As Armies in Plastic have just issued some Great War Russians and Emhar are about to do a Schneider I thought it might be interesting to see what's out there in this scale, (which is the large toy soldier scale by the way).Armies in Plastic do a comprehensive range of WW1 figures both early and late - the poses traditional - ideal though a little expensive - available in the UK from Steve Weston and others.
Scale Link do an excellent range of parts and accessories for most nations. Heads, torsos enable you to build your own figure.
Emhar do a range of '1/35' scale tanks and figures - including a Whippet fast tank, available from ebay and Hannants. A French Schneider tank is due for release which is pretty exciting. Also useful 77mm Field gun and 18 pdr. Figures are OK.
Irregular Miniatures do some interesting metal 54mm figures and pieces (see image) which look great in the traditional toy soldier style and relatively inexpensive. Traditional toy soldiers abound in this scale - newest and cheapest are made by Corgi.
ICM also do later period British and German infantry in kit form. Also their Franco Prussian war figures might be good for early Germans and include a mounted officer. Polish company RPM do some kits like the Renault FT-17 and Ford Model T trucks.
So who knows? Maybe I might get to live out my fantasy and have a Great War trench system in my garden - if only someone did a remote-controlled tank in this scale...
In conclusion I think it would be difficult to do the early war period in this scale due to the lack of cavalry available but tanks and artillery make it possible to do 1917-18 easily. Barbed wire, emplacements and ruins are readily available for WW2.
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