When someone said they were doing some WW1 in 1/72nd scale I knew I had a home for these chaps.
My attempt to convert some of the "new" Airfix French Foreign Legion to be Belgium's.
Same set used for early war French.
Some proper French infantry,
but oh dear, brittleness has struck!
My attempt to convert some Matchbox WW2 Germans to be WW1 late war
Airfix Germans.
The grenade thrower was one of my favourites.
Airfix British
plus a flipped German to show I even painted the underneath of the figures.
US Infantry.
The base on the left was for the rules I was using which have since been well and truly forgotten.
WW1 French painted up for WW2, but I am sure they can be used for late WW1
if they don't crumble to bits in the meantime.
Left over Foreign Legion
Classic
These two where for my WW2 Alpini project since aborted in favour of 15mm for WW2.
A few more leftovers now going to a good home.
Those old WW1 Airfix sets certainly bring back memories.
ReplyDeleteI should have the RHA set somewhere. That had some nice crew scuplts.
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