From PaulSS - Overdues and Returns - Tirailleurs Sénégalais - 60pts

My first submission for this week are some long overdue Tirailleurs Sénégalais for my WWII 1940 collection.

Back in 2019 Crusader Miniatures released some Senegalese troops to their WWII French range and I placed a pre-order on Northstar and picked up at Partizan during a trip to the UK. 

These were bought back to Wisconsin and I painted a platoon plus some supports for our Chain of Command games. The initial troops are posted over on Scrivsland and here and here. Fortunately the first blog post contained my recipe so I was off to a good start with the colours I used on these.

I've played a few games with them, but although I painted enough infantry for the platoon, there never seemed to be quite enough infantry for flexibility in my forces, so, when Victoria asked if I had any ideas for Christmas presents, I let her know that Badger Games were carrying the range and a couple more packs would be great.

As always the Crusader Miniatures stuff is a delight to paint.

Some close ups showing these great sculpts.

Eight 28mm infantry figures and the location bonus should add 60pts to my total.

Marvellous painting here Paul on some very tasty Crusader models. I really like how the flesh tone came out and the red fezzes are a great pop of colour. Good idea to preserve the paint recipe on your blog - I do the same thing and it has saved my bacon numerous times. Just go back to that first post and the formula is all right there - perfect. The early WWII period is a fun one - you get light tanks aplenty that blow up real good, as well as some cool and unusual units like your Senegalese. Sixty points added!

Dallas