Author Topic: [COMMERCIAL] Tonkin 1883-85 Next up for Gringo40s (Read 159153 times)

gringo · « **Reply #15 on:** November 26, 2017, 07:08:40 PM »

Pic French Marine infantry officers Tonkin 1883-85
neat looking uniforms..

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Ged
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Codsticker · « **Reply #16 on:** November 27, 2017, 06:07:15 PM »

Yeah, the one on our left looks like a Bobbie

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gringo · « **Reply #17 on:** November 27, 2017, 08:08:20 PM »

Codsticker there is an air of the Met about em.................

attached pic of one of the apposing forces..Annamese
foot soldier 1883.......

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Shipka · « **Reply #18 on:** November 28, 2017, 12:11:32 PM »

One has to remember many of the Vietnamese were armed with weapons of an earlier age and not modern rifles

gringo · « **Reply #19 on:** November 28, 2017, 03:06:14 PM »

cheers Geoff

attached pic of French troop types in Tonkin
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Elk101 · « **Reply #20 on:** November 28, 2017, 04:44:38 PM »

Great to see this interesting period getting coverage. Good luck with this Ged.

gringo · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2017, 09:49:51 PM »

thanks Steve......its a fascinating era..
lots more interesting posts to follow

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Ged
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juergen c. olk · « **Reply #22 on:** November 30, 2017, 01:43:35 AM »

//looks great/////

gringo · « **Reply #23 on:** November 30, 2017, 09:07:01 AM »

Juergen............cheers for that ..not seen this picture!

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Shipka · « **Reply #24 on:** November 30, 2017, 09:08:23 PM »

Spear armed

gringo · « **Reply #25 on:** November 30, 2017, 10:17:58 PM »

cheers Geoff..Royal Tonkin Guard on the left with the
tufty top to his helmet!

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Ged
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Shipka · « **Reply #26 on:** December 01, 2017, 09:08:18 AM »

One has to forgive old colonials for giving all S.E.Asian drawings of troops European features!

Shipka · « **Reply #27 on:** December 01, 2017, 09:11:01 AM »

Hi Ged if you do the Vietnamese Spearman to have them made open handed

italwars · « **Reply #28 on:** December 01, 2017, 12:36:41 PM »

Hi Ged..
i have a few interesting pictorial sources..above all a pair of purposly made colour plates of Black flags with different soldiers,..from a decades ago 's Italian wargame magazine but they are in a PDF file and i'm not able to extract the picts and post here..maybe you can do it..if your remind me your mail adress i can send you the files..
more there are a couple of essential booklets made by someting like "societé des modellistes, maqueties or figurinistes" with purposly made plates about the force involved...i will try to locate their site/adress
last..i think it would be more easy , as similar topics, to post this very interesting trend on the Colonial section..personally i find it by accident...as "adventures in the Far East" let me think more at Samurais ecc..not a a Colonial conflict...

gringo · « **Reply #29 on:** December 01, 2017, 05:34:21 PM »

Geoff

all good........

cheers

Ged
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