Protecting "Brenda"

Continuing a developing campaign, Brenda needed some additional support.

The inspiration was the officers seen providing armed security in the UK, still maintaining a more police heritage appearance rather than the military appearance of SCO-19. Sometimes you can find both guarding locations.

No one does armed police (that are distinct from the rather soldier like counter terrorist troops), So I fell back on one of my favourite figure ranges: Crooked Dice's X-Commandos.

In the X-Commandos II pack is a female trooper with an L1A1 rifle (in keeping with their 'seventies inspiration). The figure comes with a head wearing a beret, which looks a bit too military.

Crooked Dice do a period WPC (WPC Cathy Black) in the Tough Detectives range, so I thought that would be a perfect head.

Like most of the female figures, the WPC head has a neck socket in the head rather than a socket in the torso common to the male figures, however the X-Commando sculpted dd not get the memo and the female body has a neck socket. Both were drilled to take a 1mm brass rod and the hood detail on the back of the body armour filed off to allow the head to fit correctly.

Crooked Dice figures use slotted bases and this figure needed to be based on a 25mm diameter flat Renedra base. Due to the posture it was not easy to drill and pin, so a "low profile" slot base was constructed by drilling a series of holes and joining them with a scalpel blade.

The head was test fitted and once I was happy it was attached by putting a small ball of greenstuff into the socket and the head with the brass rod pushed in place.

 Any overflow was then sculpted into a collar.

The rifle looked a bit bare, so I added a length of 1mm plastic rod under the barrel as a laser/torch. I should have added a distinct sight, but I forgot. Greenstuff provided a more secure bond and a mount.

The figure was undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black  and a similar paint job to the previous Bobby applied (dry brushed black grey etc.). The hair was Army painter Skeleton Bone shaded with original Citadel Skin Wash.

She has a back up Glock 17 (okay no idea what the sculpt is supposed to be).

AFO Jenny Shaw, ready to protect the peace.

Together with "Brenda".

Now for the rest of the detail, and those Spectre Luxury SUVs.

Codename "Brenda" *

As part of a developing campaign, I needed a character figure. Hasslefree do a figure called "Madge" that I thought would be suitable.

Hasslefree figures come with slotted bases, so the tab was removed and the boots filed flat. A 1mm diameter hole was drilled in bottom of one boot and a 1mm brass rod inserted. A 25mm Renedra base had a matching hole drilled in it and the figure was glued in place.

So "Brenda" is armed with a custom shotgun with flechette ammunition and is wearing body armour and a chocolate cookie coloured scarf she had received as a present from one of her grandsons.

As an elderly person, she is classified as "Slow", but her wealth of experience means she is "Elite" and has access to all manner of off table resources.

 Here is "Brenda" and two SAS operators from Empress.

* - Why "Brenda", you have to read Private Eye for the answer.