1/35 Academy Légion étrangère

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1/35 Academy Légion étrangère

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Wanting to try out my new photo booth, I decided to build some figures from this Academy set. For some reason my new area puts me in a mood for this set...

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so far I have built two figures... one from Algeria in the 50s, and another from Djibouti in the 80s...

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I’ve started basic painting and will build more of the figures and get them posted over the next few days here...
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Very cool subject! I like the zouve pants. Can we expect a diorama? Dien Bien Phu perhaps?
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No diorama. These figures cover 30 years of Legion history across two continents. And only one is from Indochina.
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Quite an interesting subject.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Very cool. I need to learn to paint figures like this. I have a lot from those Hasegawa sets.
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LyleW wrote:Quite an interesting subject.
They are indeed! Their battle honors post WWII are pretty impressive.
Medicman71 wrote:Very cool. I need to learn to paint figures like this. I have a lot from those Hasegawa sets.
Yes, figure painting is my biggest challenge. Not something that I can say that I have come close to mastering, let alone getting constant acceptable results.
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Some funny looking uniforms. Looks like your photo booth is giving some good lighting.
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Floki wrote:Some funny looking uniforms. Looks like your photo booth is giving some good lighting.
The Sahara uniform is actually pretty practical for its intended area. And I imagine that the hot weather walking out dress uniform is not a bad option for Djibouti either.

Yes, the booth has a nice adjustable brightness LED halo lamp up top for proper lighting. No more fiddling around like before.
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Built another Legionnaire today... Indochina 1948

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