN1203.jpg)

Or use the 1860 model. The only difference is a marginally taller shako in the earlier uniform.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 28 June 2014, 05:56:49 PM
Doesn't the 1860 model currently available wear the fur cap rather than the shako?
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Hertsblue on 29 June 2014, 09:05:27 AM
Not sure that Austrian hussars ever wore the fur hat in the nineteenth century - except perhaps for officers in gala dress.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: cameronian on 29 June 2014, 10:14:59 AM
Oooooh yes they did !
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 29 June 2014, 02:01:29 PM
In 1866 the shako was in the process of being replaced by the fur kutsma, so both can be depicted in 1866. For 1859 and 1864 stick to the shako. I think confusion may have come about because by WWI the Austrian hussars had readopted the coloured shako.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: cameronian on 29 June 2014, 03:38:04 PM
Osprey is quite good dealing with the changes to dress and head dress that occurred during this period.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Dave Fielder on 06 October 2014, 09:17:12 AM
It's 10mm ... uniforms come and go and I always mix 1859-1864-1866-1870-1871 regulations across all nations. The battles will be so large in these periods it won't matter. Connoisseurs will be aghast, gamers simply roll the dice and enjoy.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 06 October 2014, 09:34:18 AM
 :o - an aghast connoisseur!
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Ithoriel on 06 October 2014, 09:43:32 AM
I'm with Dave, in 10mm and below, for me, what matters is that the players can tell what a figure represents.

The minutiae of uniform can often be amended with a simple "paint conversion."
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 06 October 2014, 09:46:30 AM
No way can a painted kutsma look like a shako.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Ithoriel on 06 October 2014, 09:57:45 AM
Quote from: Dour Puritan on 06 October 2014, 09:46:30 AM
No way can a painted kutsma look like a shako.

Clearly your eyesight is better than mine!  ;D
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Dave Fielder on 06 October 2014, 11:00:23 AM
Who'd want to paint a Satsuma anyway?   :-\
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Ithoriel on 06 October 2014, 11:03:36 AM
Painted Satsuma

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tkrzSOENjdQ/UXgBg3a-7FI/AAAAAAAABEA/sXUuxZq0oGA/s1600/Last+Samurai+004.JPG)
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Dave Fielder on 06 October 2014, 11:07:55 AM
Tom Cruise looking a bit rough today.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Leman on 06 October 2014, 11:19:08 AM
Danish hussars painted as 1859 French 7th Hussars, which could also paint up as 1859 Austrians.

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g440/dourpuritan/Figurephotos2011/FPWphotos10mm/IMG_1363_zps855602b0.jpg)
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Dave Fielder on 06 October 2014, 03:06:57 PM
Very nice and fruity. Proper wargames figures that can multi-task.
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: mollinary on 06 October 2014, 05:14:36 PM
Lovely stuff, DP!  I think those would probably be a very good substitute.

Mollinary
Title: Re: Austrian hussars for 1859
Post by: Ben Waterhouse on 07 November 2014, 12:03:24 PM
Indeed,  :)