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Post by lew on May 15, 2015 10:47:00 GMT -5
Something like No. 3 down on the right side would be ideal. The rest just look goofy.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 15, 2015 11:59:11 GMT -5
Thanks gentlemen. I was just delivered the Guyader book. Fascinating and lots of great pictures to document exactly what was worn and used.
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Greetings
May 16, 2015 22:53:10 GMT -5
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Post by hvd5677 on May 16, 2015 22:53:10 GMT -5
Just noticed that Amazon has khaki Pampa Hi Palladiums with brown rubber soles for sale in sizes 10-11 for $37.00. Still no OTAN Olive though
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Post by Étienne on May 17, 2015 17:53:15 GMT -5
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Post by Étienne on May 17, 2015 17:54:54 GMT -5
RE: pataugas, somewhere here in this forum I found a place that sells "no-name" pataugas for $25, shipping included. I can't remember the link, but I'm about to get a few of them myself. They do have green ones, but also brown from what I recall.
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Post by craigtx on May 17, 2015 18:51:18 GMT -5
The Guyader book is great!
If you're interested in para specifically the Les Paras Francais en Indochine and Les Paras Francais en Algerie are great for refence as well, but they are in French as opposed to English. Regardless, I found them both very useful.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 18, 2015 8:47:24 GMT -5
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Post by lew on May 18, 2015 11:04:15 GMT -5
You would need a rhinestone-encrusted swagger stick to go with those glasses. An ostrich feather stuck in a Mle. 49 chapeau de brousse would bring it all together. Curb feelers on your armored vehicle would be the pièce de résistance.
I think I should do a Pataugas thread- past and current.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 18, 2015 11:33:26 GMT -5
You would need a rhinestone-encrusted swagger stick to go with those glasses. An ostrich feather stuck in a Mle. 49 chapeau de brousse would bring it all together. Curb feelers on your armored vehicle would be the pièce de résistance. I think I should do a Pataugas thread- past and current. All my fears/hopes of French reenacting have been realized.
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Post by lew on May 18, 2015 12:35:57 GMT -5
Your mistake was thinking that any of us are decent people. Don't make me resort to Photoshop and altering original period pictures to suit my narrative.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 18, 2015 14:27:13 GMT -5
Your mistake was thinking that any of us are decent people. Don't make me resort to Photoshop and altering original period pictures to suit my narrative. I can see it now...an original 1954 photo of the Chef de Bordel Militaire de Campagne at Dien Bien Phu
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Post by craigtx on May 19, 2015 9:11:43 GMT -5
Any resemblance of Steve to a decent person is purely coincidental... We just feed him raw meat and the occasional farb to keep his edge...
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Post by lew on May 19, 2015 12:16:39 GMT -5
Farb?! Let me at 'em. Arf! Arf!
"Chef de Bordel Militaire de Campagne". I like it. Since I'm apparently the junkyard mutt, I'll let the rest vie for that prestigious title.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 22, 2015 19:58:33 GMT -5
That's the beauty of Indo (and to a lesser extent, Algérie): mix and match. I have both couscous and nuoc mam in my pantry and fridge respectively. I'm a desert rat at heart, though. No dice on the Vickers. Do you have your own? A Bren would be fine, but French machineguns- MAC Mle. 31, Hotchkiss, FM-24/29- and the Browning M1919A4 and A6 were the usual cast of characters, with the bias leaning toward the last three. US M2 MG's were used on armored vehicles and riverine craft. French Mle. 35 packs can be found occasionally. More on the Vickers, I note that Guyader includes Vickers Mark I in his list of "Collective Arms" on page 211, but no further description or substantiation. In any event, Im sure they didnt see wide use.
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Post by lew on May 23, 2015 9:35:44 GMT -5
That's a problem we encounter: We try to portray the average, not the one-offs (except in very limited circumstances). British troops were in Cochinchina in 1945, early '46, so it is certainly plausible, plus all the materiel aid the British delivered. The Vickers is one sweet MMG.
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Post by hvd5677 on May 29, 2015 14:43:15 GMT -5
Mle. 45 pouches and equipment would be excellent for non-airborne units. Make sure you get the russet/natural brown leather. Black pouches were used by the Armée de l'Air, and black weapons slings were used by everyone. The yellow leather that is pretty common was issued in late 1962, and the green leather in the early '70's. Im inserting a photo of a Cartoucherie mle. 45 (I think). It has a stamp which indicates a manufacturing date of 1951. It appears unused and is in good shape. Is this the appropriate natural/russet color ? I have seen other leather items which I believe are the "yellow" or "desert tan" leather that is of later production, but this Cartoucherie is darker.
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Post by lew on May 29, 2015 17:23:31 GMT -5
That's it. Make sure to hit it with a leather dressing as most of these are quite dry. I recently put Pecard's on my two sets and they are much happier for it.
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