Goumiers in Indochina?

[summsi]

Any 28mm figures that could be used as french Goumiers during the first Indochina war?

I think Artizans WW2 Goumiers don`t really fit. In Indochina they seem to have had Tourbans/Fez, or bush hats.

[Tom Dulski]

 That might be tough. There really aren't any good WW2 ones. 

[General Castries]

summsi,
The Artizan Goumiers would be good for WW2, particularly for the Italian campaign.  But they are almost all wearing either British or French steel helmets, when they should be wearing either bush hats (as you say), turbans, or US steel helmets.

For my North Africans, I took the "easy" way out by commissioning someone to kit-bash some figures.  The figures below started out as Warlord US Marines, with TAG weaponry, and greenstuff for the coats and headscarves.  Another option  I was thinking of (but never tried) was to use Warlord US winter infantry, replacing the heads with Empress bush hats.  The Northern Tokin hills can get cold at night, and I've seen plenty of pictures of North Africans bundled up against the weather. 

Hope this is of help.


Tim

 

 

[summsi]

What do you think about the new Warlord Games plastic french infantry with some Bush hats from the commonwealth infantry?

[carlos marighela]

What do you think about the new Warlord Games plastic french infantry with some Bush hats from the commonwealth infantry?

I think you'll have greatcoated figures with outmoded equipment and arms wearing puttees and Australian style slouch hats. The greatcoats themselves will be distinctively hooked up at the hem in a fashion unrepeatable either in native dress or the trenchcoats worn on the Laos Border.  In short they would look like Moroccan or Tunisian troops at a distance of twenty feet but only if you squinted.

You would actually get a better, albeit imperfect, impression swapping the Artizan goumiers heads for turbans, bush hats or US steel helmets.

I held great hopes that Empress would  one day expand their Indochina range to at least cover other types at Dien Bien Phu not to mention troops elsewhere at other times during the war. Alas, that hope dims as the years roll by.

[summsi]

Carlos, your answer destroys all my hopes!!!
But you are probably right.

[Tom Dulski]

 The only way you might be able to do it is to find someone who can 3D print some, maybe try Etsy?

[carlos marighela]

Carlos, your answer destroys all my hopes!!!
But you are probably right.

Sorry. Alas, the French at the start of WW2 have a fairly distinctive set of uniforms and equipment.