WWI French Adventure
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When I saw the renders oh so long ago I knew I was going to be in for a few box sets of French. After much assembling I have painted one of many squads of infantry to battle my friend's Germans.
Many more to go, but I'm happy with the first batch.
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@Stilton Disco Thank you. I mix a blue and gray together to create the color I wanted.
Then I wash them with a very watered down blue wash.
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Continuing along I've painted up two more squads of ten French soldiers.
I am liking how they are coming out so far. Being basic line troops they look a bit "alike" but they two options for the machine gun helps that out. 
I essentially have 30 soldiers completed and I'll work on some platoon command soon.
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Finished up some platoon command for the French.
I figure the classic hand up was the way to go with the first command section.
I try and paint ten models at a time so I had a second command stand on the paint desk as well.
I went with more of the point and tell other people what to do approach with this officer. I noticed later that I used the whistle hand on one of the officers entourage. Maybe he is just too lazy to use the whistle himself? 😁
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Painted up some machine gun teams from another company. And then I saw the renders of the new French machine gun teams! I'm sure I'll buy those too. 😁
Technically I did add a Wargames Atlantic model to the team. I figure it would be a good use of the many officers models. Someone has to be directing all those bullets.
Using the officer model I did create a signals officer to forward observe and drop some artillery on my opponent. Added some binoculars to spot and a pistol to show that he means business.
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Keeping things moving along I painted up some Americans to go alongside my French. I know that they had a darker helmet but I came across one image where one guy used a baby blue helmet so I thought the entire squad should have them. It will blend in with their French soldier colleagues on the battlefield much better this way!
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Well, that's another thing I didn't know I needed till now ;)
Looks like a fun rule set.
I picked up Warhammer Ancient Battles a few months ago just for s*** and giggles. (Well actually because I was disappointed with the SPQR rules and I didn't know what do with the Gauls and Romans in the box set otherwise.)
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More blue to overwhelm my opponent with.
This now makes 50 soldiers and two sets of 5 command for the platoon leaders. I figure with so many of them now painted I should take a picture of everything done so far:
Soldiers in the bottom left are basecoated and ready for paint. Starting to see the end of the French paint log with about 35 models left to go!
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@JTam sure thing! The tank is from Warlord Games so I'm assuming it is 1/57th scale.
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Got some more paint on the models. This time an eight man trench cleaning team with gas masks and grenades. The only difference was the gas masks, but it really felt like I was painting a different unit type. Love the look of gas masks.
As of right now I only have 25 models left to paint for my WWI French. Two box sets down essentially!
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Back to some Americans helping out the French. This brings me up to two squads of Hellraisers. Pretty happy with how these came out.
At this point I only have 15 models left to paint. I can see the end of the project!
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Last squad of ten completed. I now have about 88 soldiers painted up and only a five man squad of infantry left to paint!
I can see the light at the end of this hobby tunnel. Until they produce those nice machine gun teams I saw sweet renders of awhile back!
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@Brendan O'Connor
Straight up awesome.
Looking forward to the group shot when your done (for now).
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Here it is, my final five French soldiers!
I feel great completing about 80ish soldiers. The sculptor, Thieu Duong, really did a fantastic job on this set. The models took washes really well which made my paint style look better than what I can usually do.
I wanted on soldier to have the red pants and hat of the early war because it is such a great look. I decided maybe the officer is a bit esentric and wanted to maintain tradition on the field of battle.
I'll break out the game table at some point to do an army shoot to close out this project and paint thread.
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Here it is. My last post for this forum thread. Here is my complete WWI French army.
Thanks Wargames Atlantic for these great models. I look forward to coming back to this project when those plastic support weapons are finished!
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Brilliant work!
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