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This is my Attempt to create a
gameable force for WW2 covering some of the smaller nations of WW2,
without actually having the correct figures available either because of
cost of sheer difficulty of getting hold of.
On the Basis of the French WW1 figure, I have the
following options available by swapping support weapons and armour.
In A Green Khaki, this force can serve well as French Foreign
Legion of WW1, Or other non French metropolitan troops of WW1, Polish
troops of the Russo-Polish War and possible 2nd line troops for 1939,
Greeks of the Greco-Turkish War of the Early 1920s, Possibly 2nd line
Greeks in 1941, or finally Belgium's or French troops of 1940
If Painted Grey, they could be Italians of WW1, or their
reservist that saw combat in Sicily in 1943, or Serbs of 1941.
Finally in the Traditional Horizon Blue they could
be

How does it look?
R-35 tanks. Sold to Romania as well as used by France.
deliveries were due for Poland and Yugoslavia but war intervened.
These are from the Cromwell
Battle ready range and are most excellent models for my needs
and come highly recommended.
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Revell WW1 figures. Nice figures, now alas out of production.
Although the Helmet detail is not so good, they have excellent
poses and equipment. Each box comes with 2 Hotchkiss Machineguns
with crew and a number of chauchat machineguns. A most excellent
purchase if you can find them.
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A German 77mm, Cheap in plastic thanks to Emhar. The Crew and
horse draw is from irregular. Behind is a Days Gone die cast
wagon. It has proved suitable as a supply/command vehicle. I paint
such wagons up as indistinctly a possible so that I can mix and
match them between forces. German equipment was common as reparations
as well as being left behind by units in 1919.
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The classic Airfix figures, Now from HAT. Again these could be
French, Poles or Romanians. Nice variety of poses but lacking
heavy weapons like machine guns. Also you need to buy 4 boxes to
get a bicycle company for the rules I use.
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The classic French 75mm. Most Eastern European forces either
used these, Former German, Former Tsarist Russian or the Skoda
guns, all of which would have wound up in their arsenals from the
to-and -throw of the war, or the German/Austrian weapons via war
reparations.
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The Hotchkiss machinegun. I could also use maxim types. This
was also used by Poland, though by 1939 it was generally replaced
with water cooled Brownings.
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Here some of the figures I painted blue/grey. they are
supported by an Italian Fiat ZM armoured car. The flag has been
painted along the lines of the flag of Hallers Polish forces in
France 1917 (AKA the Blue division), it was a religious icon personally
blessed by the pope in recognition of Poland's long standing
association with the catholic church. I thought it would make a
more interesting banner than a plain tricolour, and I could pass
it off as a regimental flag in other games. As stated above these
could be Yugoslavs in either World war, Italians on the Italian
front 1916-18, or indulging in one of Musso's early adventures.
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Here some the the Revell figures painted Blue/Grey support a
pair of matchbox Renault FT. The FT17 is a Vital piece of
equipment for any generic French sponsored army, certainly Poland received
many in 1919, and wherever French interventionists were sent, the
FT17 followed and was generally left behind afterwards .A good
examples of this being Romania, Russia, And some Baltic States.
HaT have a Kit in development.
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Here some Irregular lead gun crew, directed by an Escii officer
man an Emhar German 77mm gun amongst some ruins 'somewhere in
Eastern Europe just after the 1st World War'. A nebulous time and
place most suitable for wargaming.
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Another view of the FT 17 light tank. This tank eventually
served for many nations as far a field as China. No generic army
should be without them.
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Notes.
HaT are now working on Poles for 1939
SHQ do suitable Polish Cavalry and Horse Artillery.
If Someone ever does in plastic WW1 French in Assault order and tunic
(not great coat) it would make much better substitutes, and could even
cover Republicans of the Spanish Civil War or the Russian Dare to Die
units or Lettish Rifles of WW1/Russian Civil War as several million
Adrians were supplied to Russia before 1917.
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