Hunt for Gaddafi!!!

[traveller]

I just read in the news that French and British Special Forces are involved in the hunt for Super Villain Gaddafi.

Telegraph:
British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to spearhead the hunt for Col Muammar Gaddafi, The Daily Telegraph can disclose. As a £1 million bounty was placed on Gaddafi’s head, soldiers from 22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel soldiers after being ordered in by David Cameron. For the first time, defence sources have confirmed that the SAS has been in Libya for several weeks, and played a key role in coordinating the fall of Tripoli. With the majority of the capital now in rebel hands, the SAS soldiers, who have been dressed in Arab civilian clothing and carrying the same weapons as the rebels, have been ordered to switch their focus to the search for Gaddafi, who has been on the run since his fortified headquarters was captured on Tuesday.

I can smell a nice skirmish scenario here, Gaddafi together with bodyguards (including his famous female Guard) vs the Forces of Good. What is needed is:
 
-a Gaddafi miniature - any ideas for conversion? (hopefully TAG will sculpt one to add to their "not Bin-Laden" and "not Saddam Hussein" miniatures)
-His bodyguard, maybe some of the Mongrel arabs range?
-French/British Special Forces, what units would it be apart from SAS?
 
All help and suggestions are gratefully received!

[joroas]

Your coat's by the front door, don't forget it on the way out..................... 

[traveller]

Adele has joined the hunt for Gaddafi when she heard there was bounty on his head.


Key to joke for non-UK

Adele= rather rotund but fine popular singer
Bounty = chocolate coconut bar

 

[OSHIROmodels]

Watching the news at the moment and most of the participants are in civvies, with quite a number of African mercenaries.

The conversion of the pick up trucks with the AA guns on the back would make a nice little conversion.

cheers

James

[OSHIROmodels]

Maybe the silly buggers are firing blanks or just tracers?

cheers

James

[Svennn]

I miss-read the title as hunt for Gandalf

[OSHIROmodels]

Nah, been done before 

cheers

James

[OSHIROmodels]

Jimbibbly
I thought tracers were normal rounds coated in phosphorus (or a 21st century equivalent). Are they now something different?
Not au fait with weaponry much past 1945.

To be honest, I'm not au fait with any sort of projectile weaponry after the turn of the 19th century 

cheers

James

[joroas]

Not for humanitarian reasons but I have shares in a nitrate mine   

Do nitrate miners earn more than daytime ones?

[joroas]

I was sneaking out the back to avoid the bar bill anyway...............

[Brummie]

I've read and heard all sorts of things about those pick up trucks, from mounting downed Hind rocket launchers on the back and using string for firing them, to mounting the usual self propelled Anti tank guns (in one case they tried to use an AT gun to destroy a helicopter, but being untrained didn't know the things had backblast and stuck the ammo behind the gun leading to a very horrible mess.)

Plus the AA guns actually differ, some DO bounce around wildly, and your more likely to bounce around if firing it to left or right of the vehicle. I think some are designed though so its a tad more stable. S&S do all that is needed to make such vehicles in 20mm, if you want to be more creative however, they took some inspiration from the mexican druglords and have welded armour plating to guns etc. They'd make 40K Greenskins jealous!

I have a magazine which has pictures of the weird and wonderful ways they have spray painted their vehicles.

As for catching Gaddafi, more than likely the game will consist of a patrol, finding a hole in the ground and then discovering a heavily bearded old guy inside saying 'please don't shoot me I am Gaddafi'

[Calimero]

As for catching Gaddafi, more than likely the game will consist of a patrol, finding a hole in the ground and then discovering a heavily bearded old guy inside saying 'please don't shoot me I am Gaddafi'

Could be worst he could be saying "Please don't shoot me I'm Santa Clauss"...