The one with the finished french vehicles.

France 1940, May the 15th, 0400 hours.
Stonne, a small village just south of Sedan in the Meuse valley.

Panzergrenadier Division Grossdeutschland had siezed the village on the evening before and are now rudely awaken by the sound of artillery and roaring Char 1 Bis tanks. A major french counterattack has started.
The fighting around the area lasted for 3 days and nights, with the village changing hands 17 times (!) before the german forces in the end prevailed on May the 17th. 
Keep this in mind for the future on this blog.. 

I have been grinding away ever so slightly on my french WW2 force and it's very close to completion!
Once the motorcycles in the top right corner of the picture are based, we are pretty much done. There are a few bits and bobs to sort out. Mainly weathering, varnishing and perhaps a couple of more big guns need paint but this is it for now. I will try to do an army presentation down the line once everything is properly finished and ready for gameplay.

Closeup on the Laffly S20 TL. I have 15 of them which lets me do a variety of different divisions and regiments according to the Fistful of Tows 3 armylists. They were primarily used to transport the dragoons of 'Division Légére Mécanique', the Light Mechanised Division. I will use the as basic trucks for whomever need them until I cba to paint something else.

Ye oldste Unic Kegresse P107 halftracks. In my army, these will be representing assorted halftracks from the list. I do seem to remember that the model is actually a captured P107 in german service and therefore a U304(f), but I am not enough knowledgeble about the period or enough of a rivetcounter to really care. I have 10 in total so enough for pretty much what I wanna do.
Edit: It got pointed out to me that these are indeed 100% U304(f)'s and that they are vastly different from the P107-donor. Both the gun and the sloped armor was added by the german army while the P107 pretty much had a wooden box on the back. I will go back and reprint these at a later date.
Shoutout to ANerdsNerd who got me learnt! Go check out her excellent models for WW2/DUST.

Panhard 178 or as the army would name them; AMD 35 P. These models are downscaled from 15mm prior to printing and had the dreaded flimsy-and-wobbly-bits-syndrome. The guns promptly broke off while being handled so I ended up drilling out the turrets and using some wire for the guns. Good enough for me.

A bit of a side-view on the AMR 35 with machineguns. Another option for recce in the armylist which in all fairness should be AMR 33's instead to fit in perfectly. No models available so this is what we roll with. I do love 6mm as proxying is easy, not gonna lie.

The Renault UE's (or Chenillette's if you will), Citroen towncars and a few big guns.
Again, what I need to fill out the various batallions in FFT3. The big guns are/were really meant for my belgian army but since they are french 75mm and 105mm Scneider 193's, they might aswell get the french colors for now.

What about the rest on the table?
Well, I already mentioned the motorbikes which are part of french recce together with the Panhards in various configurations. They need to dry, get some flock and black rims and they are done.

The 1:64 scale bikes and buggys are for Gaslands. We have a campaign running and since I was sickly at the time of the first turn I have to make up for lost time now with some speedy painting. Which is always how I do it I guess. But moar speedier now..

I mentioned it before on the blog, but the infantry for the french forces will be some belgians that will have to LARP as frenchmen. This is a picture of my main army for may -40.
Yeah, I know. I have about 10 times as much french forces painted at this point...
I will probably talk more about it later this year when I get to it, but I need to remix/sculpt cyclists ´en masse to use as Chasseurs Ardennes which will be the main part of my forces.
The french were like an afterthought, just something that was quick to paint and run Battle of Hannut with, against my friend Johans Grossdeutschland panzers.

Then we got the idea to make a huge diorama to play out Stonne on. 
So more frenchies to the trenches... Or atleast to the paintingtable!

Cheers.
/Fred

Ps. In other, more depressing news, my printer broke last night. More to come.
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