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Quadratus16 Mar 2010 8:42 a.m. PST

I have seen pictures of this stuff a couple of times but know nothing about it.
picture

Anyone want to share knowledge?

Also why hasn't it shown up in model form? It looks really cool!

aecurtis Fezian16 Mar 2010 8:53 a.m. PST

Battlefront's 15mm Soviet assault engineer-sappers are in SN-42 body armor. Somebody was asking about 28mm ones just the other day. As to references…

The kit itself:

link

The sappers who used them:

link

A not-quite-adequate English translation:

link

Allen

Quadratus16 Mar 2010 9:00 a.m. PST

Allen,

Let me buy you a beer!

Odd that someone else would be thinking the same thing? Who was it? Someone smart and a wargaming genius, I suppose. . .

I was thinking about them in 25/28mm scale.

aecurtis Fezian16 Mar 2010 9:02 a.m. PST

Saxon Dog was asking, and was answered:

TMP link

Allen

Jovian116 Mar 2010 11:58 a.m. PST

You know Quadratus – that half of Allens information comes from his friendly neighborhood grocery store.

aecurtis Fezian16 Mar 2010 12:20 p.m. PST

…and the nail salon.

Allen

Lion in the Stars16 Mar 2010 1:32 p.m. PST

You must live in an interesting neighborhood, Allen!

rdjktjrfdj16 Mar 2010 3:59 p.m. PST

How much more resourceful would Alan have been had we retained foricae!

Moko5416 Mar 2010 5:18 p.m. PST

I wonder what Allen's local gas station attendent knows!

aecurtis Fezian16 Mar 2010 7:26 p.m. PST

I thought TMP *was* a forica!

Allen

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