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Title: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 07 April 2010, 06:54:48 PM
(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y192/halestorm/stormtroopers.jpg)

And if not, why not?!?!
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: marko.oja on 07 April 2010, 07:55:40 PM
Whoa... those look a bit too scifi to be real...
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Gluteus Maximus on 07 April 2010, 07:58:23 PM
Good lord! When I first looked at the pic, I thought they were sci fi film extras  :o

You're right, we definitely need some of these chaps in 28mm.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: joroas on 07 April 2010, 08:17:48 PM
Was it just me or do they have codpieces?   :?
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: JollyBob on 07 April 2010, 08:19:49 PM
Was it just me or do they have codpieces?   :?

If I was a riot cop, I'd want a codpiece.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 07 April 2010, 08:22:41 PM
If I was a riot cop, I'd want a codpiece.

Damn straight.

How cool is that uniform? I could find a use for those troops.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: carlos marighela on 07 April 2010, 08:25:12 PM
If I was a riot cop I'd rather have a bloody great shield and a water cannon than a fish supper.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: joroas on 07 April 2010, 08:27:41 PM
Last time I saw anyone with that much armour, he had a horse and a lance........

Riots in Venezuela must be something else......
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: ErikB on 07 April 2010, 08:30:38 PM
Whoah.

Closest I can think of are Kasrkin but that's not quite the same.

Whoah again.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: carlos marighela on 07 April 2010, 08:37:18 PM
Dunno if anyone makes the Venezuelano version but a quick google of Batalhao de Choque, the Brazilian version, has the following action figure listed on submarino, an online trader, akin to Amazon.

http://www.submarino.com.br/produto/3/21384021/comandos+em+acao+-+batalhao+de+choque+-+boneco+c/+mochila

Ok so there's a little artistic licence involved but I will say that the real ones you see at the football, in full fig, wearing camos, wielding enormous clubs and shields, facing the spectators are scary enough. Who in their right mind would want to invade the pitch is beyond me. At the old Fonte Nova, you had to scale a 6 foot wire fence, cross an 8 foot deep ditch before you even made to the riot police and their German Shepheards. Still the shields came in useful deflecting missiles from the refs as they left the pitch at the end of the game.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 07 April 2010, 08:42:48 PM
The original pic may actually be of Peruvian riot troops rather than Venezuelan.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: joroas on 07 April 2010, 08:45:40 PM
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The original pic may actually be of Peruvian riot troops rather than Venezuelan.

Damn, I just commissioned a set of these figures, too...............  lol
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: carlos marighela on 07 April 2010, 08:49:09 PM
The original pic may actually be of Peruvian riot troops rather than Venezuelan.

That makes more sense, they have a bloody awful football team, even worse than Venezuela's.  :)
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 07 April 2010, 11:48:06 PM
Damn, I just commissioned a set of these figures, too...............  lol

lol, as long as they use the ref pic it wouldn't matter. Although I'm sure someone will point out the mistake on TMP when they're released  ;) lol
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: joroas on 07 April 2010, 11:53:27 PM
I have it in my head now that they should all be mounted on llamas..............  lol  o_o  :o
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Commander Vyper on 07 April 2010, 11:57:14 PM
http://www.victoryforce.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=VFM&Category_Code=candc (http://www.victoryforce.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=VFM&Category_Code=candc)

Victory force reddredan:


(http://www.victoryforce.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/022001logo.jpg)
Preety close ish might do the job.

Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Dewbakuk on 08 April 2010, 01:54:00 AM
Ah, I'd forgotten about them! Been wanting those figures for a while, cheers.

Edit: I've now remembered why I don't own them. With shipping etc factored in they're damned expensive.
Title: Re: So who makes Venezuelan riot troops in 28mm?
Post by: Tacgnol on 08 April 2010, 08:08:25 AM
For when water cannons just won't do-

(http://www.voidlegion.de/urbanwar/Junker/13609.jpg)