(Army Painters) French Foreign Legion 1910-50; reboot 2014

[gary42]

Small squad of 6 or so with a commander type. Too far from where?

[former user]

from germany to ship my surplus to Canada I guess....

[Ray Rivers]

Hey... you cheated and started to early! 

 

Looks like we are off and running. Good luck on your project!

[Mason]

And they're off!

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the car pool.
 

[former user]

oh, did I?  sorry, I wasn't aware...
well, I won't start with painting very soon, since the cars need to be dismantled first before I can basecoat them. And I just realized that I can already use my artillery train troops, which are not prepped either...
so...

the project gets diverted from the start. Apparently I did not realize the full potential of the vehicles before I really started doing them.....

now I have to disassemble 5 Crossley trucks, 2 Thomas routers, 1 Truck and 1 Lancia armored car and fix the LMG mounts. I might have to buy a cannon too quickly.....

[former user]

so, all of You who got lured into looking here and can give me a clue: what other guns than the 75mm and the 65mm mountain guns did the french army use? I would prefer something larger and more unusual, something they used in Morocco or so....

[former user]

so, here is my concept for Great War and early interwar artillery.

Mainly Woodbine, partly british artillery with french heads (not a bad match eh?), plus GWM artillery, still missing, brigade games artillery crew.

The gun is a hodgepodge conversion, and I invite you to give me your oppinion. I would prefer something different, but I had it anyway so it might work for a while

[Dr Mathias]

Pretty interesting, my only real problem with it is the thin wheels. Seems like WW1 artillery had wide plates and such to maximise surface area and weight transfer?

[Calimero]

I think Dr Mathias is right. Larger wheels... and gun mantle seems like "essential" elements of WWI heavy artillery.

[former user]

oh, I see...
the mantlet is not necessary with larger pieces, but the wheels are a point. I think Maxmini makes some of this kind.

the strange thing is that the artillery shells everybody is holing are supposed to be for the same gun....

[Calimero]

...the strange thing is that the artillery shells everybody is holing are supposed to be for the same gun....

Even though they don't look too "out of place"... I find that a lot artillery crews available throughout the different ranges of figures often hold artillery shells that look way too big for the guns they're supposed to go with...

[former user]

well, in this case too.
it is supposed to be between 75 an 84 mm and it looks at least 12mm.
I would actually prefer if they were made with bare hands and a choice of different, precisely made shells instead of those lumps of lead.

But never mind, I am not sure what gun(s) it will be in the end anyway
I will probably have some generic artillery crew, 10 are planned at the moment, to man whatever gun suits the scenario.

Also the train unit will be separate, with many seated to accomodate whatever transportation it will be - I plan both truck and horsed limber

[former user]

oh, damn.... fussing about the hardware is apparently my way of procrastination...

anyway, now that all miniatures I have for this run are based and coated, there is no pretext left for delaying the painting...

[former user]

now that all miniatures I have for this run are based and coated, there is no pretext left for delaying the painting...

I guess there was....

no painting progress at all, have waited for the support hardware to arrive, got the units prepped now (the motorpool will probably have to wait a bit )
I still need to acquire some mules...

[FramFramson]

Who makes the Hotchkiss?