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cheng

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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2007, 10:01:04 AM »
hello again Michael !
your
légion étrangère is my one of my 'oldest dreams'
i suppose those old 'ambulance caps' are no longer available  :( ,
against your rules to add tuck a piece of square white at the back of their caps?   ;D
great customs!
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2007, 04:35:54 PM »
thank you all, i wil make a few more contributions to this kind of egyptian theme soon.

by special request (and not quite in line with my rules ;)) i changed one of the legionaries. i took a shopping bag which is at least plastic.

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« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2007, 05:05:48 PM »
How beautiful! Please share a picture from the back!

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« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2007, 11:32:53 PM »


Your legionnaire looks GREAT, Michael!
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #19 on: March 31, 2007, 07:55:39 AM »
Quote from: henry_martini on March 30, 2007, 04:35:54 PM
i took a shopping bag which is at least plastic.

a very unique way of customizing but it looks well  :)
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2007, 12:20:31 AM »
fantastic custom. congratulation.
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2007, 03:08:46 AM »
whoa...nice shopping bag Michael!  ;D
is his cap an original PM?
i'm so tempted to make some soon!
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #22 on: April 02, 2007, 06:00:11 AM »
the cap is original pm, but very old, probably from one of the first sets, there is also a red, a blue and one with wide orange stripes, so  they should not be too rare  :D
recently there was a group of four white on ebay for weeks, but as i looked up now they were sold :'( 

a back view will come up soon, i have to rediscover a playbig knapsack in the cellar of my parents before

 
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #23 on: April 02, 2007, 05:38:57 PM »
kassassin, egypt 1882

charge of the household cavalry
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #24 on: April 08, 2007, 10:02:20 AM »
The zeriba really looks the real thing, hard prickly & nasty!
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« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2007, 03:40:13 PM »
a variant of mon legionnaire ;D
 
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« Reply #26 on: April 18, 2007, 03:43:52 PM »
the promised backview.

to attach the knapsack i have to make irreversible changes before, so i will have to make a mould of it first 
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« Reply #27 on: April 19, 2007, 02:40:29 AM »
very good setting and photo of your klickies in the 2 'the charge' pics, michael !

and thanks for the close-ups of your legionaire..
I NEED THOSE CAPS !!!!!!  ;D :D

none of the PM knapsacks i bought are suitable...too big...those backpacks of those old TV crews are still the most suitable PM parts...hope they re-issue them someday  ;D

do i see a sort of blue wrap-around his waist...was that meant to be part of his uniform? thanks for sharing!  :)
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #28 on: April 19, 2007, 11:15:26 AM »
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The blue belt :       

It makes its apparition in the Units of the expedition corps in Algeria in 1830 until 1882. The wool belt, was originally worn by African corps to protect their stomach from infections.
Since 1881, the blue belt (4.20 m long and 40 cm width) has been added to the parad uniform, worn over it as a distinctive sign of the French Foreign Legion.
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http://www.livres-legion-etrangere.com/french-foreign-legion/lasymbolique.htm

- the recent variant wears a playbig ambulance kepi  ;)
- there are also smaller (old and colored  :P) bags for schoolchildren, which might be eligible  as knapsacks for the equipment of some units in size and shape. for those a way to fix them loosely has to be found
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Re: victorias enemies
« Reply #29 on: April 19, 2007, 04:19:49 PM »
 :o really great, ur legionnaire is simply magnificent, henry!  ;D
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