Lockheed FV-3 Alouette; Diên Biên Phu, Indochine Française

[Captain Canada]

Bravo indeed ! Great, great job on this one. One of those perfect whiffs....colourful, well built, eye catching, lots of armament....and a plausible story !

[zenrat]

Thanks folks.
I can see more Indochine Française builds in the future.

[Thorvic]

Thanks folks.
I can see more Indochine Française builds in the future.

Nice build and nice back story as having France clinging on in French IndoChine should create some rather interesting builds. The conflict would also ease over the pain of the French Aviation industry seeing a US product succeed where their own VTOL developments failed to enter service with their own Air Force.

An interesting off-tangent result of this is that the USA are less likely to be as heavily involved in Vietnam and may focus more on global peacekeeping (or keeping communism at bay), maybe more involvement in Africa and Central/South America as well as SE Asia. 

[zenrat]

I'm not overthinking it.  I just wanted a vague reason to use decals other than the kit ones.
Anything can inspire me.  For example i'm currently working with a bloke from Mauritius so i've been looking into their "air force".
This (according to Wikipedia) consists of 2 planes and 3 choppers.  Great roundels though.


wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_of_Mauritius

[comrade harps]

Brutal! But so colourful, too. 

[PR19_Kit]

The conflict would also ease over the pain of the French Aviation industry seeing a US product succeed where their own VTOL developments failed to enter service with their own Air Force.

We can change all that in WHiffWorld though.....