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Artizan 28mm French Foreign Legion “March or Die” Box Set
Artizan’s French Foreign Legion March or Die boxed (FFLGCB) set of 28mm miniatures is an outstanding value for those interested in jump starting their Foreign Legion figure collection. I paid almost...
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Making a Berber Ksar (Askari Miniatures)
Just a quick post today on a neat article that appears on the Askari Miniatures web page on how to build a Berber Ksar. I’m not sure how I missed this since I’ve been on their site dozens of times...
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Painting the Armies In Plastic French Foreign Legion (W.I.P.)
I’m not sure what possessed me to start painting these figures. Maybe it was the flash free smoothness of the capote that tempted me or the way the light warmly reflected off the blue color of the...
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Legion Fort for Miniatures
Just a quick post today. I found these pictures for a Foreign Legion Fort on an eBay auction last month. Great pictures here of what appears to be a four-piece molded model based on Fort Zinderneuf....
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Ksar El-Azeoudj, Sahara, 1903
A quick post today to direct your attention to a very fine tabletop war game posted at Club Le Shakko. Link The setting is 1903 and the far southern reaches of the troubled kingdom of Morocco where...
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Military Figurines/Models
Just a quick post today. I’m sorting out electronic files again and figured I had amassed quite a collection of images culled from various website and thought this might make a good reference post for...
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Hodgepodge
I’ve been a untimely blogger lately–sorry about that. To make up for it here is a miscellaneous collection of Foreign Legion related items that I’ve come across lately. 1. Zénaga, Maroc, 1904: Over...
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Hodgepodge 2
A couple more quick items to share…. 1. 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Camerone. Just a reminder that 30 April is only 10 days away. Camerone Day is the sacred day of the Foreign Legion and this...
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ESCI Foreign Legion Figure Conversions
Today I’m sharing some pictures of my latest experiment creating more poses for the ESCI/ERTL 1:72 scale Foreign Legion set. Using one box of figures (and a sharp hobby knife) I found it was fairly...
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A Legion Fort in 1:30 Scale
Michael completed a real nice looking desert outpost for his intrepid Legionnaires from Thomas Gunn Miniatures. The first four pictures are the “work in progress” and the following four show the...
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Foreign Legion Themed Hobby Products
This month I came across some Foreign Legion / North African related products for miniatures and hobby gaming. 1. Armies in Plastic: Fort Morocco French Foreign Legion Fort 1900. This is something...
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Sideshow Collectables Foreign Legion Action Figures
A quick post the day before Camerone Day. Those 1/6 scale action figures that I grew up with forty years ago and known collectively as “G. I. Joes” have made quite a comeback. Over the last decade or...
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Hodgepodge for July 2014
Some of the odds and ends related to the Foreign Legion that I discovered this past month… 1. Regiments of the French Foreign Legion. Here is a very nice documentary on the Foreign Legion. Though...
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Hodgepodge for September 2014
Here are some interesting links for this past September–some new and some old. 1. French Foreign Legion: A Descriptive Bibliography. This Facebook page of Mr. Savage’s is one I’ve been following for a...
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Hachette Soldats de la Légion Etrangère
(My next collecting obsession…) Hachette produces an amazing line of collectable 54mm/1:32 figurines depicting the French Foreign Legion throughout history. You may have seen them around–the first...
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Hodgepodge for January 2015
hodgepodge (\ˈhäj-ˌpäj\): a mixture of different things; often a confused mixture of things that don’t go together. Alteration of hotchpotch (a mutton stew with mixed vegetables) Well this months...
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Hodgepodge for May 2015
Sorry for being AWOL for a couple weeks…spring cleaning, home repairs and yard work (and my day job) kind of eat away my free time. Anyway, here are some odds and ends related to the Foreign Legion....
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Hodgepodge for July 2015
A little late on this post but here are some of the Foreign Legion related items I’ve come across in July. 1. Dark Mystique of French Foreign Legion. A short AFP article on the Foreign Legion recently...
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Hodgepodge December 2014
Happy New Year! There was too much celebration yesterday at my house to get this posted in 2014. So, despite a hangover, I’ve finally assembled the odds and ends I found about the Foreign Legion the...
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Hodgepodge for January 2016
Sorry for the lack of posts this month. I’ve been busy with work and other projects and I often get home in a vegetative state of mind, not wanting to do much of anything else but watch politics on TV...
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