Hello,
Still painting,with the a fair bit to go plus the rifles to add and finishing the base.
Comments welcome.
Andy

getting there

Nice figures for a forgotten war.
My uncle was in Indochina and fight during 8 years in this country.

He also drop on Dien bien phu.
Interesting in the para in Indochina ?


Available only in French, but the best book for your figures, hundreds photos of the real equipment and uniforms used.
http://livres.histoireetcollections...03/paras-francais-en-indochine-1945-1954.html
Lasr thing, a little detail, The French paratroopers beret was not automatically red!!

10° BPCP ( Batallion de parachutiste de chasseur à pied)

In fact, red for colonial, and blue for metropolitan para (they also serve in Indochina), green for the Légion Etrangère or white for the indeginous companies of the Legion.

Hello Zastrow...was your uncle A legionnaire?...Kevin

Not a legionnare, a colonial officer, in Indochina there's more colonial and metropolitan troops than légion Etrangère.
For alot of people Indochina French war = Légion Etrangère.
But the nimber of colonial troops, Tirailleurs Algériens, Marocains, Sénégalais, paras, infantry, artillery....
And for metropolitan troops some famous name as Bernard de Lattre de Tassigny , the son of the Marshall how died as lieutenant in the armored metropolitanregiment 1st chasseur at the battle of Nam-Dinh.