Die Kaiserlich-königliche Armee in Review - Part 2

Tonight's exciting installment of Die Kaiserlich-königliche Armee in Review features the Hungarian infantry, plus Grenz, Landwehr and Jaegers. Most of the Hungarian infantry figures are again Sash and Sabre Miniatures, with a sprinkling of Old Glory, but the remainder are exclusively OG.

IR 2 (Archduke Ferdinand) Yellow facings

IR 51 (Splenyi) Blue facings 

IR 53 (Jelachich) Pink facings

IR 61 (Julien) Green facings

Grenadier Regiment 1 Pink Yellow and Red facings

Grenadier Regiment 2 Green Red and Blue facings

Grenadier Regiment 3 Sky Blue Red and Pink facings

Grenz Regt 6 (Warasdiner St Georger) Red facings

Grenz Regt 7 (Brooker) Pink facings

Grenz Regt 16 (1st Wallachisches) Green facings

The Landwehr regiments are all based on genuine uniform combinations, but I no longer have a record of what they were based on and I can't be bothered trying to find where I got the details .....

.... I recall they were contemporary coloured line drawings, but I don't know where I found them!

I did the Landwehr on 40 x 40 bases (as opposed to 30 x 40 for the others) of three figures, because the OG packs have thirty figures in each, including two groups of command figures!

And finally, two regiments of rifle armed Jaegers

As is my usual practice, these are based in pairs, to indicate they are not regular line infantry

I have often wondered why virtually every other army used the word "hunter" or "huntsman" - chasseur, cacadores, jaeger etc - for their light infantry, whereas the English-speaking nations just call them .... well .... riflemen or light infantrymen?! No sense of drama at all!

Brief Interlude....

 Thanks to long delayed, major renovation works in our head office, I have been working from home for the last couple of weeks (much to my wife's distress...goodness knows how she is going to stand me being around all the time when I retire in a few years!). Anyway, around 4pm on Weds, one of my colleagues called and asked "Is Ruth still keen to get you out of the house" - when I answered in the affirmative, he then asked if I wanted to go on a work fishing trip the following day, which he had arranged but from which a couple of invitees had dropped out - well. what could I say - except yes! 

The charter boat "Seasprite" (I think) which took us out for the day - around 16 fishers plus a crew of two

Exiting Westhaven marina in the CBD - if you look by the blue crane, or whatever it is, you can see what appears to be a WWII vintage landing craft

Devonport Naval Base on the Northshore of Auckland, home to the Royal New Zealand Navy

Not the traditional sunny days fishing in the Hauraki Gulf, in fact there was a reasonable swell and one of our customers got very seasick and spent the whole trip asleep in the inside cabin!

View into Auckland CBD on the way back in. Not shown in my images are the large number of container ships "parked" on our route to the fishing ground - we must have seen at least ten, waiting their tujrn to dock and be unloaded - I have never seen them stacked up like this before and was a very obvious sign of the continuing issues with worldwide supply chains!

Red snapper - the fish we were catching. Each person is allowed 7 per day, and its ok to combine, so if you have 15 people on a boat, you can bring back 105 snapper - it doesn't matter if one person catches 30 of them! In the end, we had enough for five fish each - even though I only actually caught two, and I am pretty sure a couple of the guys got none. my female boss Jo put us all to shame, catching 4 of the first 5 fish landed! As I remarked to my colleague, this is socialism in action - some caught none, some caught ten - but we ended up with five each (even the guy who was sick in bed all day! 

And here are the last of the Perry plastic Sudanese warriors

I did one unit of four bases of Nile Arabs - based purely on the clothing of the base figure (if they had too much, I deemed them Arabs rather than Fuzzies!)

Basically, armed the same as the Dervishes, but with different heads added

And the last few Dervishes have been completed too

Not much to say about these that hasn't been said in the previous posts

Next up will be a return to the Austrian Army parade!

Die Kaiserlich-königliche Armee in Review - Part 1

 As promised after my recent Austrian debacle, I am presenting a review of my entire 28mm Napoleonic Austrian collection - tonight, the "German" infantry - most easily recognised by white trousers (pants).

IR 1 (Kaiser) Pompadour Pink Facings

IR 3 (Archduke Charles) Sky Blue Facings

IR 8 (Huff) Poppy Red Facings

IR12 (Manfredini) Dark Brown facings

IR 13 (Reisky) Grass Green facings

IR 14 (Klebeck) Black facings

IR 22 (Sachsen-Coburg-Saalfeld) Emperor Yellow facings

IR 42 (Erbach-Schoenberg)Orange facings

IR 50 (Stain) Violet facings

Now, the combined grenadier regiments of the German portion of the infantry. These are not historically accurate (as far as I know) - I simply created regiments that contained two bases each of one of the facing colours above!

1st Grenadier Regiment - orange, yellow and sky blue

2nd Grenadier Regiment - violet, brown and red

Third Grenadier Regiment - green, pink red

Finally, in this instalment, four senior officers, courtesy of a command pack from Old Glory

By the way, for those interested, most of the infantry are from the rather nice Sash and Sabre range, purchased via Old Glory when they had a special deal on. IR 3 and 50 are Old Glory, Second Edition.

Hope you enjoyed that - Hungarian infantry will be next I think in a couple of days time!