The Austrian infantry is in fact never fully made. You need hundreds of stands for Wagram, (in AOE terms - even at 1 stand/360 figures you need 223 bases of line infantry) and I´m around a bit more than half of the total. Together with this IR 10, made of Esci and Italeri figures, I painted one more Grenadier Battalion and an artillery stand.
Two of the infantry battalions are Austrian figures but the third battalion got a different treatment. The torsos on the 2nd and 3rd ranks are French "line" from Esci with Austrian heads taken from kneeling figures. There are simply too many in both Esci and Italeri boxes and making three ranks, two of them standing, doesn´t help. Backpacks were placed in all figures that didn´t have them. The French uniform in both brands have short coat tails and suit an Austrian unit very well if appropriately painted.
Like this they don´t stand that bad and you can reduce the number of headless figures. A good number of kneeling Esci and Italeri Austrians was still kept as I intend to couple them with Hat or Strelets Austrians.
The kneeling figures have to be used due to their numbers in old boxes. In fact I`m not sure if the Austrian infantry kneeled even when in square like the British did with its first rank.
The Esci figure biting its cartridge was converted into a drummer and is now smoking its pipe.
This one, originally a Prussian sprue, came by mistake inside a box of Wurttemberg artillery as both are blue. The coat was cut here and there and painted as Austrian.
Next: more Austrian cavalry.
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