Tuesday, 15 June 2021

Mokarex 2e Empire figures

 

Some of these were completed just too late to see action in the recent Paris game.  These chaps are hard plastic figures originally given away with Mokarex coffee in France and featured historic French personalities and soldiers.  They seem quite rare in the UK - I picked up a few a shows here but most came from a toy soldier show in Paris a few years ago.  I really like them.

Above - The Emperor Louis-Napoleon in this original gold plastic and daubed by me.
Marshall MacMahon.  Ideally he'd have been present for the game as he was the C in C of the Versailles troops.
Cuirassiers and a trumpeter.  These indicate one of the drawbacks of elderly hard plastic - broken swords!
Guards and musicians.

General Faidherbe.

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11 comments:

  1. Martin Rapier15 June 2021 at 20:35

    Napoleon III! Vive l'Empereur!!

    What a great figure.

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  2. Simon15 June 2021 at 20:44

    Gasp! - real toy soldiers!!

    Simon

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  3. The Good Soldier Svjek15 June 2021 at 22:09

    Have picked up some of these suitable personality figures types for my 54mm ECW project .

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  4. Brad DeSantis15 June 2021 at 23:05

    Great figures Tim with nice paint jobs! It would be great if you could do a post of the civilian figures that you used in your Paris game. You seemed to have a great variety of figures with a multitude of possible uses in other periods as well!

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  5. tradgardmastare16 June 2021 at 07:07

    Great figures Tim, full of character.

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  6. Tim Gow17 June 2021 at 17:17

    Martin Rapier
    Sadly by the time of our game there was only room for one emperor in France. A German one!

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  7. Tim Gow17 June 2021 at 17:17

    Simon
    'Real' as in cheap and glossy?

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  8. Tim Gow17 June 2021 at 17:19

    The Good Soldier Svjek
    I have some of the 17th & 18th Century figures awaiting paint. Look forward to seeing your chaps.

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  9. Tim Gow17 June 2021 at 17:19

    Brad DeSantis
    Will do - I was surprised by the number of civvy figures I have.

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  10. Tim Gow17 June 2021 at 17:20

    tradgardmastare
    Thanks Alan. They're well worth looking out for.

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  11. MGB20 June 2021 at 19:10

    Some very collectable and useful figures! By the way, thanks for the view of your latest Paris-based war-game.
    Michael

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