Tuesday 15 June 2021

French colonial guns

 French Colonial Guns

 Two scratched up additions to my colonial French gun park

I found i needed an additional AA gun to create a 2-gun battery for my Vichy forces, luckily I had a EWM gun crew in the spares box, so head-swapped them and painted them up to match my other Vichy colons. The twin 13.7mm AA is also EWM, but this do double duty with its original 1940 era crew


37mm trench/infantry gun with a Moroccan crew

The gun is a real Frankenstein creation, the seated Moor was a Force20 Hotchkiss gunner, the other guy is an EWM French gunner with a Raventhorpe head




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6 comments:

  1. Pete.15 June 2021 at 09:51

    Nice- a headswap can really do wonders to change the look of a figure.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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    1. Richard Baber15 June 2021 at 10:58

      I have dozens if not 100s in my collections :)

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  2. Umpapa17 June 2021 at 02:54

    Very nice. Will need to do the same AA gun to my French force.

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    1. Richard Baber17 June 2021 at 03:21

      Very kind - EWM now do a colonial AA gun crew in shorts and sun helmet, I quickly just head-swapped what i had to hand :)

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  3. Carl19 June 2021 at 01:29

    More good work. Do you pin and glue your head swops or just glue? And if so what with!? CarlL

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    1. Richard Baber19 June 2021 at 04:04

      Just superglue, though the gel type is better than the liquid IMHO. I have tried 2-part apoxy, but it didn`t harden quick enough :( I do have some 2-part metal filler, which i have yet to try - that can act like a liquid weld so should be tough enough?

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