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Blogger DeanM said...

Wow - big bummer about the drop & broken off figures. Will you use super glue? Should work - if not, and if you have the patience, Epoxy might also work - longer time to dry (you'd have to hold the figure in place while drying), but would be a stronger bond. BTW, did you ever watch "Lost Command"? with Anthony Quinn as Lt Col Raspeguy? A character in "The Centurions" - in turn based loosely on Marcel Bigeard. Great movie which begins with the fall of Dien Bien Phu; and ends with stuff in Algeria. Dean

26 October 2010 at 23:02

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Dean, I'll stick some of them on their old bases and strengthen with greenstuff "grass tufts". Some others I'll cut off at the waist and use in "fox holes". But quite a lot have broken weapons and are complete write offs.

Now I don't think I've ever seen Lost Command- I shall order, poste haste! Only £3 on ebay.

26 October 2010 at 23:47

Blogger Christopher(aka Axebreaker) said...

Always nice seeing something off the beaten path.Good luck and hopefully they don't break this time around.

Cheers
Christopher

27 October 2010 at 14:30

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"The Last Valley" by Martin Windrow is worth checking out too, imho.

And another movie that you may wish to check out is Pierre Schoendoerff's dull but technically accurate "Dien Bien Phu."

I sir applaud your decision to stick to 20mm, a scale that seems to be increasingly ignored these days. Perhaps you'd augment your Platoon20 stuff with some of those nice offerings from Liberation?

I'm not sure if you know of it, but those fellas in Hong Kong can be mighty inspiring:
http://www.hksw.org/vietnam.htm

31 October 2010 at 12:34

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi afewroundsmore, yes I'll be going for liberation minis, too. I'e seen the Hong Kong site, some nice battle reports on there.

Last night I excavated my 1980's French vehicle models; they should scrub up nicely... more anon.

2 November 2010 at 18:43

Blogger Mad Dan said...

Thanks for the link to the Indo site - need to get some more bits done for it sometime!

"Lost Command" is pretty poor (I did buy it though...). Have a look at Nowfel's review on:

http://indochine54.free.fr/misc/film.html#top

Danny

3 November 2010 at 20:38

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Danny, I read Nowfel's review about 5 minures after I ordered the film! Still it was dead cheap.

3 November 2010 at 21:59

Blogger BigRedBat said...

Hi Danny; watched Lost Command; I quite enjoyed it! It was a bit two-dimensional but had its moments. I particularly liked the GMC trucks and jeeps, and the girl from the Casbah. ;-)

7 November 2010 at 21:37

Thanks for commenting. I will post this as soon as I am able to review it.
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