Red Star Miniatures' 28mm French Indochina Range

[carlos marighela]

  good news, time to invest methinks.

[elysium64]

good news, time to invest methinks.

if I did not have too many projects I would be thinking the same, absolutely lovely figures. Think I will wait and see what the next couple of releases are.

[Arlequín]

Bigeard caps and bush hats done will be sent to the caster on Friday.

For those of you who haven't made it over to the Red Star DBP blog yet, here's the heads...http://




... and congratulations to Paul and Ms Paul on their own 'latest miniature received'!

[carlos marighela]

For those of you who haven't made it over to the Red Star DBP blog yet, here's the heads...http://




... and congratulations to Paul and Ms Paul on their own 'latest miniature received'!

Apparently the French Army in the latter half of the 1950s was entirely populated by clones of Prince Charles and the late Sid James. I know many of us who collect toy soldiers are approaching their dotage but must the toys look like that as well? That lot look as if they should be armed with pension books. 

[Arlequín]

Apparently the French Army in the latter half of the 1950s was entirely populated by clones of Prince Charles and the late Sid James. I know many of us who collect toy soldiers are approaching their dotage but must the toys look like that as well? That lot look as if they should be armed with pension books. 

I'd normally agree with you, but my one lasting impression of French troops in the Indochina War is that they tend to look craggy in the face and somewhat emaciated.




I think man on the right in second photograph may even be one of the options offered.

Maybe the size of the photos exaggerates the features and they will look less pronounced 'in scale'. The difference between 'character' and 'characature' is in the eye of the beholder though.

C'est la vie... 

[former user]

I'd normally agree with you, but my one lasting impression of French troops in the Indochina War is that they tend to look craggy in the face and somewhat emaciated.
Maybe the size of the photos exaggerates the features and they will look less pronounced 'in scale'. The difference between 'character' and 'characature' is in the eye of the beholder though.

veterans polished by legion drill and actions
should look weary

I remember when I read the biography of Susan Travers who was married with a legion NCO and stationed in Indochina (later to be flown out when it got serious)  wrote how her husband and many others returned sick and exhausted from the Indochina deployment and that she literally got back a changed man

from this perspective the sculptor should be congratulated for catching this aspect so well

[Arlequín]

On top of malnourished teen years due to wartime and post-war rationing, the joys of amoebic dysentry and other topical tropical complaints as adults would certainly leave their mark. Photos of my relatives in the 40s and early 50s show a similar sort of 'lean' and oddly semi-skeletal and exaggerated facial appearance, and they were in Wolverhampton... which, opinions to the contrary, in no way resembles a disease-ridden war zone... mostly anyway.

I will admit that I wouldn't expect to see the same 'look' on U.S. Troops in the Vietnam War, but intentional or otherwise I think it works for these.

[moonshado]

There is something fairly distinctive about the faces Mr Hicks sculpts, most of them do tend to a longer thinner face than many of the other sculptors around. It is that shape which made his Weasley figures for VBCW so right. I prefer Mr Hicks' standard faces with a bit of character about them compared to the Perry standards, which are a bit too clean cut and youthful, and certainly a lot better than the comic book faces of the recent BoltAction figures. Though you might have ruined the heads with Bigeard caps for me, as now, when I look at the head in the centre and all I can see his HRH Prince Charles

[Paul Hicks]

I wont bother to use period pictures in future as reference

[Wilkins]

I like the character on his faces, they take paint SO much better!

[M Blakey]

I like the character on his faces, they take paint SO much better!

Agree with that!

[Mr. Peabody]

This is marvellous stuff... Thank the lord I'm in deep with Vietnam in 20mm. I may yet crack and have a go at these, it's hard to resist at this point.

Will follow for now and try to remain steadfast.

[NurgleHH]

Hmm, no mouth filled with a cigarette. A little bit disappointig, I think. 

[rokurota]

I like a lot the faces that Paul make, they are very expressive and full of personality.

[Bosch]

Are we going to get beret and sunglasses?