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Austrian Artillery uniforms

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:33 am
by deadtorius
Hi all
I recently got some Old Glory Austrian limbers and the riders they came with appear to be wearing the Shako and what looks like the Infantry uniform. Unfortunately I never got the Osprey Austrian specialists book, just the Napoleonic artillery one and it shows the gun crews but not the artillery drivers uniforms.

Any help on uniform colours would be greatly appreciated thank you.

Re: Austrian Artillery uniforms

Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 1:00 am
by shadowdragon
I believe the uniforms are white with yellow facings....but I'm not sure where I got this info. Anyway, this link seems to be in agreement:

http://www.hat.com/Othr6/Cryns03P.html

This one's without shakos:

http://kentspainting15mm.blogspot.ca/20 ... mbers.html

...and Foundry:

http://wargamesfoundry.com/historical_r ... cb55578806

....oh, wait. I have the Osprey Austrian Specialist Troops book.

Re: Austrian Artillery uniforms

Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2012 12:37 am
by deadtorius
Thank you for the help, looks like white with yellow facings wins. I would have expected red since that seems to have been an international facing colour for artillery, but I guess the Austrians wanted to match their limbers.