Austrian Erzherzog Ferdinand Carl d’Este Hussars No. 3 : The Koburg Hussars
The Austrian hussar featured in the last post was the first Pendraken
Austrian hussar figure I had painted of a rather large pile I had bought.
Next off, there was a 16-figure unit on my painting list (see Post 41).
The Austrian hussar regiment Erzherzog Ferdinand No. 3 was distinguished by pike
grey shakos and dark blue jackets and pelisses for which I used Foundry’s German
Late Field Grey Light 78C for the shakos (see Post 32) and – as the blue was very dark
– Foundry’s Prussian Blue Shade 66A highlighted with Foundry’s French Blue Shade
65A for the jackets and pelisses. I decided to offset the regiment’s dark blue uniform
with white rather than black lambskins. The lambskin over the saddlecloth for
Austrian cavalry was generally black – even when the ‘German’ cavalry were
officially ordered to use white. However, white lambskins – and not exclusively for
parade dress – are in evidence. As I mentioned in the last post, all the hussars are
dressed in service dress light ‘mixed grey’ overall trousers.
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