The 300 Austrians, Redux!

 Regular readers may require the 300 odd Old Glory Austrian Infantry I acquired for $100 at Historicon 2011. Late last year I finally got around to cataloguing them and painting 5 units in  Helmet, and then earlier this year another 2 Hungarian units "casual marching".  To make the best use of the remaining figures required a few additional pack of Old Glory figures, which were dutifully acquired (with the 40% discount courtesy of the Army Card). With the approach of cooler weather, I decided that I should organize the figures into units and do all of the prep work and priming before winter sets in. It turned out that I had sufficient lead on hand to form 2 new units of  Grenzer, 2 units of Grenadiers, 6 units of  Austrian German Line in Shako Advancing, 5 units of Austrian German Line in Shako March-Attack (1 will be painted as Hungarian), and one 1 Line in Shako, Casual Marching. (to be painted as Hungarian as well) There were also 8 quite useful casualty figures, which I also prepped and primed. That's 296 in all (and there a re still a few more figures left over, including some foot and mounted officers that may well be drafted as commanders) 

Here's what almost 300 Austrians look like, ready for painting.  Hey, they're almost half done after being sprayed with  white primer! :-)

The second task was to figure out which units to paint, taking into account my already substantial collection of Austria Infantry. That lead to the following list and planning:

Existing Austrian Line (H = Hungarian) Facing Color/ Buttons Make Pose

IR# 25 Zedtwitz Sea Green Minifigs Helmet Advancing

IR# 22 Coburg Yellow Minifigs Helmet  Advancing

IR# 49 Baron Kerpen Light Grey Helmet  Minifigs Advancing

IR# 40 Graf Mittrowsky Crimson Helmet  Minifigs Advancing

IR# 4 Deutchmeister Light Blue Minifigs Helmet  March-Attack

IR# 9 Czartoryski Apple Green Minifigs Helmet  March-Attack

IR# 1 Kaiser Polish Crimson Minifigs Helmet  March-Attack

IR# 17 Furst Hohenlohe (Reuss-Plauien)  Helmet  Medium Brown Minifigs March-Attack

IR# 21 Gyulai Sea Green Old Glory Helmet  Advancing

IR# 59 Jodis Orange Old Glory Helmet  Advancing

IR# 10 Reiske Bright Green Helmet  Old Glory Advancing

IR# 15 Zach Red Old Glory  Helmet Advancing

IR#42 Graf Erbach Orange-Yellow Helmet  SashSaber March-Att

IR#38 Wurttemburg Rose Pink Helmet  SashSaber March-Att

IR#24 Baron Strauch Dark Blue SashSaber March-Att

IR#18 Reuss-Greitz Pompadour SashSaber March-Att

IR# 61 St. Julien (H) Grass Green* Minifigs Advancing

IR# 32 Esterhazy (H) Light Blue* Minifigs Advancing

IR# 58 Baron Beaulieu (H) Black* Old Minifigs Advancing

IR# 51 Baron Splenyi (H) Dark Blue* Old Minifigs Advancing

IR#31 Benjowki (H) Emperor Yellow* SashSaber March-Att - Shako

IR# 34 Davidovich (H) Crab Red* SashSaber March-Att - Shako

IR# 48 Vukassovich (H) Steel Green* SashSaber March-Att - Shako

IR# 53 Jellacic (H) Pompadour* SashSaber March Att - Shako

IR #12 Manfredini Dark Brown Old Glory Advancing
IR #21 Prinz Rohan Sea Green Old Glory Advancing
IR #30 De Ligne Pike Grey  Old Glory Advancing
IR #41 Kuttulinski Sulfur Yellow   Old Glory Advancing
IR #50 Stain  Violet  Old Glory Advancing

IR #39 Duka  (H) Poppy Red/silver buttons - Old Glory Marching, campaign - Shako
IR# 19 Alvinczy (H) Sky Blue/silver buttons - Old Glory Marching, campaign - Shako

Future units:

IR #2 Hiller (H(), Kaiser yellow/brass buttons, OG Marching, campaign, Shako

IR #62 Franz Jellacic (H), Grass Green/pewter buttons, Old Glory, Marching

IR #3 Erzherzog Karl Sky Blue,/pewter buttons, Old Glory Advancing

IR #8 Erzherzog Louis Poppy Red/brass buttons Old Glory Advancing

IR #11 Erzherzog Rainer Rose pink/pewter buttons Old Glory Advancing

IR #14 Klebeck Black/brass buttons Old Glory Advancing

IR #36 Kollowrat Gris de Lin (Lilac) /pewter buttons Old Glory Advancing

IR #54 Froon Apple Green/pewter bottons Old Glory Advancing

IR #26 Hohenlohe Bright Green/brass buttons Old Glory March=Attack

IR #29 Lindenau Light Blue/pewter buttons Old Glory March=Attack

IR #44 Bellegarde Madder Red/pewter buttons Old Glory March=Attack

IR 63 Bailet Light Brown/brass buttons Old Glory March=Attack

Grenzer

GR# 2 Octocaner Yellow Foundry

GR# 5 Kreutzer Bright Red Foundry

GR# 16 1^st Wallachian Bright Green Foundry

GR# 12 Deutschbanater Light Blue Essex

GR# 15  2nd Szeckler  Rose Red Old Glory

GR# 9 Peterwardeiner  Light Pike Grey  Old Glory

Future units:

GR# 3 Ogulin, Orange/brass buttons Foundry

GR #17 2nd Wallachian, white coats (Foundry OG, mixed figures) Parrot Green/pewter buttons

Grenadiers

1^st Grenadiers Grass Green* Minifigs Firing

2^nd Grenadiers Yellow (H) SashSaber March Attack

3^rd Grenadiers Light Grey Minifigs Advancing

4^th Grenadiers Red Minfigs March Attack

5^th Grenadiers Blue Minifigs March Attack

Future units:

6^th Grenadiers Orange Old Glory Advancing

7^th Grenadiers Pompadour (H) Old Glory Advancing

HI labeled each of the units (M1 = 1st unit in March-Attack pose), and painted the assigned facing color for that unit on the tongue depressors that I use to hold the figures during painting. 

C1 = Casual marching pose unit 1; both of these units will be Hungarian, so I painted on a line of Azure Blue to remind myself of that when it comes time to paint them! 

A = Advancing pose, G = Grenadier unit.

Z = Grenz unit, with a line of Brown to remind me this one gets brown coats. 

One of the Grenadiers will be Hungarian.

One of the Grenz units will have the white coats for variety. Note the casualty figures as well!

All packed up for storage until their turn on the painting table arrives!