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.
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.
11 comments:
Napoleon III! Vive l'Empereur!!
What a great figure.
Gasp! - real toy soldiers!!
Simon
Have picked up some of these suitable personality figures types for my 54mm ECW project .
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!
Great figures Tim, full of character.
Martin Rapier
Sadly by the time of our game there was only room for one emperor in France. A German one!
Simon
'Real' as in cheap and glossy?
The Good Soldier Svjek
I have some of the 17th & 18th Century figures awaiting paint. Look forward to seeing your chaps.
Brad DeSantis
Will do - I was surprised by the number of civvy figures I have.
tradgardmastare
Thanks Alan. They're well worth looking out for.
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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