"French Uniform 1980-1990" Topic

Hello,

I am looking for some reference material to paint 15mm FFL miniatures. The time period is 1980-1990. The theather is Eurppeon or South American.

Are there any pictures avaliable online or a good osprey book.

Thanks

'French Foreign Legion in Action' Europa Militaria #11
Windrow and Greene Pub.

Lots of photos of them all over the world….most common uniform is the flat olive (usually faded)-see image below

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One of the few colour images on the net showing this 'working dress' colour now that they have adopted camo's…..

I don't know when the camo uniform was introduced, but FFL airborne troops were still dressed in plain olive green uniforms in the Gulf War.

The FFL was, and still is, dressed like any other French infantry unit, eept for the white kepi and dark green beret. The camouflaged uniform wasn't introduced before 1993. Try a google search with words like forpronu to see the plain green uniform.

French camouflage stuff was removed in 1962 by General de Gaulle after Algiers' putsch. The dark green uniform was the standard one up to the early 90's.

Some desert camo stuff were introduced during Gulf War I (but worn mainly by non fighting units in the rear).

Olivier

AnY photos?

Just put a load of photos on the other thread.