Tuesday 19 June 2012

Desert Free French

I`ve recently really got into modelling, far beyond where I would have tried even just a few years back. This led to me building a whole batch of weird and wonderful Free French field conversions and portee artillery.




Bren Carrier with Hotchkiss 25mm AT gun
Modified Airfix carrier with SHQ gun and crew plus added stowage


La Revenge - a Pak38 mounted on a CMP chasis
Used by the Free French around El Alemain
Kit-bashed using a chasis and cab from S&S, gun from SHQ, added stowage and scratch-built racking,
Crew from SHQ and AB Figures 

Dodge Tanake
Improvised armoured trucks built by the French in Syria/Lebanon, saw service against the Allies duirn Operation Exporter 1941, some surviving vehicles were aquired by the Free French and later used against the Germans and Italians.
models L-R  - Pascal Mahe and Raventhorpe (mixed crewss and stowage)

2pdr portee
The Free French did a number of these field conversion SP anti-tank vehicles.
Chevy CC60L (from David Reasoner`s Moonlite Modelwerks), gun from Under the Bed, mixed crew & stowage 







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  1. Steve19 June 2012 at 09:11

    Bren is wonderful. Love your French Richard.

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  2. Anonymous24 May 2014 at 22:52

    Good job Richard.

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  3. Anonymous24 May 2014 at 22:56

    Hi all

    There a few years I totally carved dozens of masters for the famous free french at Bir Hakeim and El Alamein in 1942 ...


    Masters and molds are in the trash for some time and all unpainted figurine are sold ...

    It only remains for me than what you see described below ...

    So to buy one of my two lots of my "free french" I Could send the permission, by manuscript letter for a new production of these figures .


    With these figures as masters to make new molds ...

    So the figures you see there, are collectors, downright single in the world, I do not have any photos,but if you are not interested and if you have friends very fans of the WWII, can you please, send them my list below ?

    You Will happy Among Them ...

    I do not-have Their photos, but if you type on google https://www.yumpu.com/.../vous-cherchez-un-peintre-de-figurines-legio13 you will see hundreds of photos ...

    A taxi to Bir - Hakeim or 20 mm painted figures of the 13 th ½ Brigade of the Foreign Legion in Képis or bérets...

    But with their British helmets on hip or italian helmets and The Oubangui – Chari Battalion : from 1941 to 1943 !

    The legionnaires with berets of the fortresses troops are veterans of the Norwegian campaign of 1940, they wear their berets to distinguish themselves from other legionnaires !

    There are also legionaries wearing Italians pith helmets recovered from italian corpses...


    A Set of 151“Free French” Foreign Légion x 20 mm figurines, all dissimilar, painted , varnished and on magnetic stands ,+ 1 x 81.4 mm Brandt modele 27/31 L15.6 French mortar + 1 x 60,5mm Brandt modele 1935 French mortar + 1 modele 1914 French Hotchkiss Machine Gun.

    It's the French 1/2 Foreign Légion Infantry Brigade of the eighth British Army during the Second World War at Bir-Hakeim , El -Alamein and other battles in Africa or Syria ,good also fo the French Army Foreign Légion for the beginning of the war in Indochina of 1945 to 1950 .This lot for a total of £ 128. 00 +20% of P&P by PayPal .

    Also for sale ,a Set of 106 x 20 mm ,“Free French” figurines, all dissimilar , painted , varnished and on magnetic stands , of the Oubangui – Chari Battalion + 1 x 81.4 mm Brandt modele 27/31 L15.6 French mortar + 1 x 60,5mm Brandt modele 1935 French mortar + 1 modele 1914 French Hotchkiss Machine Gun. It's a French Colonial Battalion of the eighth British Army during the Second World War at Bir-Hakeim and other battles in Africa or Syria .This lot for a total of £ 90. 83 +20% of P&P by PayPal .

    Best regards for all

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  4. Richard B24 May 2014 at 23:57

    Is that Pascal Mahe??

    Now I don`t mind you post a advert here, but I would have appreciated you asking first??

    Richard

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    1. Anonymous3 July 2014 at 01:22

      Hello Richard

      Why ?

      I did not do it on this blog for trade?

      All my master figures are sold to collectors ...

      All my unpainted figures or models of vehicle or guns are sold to players ...

      All my molds are sold to Sgts Mess, for those who are interested with these figures ...

      And all my painted figures are sold to Hinds Fig Ltd...

      With this adventure, all is financial benefits for me , but it is exhausting anyway ...

      What interested me most, was whether I could make valuable figurines, models ect ...

      Now all I have made ​​is collector !!!

      Best regards and Thank you

      Pascal

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