Fanteria Austriaca e Ungherese delle Guerre Napoleoniche, 1798–1809

Recensione dei Figurini Italeri in Scala 1:72

Battaglione granatieri ungheresi di Scharlach, 1809, consisting of six companies, due each drawn from reggimento fanteria ungherese Nr. 31 (portabandiera; yellow facing), Nr. 32 (Grenadier; ash grey facings) e Nr. 51 (Officer; light blue facings). The portabandiera was converted from a charging grenadier. The figure looks much better when walking, instead of running, simply by straightening the right leg e welding the foot to the figure’s base. Doing so also tilts the upper body back a little, raising the point of the flag noticeably.

The musket is easy to remove con a scalpel, e 0.6 mm pianowire may be pushed through the hands to act as the flagpole. The flag measures 18.3 mm on the stave e 24.4 mm on the fly, it was cut from plain paper e handpainted. The flag pictured here is the Leibfahne, con the double-eagle on the reverse e the madonna con child on the obverse. The white Leibfahne was carried by the 1^o battaglione of a reggimento fanteria, unless this unit also supplied the most senior companies for a converged grenadier battalion, in which case the granatieri took the Leibfahne con them. In the example above, the flag carried by Grenadier-Bataillon Scharlach is the Leibfahne of the 1^o battaglione of Reggimento Fanteria Nr. 31, because le compagnie di granatieri supplied by that reggimento are the most senior units within the converged battaglione di granatieri. The other flags carried by an reggimento fanteria were yellow Ordinärfahnen which had the double-eagle on both sides.

Contenuto

48 soldatini con 14 Poses – 23 mm pari a 166 cm di altezza

Ufficiale a cavallo
Ufficiale dei granatieri ungheresi
Drummer dei fucilieri
Fuciliere tedesco, marching (6)
Fuciliere tedesco, running (6)
Fuciliere tedesco, standing, tirante (6)
Fuciliere tedesco, kneeling, tirante (6)
Fuciliere tedesco, standing (2)
Fuciliere tedesco, standing, loading (2)
Fuciliere tedesco, kneeling, loading (2)
Granatiere ungherese, marching (6)
Granatiere ungherese, running (3)
Granatiere ungherese, standing, tirante (3)
Granatiere ungherese, kneeling (3)

Popular Elmi

Il Raupenhelm austriaco, un elmo a cresta, was introduced in 1798 ed it became very popular con the troops, even if it wasn’t very practical in the field. Some reggimenti di fanteria continued to wear the Raupenhelm as late as 1809, despite the fact that it had been officially replaced by the shakò in 1808. The Italeri soldatini are sculpted as fucilieri tedeschi e granatieri ungheresi, but they sono facilmente convertiti to fucilieri ungheresi e granatieri tedeschi respectively.

Valutazione

Excellent detail. Facings, straps, armi, elmi ed equipaggiamento are nicely sculpted ed easy to paint.
Striking faces. These heads con the typical elmo Raupenhelm may be used for conversions of dragoni e corazzieri austriaci.
Useful historic poses. The soldatini may be deployed in advancing o firing units. The marching poses look very good in large formations. The charging fuciliere is the best plastic figure of this type, con correct anatomy.
Excellent casting quality, little flash.

Obvious casting problems on the marching fuciliere may be corrected con the scalpel, the figure should look very nice after painting.
Portabandiera is missing, but due of the soldatini, un granatiere ed un fuciliere may be converted to serve in this role.
Fucilieri are shown wearing the pigtail which went out of fashion in 1804.
The marching grenadier is sculpted without ammunition pouches.
The charging grenadier has a serious coordination problem, he is ambling like a horse, con his left arm, shoulder e left foot moving forward simultaneously. An impossible gait for a soldier, usually grounds for dismissal. The pose can be corrected by straightening the right leg e soldering the foot to the figure’s base. The ambling motion is less noticeable when the figure is walking instead of running.
The standing e firing grenadier has the musket pointing toward the sky. The mistake may be corrected by reducing the base thickness underneath the figure’s front foot, bringing the musket back into an almost horizontal position.
The drum appears a little small.
Incorrect painting instructions on the back of the box. Il fuciliere tedesco is shown wearing pointed cuffs ungheresi instead of round cuffs which would be correct. He mistankenly carries a sabre which was a distinguishing mark of the granatieri. Il granatiere ungherese is shown con the proper cuffs ungheresi on the jacket, but he wears white trousers tedesche instead of the light blue trousers ungheresi con yellow knots e side stripes.
Plastic figure sets released by any one of the major manufacturers are notoriously inaccurate in the selection of historical figure types. This is particularly the case con Napoleonic fanteria di linea sets e most line cavalleria sets, which are released without the required line elite soldatini.
Italeri has made a move in the right direction, producing a set of fucilieri e granatieri in one box. Unfortunately, it would not have been necessary in this particular case, simply because i fucilieri e granatieri austriaci ed ungheresi did not serve in the same units durante le guerre napoleoniche. The granatieri were converged into separate battaglioni granatieri e they served in combined grenadier brigades of the 1st e 2nd Reserve Corps. Accordingly, i soldatini fucilieri e granatieri might have been covered in due separate sets which would have provided more officers, portabandiere e musicians than the combined set.

Italeri might have been better advised to produce a combined set of fucilieri con elmi a cresta Raupenhelm (1798-1809) e fucilieri con shakò (1808-1815), which could have been used concurrently during the 1808-1809 transition period. It remains to be seen which manufacturer will produce fucilieri con the typical shakò austriaco, which may be used for the important 1809, 1812 e 1813 campaigns involving the armata imperiale austriaca. These soldatini are much more versatile than the sodatini con elmi a cresta, giocatori wargame e collezionisti need a large number of them to recreate the later campaigns.

Bibliografia

Armata Austriaca delle Guerre Napoleoniche (1) - Fanteria. Philip Haythornthwaite
Allevi, Piersergio: Soldatini, p. 140

Utilizzo Storico

Fucilieri tedeschi, 1798–1809
Erzherzog Karl Legion, 1809
Granatieri ungheresi, 1798–1815
Baden fanteria & cacciatori con elmi a cresta, 1806–1813

Conversioni Possibili

Fucilieri ungheresi, 1798–1809. Convert the round cuffs to pointed ones, paint the trousers light blue con yellow knots e side stripes ungheresi.
Granatieri tedeschi, 1798–1815. Convert the pointed cuffs to round ones, remove the knots ungheresi e paint the trousers white.
Cacciatori austriaci con elmi a cresta, 1798–1809. A very simple conversion, shortening the musket to make it look like a rifle e painting the figure in Jäger uniform.
The elmo a cresta may be used to convert dragoni austriaci e corazzieri for the 1798-1840 period.
Nassau 1^o e 2^o Reggimento Fanteria, 1809-1814. Center companies wore a green Austrian-style uniform con shakò francese. Ufficiali wore bicorni initially, but changed to shakò shortly after their men. Granatieri received the elmo Raupenhelm in stile bavarese previously worn by Leibbataillon von Todenwarth, except for the 2. Grenadierkompanie of the 1. Regiment, which wore the shakò during the Spanish campaign. In 1810, granatieri received a fur busby con red bag, plume e cords. Granatieri, e volteggiatori had epaulettes in stile francese. Light grey trousers ungheresi con black knots, changed to green con yellow knots in 1810.
Compagnie moschettieri di Reuss del 6. Rheinbundregiment (Waldeck-Reuss), 1807–1813. White Austrian-style uniforms, con blue trousers ungheresi, e shakò francesi.

The Italeri soldatini will be very popular con collezionisti e giocatori wargame interested in the armata imperiale austriaca delle Guerre Napoleoniche. The soldiers are sculpted in solid e very versatile wargaming poses. At the grand-tactical level, using a figure scale of 1:250, gamers will need approximately 11 boxes of these soldatini for the battle of Aspern-Essling, 21st-22nd maggio 1809, e 14 boxes for Wagram, 5th-6th luglio of the same year. By that time, i fucilieri of most reggimenti di fanteria should be wearing the more practical shakò which was introduced in 1808.

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Soldatini Austriaci Napoleonici

– Pubblicato: 1996 – Aggiornato: 25.06.2008
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