French Army Receives Boost as New Armor Arrives at the Front Line

I mentioned, in a comment on my most recent minifig post, that I had acquired a French Renault FT 17. 

The assembly was a bit more complicated than the L3, in part because the instructions were only a step or two above Ikea in clarity. Both vehicles used the familiar Lego-like pictures-only instructions, but the FT instructions seemed to leave things out or were less obvious in their meaning.

Or that could just be me.

In any case, here is the pride of the French Army of the Alps:

Admittedly, a Char B1 would be a bit more worthy of pride, but then the Italians would be unable to counter any French assault.

I'm not sure what scale the FT is - I know the one from COBI is billed as 1/32. I think this one is closer to 1/50. I could measure it and then compare to the actual size, but the tape measure is so far away.

This model (I don't know who makes it) came from BrickAction, an Etsy seller and also creator of their own brick-centric wargaming rules. I haven't tried the rules yet, so I can offer no comment on them. As for BrickAction itself, they are friendly, ship fast, and have great customer service.

As a bonus, BrickAction packages this tank with two French infantry.

That they are wearing Horizon Blue is a bit odd for my uses (the FT 17 was in use in WWI in 1918, which probably explains the uniform choice) , but I'm just going to say they are wearing leftover NOS uniforms from WWI. 

They'll be used to crew either a mortar or machine-gun as needed. I just need to raid my son's minifigure bin for a suitable tripod mounted MG.