28mm Great War 1914 Collection

I was sent a commission some time ago from over the pond for a large set of Great War figures for 1914 and I thought it time for you to take a look...the majority of the figures are Renegade & Great war and are beautifully sculpted. I really enjoyed this project as it took in many of the variant uniforms on show at the beginning of the war.

Below we see German regulars attacking an early French trench.

A close-up of the French defenders.

Here we have French infantry attacking through a corn field. Figures from Renegade.

Blow we have French Marines attacking through a villa yard. Figures from Renegade.

Here we have German Jaegers advancing on a Belgium secure position with a machine gun.

Belgians from Great war & Germans from Renegade.

Below are Belgium Jaegers holding of German infantry on a Belgian farm. Both forces from Great war.

Net we have Highland troops setting up a defensive position with machine gun on a farm near Mons.

Figures from Renegade.

And here Scottish infantry attack an early German trench.

Finally we see German troop setting up a machine gun post on a farm in France and helping themselves to dinner as well...

Figures from both Renegade & Great war.

 

More 28mm WWII early war French

Having finally finished these lovely Early French for my friend John. I took the opportunity for a little shoot and chose the idea of a line of troops setting up against a fence line awaiting the German onslaught. The figures are from Crusader miniatures who do a fine range of these French for this period.

GALLERY: 28mm WWI Western front

Well having joined a great WWI forum I thought it was only right to show some of the work I've done over the years in a more complete form ,so here we go.

So ,lets start with the early war French and there are none better then those produced by Renegade Minis..below you will see numerous shots I took over time of the forces at my disposal in squads of ten men. These include Regulars ,Chasseurs ,Marines and Machinegun teams. I absolutely loved painting these sets an actually painted lots and lots more but these were the only ones photographed...lol

I also briefly had a go at some original Wargames Foundry stuff but they were very small in comparison and I don't think I got the best figures really.

Some shots of a shoot I set up using the lovely sets of trenches from Grand Manner. These are more surface trenches but work  great for their amount of detail and fitting together so well.

Next we have the good old Tommies , British in all their early glory. Again these are Renegade and again beautiful sculps for this period. They also added Scots troops and Highland troops as well as the usual machine gun teams. Again great to paint...although did have a time deciding on the final colour of the jackets.

Here we see a mix of Battle Honours and Foundry in a slightly different jacket colour and I used these troops as Canadian just for reference on the battlefield...artistic licence at its best...lol

Finally in this early period we have The Hun ,Germans and again Renegade did a lovely job on the sculps and the animation and again great to paint...within the sets you have regulars as well as Jaegers and machine gun teams and as for all the other early troops from them you could also get figures with early forms of gas mouth covers for this period.

Here we have moved on to the later period of the war and the simple changes in the uniforms and the problems with bogged down trenches. The first here are the British and these figures are actually from Great War miniatures ...a company that came along after the original releases but that went on to produce a brilliant range in the period. Got these actually from E-bay and they again are a pleasure to paint and fit in ok with my Renegade Germans.

Finally here are my late war Germans...actually given to me by my great friend John Martin and leading to the need for the British...lol  beautiful set of figures greatly animated and really looking the part for this later period...many having the ne stormtrooper weapons that appeared at this time.