Have you seen these new Woodbine Collections being released at Salute?

[Helen]

As the title says:

http://www.grippingbeast.com/webpage.php?PageID=96

I love Simpson and the Donkey. Thanks Soapy this will be real treat to paint up.

I'm sure a few folks will be swooning over the Gurkhas.


Cheers,

Helen

[Amalric]

Thank you for posting this.

I really love the set of Poachers.
Lots of pulp use for that pack.

Amalric

[Centaur_Seducer]

The amount of great sasches on the french want me to collect them all!

[joroas]

Well, I was at Gripping Beast tonight , new stuff mentioned but not seen.  They were working until 9PM casting stuff ready for Salute.

[soapy]

They were working until 9PM casting stuff ready for Salute.

Just nine? They must be getting lazy in their old age. Time was we'd but up till the early hours casting away. I say we but as one of the flaky artistic types I'd just sit around smoking and looking pensive whilst everyone else did the work...

[Mr.J]

Gurkhas and Senegalese riflemen, so happy to see these!

[Wirelizard]

The Gurkhas and poachers look great!

Nice to see some alternatives to the Copplestone Gurkhas, which lack visible kukri AFAIK, and which I understand are bleedin' massive - Copplestone British already being unusably large IMO! I shall be pencilling in some Ghurkas to The List for interwar NWF/pulp/BoB entertainment at some point.

[6milPhil]

Good stuff thanks for pointing them out... shame no photo of the Indian Army HMG yet though... always good to see more Gurhkas, but rather see more Sikhs meself. 

[joroas]

Well, Soapy, they said 9PM at the moment but rising to 1 or 2 AM over the next two weeks or so............... I was told if they got home early on the night before Salute, then that was a victory...............

[soapy]

That sounds more like it...

[thejammedgatling]

really nice work soapy
love the Simpson and donkey. I think we can always do with more characters like this to add narrative to games.

[Calimero]

Did the Senegalese used the Bleu Horizon uniforms at some point in the Great War? I always thought that they used Dark Blue uniforms in the beginning then switch to a Moutarde uniforms (kind of brown/yellow mix) in 1916?  

[Christian]

It seems that the donkey's name has been forgotten! It was Duffy

[Plynkes]

Did the Senegalese used the Bleu Horizon uniforms at some point in the Great War? I always thought that they used Dark Blue uniforms in the beginning then switch to a Moutarde uniforms (kind of brown/yellow mix) in 1916?  

Yes, in France they were initially clothed in their dark blue uniforms, then switched to Horizon Blue for a time when it was introduced in 1915. When they went to Gallipoli they apparently (according to Osprey) reverted to their sand-coloured African tropical get-up, but with the addition of blue puttees. Then as you say, in 1916 they changed to the new mustard-coloured uniforms.


I'd love to see some figures in the tropical sand-coloured uniforms (collarless jacket and calf-length trousers, no puttees, barefoot or in sandals) so you could use them to fight the Boche in Africa. But Hell, it's great to see any kind of Tirailleurs Sénégalais, and I am thankful they are available, so I shall not be churlish enough to mention it again. 

[Hammers]

For how long did the tirailleures carry that uniform? Into WWII?