Bundeszollverwaltung Patrol

[bluewillow]

Bundeszollverwaltung - Customs company for my modern gaming, I still have a VW van to add to them.

The figures are 1/72 Esci from the ground crew (radio operator ) NATO troops man with hand up, and from the Airfix nato ground crew the dog and the three walking (minus their tool boxes)



Cheers
Matt

[CapnJim]

They look good.  I like the guy standing around, non-chalantly chatting on the walkie-talkie...

[Michi]

These are a nice change from little army men! A non-military government organisation in action against smugglers... 

[bluewillow]

These are a nice change from little army men! A non-military government organisation in action against smugglers... 

And for airports checking aircraft….. that is what I am planning a spetsnaz raid…..

[carlos marighela]

Very nice! Great use of that set. I can remember getting that set as a lad and thinking 'what do I do with these?' Forty odd years on and now I know.

Not just airports but bits of the IGB too. Perhaps the walkie-talkie bloke is prank calling the BGS?

[bluewillow]

Very nice! Great use of that set. I can remember getting that set as a lad and thinking 'what do I do with these?' Forty odd years on and now I know.

Not just airports but bits of the IGB too. Perhaps the walkie-talkie bloke is prank calling the BGS?

Built upon your recommendation Carlos!

Yep a prank call for sure!

Cheers
Matt

[HESH]

Superb mate 👍

[Daeothar]

I remember that set of NATO ground troops. It was the only set of 1/72 figures I ever bought. I must have been 11 or 12 at the time. They languished in my bits box for decades, as I had some great ideas for a diorama, but this never came to fruition. I remember putting some nails with the tops cut off and a bend at the top into a square piece of multiplex, with some mosquito mesh as a chainlinked fence, but that's as far as I ever came.

Most of the troops in the set were in NBC gear, but the dog handler and several others have proven to be very useful some years ago when I was doing terrain and other elements for Gaslands.

The one with the signals was repurposed as a crashed Star trek cosplayer by removing the paddles, lying him flat on the ground and painting him as a TOS redshirt

Your painting is really nice; they're an obvious coherent unit, and should put up at least some resistance to those Spetznas you mentioned

[bluewillow]

I remember that set of NATO ground troops. It was the only set of 1/72 figures I ever bought. I must have been 11 or 12 at the time. They languished in my bits box for decades, as I had some great ideas for a diorama, but this never came to fruition. I remember putting some nails with the tops cut off and a bend at the top into a square piece of multiplex, with some mosquito mesh as a chainlinked fence, but that's as far as I ever came.

Most of the troops in the set were in NBC gear, but the dog handler and several others have proven to be very useful some years ago when I was doing terrain and other elements for Gaslands.

The one with the signals was repurposed as a crashed Star trek cosplayer by removing the paddles, lying him flat on the ground and painting him as a TOS redshirt

Your painting is really nice; they're an obvious coherent unit, and should put up at least some resistance to those Spetznas you mentioned

The nato set is quite good, I used the nbc guys for zombie games, and some for Gaslands also. I have they put up a fight also!

Cheers
Matt