The French Wars of Decolonisation and I - part 2
Part 1 of this rambling story told of how I had first become interested in the French Indo-China and Algerian Wars. We'd left it where I had moved onto other periods specifically late World War 2 Eastern Front. We're now into the early 2000's. I'd been very focused on building up a collection of 1/76th WW2 figures. True to form I went off on a tangent after discovering the splendid 1/6th action figures from Dragon and started collecting these. It wasn't long before I started kitbashing FIC and Algerian figures using WW2 items. Now the Internet proved useful and I was procuring from all over. This had given me an outlet for my interest but I still was yet to wargame the period. Then a couple of things happened around the same time at the end of 2005. A local hobby shop opened and I found a Matchbox 1/76th M24 and then I discovered Liberation Miniatures. Praise be! Liberation did a specific Indo-China range. Not...