WW1 Project with 28mm Wargame Atlantic figurines

[nervisfr]

hey guys
If you want to see the French and the German in video
go to my blog, right here :
http://chti-reanimator59.blogspot.com/2023/06/le-re-animator-se-disperse-facon-puzzle.html

and a lot of more fun stuff

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Cheers
Eric

[nervisfr]

i'm back for this topic.
i have just finished the French Trench raiders (aka "nettoyeurs de tranchées") as a counterpart for the german ones.
Will post as soon as it's possible.

[nervisfr]

the base are ready to receive the french raiders

[commissarmoody]

Cool! Nice and grizzled.

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I have just bought a box of the Germans (for WWI on the Doggerland Front), and your work with the Wargames Atlantic figures is inspiring.

Keep up the good work.

[nervisfr]

thank you guys.
this is the purpose of that topic (and my blog too) 
The french raiders are ready for a pictures show

[nervisfr]

here is a caroussel video about the French Trench raiders

[nervisfr]

More are coming from WA !

The British are on the way

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

No officer figure, apparently - in contrast to the other sets which appear to have an officer on every sprue! OK, not a huge problem, as it is easily rectified from the numerous metal ranges out there.  More importantly, no entrenching tool head/carrying case, which was worn across the buttocks (and gave added protection to one's posterior - ditto to the groin when worn by Australians, apparently) and is a serious omission.  And the webbing only works for early war.

Just remind me, do plastics manufacturers consult anyone at all before designing these sets?

[Ultravanillasmurf]

And the webbing only works for early war.

The Great War is well out of my knowledge area, what webbing type is on the figures?

Way back when I was painting some Empress Interwar (https://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=97132.msg1439298#msg1439298), there was a discussion on webbing.

http://www.karkeeweb.com/patterns/1908/carriers_etool.html

On the other hand, Barnsley Pal Private Frank Lindley, in a reminiscence of going over the top at the Somme, wrote "We had our entrenching tools strapped low across our fronts. They should have been fitted at the back but we used to strap them across the front to protect our privates from a bayonet thrust or a piece of shell or owt." [Quoted from Richard von Emden's splendid book Boy Soldiers of the Great War, p.202.]

From their site:

Looks a bit like an officer.
https://wargamesatlantic.com/blogs/news/ww1-british-up-for-pre-order

[carlos marighela]

Just remember to glue the packs on or alter the webbing at the rear. For reasons best known to themselves WA chose to depict the cross straps of the '08 webbing as H shaped rather than X at the rear. 

Won't put me off though as I fully intend to buy some for various interwar projects.

[Baron von Wreckedoften]

From their site:

Looks a bit like an officer.

Not really, no.  Officers wore a shirt and tie and had boots rather than puttees - or if they wore a private's coat (known as a "funk jacket") later on in the war, would have had a tin lid with it and probably carried a rifle as well.  Sorry, but gluing a pistol holster - even one that looks capable of holding a sawn-off 12-gauge - onto a private's webbing doth not an officer make.  As I say, not a problem for me as I have loads of early war GWM and Renegade officers to cover that particular gap; and my figures will represent 1914 British, so the complete absence of distinctive entrenching tool heads (whichever bodily part they were placed to protect!!!) and the lack of grenade-launcher cups on ANY of the eight rifles on each sprue (for just five figures - they really couldn't have converted just ONE of them???) won't bother me, either.  If it does others, then they can find appropriate rifles in the Perry 8th Army set, you just need to trim off the attached shirt-sleeved arm at the wrist and attach the amputated hand to your BEF figure of choice; the missing entrenching tool head/cover will need Milliput or Greenstuff though.  As an aside, I would trim down the straps on the separate gas mask cases as the current length leaves them hanging far too low on the body, where they would interfere with handling the rifle.

I could understand if such errors had been made in the interests of a compromise necessary to make the figures more adaptable and/or useable across a broader time-frame (bizarrely, this is the one WW1 set capable of replicating British and some Imperial troops across the entirety of the war, but is "limited" to 1916-18), but most of those associated with this set just seem to be down to poor research.  Even the fact that the sculpts probably emanate from the US is not an excuse, since the AEF looked pretty much the same as the BEF when it entered the war.

[nervisfr]

Just received my box of British infantry and then start the conversions 

[Ultravanillasmurf]

I built about one and a half figures before giving them up as a bad job and buying some Great War Miniatures figures.

Besides the issue of the inaccurate webbing and the missing entrenching tool blade, I found the figures too irritating to assemble. There is a identifying number for the left arm and the rifle but not for the right arm. This might explain the figure that looks like it had a run in with a giant spider where I tried to juggle a body, a rifle and two arms.

[nervisfr]

WW1 is not my cup of tea but i think they fit very well for my project.

here is some new figs in WIP



The officer is based on a WW2 Italian's body 
The infantryman is running now . With a simple conversion, it's possible