The light tanks should generally by of the Hotchkiss variety, as these were designed to be fast enough for 'cavalry' operations. Equpiment shortages mean that my division has one battalion in Hotchkiss H-39 and the other with Renault R-35. Both are RAFM metal kits, and as the turrets are the same casting (in both real life and 20mm) it's close enough. The Renault is the one with the trailer (pinched from the Chenilette Lorraine which featured in an earlier post...) The French practice of painting the national colours in the form of a roundel on the dome-shaped commander's hatch is in my view, something to be encouraged!
Beats painting a bulls-eye on the side of the turret, anyhow! :-) These make a fine-looking outfit. I've near on been tempted to build an early war French army, and it's seeing stuff like this that make the temptation so hard to resist. Maybe it's just as well I have so many unfinished projects clamouring for my attention... :-(
ReplyDeleteArchduke Piccolo
ReplyDeleteI've plenty more French units to post so no doubt your resolve will soon crumble! You mention 'unfinished projects' as if there is such a thing as a 'finished project'. Crazy talk.
Those Frenchies showed so much promise in the armour stakes, too bad their high command displayed absolutely none of the panache their eastern counterparts rammed home to them in 1940.
ReplyDeleteNice work as per usual Tim.
Tim
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff. I love the roundels on the cupolas although they do remind me of gigantic eyes staring upwards!
Cheers
PD
Paul
ReplyDeleteYeah, but they look good. And that matters.
Peter Douglas
ReplyDeleteThey're watching you!
Great looking tanks, Tim. Like the turret hatches!
ReplyDeletePhil Broeders
ReplyDeleteIt is greatly to the French Army's credit that having bought a load of nice looking tanks they didn't just paint them all green.
ReplyDeleteJust back from my Cornish holidays
Cracking WWII French Posts
Magic Stuff
:)
Geordie
ReplyDeleteI thought you'd been a bit quiet lately!