{"id":6960,"date":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6960"},"modified":"2021-10-29T02:59:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T01:59:51","slug":"impressions-under-fire-miniatures-west-german-polizei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hntdaab.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/impressions-under-fire-miniatures-west-german-polizei\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressions: Under Fire Miniature’s West German Polizei"},"content":{"rendered":"

As much as I love many of the established companies, I’m always keeping my eye on what else there is. One company that has caught my eye is Under Fire Miniatures<\/a>. They have a wonderful range of 20mm figures<\/a> but more exciting for me is their small but rapidly growing set of 28mm stuff<\/a>. At the time of writing they have two sides of a Cold War Gone Hot Scenario, with 1980’s era West German Bundeswehr<\/a> and East German NVA<\/a> to fight against, with each range including command and support weapons. They also Russians for the same era on the way to the casters, getting you ready for some Red Thunder from over the Iron Curtain.<\/p>\n

However, when I got to their stand at Fiasco I was looking at their other 28mm option, the West German Polizei<\/a>. These figures really interested me from when they were first announced thanks to the mixture of military firearms and police uniform. Both packs are \u00a38 each and include four figures. Looking for some local cops to patrol the mean streets of Bazi City (or with the long arms more likely the rural areas of Bazistan), I grabbed both packs and got to work.<\/p>\n

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The figures are excellent sculpts – in fact, the sculpting style reminds me strongly of Empress’s stuff, which is always of pretty high quality. Assembly is simple – most are one piece figures and those with separate limbs have a pin system making it easy to fit the limbs. That said, I recommend dry fitting the parts to make sure they are not any unwanted gaps.<\/p>\n

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Pack one is the basic pack, giving you 4 police officers armed with G3s. Two are shooting while the other two are more specialised. The chap in the beret is running with G3 and a HK69 grenade launcher slung on his back (ready for dropping smoke or firing rubber balls into the crowd when on police duty) while the final officer is obviously a superior (based off the pose and beard sculpted on the figure). I really like the posing on the two shooting police officers – its simple but works really effectively.<\/p>\n

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Pack two is the support weapons – two with Medium Machine Guns (MG3s) and two with Panzerfaust 44 anti-tank weapons. These may look a little heavy for a police force but makes sense in a Cold War Gone Hot\/Mass Civil War situation. As with pack 1, there are some really nice details from ammo boxes for the MG3s to the sports bag the police have pushed into service for carrying AT rounds. These guys should be a nasty surprise for your opponent when you tell them you are using some police in today’s game.<\/p>\n

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Wanting to theme them more to Bazistan, I decided to sculpt some facial hair onto three of them (the running G3, the idle Pzf 44 gunner and the moving MG3 trooper). This was really simple and I fear I didn’t leave it long enough to cure as the undercoat covered up most of the detail. However, I did the job of making them look a little hairier.<\/p>\n

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Here they are painted up! I went for a Police uniform (so no camo) and took a look at police forces in the region. Originally the colour was Khaki top and bottom but it looked a bit dull so I add the Iraqi sand trousers. The caps were painted in beige brown while the band around was painted the same colour as the berets. US Tan drab was finely painted on the webbing. As always the final touch was lashings of Agrax Earthshade.<\/p>\n

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Here are the rifle pack, showing off the slung blooper. I really like the wooden colour that came out on the G3s giving them the look of an older pattern\/locally produced gun as opposed to the later polymer guns. It also nicely offsets against the black painted gun.<\/p>\n

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The support pack painted up. Not technically right but I’m happy with the wooden stock on the MG3. The anti-tank weapons went with the usual scheme of metal and green warhead.<\/p>\n

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As with any new manufacturer, it’s time for a scale comparison. This image also shows off the various security forces in Bazistan (with more details on them coming soon). From left to right<\/p>\n