Back To WW1 - Western Front in 12mm

12mm WW1 French in early war uniform - metal figures from Great Escape Games.

This is a fairly quick post - but that is the point, to get into the habit of posting! Here we have a collection of 12mm sized WW1 French, resplendent in their lovely early-war blue and red uniforms! These are metal castings from Great Escape Games, part of their range of figures for their "1914" game.

Infantry, a little closer up - the chef-de-battalion can be seen on the front base, with the red kepi and sword drawn. 

View showing the detail of the packs on the infantrymen. This sort of detail puts these figures a cut above the sculpts from Kallistra, although both are great, and I recommend both. 

These sculpts are chunky, and full of character, and are a real treat to paint. In the "1914" game, each base of four figures is meant to represent a company, so these four bases together would represent a battalion - they would also take a Hotchkiss MG along that I painted earlier this year. 

Another closer shot of some of the other infantry.

My 1914 French force for this game and setting is still not totally rounded out, but it is getting to a much better place - we now have two battalions of infantry, a regiment of dragoons and a unit of the famous 75mm guns - more than enough to confront some Germans in a recreation of a battle from the tragic "Plan XVII" and the Battle of the Frontiers. As always, watch for more to come during the approaching Analogue Hobbies Painting Challenge! 

To Alsace!

And, you know, nothing helps a project move along like trying it another scale...so watch this space for more on that too...

That's all for now - thanks for reading!