15mm Riot Police Wagons from GZG.......

..........or maintaining the peace and showing the blue!

I always remember when I worked as a security supervisor in a couple of Dublin hospitals (interesting times) back in the day I always remember saying to the guys in our navy blue uniforms that patrolling the grounds and wards was showing the blue (uniform), reassuring people/staff that we were around (no matter the quality of officers).

These heavy metal boys are from GZG and represent the fleet of the riot squads of Franonia, a bit of a bitch to assemble and a bit of green stuff filling but they came together eventually. There is another version in the range but was sold out at Salute.

I have placed a 15mm figure from Flytrap Factory to give some idea of scale but they are big heavy feckers!

15mm Modern Bundeswehr Panzergrenaiders with TPz Fuchs Zug....

....from Flytrap Factory.

Modern German Panzergrenaiders with the TPz Fuchs, 4 squads of 6 panzergrenaiders to make up a Zug (platoon)

The Bundeswehr has a strength of roughly 178,000 troops, placing it among the 30 largest military forces in the world and making it the second largest in the European Union behind France in terms of personnel.

Currently has troops deployed in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Turkey, Lebanon, Mali.........

TPz (Transportpanzer) Fuchs (Fox) and one of the larger APC's out there at 7.33m in length.

Nice figures and resin APC's from Flytrap, a few little issues with some air bubbles and HMG's not fully cast but where else would you get them!

15mm Painted Flytrap Factory Riot Police from their Lawfighter Range.....

.....or the "Thin Blue Line", perfect for riots, shenanigans or wargames involving members of "Posties Rejects"!

These are from Flytrap Factory but no listing on their site, these were got from those "great communicators" over at Zombiesmith. Easy enough paint, dark blue and black, not adventurous enough to try painting police on the shields! It works out at 5 poses in the pack, I just dropped the shield to a resting position on some of them to aid variety and 3 figures were placed flat to serve as casualties.

15mm Modern Protesters and Demonstrators from Flytrap Factory..........

...........or future Rioters, Looters and Incarcerated?

Had a lot of time on my hands recently so a lot of things got painted that were in the lead pile, things got repaired( most of it anyway) that were fecked in transport from England, so the 15mm modern range got a lot of attention, stuff got re-based......when we eventually got electricity!

The figures are from their Lawfighter range (camera guy is from Oddzial Osmy) and were bought last year from the "helpful" guys at Zombiesmith, the sculpts aren't too bad, there are about 7 or 8 sculpts per range, a lot of repeats but with a varied colour palette you can change things up ( a little criticism is there are too many flat cap figures), I left a lot of figures out due to the repeats and colour blindness.

The Ray in this statement of protest may or may not be the same Ray I used to know once upon a time!