Next on Parade, Infantry Regiment Moltuja Here we get a peek at a Syldavian army line infantry regiment, IR 3 Moltuja. I had it as the third infantry regiment in seniority, recruited from an interior valley province with its primary armoury in the city of Istow, a place named in Hergé's canon. I had this region as a stalwartly loyalist province having a significant German-speaking population derived from an early medieval migration. That is my own invention, not something hinted at by Hergé. I used Eureka Miniature's excellent 18mm SYW range for this unit and for almost all the rest of the project, as you will eventually see. These are Austrian infantry figures with a couple of other additions. All of my Syldavian regular army is strongly influenced by the Austro-Hungarian KüK and I have used gone so far as to use my Syldavians as stand-ins for the real Austrian army here and there. They are more colourful however - the basic theory of the uniform is that coat, trousers
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