Blogger Azazel rus a regular group challenge clicky where by you all paint/ make something according to a theme and post up the result. It is not competitive just something to get you motivated.
I’ve been meaning to join in for a while but I’ve not got had the enthusiasm for a while… until this past month. Octobers theme was to do units. This fits in nicely with my fast painting techniques so I thought I’d go for it.
I did say I was going to do some Van Saar gang members for Necromunda but I’ve yet to finish them. What I have done though is a lot of 20mm figures. This is the first of three post of my month’s work.
First up with have a mixed unit of RUC policemen and women (well woman) from Elhiem clicky . Ostensibly they are for the trouble but I intend to use them for some 70s Winter of ’79/ urban disturbance type gaming, see my earlier post about card buildings. They have a wide variety of weaponary: G3s, SLRs, Sterling SMGs as well as semi automatic carbines. This combined with the police uniform and bulky flask vest give them a different feel to modern SWAT teams.
Cheers,
Pete.
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Looks great. I keep think about dusting off my 20mm ‘Anarchy in the UK’ project.
You should do- I’ve got some ideas for a nice little narrative campaign based on a homebrew rule set I was given.
Cheers,
Pete.
Pete,
Definitely would like to hear it, even if I don’t dust off my stuff.
Joe
This might be a bit ambitious but I’d like to run two simultaneous but related campaigns. One would be a committee game representing the high level government/ military rsponse to civil unrest in a given area. Levels of patrolling, RoEs, curfews, what forces are deployed where etc. Then, using different players I’d run a terrorist cell skirmish game under the conditions defined by high level game. The terrorism game would feedback in and hopefully you’d get a cycle going round. Hope that makes some kind of sense.
Cheers,
Pete.
They look good, especially as they literally have hit the street (and I think that worked great for your photo Pete!).
Thanks Mark- I always use the step by my back door to my yard as the place for my photos.
Cheers,
Pete.
They look spot on!
Thanks for that- I used an old Osprey as reference material.
Cheers,
Pete.
Perfect. Female officer looks a good one too.
Thanks. It this kind of war the prescence of a female officer to search female civilians/ suspects is very useful. Nice for the figures to reflect this.
Cheers,
Pete.
Great group of models here. They certainly do look very different to the “tacticool” type ultramodern SWAT figures, or the late-80’s-early-90’s types that we usually see.
Thanks. Their wide range of weaponary also adds to their low tech look I think. They even have rifles with wooden furniature.
Cheers,
Pete.
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