I just picked these up from Michigan Toy Soldier. We now have the "better half" of the French Partisans in hand. Wargames Atlantic has released the second part of their Resistance fighters series and it is a handy set! It is titled French Resistance Women but I am willing to bet that they would do well as Dutch, Belgian, or Danish. Careful choice of which figure to use as well as attention to how they are armed could easily extend these minis into Poland or even move them temporally to earlier and later conflicts (Spanish Civil War, Irish War of Independence or the chaos in eastern Europe after the Great War) or into gangster scenarios as well.
The minis are all conventionally dressed, no pseudo-uniforms or high fashion outfits here. The figures are well sculpted with good proportions and reasonable poses. The clothing drapes over the figure convincingly. This is a well-armed band of heroines, enough SMGs are provided to give every mini one; other weapons vary from open hands to rifles, with a choice of revolvers, or semi-auto pistols and a viscous-looking knife as well. Of course there is a hyper-abundance of heads with a wide choice of hairstyles and headgear. The faces are excellent with clear expressions and delicate features.
The molding work is up to the usual excellent standards we have come to expect from Wargames Atlantic; medium gray plastic, with no flash and only the faintest of mold-lines. The figures are cast without puddle bases.
I'm building an Italian Communist partisan force, and the two WA sets have been the main ingredients.
ReplyDeleteThis is a pretty nice box! I do wish we got some more bodies, but the five here beats the four in the male box. The males DO have a potato masher, BTW... and we get a cigarette arm in this one, so it's not all bad. :)
Besides those two, I've been mixing in WA Italian infantry and SAS, Dead Man's Hand gunfighters, and even some weird stuff like Frostgrave soldiers and WA Dark Age Irish - commies need beards. ;)
Everything fits reasonably well together, and the abundance of heads on WA sprues is great for increasing variety.
They would probably work for urban Greeks too (not so sure about the brave Cretan Resistance girls). I am an absolute fool when it comes to mixing bits. The 02Hundred Hours sets are a rich vein to mine as well!
DeleteI agree this is an extremely useful set to use for a wide number of periods. Good stuff!
ReplyDeleteNow we just need some Balkan/Slavic resistance forces Tito and his gang gave the Nazis no end of trouble
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