Hi, guys.
It's been a long time since I've started a new topic on this board, but I've been really busy painting for commission and for myself.
This project begun a year ago, after a long discussion with my father upon our family during WW2.
As I'm French (so excuse my bad english), my family was directly implicated in this period.
My grand-father was a sergent in an infantry regiment, and my grand-mother (and some other members of the family) in the Resistance and the Maquis.
So it was an evidence for me : alongside my german and US army for the late war, I wanted to do an early war french army based upon the 41è Regiment d'Infanterie, in which my grand-father commanded a section of mortar and was captured by the Germans fighting until his position was surrounded by ennemy troups.
And after the reading of this book, the project begun...
So enough of speaking, here are the pics :
- the first units of the army, of course, were the mortar and a command section (and in the back, you have some soldiers of the cavalry on foot) :
- then I added a Somua S35 (resin model from Warlord Games) a very nice toy feared by the Germans (sorry for the first pic, the real colors are on the second one):
- and the first infantry section (Warlord Games) :
- Then I added a little Renault R35 to the army. The model comes from the Rubicon resin range, and it's a real perfection : nearly nothing to clean and a pleasure to assemble as all the parts fit perfectly together :
- next was the addition of some firepower with a Hotchkiss machinegun team from the Warlord Games range :
- and the last additions to this army are motorised troops from Crusader Miniatures : 3 side-cars with LMG (recon troops attached to an infantry division) and some "Dragon Portés" (mechanized troops from a mechanized division, as one of them have fighted alongside the 19ème DI in one occasion) :
Again, sorry for the bad quality of the pics.
I will do better one in a near future, as I have some more troops coming.