Author Topic: Forgotten Glorious French Poilu (Read 6268 times)

Captain Blood · « **on:** April 29, 2012, 10:21:57 AM »

Here are a few more pics of my entry from LPL round 8.
They are lovely large 28mm figures from ForgottenGlorious, a French manufacturer. Great detail and separate heads and weapon arms so you have a lot of choice in the figures you make up - either as Senegalese in fez, chausseurs in beret (?) or poor bloody infantry in Adrian helmet.
I tried to show a variety of uniforms from the period of changeover around 1915, but the one thing not included are heads in kepis, which probably would have been more appropriate for the chap in the pre-horizon blue navy coat and red pantaloons. Ah well. You get the idea.

There are 9 or 10 bodies available - haven't got round to doing the rest of them yet. Fabulous character in the faces (18 available heads).
One tiny criticism, some of the arms didn't fit terribly well and took a fair bit of filing and filling. But the end result is worth it.
Merci beaucoup to Franck from FG for kindly sending me some gratis - Not my period at all, so I said I probably wouldn't paint them. Franck sent them anyway, and as it turns out, I'm glad he did

Ray Rivers · « **Reply #1 on:** April 29, 2012, 12:52:36 PM »

Yep... lots of character there in the faces. Like the officer chap with the pipe!

Superb painting, Richard.

Phil Robinson · « **Reply #2 on:** April 29, 2012, 02:10:53 PM »

très bon

Svennn · « **Reply #3 on:** April 29, 2012, 02:43:20 PM »

Bloody lovely

. Would love to see more Senegalese.

tim1966 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2012, 06:38:45 PM »

Really great - the painting is excellent and brings out the detail of these superb figures.

Helen · « **Reply #5 on:** April 29, 2012, 09:39:46 PM »

Lovely work Richard. Wonderful colours on them all. Th eofficer is my favourite.

Cheers,

Helen

aircav · « **Reply #6 on:** April 29, 2012, 09:47:34 PM »

Stunning work Richard

Great to see more pics

pyrrhicvictory · « **Reply #7 on:** April 30, 2012, 01:36:38 AM »

Magnifique!

Absolutely love the character on their faces.

NurgleHH · « **Reply #8 on:** April 30, 2012, 08:20:24 AM »

Fantasctic work as usual, Captain. And it is not Middleage or Rennaisance. Next work some future-stuff???

Captain Blood · « **Reply #9 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:09:57 AM »

Like these you mean?

Actually Dirk, I have hundreds of Future Wars figures! It's a myth that I only do medieval and rennaissance

See you next week in Hamburg!

Sangennaru · « **Reply #10 on:** April 30, 2012, 10:40:47 AM »

Yeah! My only concern about Pig iron pieces is that the weapon is ONLY ONE! XD

NurgleHH · « **Reply #11 on:** April 30, 2012, 01:45:31 PM »

@Captain: You worked a little bit on that myth, I think. I like your future stuff, great. But now you cannot use it in the next LPL-Round, sorry for that.

Sidney Roundwood · « **Reply #12 on:** May 10, 2012, 05:01:31 PM »

Captain,

These chaps look really fantastic. That French bleu is so tricky to pull off, but you've done it wonderfully. Merveilleux!

janner · « **Reply #13 on:** May 11, 2012, 12:57:05 PM »

Fabulous Capt B

Iron Haiden · « **Reply #14 on:** May 27, 2012, 12:30:10 PM »

These are fantastic.
My army is made up of Renegade and a few great war miniatures but these are very tempting.

Does anyone know how they scale up to the Renegade miniataures WW1 French?

Thanks

H

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