"Best 1/285th British Cold War Infantry" Topic

Who makes the best Cold War-era British infantry? I'm particularly interested in ones wearing Mark V helmets?

I use GHQ's infantry and am happy with it. I haven't used other manufacturers' infantry since the late 1980s so I won't offer an opinion on those.

Infantry -- link ~17 cents per figure

Heavy Weapons -- link ~20 cents per figure.

For style, You might also check Bob Mackenzie's website and look at his infantry comparisons. link Look in the 1/300 section for Figure Reviews. He only reviews WW2 figures, but they should be representative of each company's figures.

I had H&R and also GHQ and then replaced both with Mainforce / Hallmark. They are largely in prone positions already based so no more snappoffs and in my eyes more realistic for being in combat.

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Interesting that Mainforce Hallmark differentiate between Brit Reggies and TA! I remember a recruiting poster in the early 80's showing 2 identical soldiers in full CEFO with fixed bayonets, the works, with the tag line being something along the lines of:

'Which ones the Regular and which ones the Volunteer? No the enemy can't tell either' or something like that. (And yes, I fell for it!)

More seriously, do you know if they have SLRs or SA80s?

I do agree with your point about prone positions on thinking about it…Which is why a weekend of doing Section Attacks was so exhausting! – Sprint – Down – Covering fire – sprint – down -covering fire…. Probably, if you base in 4s, two figures charging and 2 prone would be the most realistic…

The ones i have are SLRs. The range does not appear to have changed since I bought mine in the 90s.

GHQ figs are overscale, if that matters to you.

Which makes the H&R ones better suited, as far as I'm concerned.

Not sure how they compare to the others on the market.

Where on earth can the Mainforce stuff be purchased? I can't seem to find it online anywhere.

Mainforce at Magister Militum (UK):
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