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Author Topic: [COMMERCIAL] Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s  (Read 140665 times)

Offline gringo

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #60 on: December 20, 2017, 10:42:36 PM »
interesting Tonkin print...not very accurate but captures
the feel of the era :D

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #61 on: December 21, 2017, 08:36:41 AM »
found this:
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_mmwyAQAAIAAJ

A german book written by an officer 1901 titled "Taktische Beispiele aus den Kriegen der neuesten Zeit. 1880-1900" dealing with the French operations in Tonkin.

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #62 on: December 21, 2017, 09:51:41 AM »
ichwillauch great find not seen this
many thanks!

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Offline Shipka

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #63 on: December 21, 2017, 04:38:49 PM »
Found this pic

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #64 on: December 21, 2017, 04:43:59 PM »
cheers Geoff some funky uniform! :o


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Offline Siaba

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #65 on: December 21, 2017, 07:03:46 PM »
Nice but totally out of place for Tonkin. Seems to be a 18th century colonial unit from Africa....
"The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there ... in peace. War will make corpses of us all."

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #66 on: December 21, 2017, 11:21:52 PM »
communications section en route Tonkin 1885
possibly marine infantry......

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« Last Edit: December 21, 2017, 11:23:28 PM by gringo »

Offline italwars

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #67 on: December 28, 2017, 10:08:44 PM »
Ged
just send you trough email a pair of PDF with my colour sources for this campaign ...not able to post images here...there a couple of very interesting plates..maybe you can find something for this very interesting thread and coming range

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #68 on: December 28, 2017, 10:56:58 PM »
there is also another source that should be exhaustive..those uniform booklets published by Club Francais de la Figurine Historique with, as the comment said, plenty of plates...last year i wrote them in order to buy the books (among them, in addition to the ones on Tonkin also some other good titles) but never received any answer...maybe our French friends of this forum if interested in that period/range could try to tackle those probably excellent sources:

http://s510684789.onlinehome.fr/cl/am_cffh/index.php?id_product=12&controller=product

for those able to read French i find this book in 2 parts PDF which tells in details a campaign with some good battle maps:
https://www.penseemiliterre.fr/ressources/20146/53/la_vie_militaire_au_tonkin_-_capitaine_lecomte.pdf
https://www.penseemiliterre.fr/ressources/20146/54/la_vie_militaire_au_tonkin_-_capitaine_lecomte_-_tome_2.pdf

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #69 on: December 29, 2017, 09:10:55 AM »
Italwars

the company you mention produce a great swathe of books..will e-mail you the contact name I have, I have 80pct of them..........

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #70 on: December 29, 2017, 09:12:44 AM »
Italwars

thanks for the pdfs great stuff!

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Ged
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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #71 on: December 29, 2017, 09:28:03 AM »

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #72 on: December 29, 2017, 09:55:09 AM »
Ajax
really great links...not seen these
much obliged thanks ;)

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #73 on: January 08, 2018, 09:03:43 PM »
FRENCH SAILOR

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Re: Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s
« Reply #74 on: January 09, 2018, 10:08:24 AM »
nice illustration Geoff cheers :D

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