1898 Miniaturas Release Their French Foreign Legion Collection!
May 19, 2021 by brennon
1898 Miniaturas have released their new collection of 28mm miniatures for those diving into the period of the early 1900s with the French Foreign Legion!
French Foreign Legion / 1898 Miniaturas
This collection offers up a range of miniatures for you to play around with. You have Command options plus soldiers who are Marching, Firing and Skirmishing. All of the miniatures are available in metal and can be snapped up as part of a Premium Collection or as individual squads.
French Foreign Legion Command Fighting // 1898 Miniaturas
I have always liked the idea of the French Foreign Legion. I think a lot of it stems from The Mummy weirdly enough. I think a lot of my thoughts about the French Foreign Legion are very much coloured by the romanticised version of it in films and the like but I reckon it would be a fun army to build as they fought all over the place.
French Foreign Legion Firing // 1898 Miniaturas
The range of poses here allows you to make a very good skirmishing force and you could rank them up quite nicely too. I also reckon that they would fit particularly nicely into smaller groups all mounted on one base too.
My favourite of the sets is this one (below) which shows off an awesome band of soldiers in the midst of skirmishing and battling their foes. I'd love this to be the core of my army.
French Foreign Legion Skirmishing // 1898 Miniaturas
As mentioned above, all of the miniatures that you see here are available in these individual packs or as part of their Premium Collection which bundles it all together. It also comes with the exclusive Beau Geste miniature based on the adventure novels by P. C. Wren.
I didn't know that this book (and series of films) existed and I am now very intrigued by the idea of watching some of the older films!
Are you tempted by this new set of miniatures from the folks at 1898 Miniaturas?
"It also comes with the exclusive Beau Geste miniature based on the adventure novels by P. C. Wren..."
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Yeah they look good but I’d expect that from 1898 they do very detailed work with lots of research
Nice The first long range desert patrol’ers
these are lovely
Many years ago Yaquinto made a boargame about the FFL vs North Africans. I’ve wanted to do that game in miniature form ever since. Sadly out of print for almost three decades, what rules would you use for this period? The Men Who Would be Kings? Maybe Blood & Valor? Anyone have suggestions?
TMWWBK is a great option. I do plenty of small scale colonial and we use that or my personal favourite Congo by Studio Tomahawk which might be fun but would need a bit of a reworking as it doesn’t cater for Saharan terrain. If you want to go bigger Death in the Dark Continent, as featured with WI 400 would be the best option probably. Enjoy.
Definitely worth looking into. I’ve been watching this company since I found Spanish American War miniatures on their site.
I have some of their pike and shot and the quality of the casting and sculpts have all been excellent, well worth the buy-in and the brothers are nice people to boot
Oh nooo! Not another Victorian era project to do XD they do look very tasty though…
A great set of models, makes me wonder about a pulp game pitching the Foreign Legion against Wargames Altantic’s lizard men…
(For those in the UK, Empress Miniatures stock 1898 Miniaturas).
I’m loving these!
I have to get these so they can cross paths with my Victorian British Troops.
Really nice! ???