One missing part of my Honvéd Army was the generall staff. I have painted three brigade commanders and a division commander.
In 1848-49 there were no strict rules for the uniforms of the high ranking Hungarian officers. Some of them had medium brown atilla surcoats like the Honvéd infantry did. Others wore light blue atillas, because the Autstrian Army had the same colour for the officers and lot of the Hungarian generals were former soldiers of the Austrian Imperial Army. There were rank symbols, but everything was messed up, because of the rapid renewal of the officers. In many cases when an officer was promoted there was no time for him to adjust the rank symbols of his uniform so he had the symbols of a lower rank while carrying out higher duties.
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