French Colonial Marine Gunners 1900 - Askari Minis

Artillery crew of the French Marines. These are 28mm figures by Askari Miniatures.

I painted them in the khaki uniforms for a buddy of mine Last Stand Dan for use in his Indochina games. I painted two gun crews, to differentiate them I painted one crew with white trousers and one crew with khaki trousers. These will be used as 4 man gun crews for TSATF, The Sword And The Flame and TMWWBK, The Men Who Would Be Kings imperial troops.

Askari Miniatures French M1897 75mm gun. 

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Here’s my motivation and reference for the above gun crew officer. 

Pallet

Uniform: Americana -Khaki Tan

Sun helmet: Craft Smart - Khaki

Haversack: Delta Ceramcoat  - Trail Tan

Puttees: Delta Ceramcoat - Trail Tan

Boots & Belt: Delta Ceramcoat - Black

Blue Trousers: Poly Scale Deck Blue with Poly Scale - Israeli Blue highlights.

White Trousers: Poly Scale - Light Grey then Vallejo- Off White

*There is no wash or dip on these figs as I left them for Dan to dip so as to better match his existing troops. 

Here’s the write up for these figures from the Askari Miniatures website. 

The French overseas colonies (except Algeria) were managed by the Ministry of the Marine (Navy). The troops they owned were either natives (Tirailleurs) or Europeans (Marines).

This European crew is dressed in the khaki uniforms that they wore c.1900. These troops would have manned shore installations or been on campaign in places like Madagascar, Indo-china, or West Africa.

They used the 80mm de Bange Mountain Gun.

Here is the same crew I painted with the Askari Minis 80mm de Bange Mountain Gun. This particular gun model is the older version and has since been replaced with an upgraded model.  

For earlier period uniforms, paint them with dark blue blouses and white trousers. See FR-17 for a mixed European-Senegalais crew.

Set consists of 4 figures as shown.

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