From today we have more than 20 of our metal French Infantry available as individual models, allowing you to get hold of specific models to complete your squads, or just the right pose for that diorama you’ve been planning! We’ve also just renamed a few of the existing French sets to bring them in line…
Help your French army transport men and materiel with these two new Citroen Civilian 4.500kg Trucks. First up, the dropside truck: View Details And secondly a covered truck with tilt: Of course, it wasn’t just the French that made good use of these civilian trucks – the Germans captured many of them when they overran…
Our Napoleonic French Waterloo Starter Army is packed with proud Frenchmen ready to join the battle to see the Emperor Bonaparte restored to the throne of France. This set is ideal for battles from 1812 onwards. The box contains a mighty 144 plastic infantry models including command figures, led by a proud French officer atop…
Citroen Civilian Coaches were regularly commandeered or repurposed as troop transports by the French army despite lacking any significant protection for the occupants. Following the fall of France the Germans also made good use of these as they carried their fight into Africa, Italy and the Soviet Union… Would you prefer to travel across the…
Napoleon was born on the 15th of August 1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His military career started early as he was sent to France and enrolled in the military academy at Brienne-le-Château at the age of nine. In 1784, at the ripe old age of fifteen, he began his training as an artillery officer at the École Militaire in Paris. He graduated a…
The 33rd Waffen-SS Charlemagne (1st French) were French volunteers in the Wehrmacht and latterly the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. From estimates of 7,400 to 11,000 at its peak in 1944, the strength of the division fell to just sixty men in May 1945. They were one of the last German units to see action in a pitched battle during the war, where they held…
Out today is our SS-Sturmbataillon Charlemagne metal boxed set – Frenchmen who volunteered to fight for Germany against the Bolshevik Soviets. The Second World War saw many confusing contradictions as politics and ideals clashed in epic campaigns that were once thought inconceivable. One such oddity was the Charlemagne division, the 33. SS-Grenadier Division which fought…
Those of you visiting our stand at Salute recently will have seen the 3-ups of our forthcoming Napoleonic Late French Line Infantry. The eagle-eyed amongst you will have seen that there were even the test sprues in the cabinet as they’d been delivered to us that very morning!. As you can see, they are…
Born in 1758 into modest circumstances, Massena had a colourful early life. He was a cabin boy, soldier and smuggler before he joined the army for a second time in 1791, and a year later he had risen to the rank of colonel. During the next few years Massena campaigned in Italy, rising quickly to become…
Junot was born in 1771 to a middle class family and he was studying law in Paris when the French Revolution began. He immediately connected with the revolutionary cause and joined a battalion of volunteer infantry, showed great promise and was promoted to Sergeant. He was probably the man who knew Napoleon the longest, their paths…
Graham Davey