Thursday 18 June 2020

FN 42s French Sapeur


I recently acquired four of these figures - true to form one of the veterans has sloped off somewhere, and gone temporarily AWOL.
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2 comments:

Terry said...

Hmm. An interesting photo. If these are Minifigs, they may be older than S Range. I certainly have a number of S Range Sappers from around 1975 and they are different from these. Mine carry no musket and the axe is held over the shoulder.
I'll send a link to a friend of mine who has collected Minifigs from way back and does still have some pre-S Range Napoleonics (from when they were originally sold pre-painted) to see if he can comment.

18 June 2020 at 23:16
Vintage Wargaming said...

Terry, the figures pictured are S Range. They all have legible codes FN 42s scratched on the underside of their bases.There are pictures of Miniature Figurines 20mm range (to which I think you are referring) FN 42 Guard Sapeur and FN 43 Line Sapeur, both of which are clearly different to this figure, on the gallery page for Miniature Figurines on the Vintage20Mil site. The Sapeur you describe with axe over shoulder and without musket is FN 43 from this earlier range.

24 June 2020 at 15:24

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