French Commandos for Indochina (Now with French Foreign Legion!)

[General Castries]

French commandos for Indochina.  I'm sure that, during operations, they probably wore standard khaki fatigues, but they just look better in the black PJs.  These are 3D printed figures, painted by the terrific ArtMaster Studios.

Tim   

[Tom Dulski]

 Pretty cool, is that U.S. webbing equipment?

[General Castries]

Tom,
I'm not sure about the webbing.  The French in Indochina used strange combinations of old pre-war French webbing, French-produced webbing, and US/UK webbing supplied during the war.  The colorful nature of the equipment (you'll see some commandos carrying Sten guns in the last photo) is one of the factors that increases its appeal.

Tim   
     

[Ash]

Very nicely done.

[mikedemana]

Those look great! One of these days, I am going to do a Vietnam.... 

Mike Demana

[traveller]

Great stuff!  Where are the minis from?

[CapnJim]

Those guys look good.  What scale are they?

[General Castries]

Folks,
Glad you like. The figures are 28mm, from a French 3D printing company called JJG. They are well worth a look if you’re thinking about this period, and they work well with the Excellent Empress range.


Tim

[traveller]

Thanks for the info.

[bluewillow]

Nicely done

[tomrommel1]

very nice painting style

[General Castries]

28mm Viet-Minh bicycle porters, from JJG, painted by Artmaster Studios.  The Viet-Minh used bicycle porters extensively, particularly in the Dien Bien Phu campaign.  I intend to use these figures as objectives for my Commandos.

[dickiegranthum]

Super cool bikers!

[HESH]

Terrific work all over this ! 👍

[General Castries]

This is a 1/56 scale 3D print (before and after) of a French Vedette FOM.  These were river patrol boats (precursors to the PBRs), operated by the French Army from 1950-54.  They carried out monitoring and reconnaissance missions, and occasionally landed commandos / landing parties (which is what I'll use mine for).  The vedettes had 2 x 50-cal HMGs (forward and aft), and 2 LMGs / grenade launchers.  Because they operated in fresh (rather than salt) water, they weren't too rusty, but they did look well-used.