Tuesday, September 16, 2025

WW1 Planes for Postie

A bit of a diversion.  Postie (Stuart) kindly gave me two boxes of Warlord Games landsknechts.  In return, I offered to do a little painting for him.  I expected to be working on some medieval knights, as I have done in the past. But no! Instead, he gave me World War One planes to do.

These ones are all circa 1914 to be used with his early war rules. 

All planes appear to be 1/300th scale.  Not sure of the manufacturer.

From left to right, starting at the top:
French Moraine-Saulnier N x2
German DFW B1, Taube monoplane
British Moraine monoplane, FE2b


My favourite is the Taube.  It's funny how the thinking was "if a bird flies, make the plane look like a bird."

The following are for later in the war.

Top row is 3 crashed planes: British, German and Turkish.
Bottom row: British Bristol F2A, British Sopwith Pup, German Fokker DR1 and German Fokker E111.


All in all, I got my box of Landsknechts very cheaply.

Now, I can get the paint brushes back into Renaissance mode.


22 comments:

  1. Nice work Richard, i am sure Postie will be very pleased with them.

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  2. Great work on these Richard. I have always had a soft spot for metal WW1 1/300th planes.

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    1. Thanks Lawrence. Does that mean you have some or might get some?

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  3. Looking good and a fair exchange. As you say, now back to Renaissance.

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  4. Postie will be pleased with these. Nicely done

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  5. Nice planes Ricardo! Postie will be pleased!

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    1. Cheers Raymond. Hopefully we'll see them on his table soon.

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  6. Excellent work on those and kudos for hand painting the markings!!!

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    1. Thanks Steve. I didn't have appropriate transfers and didn't want to buy some for a one off paint job. So, no option but to hand paint in the end.

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  7. Blimey Richard that's some neat work. Excellently painted.

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  8. Great looking WW1 aircraft, Richard. I do like the swept wings on the German planes.

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  9. Excellent looking little planes! Sounds like you got a great deal to me!
    Best Iain

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  10. Lovely work on these. I look forward to Stuart running a game with them!

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