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Miniatures Adventure => The Conflicts that came in from the Cold => Topic started by: Michi on October 22, 2024, 10:05:26 PM

Title: To serve and to protect
Post by: Michi on October 22, 2024, 10:05:26 PM
Beat cops from the 1980s - I painted them to resemble Chicago PD uniforms, because I have quite a few police cars for Blues Brothers...  ;)

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Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Daeothar on October 23, 2024, 12:00:32 AM
It's 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses...
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Pattus Magnus on October 23, 2024, 12:22:12 AM
Great painting! Which company makes the figures? I don’t recognize them.

Funny (or maybe not so funny) though, when I saw them it felt odd that they aren’t equipped with armoured vests.
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: HESH on October 23, 2024, 12:27:53 AM
Terrific work and very helpful for me as I have some to paint up. 👍
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: warburton on October 23, 2024, 02:55:40 AM
Very nice work.
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: HerbertTarkel on October 23, 2024, 05:10:19 AM
Those are great!

I’m reminded of Kurt Cobain’s famous guitar sticker: “Vandalism: as beautiful as a rock to a cop’s face”  lol
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Michi on October 23, 2024, 07:03:16 AM
Which company makes the figures? I don’t recognize them.

Most of them look like being from Foundry, but I'm not sure. Four of them (slightly taller and without ties) are from somewhere else, which I also forgot.  ::)
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Mad Lord Snapcase on October 23, 2024, 07:42:27 AM
Lovely work. I love the doughnut cop!   :-*
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: CapnJim on October 23, 2024, 05:58:52 PM
Nice cops!  They look the part.

Great painting! Which company makes the figures? I don’t recognize them.

Funny (or maybe not so funny) though, when I saw them it felt odd that they aren’t equipped with armoured vests.

Yeah - American patrol officers didn't wear much in line of body armor (none at all, really) in the '80s, even in the bigger departments.
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Gunbird on October 23, 2024, 06:04:43 PM
No donuts? C'mon man...... ;D

Just kidding, great work buddy!
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: mikedemana on October 23, 2024, 08:09:19 PM
That's a lot of cops...must be a political convention in town!  lol

Mike Demana
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Sgt_T on October 23, 2024, 09:20:00 PM
Most of them look like being from Foundry, but I'm not sure. Four of them (slightly taller and without ties) are from somewhere else, which I also forgot.  ::)

They are from Westwind:
https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=192_73_135&product_id=608 (https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=192_73_135&product_id=608)

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Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: Michi on October 23, 2024, 09:25:40 PM
They are from Westwind:
https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=192_73_135&product_id=608 (https://www.westwindproductions.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&path=192_73_135&product_id=608)

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Thank you! That's them indeed. More handsome than the other fellas...
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: carlos marighela on October 23, 2024, 11:24:47 PM
Nice cops!  They look the part.

Yeah - American patrol officers didn't wear much in line of body armor (none at all, really) in the '80s, even in the bigger departments.

Still true into the 1990s. But sometime the baddies did.

If you ever want a nightmare scenario that will weird out the player controlling the cops, try the real life North Hollywood shootout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Hollywood_shootout

There was even a fairly craptastic made for television film with Michael Madsen and Mario van Peebles made about it: 44 Minutes. It's not great cinema but it's fairly true to the events, well as least as much as a Hollywood production ever is.
Title: Re: To serve and to protect
Post by: CapnJim on October 24, 2024, 01:26:21 AM
Yeah - the PD had to "borrow" AR15s from a local gun shop, and one bad guy went down with an "under the car" shot to his foot...

We had a game that went a bit like that gunfight.  I think it's somewhere early on in my "Modern Stuff" thread...

I have Crooked Dice American police, but I've eyeballed those Foundry cops more than once, and threads like this only make me look at them again...  My Wall of opportunity is already pretty full.  But who knows, maybe some day...