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Author Topic: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa  (Read 5850 times)

Offline Atheling

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Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« on: June 11, 2014, 09:40:59 AM »
And here they are:


Offline joroas

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2014, 10:15:30 AM »
Nice, but they will be tiny next to my Artizan ones.......  :'(
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Offline Atheling

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #2 on: June 11, 2014, 10:41:10 AM »
Nice, but they will be tiny next to my Artizan ones.......  :'(

True, but there will/(is) certainly be a much fuller range for the Western Desert and North Africa  8).

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Offline Elbows

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #3 on: June 11, 2014, 10:45:10 AM »
It is a shame these don't scale well with many of the other popular ranges - as Perry makes excellent plastics.  It is nice to see a company flush out a range though.  Nothing bugs me more than a company who dips their big toe into a dozen different conflicts or theatres.  Perry are pretty good about this.

I'm sure they'll look sharp when finished. 
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Offline grant

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2014, 12:20:15 PM »
Very nice.
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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2014, 01:01:29 PM »
Some heads with Wolseley helmets would be great for Free French in Italian East Africa.
 
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Offline pacofeanor

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2014, 03:00:49 PM »
very good new !!! they will well fit for my Syria 41 project !!! (FFL and Vichy troops)

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #7 on: June 11, 2014, 05:25:21 PM »
First thing I thought of was Algeria, but far too early.

Offline marcusluis

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2014, 02:19:25 AM »
are they plastic or metal??

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2014, 02:53:28 AM »

Offline Atheling

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2014, 07:08:58 AM »
metal

Yep, definitely metal.

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2014, 07:27:27 AM »
well, I sure hope we can expect the usual four packs range plus a few support weapons. And hopefulls the helmeted version will be with adrians, because everyone can use the spare heads to make the tin hats. tropical hlemets would be a thrill too, but these were not used in the North Africa campaign, at least they don't appear all too often on pictures. A nice touch would also be spare heads with forage cap, for the colonial troops. These are all too often forgotten, the two legion batallions were not alone at Bir Hakeim.

Actually, the kepis should come as spare heads they are more propaganda hat than actual wear

Offline lou passejaire

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2014, 08:42:06 AM »
spare heads with :
-kepi for officers, NCo's
-adrian helmet
-colonial helmet for erythrea
-fez for the "bataillon de marche"

and no more of the white kepi ... what a dream  ;)

white kepi on XXth century legion troups in battle is stupid, just as depicting Grenadier Guard fighting along the Mareth Line, in 1943, in bearskin ...  ;)
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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2014, 09:58:14 AM »
white kepi on XXth century legion troups in battle is stupid, just as depicting Grenadier Guard fighting along the Mareth Line, in 1943, in bearskin ...  ;)
tell this to the french propaganda after Bir Hakeim.... :D

 ;) let's say after 1940, but yes, I agree

Offline lou passejaire

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Re: Perry Greens for the French Foreign Legion in North Africa
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2014, 12:51:45 PM »
even in pre-1939 actions in lebanon syria, for exemple, legionnaries were issued colonial helmet  ;)

 

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