How Do You Paint Plastic Toy Soliders (part three)?

THIRD up were four of the French Foreign Legion.
The good thing about the legionnaires' uniform, certainly around 1870, is that it was very similar to the uniform of ordinary French infantry.
The main difference, at least as far as these Armies In Plastic figures are concerned, is that the rank-and-file legionnaires - but not the officer - are wearing a (white) cloth covering the kepi and neck.

Four legionnaires

With any luck this should be fairly easily disguisable with a suitable paint job when turning them into line infantry - time will tell.
Meanwhile I am painting the first four legionnaires with the help of René North's 1970 work Military Uniforms 1686-1918.

René North's Military Uniforms - my well-thumbed copy has many loose pages, but none missing

As can be seen in the book by comparing illustrations of legionnaires on pages 53 and 112, the basics of their uniform changed little in the 19th century even though the men depicted served almost 70 years apart.
This time I washed the plastic soldiers in soapy water, rubbed with the rough side of a "magic" cleaning cloth, rinsed under a (mildly) hot tap and painted with PVA glue. And it worked, or at least I was able to wholly cover each figure with primer.

The finished legionnaires