Fanteria Austriaca, 1909–1915

Recensione dei Figurini HaT Industrie in Scala 1:72

Fanteria austriaca wearing the pike-grey 1909 pattern field uniform e the special trousers con cloth anklets. The soldatini are mounted on section-sized bases compatibile con regolamento di wargame Crossfire. There are enough troops in questa scatola to raise an Austrian fanteria company for Crossfire. The soldiers may be converted to early assault fanteria by replacing the kepi con un elmetto d’acciaio tedesco modello M.1916. Later in the war, the trousers would be worn con puttees.

Contenuto

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

• General (4)
• Rifleman marching (4)
• Rifleman advancing (8)
• Rifleman advancing con raised rifle (8)
• Rifleman advancing con levelled rifle (8)
• Rifleman standing, tirante (8)
• Rifleman kneeling, tirante (4)
• Rifleman kneeling, loading (4)

Valutazione

• Excellent choice of subject, fanteria austriaca della prima guerra mondiale is unique in this scale.
• Acceptable wargaming poses, the soldatini may be used to raise plotoni e compagnie di fanteria per Crossfire e similar rules systems.

• Substandard casting quality. Obvious flash e le linee di stampo devono essere tolto prima di dipingere. The editor used the Rai-Ro ZEP-70 heated spatula to blend mould lines into the surface of the model.
• The officer figure is wearing the grey cylindrical kepi reserved for generals e stato maggiore officers. The general may be converted to an fanteria officer by replacing the peace-time kepi con a kepi taken from one of the riflemen in the figure set.
• Some of the riflemen carry the mess kit attached to the outside of the knapsack, others don’t.
• The due kneeling riflemen have dropped the knapsack as is common in the combat zone. However, it’s unlikely that they would have been permitted to discard the bayonet, entrenching tool e haversack as well.
• The right leg of the standing rifleman looks like it is shattered at the knee, the folds in the trousers are obviously incorrect. The advancing rifleman has a similar problem con his left knee. It seems that the folds in some of the trousers were added as an afterthought, ed engraved directly into the mould.
• The standing rifleman wears his bayonet ed entrenching tool on the left thigh, rather than behind the left hip. Clearly, that’s silly e highly dangerous for the wearer; no soldier in his right mind would do a thing like that.
• The advancing rifleman has discarded the bayonet ed entrenching tool. If this is a figure designer’s creative interpretation of campaign dress, it’s the wrong approach.
• One of the advancing riflemen has a damaged blanket-roll around his knapsack. The same figure pose next to it is ok.

Utilizzo Storico

• Fanteria austriaca, 1909–1915

Conversioni Possibili

• Assault fanteria austriaca, 1916
  Replace the kepi con un elmetto d’acciaio M.1916 taken from fanteria tedesca della prima guerra mondiale di Revell. Add grenades ed ammunition bandoleers, remove knapsacks.
• Fanteria ungherese, 1909–1915
  Convert the trousers to represent breeches ungheresi con typical braid ungherese on each thigh.

The fanteria austriaca are a welcome addition to the growing range of fanteria, artiglieria e veicoli della prima guerra mondiale available in scala 1:72 plastic. The design e casting quality of this particular figure set is below standard, but giocatori wargame may want to recruit a few of these troops anyway.

HaT Industrie Soldatini

Bibliografia

• Mollo, John: Uniforms of World-War I, Plates 4-6
• Förster, Hoch, Müller: Uniformen europäischer Armeen, Plate 103

Domande più frequenti

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Soldatini della Prima Guerra Mondiale

– Pubblicato: 17.09.2003 – Aggiornato: 21.08.2008
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