French and French

Pegasus WWI French with Caesar Miniatures WWI French. You can see the sizes are very good together.

Most of the WWI French can be used as WWII French as WWI kit and weapons were still in use in WWII. The Pegasus WWII French are, of course, the same size as these. It has taken Pegasus years to bring these to market. At one point the figures were almost ready to be sent to the mold maker when they discovered a huge error in the web gear and uniform. So they changed the masters and that delayed production at least a year.

Since most large figure companies don't have full time employees, but rather contract the master sculpting, mold making and actual production they are at the mercy of those contractors. Sometimes they work very closely together and sometimes they have very little contact with each other. These figures are great and they should be in stores by the end of the year.

More French

More photos of the Pegasus 1/72nd scale French, in plastic. Here with grenade launcher.

Prone rifleman with light machine gunner. You can see the LMG guy does not really need the big hill that comes with him.

Hotchkiss heavy machine gunner and loader. Nice pairing, they fit together well.

"sleeping figure" under the rock outcrop.

Pegasus French

Modern Kiwi requested a few photos of the new Pegasus French WWI / WWII with the Caesar Miniatures French. These are those.

The Pegasus helmets seem just a tiny bit smaller but the figures fit very well together. Combine the two sets and you have an excellent group with a large number of poses.

A good close up of the Pegasus WWI French. You can see the locating holes are large and well designed.

Figures are well animated. The separate heads on some and separate arms are a good method to acheive this kind of quality.

This is a test run and you can see there are no mold problems or flash. The final color of these 1/72nd scale plastic figures will probably be darker.

WWI weapons sprue. The big chunk is for the prone machine gunner. The figure works okay without the large terrain bit. Put a bunch of these Pegasus figures with the Casear figures and you will have an excellent variety of weapons, poses and gear.

The other side of the same sprue. These have great details and very tiny bits. Good set.

WWII French

Recently I visited Larry at Pegasus Hobbies in Montclair. He gave me a couple sprue of his new World War One and World War Two French figures. These are test sprues but are essentially done. They color will probably be darker than this color.

Most of the figures are two parts, a body and an arm with a weapon. There are also some that have a separate head or other separate part.

These sets are very nicely detailed. The WWI set will also work for WWII.

WWII weapons sprue. Mostly rifles, naturally, but also a machine gun.

These are flash free, and fit together easily. Thanks Larry for giving me these so I can post the photos here. Click on the photos to enlarge.

Mountain Climbing

The men of the FFL scale the Skull Mountain. They scan the area of the island for miles around.

They see only desolation and burned plant life.

A small party of men, dwarfed by a mountain and a desert land around it.

The mountain has a passage, only the bravest men would dare venture inside.

The men at the top of the mountain are concerned for the safety of their comrades, without them being close enough to give support.