More Police Figures

Roco Minitanks US tank commanders and cheap plastic figures.

Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department required mandatory helmet wearing for several years in the 1980s and it looks a lot like the tanker helmet.  So I am doing head swaps for these guys.  You can also see a Cold M1919 machine gun with a white barrel.  It is a replacement barrel for an air cooled machine gun barrel that had broken off.

I am working on making bases for my police figures.

This is my standard figure basing plastic for basing figures.

The plastic is trimmed into pieces with 2 x 3 squares making a small rectangle.

Sometimes I leave them with sharp corners or smooth the corners down.

This is the bottom half of a WWII German figure by Odemars.  

Uniforms like this were very common in the US for polices, particularly those who rode on motorcycles.

So I switched his head with the head of an Airfix WWI British soldier.

The original arm position is at a low ready, but I moved the arm to more of a shooting pose.

These will become motorcycle police.  From 1910 to after WWII motorcycle police were very common because motorcycles were less expensive than automobiles and some cities fielded large fleets of them.
 

Airfix WWI American Army

I don't like to waste anything, so I gathered up a bunch of the dead guys from the Airfix WWI American Infantry set.

I took some pins from lego type bricks, a couple bits of wire and a some excess sheet plastic.  It made a nice creeper for these figures to lay down on.

So here is the soldier working on a Roco 2 1/2 ton army truck.

Here are some of my WWI British Infantry that I am going to use for police.  It was not unusual for American police to have machine guns in their inventory as far back as there have been machine guns!

I am using cheap styrene plastic civilian figures as police, I swap the heads with Airfix WWI British Infantry because their caps are similar to police hats that US police used for about 100 years.

 My plan is to have .50 caliber US machine guns, M2, .30 caliber Colt, Marlin, and M1919 Colt machine guns.  Also the Thompson, M1 carbine, and the M60 machine gun.  I have confirmed that all of these, except the M60, have certainly been used by US police forces.

Incident at the Bike Shop

A car pulls up in front of a bicycle shop.

Does not look like they have a bike rack.

Someone enters the bike shop.

Loud voices from inside.

Is that gunshots?

A panicked 911 call brings an ambulance.

The medics exit the ambulance.

More ambulances and police arrive.

The bomb squad shows up also.

More police and fire apparatus show up.

Even a small incident can require a lot of people and a number of vehicles will respond.

Michael Meyers House Incident

He comes off the porch.

Guns out.

Ready.

Bringing up the shotgun.

Time to let fly.
 

Big Knife

The police arrive.

Michael retreats to the porch.

He paces on the porch.

Police cars stacked up.

Cops move around.

Brandishing a big knife.
 

Open Fire

The nearly invisible creature waves a hand as the police and Army confront him. 

They open fire!

The crowd is stunned at the sudden violence.

The creature is unscathed!

What will happen next?

The owner asks the creature not to harm anyone.

The creature has put up a force field that stops all the bullets.

Even the twin .50 caliber on the front halftrack fails to penetrate the barrier.
 

Radio Station Trouble

M3 halftrack converted to an armored car for rapid response by Military Police in the event of civil unrest.

Radio station KXKVI has an emergency.

The police, the Army and people from the neighborhood have responded.

KXKVI is run by a local man who has been doing experiments and they have gotten out of hand.

They police were unable to respond adequately in this small town and asked for help from the Army.

Crowds have been drawn to the noise and excitment.

It's a lot going on for a usually quiet location.

The owner of the station and his wife exit the building, preceded by an almost invisible being!

Police stand back across the street from the thing!