New Perry WWII Goodness on the Workbench

[Atheling]

I know about the French troops in shorts and Adrian helmet, having seen the WiP pic. The question is, will Michael do the same figures with tropical helmets ? Or at least a conversion pack of separate heads like he did for the Sikhs.

Always worth asking about  .

Darrell.

[Arthur]

anyway arthur, the french colonial helmet was not widely used  among free french, except in Gabon, and Tchad-southern Libya .

It seems to have been fairly common in Eritrea though :

The Bataillon d'infanterie de marine was issued with wolesley helmets

I'm familiar with the pic showing the BIMP in British sun helmets but the unit also received tin hats when it received its new British gear in 1940 :




It seems both were worn through 1941 depending on the circumstances. 
 

[lou passejaire]

hey, arthur , it's my poor eyes and lack of glasses or ...

it looks like wolseley helmets ...

[Atheling]

And more:





Darrell.

[lou passejaire]

still from Perry's facebook :

The first three Senegalese Tirailleur packs, including this one (the LMG and Rifle grenade code) , are going off to be moulded tomorrow.

the 2 others are

With rifles advancing and the same skirmishing, still to make the command.

[olyreed]

excuse me for being stupid  , but what weapons are the Germans carrying

[westwaller]

Looks like FG42s...

[lou passejaire]

FG42 ...

code shown is Fallschirmjagers using the FG42. Originally, these weren't necessarily going to be made as they only just fit into the theatre war being covered, i.e. Italy, but it seems likely there might have been a few in use in Sicily so it was decided to make them. Obviously, they can be used up to the end of the war as well and an MG42 has been made so there will be a code of them too.

[Arthur]

hey, arthur , it's my poor eyes and lack of glasses or ...

it looks like wolseley helmets ...

Could be. I'm not enough of an expert to tell the difference between Wolseley helmets and French tropical sun hats anyway.

[lou passejaire]

the french one is this one :

the wolseley is this one :

[Arthur]

I'll probably be branded a heretic for writing this but in 28mm the difference between the two models probably won't be very noticeable.

Back to the Perry range, it would be nice if Michael could be persuaded to do a couple of mounted spahis packs. 

[lou passejaire]

as he answered when i asked him about 2 command packs ( european officers and NCO's clean shaved in full regulation uniform, quite no SMG for the Vichy senegalese, more casual uniform, some beard, SMG for the Free French ... 2 packs ? ) for the senegaleses, :

there may well be more packs than customers by the end of the range!

 

spahis will be nice , indeed ...

[Atheling]

as he answered when i asked him about 2 command packs ( european officers and NCO's clean shaved in full regulation uniform, quite no SMG for the Vichy senegalese, more casual uniform, some beard, SMG for the Free French ... 2 packs ? ) for the senegaleses

Sounds great 

Darrell.

[lou passejaire]

i'm not sure they will be done this way ...
  he planned 4 european Officers and NCo's , a bugler and an other senegalese code, and i suggested 2 european officers, an european and a native NCO, keep the bugler, and a medic ...