October - 2016 French Resistance fighter

Again I've added the joe versions for comparison , the jumper being a lot thicker almost hand knitted .

I like these one of my fave sets .

My fave out of all the vam sets, because it conjures up images of saboteur commandos doing daring night-time raids in WW2.

Some folks put the beret on back to front, there's an example in one of my Modellers Loft 40th catalogue posters lol!

If England had been invaded by the Nazis in WW2 we would have had ERF (English Resistance Fighters). FRFs remind me of the SAS.

In WW2, the FRF also helped our downed RAF pilots and prison-camp escapees make it back to blighty, the FRF provided a clever 'escape network' that was undetectable by the enemy, they also provided important enemy troop movement intel to England via special codes.

Its a great uni and yet another I do not own! . In chat recently there have been some amazing takes on the FR set!, in particular Redragons, brownboots and Captain Action's! I hope they will post theirs here too!

You don't want to see my last photo with my FRF in it! Lol

Here's one I prepared earlier

Nice repaint on those eyes, Brian! and great figure too.

Hey, it isn't often I get to participate in one of these featured figure threads. Mine is the G. I. Joe/Hasbro version. I also was told my beret was back to front and now I can never remember which way it's supposed to be

Very nice figures guys!
I have the sweater and pants but no figure yet in my collection...

Nice selection of photos, chaps

I especially like Brian's 30th MAM FRF, i have a few of the 30ths buried somewhere, i haven't seen them for years


gibri,

You have the beret on the correct way, nice Joe.


I'm trying to find some of my FRF photos at the moment, there's tons of photo folders to look through on my black box, i've caused my database to become confused lol! As soon as i find them i will post them up, they are oldies, i think i have enough extra loose FRF style gear to put another 3/4 together.

Here's an oldie, there's also a Talking Commander in there, these FRF's are helping him to escape back to England. I hope to do an update on my FRF's one day  

clivvers wrote:

Here's an oldie, there's also a Talking Commander in there, these FRF's are helping him to escape back to England. I hope to do an update on my FRF's one day  

i have used the brown pleather coat on 1 of my own frf guys i think it adds a certain je ne sais quoi

Great looking FR guys.., erm guys! well done

blueboxier wrote:

i have used the brown pleather coat on 1 of my own frf guys i think it adds a certain je ne sais quoi

Definitely, those brown MAM jackets have many uses in kitbashes. I am always looking out for them, i have a fair amount of them now, i think a sleeveless one would also look good on a FRF. My photo above is actually older than 2012, it was taken in 2010, i just checked th original EXIF data, i updated the photo in 2012 with a new copyright. Doesn't time fly.

Thought I  had better get mine in , bit last minute , ........well not really as that would have been 23:59
in my defence I have been working didn't have any pics as I have only just put these three guys together !
I always thought the French resistance fighter a bit incomplete ,so decided they each should have an individually styled leather coat for those long operations !

They look terrific Jay!

Jay,

I'm liking your FRF team  Those jackets look excellent. Palitoy should have done similar jackets back in the day on a separate card as an accessory/upgrade to the FRF set.



Nice one Thierry,

It's good to see another MAM brown jacket being used in the world of vam/Joe.

Awesome take on the FR uni guys! they all look amazing!

Just thought I would update , these armbands arrived today from 1/6th scale king , great stuff !

Stunning stuff Jay! They look awesome

the arm bands add the final touch

Great photos everyone,

Great stuff!