1/32 Hungarian Infantry - Size testing stage

That is great news! I am super glad you are up and running again and so happy you are picking up on the 1/32 line to give us the so desired Austrians and now also Hungarians!
I hope for the Hungarian commander you will correct the Hungarian shoes on the officer figure and give him Hessian Boots (See Osprey books for good reference). 

I would love to see back the diversity in poses from the earlier sets like the French light or the Prussians, I really liked the set up of the Prussian sets including the command with some arm options. I would say less or no standing at attention poses and in an ACTION set a nice variety of shooting, perhaps 2-3 poses,  and 2 or 3 advancing poses that could all go well together as both advancing and firing line, and so an reloading soldier is also really nice. I think the Wurtemberg poses were really nice for this, same for the Prussian Infantry.

In regards of what Sets I could think of Hungarian infantry Fusiliers in MAC Hungarian Grenadiers in MAC and perhaps Grenzers or Grenz infantry in MAC..Or I would also curious to know what others would think of combined boxes? Perhaps even slightly bigger boxes or like two marching boxes and two action boxes and one or two command boxes that all would contain a mix of Grenadiers and Fusiliers (regular infantry).. 

Perhaps I am just mentioning the obvious, just thinking out loud. 

Best,
Stan

Hi Stan; the Chintoy Austrian high command set goes very well with the Hat Austrian German command set in terms of scale of the figures.

I second Stan's assessment about the firing line and advancing figures. Standing at attention figures have very limited use for me but marching figures are great. Alternatives to the attention pose could be: a loading figure, or the figure from the carabinier set who looks like he just cocked his musket and is ready to bring it up to his shoulder to fire, or something like that.
Sergeants in the command sets are essential, and having a few NCO poses spoils us rotten haha.

It would also be great to see Hungarian grenadier sets, or at least bearskins to give to the hungarian line.

Dream come true sets that complicate things for y'all and have questionable "return vs expense" would be casualties, mounted command to include ADCs, generals, colonels, etc. and artillery. Artillery is probably the most plausible.

Yes I totally agree with the suggestions you make! 

Perhaps before the Hungarian infantry I would suggest a box of German Grenadiers, this could be in the Wurtemberg Grenadiers style so a box mixed with both action and marching figures or an action box and marching box. But I could also see the Grenadiers being batched together, say a Marching Grenadier box containing both Germans and Hungarians and an action box of Grenadiers mixed just like the marching! 

Are these still in option after the German Grenadiers and Landwehr?

If at all possible I would LOVE the Hungarians sets to have swapable hats from among; fusilier shako, Grenzer shako & bearskin (and if room; helmets).

If needed I am fine with reducing the number of figures per spru/box to gain these swapable heads because it greatly increases the utility of these sets.

you don’t need full sets of each hat for all figures in the box; like 1 or 2 each of Grenzer shako & bearskins per spru would allow the building out of Grenzer and Hungarian grenadier units along with Hungarian fusilier units.

I would only make the Hungarians in action and marching sets.

As for a command set; I wouldn’t do a set of just Hungarian command poses.
1. You don’t need a full set of 6 command figures because the Austrian German command set’s foot officer and mounted officer can be used for the Hungarian/Grenzer sets (with the officer’s swapable head).
2. What would be great is a set that provides the necessary additional Hungarian/Grenzer command poses as well as command poses for the planned 1/32 Landwehr set, which has zero command poses in it).

I think with plugable arms 1 pose can be made that can be either NCO or Flag figure if made with plug holes and separate plug flag and plug shoulder rifle arms.

My ideal Austrian supplemental Command set would be;
All figures with peg heads for swapable hats

Figures per Spru;
1x Hungarian drummer
1x Hungarian NCO/flag with left arm peg hole
1x German/Landwehr officer in regular uniform (NO overcoat) with right arm peg hole
1x Landwehr NCO/Jager trumpeter with right arm peg hole

Other parts per Spru

Hungarian NCO/flag Left arms;
1x flag
1x left shoulder arms

Officer right arms;
1x sword pointed
1x sword shouldered

Landwehr/Jager NCO right arms;
1x trumpet to mouth
1x arm pointing down

Hats per spru;
1x bicorn
2x Corsican
2x fusilier shako
1x Grenzer shako
1x bearskin

Proposed makeup of sets.





Extra sapper backpack

Test figures

AWOL (Escaped in the mail).

Very excited to paint these. Keep up the good work!
And terribly excited not to have to freehand paint the hungarian braid on any more conversions haha

Yes the braiding looks great!

These look d@mned fine!
Regards, James