Flamme Rouge a vintage 1930ish Tour de France game...

Flamme Rouge is a fast-paced, tactical bicycle racing game where each player controls a team of two riders: a Rouleur and a Sprinteur. The players’ goal is to be the first to cross the finish line with one of their riders. Players move their riders forward by drawing and playing cards from that riders specific deck, depleting it as they go. Use slipstreams to avoid exhaustion and position your team for a well timed sprint for the win.

The above is a cut and paste from Boardgame Geek about the game. There can be up to 6 teams. One of my friends likes these kind of board games, and when he is really into a game, likes to have the pieces painted up. So I agreed, but I am a pirate too, so gold was exchanged (arr I must have me gold!).

I found a 1930 old newspaper and decided I would paint them up retro style, using the old vintage ways. As each team is played with cards that are color coded I made the bicycles and the edges of the bases the player color. I couldn't bring myself to do flaming pink, so you can see in the photos I compromised a bit with that color.

These were difficult to paint as they were meant as simple game pieces not nicely detailed miniatures, so I did what I could. I am no Picasso, but I did my best to give them a good look.

First I show a few pictures of the riders and bikes used in 20's through 30's and then my interpretation for the 6 teams I came up with.