Still no sign of him - he's probably off eating strawberries. Instead we have a couple of bases of Sappeurs, the French combat engineers. These were fairly elite troops sued not only for constructing defences and building bridges but also used to spearhead assaults against enemy positions, such as the successful attack on La Haye Sainte and the advance of the Guard at Ligny.
Line Sappeurs from the HaT French Command set, with a HaT Young Guard officer to lead them and the numbers made up by an Airfix French infantry figure (rear rank, centre) who's had a head swap to give him the required bearskin.
Imperial Guard Sappeurs. The axe-wielding figs are Esci, the spontoon carriers are Airfix (I know that IRL they didn't carry spontoons, but they were spare figures and it kinda fits with the axes as scary, somewhat anachronistic melee weapons), the officer is again HaT Young Guard, but with a head swap to give him a plumed bicorne. I thought a Guard officer ought to have a little more finery than his comrades of the line .
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