No one makes plastic Napoleonic Hungarians but I remember seeing on Deans WAB blog a pretty simple conversion which I have followed on these chaps, they're Victrix Austrian infantry in Shakos and I've roughly carved off the gaiters, not a great job but I think it will do? Once more grey Halfords spray primer, agrax earthshade everywhere except shakos and backpacks and boots, Liquatex brown ink for backpacks and black ink for shakos and boots, wet brush/dry brush white, freehand knotwork in yellow, always fun and the same light blue as the Reuss as it's my French blue plus white, steel, gold and facings plus the flagpole of course!
Dark green ( steel green) facings and a converted British casualty marker atop their file box home.I've got another unit of these almost finished as I've been trying to push all the figures along as efficiently as possible, so every figure I have here has at least flesh and metal and a couple more colours at least on all the infantry units, I'm doing James's last 10% now! I have three more Hungarian units waiting to be primed back home that are wargames Atlantic rank and file ( rather better conversions I feel) and Perry metal command and two similarly set up units of Grenzers, my future includes lot's of hand painted Hungarian knots! There's going to be more Austrian and Hungarians as I'm almost done on French infantry in the UK, although obviously I've always got more French cavalry! Flags and flocking to follow when I'm home.
All the best
Iain
Excellent work Iain, and the colours look very effective, battle weary in their appearance, rather than parade square.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dave, rather faded blue but I think that's alright?
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Nice! I am surprised that no one does Hungarians in 28mm plastic.
ReplyDeleteThanks Jonathan, I suppose their a relatively small proportion of the the Austrian and Hungarian army, not yet Austro-Hungarian! Although the basic figure could then be used for the Grenzers too?
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Nice to see some Hungarians, don't see too many of them, The conversion simple or not works really well on them.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Donnie!
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Looking good, Iain! I really enjoy doing the Hungarian units myself!
ReplyDeleteThanks Peter, I've got your scenario book to work through and that demands Hungarians! They are more fun than the Austrians line, although with rather more limited facing colours?
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Excellent looking unit!
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Michal!
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Nice work Iain.....I seem to recall I had to do free hand Hungarian knots onto Old Glory second edition figures when I did my Austrian army....a bit of a pain but not insurmountable!
ReplyDeleteThanks Keith, I think, like hussars, it was more the concern before, once I got going it's fine!
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A very effective conversion and beautifully painted Iain. Nice work on the flagpole, too.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence! I like the tasteful uniforms with the colourful flagpoles!
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Those look like Hungarians yo me! lol.
ReplyDeleteWay to crank them out. 😀
Thanks Stew, another on it's way soon!
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I wouldn't have ever noticed the conversion, so I think these are simply perfect!
ReplyDeleteThat's very kind of you Suber!
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As always, great work Iain. Hungarian knots are such a pain to paint, (like hussar braid), you have done a very good job.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Chris!
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Well if you hadn't have mentioned you had carved the gaiters off, I doubt I would have even spotted that of if they had been left on! Once flocked and on the table I think we would all forget about this minor detail...
ReplyDeleteI think you're right, there's one more unit like this , the other three and the grenzers have got a better job!
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Excellent Hungarians Iain!
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot Cyrus!
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I have no knowledge of Nap's Hungary at all, so I'll just assume you know your stuff and that these are spot on historically. :P
ReplyDeleteRegardless mate, they do look splendid and had you not mentioned they had been converted, I would never have known, so kudos there!
Thanks very much Dai!
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Nice idea to repurpose these Iain :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't afford to do them in metal!
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Good looking troops.
ReplyDeleteThanks Richard!
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I can't tell that they're conversions so you must be doing something right!
ReplyDeleteExcellent, I won't say if you don't!
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Great looking Hungarians, Iain! Thanks for the mention too!
ReplyDeleteThanks Dean, of course a pleasure!
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