Eureka French Foreign Legion (2009)

[cdm]

Modern FFL. Not my thing, so I don't have any thing technical to say about them. However, they are the first moderns Eureka have done with chunkier barrel ends less prone to bending off The rocket launcher guy comes in a top and bottom half, the rest are OPC's. Eye height 27mm

[carlos marighela]

Wow! I've been waiting for these for a while. Saw the armless versions months ago. More great work by Kosta.

[Earther]

Absolutley brilliant! That's made my day that has. The FAMAS rifles are brilliant. OMG, when are these available?



They'd look nice alongside the FFL Mr Hicks has done for Dadi & Piombo a while back…

[Lowtardog]

Absolutley brilliant! That's made my day that has. The FAMAS rifles are brilliant. OMG, when are these available?



They'd look nice alongside the FFL Mr Hicks has done for Dadi & Piombo a while back…

My thoughts too

[Earther]

Hope they do a helmeted version too…

[Calimero]

Hope they do a helmeted version too…

I was thinking exactly the same thing... Nice figures none the less!

[earthdog]

Nice shiny ones!

With their berets and rolled-up sleeves they won't make for good frontline soldiers but they're right on for NUIT forces (the french department of dr. WHO’s UNIT). So at least the good doctor can enjoy the mediterranean sun a bit.

[revford]

Very cool models, I'll have to come up with an excuse to pick them up soon. 

[Dan]

I really like these but worry they will look too small next to my Foundry/EM4/Copplestone Figures for my Future Wars setting.

[traveller]

Looking good! Would these be historically correct to use against TAG Africans for the figthing in Congo some years ago?

[v_lazy_dragon]

Looking good! Would these be historically correct to use against TAG Africans for the figthing in Congo some years ago?

That's what I was wondering...

[cdm]

I really like these but worry they will look too small next to my Foundry/EM4/Copplestone Figures for my Future Wars setting.

I only have the Copplestone Future Wars guys from or list. They stand about 1.5mm taller at the eye and are noticeably heftier. If you are slightly pedantic about these things, they probably aren't suitable for you.

[the commissar]

That's what I was wondering...

Depends how far you want to go back, if you mean Kolwezi in the late 1970's then unfortunately not as the weaponry changed in about 1980 with the introduction of the FAMAS, also the AAT4 and Minimi were not in use then. Also I think body armour was not widely worn until after Gulf War 1.

I think with this appearance they are probably restricted to intervention in Brazzaville (Congo), peacekeeping in Bosnia/Kosovo (later period) and current Afghanistan.

Now if they can be persuaded to do some unarmoured riflemen and sniper, an AA52 LMG gunner and possibly a chap with an LRAC then that would be OK for earlier African interventions and Lebanon in the early 1980s.

[the commissar]

Nice shiny ones!

With their berets and rolled-up sleeves they won't make for good frontline soldiers but they're right on for NUIT forces (the french department of dr. WHO’s UNIT). So at least the good doctor can enjoy the mediterranean sun a bit.

Yes - to me they look more like how the FFL would appear in a current "African" deployment rather than Afghanistan. I have not been able to find a huge number of pictures of the FFL in Afghanistan but these seem to show mostly the helmet being worn and combat jacket (rather than shirt sleeves) and armour with an "upright" collar.

Having said that - nice figures and I shall be getting some, perhaps to paint up as something different like Marine parachute infantry with a red beret rather than green.

[carlos marighela]

Yes - to me they look more like how the FFL would appear in a current "African" deployment rather than Afghanistan. I have not been able to find a huge number of pictures of the FFL in Afghanistan but these seem to show mostly the helmet being worn and combat jacket (rather than shirt sleeves) and armour with an "upright" collar.

Having said that - nice figures and I shall be getting some, perhaps to paint up as something different like Marine parachute infantry with a red beret rather than green.

As I plan to paint some of these I picked up a copy of a Concord booklet Special Ops. Vol 42 has an article on the Legion battlegroup in Afghanistan. It's an extensive photo essay and it's pretty clear that the Eureka figures have used this as their source. All the legionnaires are wearing berets and have sleeves rolled. They are depicted like this on patrol and manning OPs.  The standing figure with the Minimi SAW in the bottom figure seems to be directly modelled on one of the legionairres in the book, right down to the shades. The figures look pretty accurate on the basis of the Concord title. BNo doubt the range will expand if given some support. Personally I'm very happy with mine.