Hi Guys
I have decided that I would like to make a dio of british troops in Northern Ireland to kinda mark the end of Op Banner. Does anyone know where I can get some decent 1/35 figures of British soldiers from Northern Ireland or the Falklands (ie with the SLR rifle preffreably) Cheers. Nick

I know that Accurate Armour makes a Falklands era soldier with GPMG. If your looking for suitable FAL rifles, try to get an old Italeri kit of modern weapons, has 3. Don´t know about any others or if the Dragon kit of Modern British soldiers works for your porpouse.

Hope it helps.

Cheers

Hi Klaus
Thanks for that info, do you have the number of the dragon kit? Cheers. Nick

Hi Nick,

The only ones that I know of is the old Airfix "Modern British Infantry". These have the SLR but are horrible plastic. The rifles really do have to be replaced.

Two Australian companies Firestorm and MouseHouse Armour make sets of SLRs.

Hi Nick,
the Dragon kit modern British troops are armed with the Sa 80 not slrs the Dragon Vietnam weapons kit has some slrs and some silenced smgs but is oop but you might find the odd kit knocking around.Hope this helps.
Cheers Phil H

Nick, the DML figures are 90's era GW1 Figs and are in Noddy Suits so that would preclude early periods. The tamiya British Stretcher party with SLR's or Sterlings from the italeri Modern Weapons set are a good alternative. If you want Mk III Helmets then get the original DML WW2 Commonwealth Infantry and if you want modern Mk VI(?) get the DML GW set or Acc Armour. Accurate armour do modern Brits also
Cheers
All

Kirin made a resin set of Falklands british figures walking, they may still be available



here is a set i found on ebay

HTH

cheers

Keith Forsyth

Hi guys, thanks for your help. All very useful. Nick

Once again I see this curious idea of slinging the GPMG ammo belt "Bandolier fashion" across the body. Airfix did it too.

I was a Gimpy gunner for two years and this idea was considered totally dangerous, unusable, unsuitable and VERY unprofessional.

The ammo belt description is "Disintegrating Link". i.e. it was designed to come apart relatively easily... And did!

For just this exact reason the chances of the Ammo belt remaining in one piece was so low, and the chances of losing the ammo so high that it just wasn't done.

A 25 ( or 30, or 40 or sometimes even 50) round "belt" would be carried "loaded" and slung over the top of the gun with the remainder of the ammo in the rear Kidney pouches for the loader to get easy access to.

Slung across the body? No chance!

the only company i can think that do or did security forces figures were called cheshire volunteer , i think they are gone now but their figures can still be found if you look around they also did ruc male and female but the army figs are great riot helmets or beret body armour frg,s and shields batons and slr these are the figs you need the webbing is also 58 pattern

Tamyia did a set of stretcher bearers a while ago. I believe that they also came with the land rover ambalance. I think that, if you can find them, these figures, combined with the Italieri weapons set would be your best bet. It would require a fire amount of reworking the figures into new poses but they are already dressed and equiped for the part except for the lack of weapons. However, all the needed pouches are included.

There is a diaroma in the Encyclopidiea of Military Modeling of N. Ireland that I believe used these figures and it was very well done. I did a quick search of the web to see if I could find it, this is the best I could do.

http://www.hrcappuccino.org/articles/recenzije/rover.htm

Let me know if you can't find them, I have a set of the figures,

Hi guys
Unfortunatley due to being at school the system has blocked this thread from below docdios post. However from what i have been able to glean from the forum posts pages on the last two posters profiles it is useful info. I have seen the tamiya figures and my brother started but never finished the ambulance, maybe I could have it, probably not though!!!!!! If anyone else has any info I would be grateful if you could pm me as that is the only way ill be able to see it. Thansk very much. Nick

Tamiya did the figures from the ambulance set seperately, I think they are OOP now but i'm sure some stores still have them and I know they pop up on ebay regularly.

Heres the set at Netmerchants for £4.49:

TA35106

They're so cheap I reckon they're worth picking up even if you end up using only bits of them.

Have fun,

James