Fanteria Bavarese, Granatieri e Tiratori delle Guerre Napoleoniche, 1807–1815

Recensione dei Figurini HaT Industrie in Scala 1:72

Readers of Military Miniatures Magazine voted for fanteria bavarese as their third choice of the Wishlist 1998. The list was forwarded to popular plastic soldatini manufacturers e HaT Industrie actually responded to our readers’ suggestions e released their fanteria bavarese due years later. The result is well worth it, as can be seen in the photo. The soldatini are Granatieri e Tiratori of the line elite companies attached to every fanteria battalion. Fucilieri, who made up quattro of the six companies in an fanteria battalion, are not included in the pack, although they may be converted by prudentamente removing the plume dell’elmo.

Contenuto

48 soldatini in 8 Poses – 23 mm pari a 166 cm di altezza

• Ufficiale (4)
• Granatiere/Tiratore marching (8)
• Granatiere/Tiratore attacking (8)
• Granatiere/Tiratore tirante (8)
• Granatiere/Tiratore standing (8)
• Granatiere/Tiratore kneeling, loading (4)
• Granatiere/Tiratore standing, loading (4)
• Granatiere/Tiratore advancing, open hand (4)

• Muskets (4)
• Pennons (4)

Valutazione

Excellent choice of subject. I granatieri e tiratori bavaresi are unique in this scale. Unfortunately, the soldatini represent only elite company soldiers wearing the tall plume on the left side of the Raupenhelm. Quattro of the six companies in every battaglione della fanteria di linea wore the Raupenhelm without plume, e giocatori wargame will have to carve a lot of plumes off these soldatini in order to recruit their regiments e brigades. It would have been a relatively simple matter to represent the proper ratio of Fusiliers to Elites in this set even con only eight poses to chose from.

The loading e firing poses are well done, e they can be used to raise wargame units.

Satisfactory casting quality. Obvious flash e le linee di stampo devono essere tolto prima di dipingere. The editor used the Rai-Ro Wachsspachtelgerät heated spatula to blend mould lines into the surface of the model.

The officer is incorrectly shown wearing un Raupenhelm regolare dei enlisted men con the more compact lambskin caterpillar crest. Ufficiali e senior NCOs wore elmi con caterpillar crests made from bearskin which are noticeably thicker, e which protrude straight forward at the front of the elmo. This mistake will be difficult to fix. The officer is not suitable for the popular 1812 e 1813 wargaming periods, because he is wearing the sash which was officially discarded before the invasion of Russia.

Flags della fanteria bavarese should be 24 mm square in this scale. The separate plastic pennons included in this set are practically useless, they measure only 11 mm square, less than half the size of an fanteria flag e nearly twice the size of a cavalleria standard. It’s amazing that manufacturers routinely make such silly mistakes, even though reliable historic information is readily available.

The marching ed advancing granatieri exhibit a serious motor coordination problem. These soldatini are sculpted in a horse’ ambling gait, moving the arm e leg of the same side in unison. If you’ve ever tried this at home o in the military, you’ll know what an impossible gait it is. You just don’t get very far when you walk that way, because the body rotates around the vertical axis. One ambling soldier in a marching formation will quickly cause mayhem, particularly if bayonets are fixed.

The grenadier con open hand is marred by the moulding process: his lower chest e belly are flat, without any detail. Expert painters may fix this problem by painting in the missing details.

Utilizzo Storico

• Ufficiali bavaresi, 1805–1812
• Granatieri di linea bavaresi, 1807-1815
• Schützen di linea bavaresi, 1811-1815

Conversioni Possibili

• Fanteria bavarese wearing the elmo Raupenhelm without plume
  • Fucilieri della fanteria di linea, 1807-1815
  • Tiratori della fanteria di linea, 1807-1811
  • Fucilieri della fanteria leggera, 1807-1815
  • Cacciatori, 1. & 2. Jäger-Bataillon 1815
• Fanteria d’élite bavarese armed con a short rifle
  • Carabinieri, 1807-1815
  • Cacciatori Carabinieri, 1815
• Fanteria bavarese con capotto
  Heads con the elmo Raupenhelm bavarese may be used to convert fanteria francese con cappotto al fanteria bavarese. Elmi fucilieri need to have the plume removed which was only worn by granatieri e skirmishers of the fanteria di linea battalion.

Giocatori di wargame will be happy to have these soldatini d’élite della fanteria bavarese, even if some conversion is required to convert them to fucilieri di linea.

HaT Industrie Soldatini

Bibliografia

• Knötel-Sieg: Handbuch der Uniformkunde, pp. 50-54
• Napoleon’s German Allies (4): Bavaria, Otto von Pivka, Osprey Men-At-Arms Series 106
• Uniforms delle Guerre Napoleoniche in Colour 1796–1814, Jack Cassin-Scott, Plate 37
• Haythornthwaite, Philip: Uniforms of 1812, Plate 35

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Soldatini Bavaresi delle Guerre Napoleoniche

– Pubblicato: 23.12.2000 – Aggiornato: 18.06.2008
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