French Foreign Legion from West Wind

In the Pulp Alley campaign played at the club we are moving from Mexico to Morocco and there we will need a couple of French Foreign Legion soldiers to make life miserable for our brave adventurers.

These soldiers come from CIC-4 French Foreign Legion pack from West Wind. I asked my resident Foreign Legion-specialist Thomas for some tips on paint-scheme for these guys and he sent me an illustration and with that as a base I googled a bit for more inspiration. I'm not saying that these little tin men are in any way historically correct, but they will work in a game.

I was in a bit of a rush to get these guys finished as we will need them next week at the club.

Paints used:

Uniform – Citadel Foundation Mordian Blue with a black wash and drybrushed Mordian Blue

Trousers, putees and kepi – off white with a black wash and a drybrush of white.

All leather – black with a hightlight of Vallejo 822 German Camo Black Brown

Water Bottle – 922 Neutral Grey with a black wash

Cairo Civilians I from West Wind

Another pack of civilians bought from Old Glory Miniatures UK. Whether they are West Wind or Blue Moon I don’t know, but here they are, CIC-009 Cairo Civilians I. These got a bit more colours than the other pack I finished a week ago but essentially made in the same way.

They will see action as non-combatants in out coming Pulp Alley Perilous Island campaign at the club. They might even see action at tonight’s game.
Next up some Foreign Legion soldiers.

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Cairo Civilians #2 from West Wind

I bought these figures from Old Glory Miniatures UK. I found them under the Blue Moon header, came to their Blue Moon Miniatures page and on that I clicked on ‘28mm Blue Moon Manufacturing’. Another page and here I clicked  the ‘Chaos in Cairo’ link and found a couple of packs that suited me. This one was called ‘CIC-10: Cairo Civilians II’.

When it arrived the package said West Wind was the producer and the pack was called ‘CIC-10 Civilians #2 w/Cart’. A bit confusing, but now I have them and they are painted.

They will be used in our Pulp Alley campaign and other Pulp Alley games also, as generic Arabic non-combatants. Eye-candy for the tables.

Mould lines on these were manageable and as the metal is on the soft side they were easily removed with a file.

Not much to say about the painting really. Based with Vallejo Foundation White, a wash of Army Painter Dark Tone ink and a heavy drybrush with Off-White on all the white cloth. The female is obviously painted with black and a dark grey drybrush.

A nice addition to my other Pulp Arabs. Set #1 is on the painting table now.

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