"Modern News Team and civilians?" Topic

Hey guys, as per my previous post I am looking for a few more things to round out scenario ideas and need to see if I am missing something.

First, modern hostages. I liked these:
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but $25 USD for 5 hostages is kinda rich for my blood, at least right now, especially for figures that will only get used very rarely. Any other options?

Also, looking for media or news crew, something you would see in embedded in a military unit or in the field reporting in one of the assorted "stans." I have had no luck here, Copplestone being the closest, but still a bit too cyberpunky for my tastes. Any other options out there?

Also, just modern, run of the mill civilians. I could use a few for various scenarios.

Ahh and the scale I am looking for is 28mm since I so wisely forgot to mention that. =)

thanks!

Foundry have a news team.
They currently list it on their UK ebay site.
Female reporter in a flak jacket, cameraman and boom operator.

I have some of these and they are not great, but good enough.

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What about Superfigs civilian packs? I think one of them has a news team.

Some interesting items (including reporters) in Black Cat Bases:
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Some interesting items (including reporters) in Black Cat Bases:

Suggest you read this:
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EM4 have some variants on the Copplestone team? couldn't tell you if they less cyberpunky, take a look

Hi yoakley, I can't find the News Team on the Foundry site, can you tell me which range it is part of?

Thanks, Bob

it was on their ebay site, not the main site.
gone now as i just checked. they seem to be using ebay to shift stuff.
the set was called something like 'Kate Hipkiss and crew.'

Ah, thanks anyway.
Bob

This is probably not what you're looking for, but Force of Arms do a really nice pair of journalists in their Vietnam range, wich I have. They might be a little too old-fashioned for you – One guy is writing with a pad and pencil and the the other guy is a photographer and looks a little like Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now. The biggest issue, I think, might be the old-style steel helmet on one of the men, but maybe you could do a head swap.

Altius, that pack also includes a Geraldo Rivera-type, complete with 'stache.

EDIT: The set I was actually thinking of is West Wind NAM-009 Vietnam Chopper Gunners and Press, which includes a "Geraldo Rivera" reporter, a "Dennis Hopper" photojournalist, a generic camera man and sound man, and 4 different chopper gunners.

Hey, he's still around, isn't he? I hear he's working on a pinup calendar these days, but I don't know how well that's going to fly.

A few that I'm aware of:

Bicorne War Artists WA10 Modern Photographer 1960's onwards

Pulp Figures Gangland Justice PGJ9 News Hounds, includes Kolchak and Vincenzo from The Night Stalker

RAFM Call of Cthulhu 2906 Male Journalist 3-pack: Sane, Experienced, Insane

RAFM Modern Heroes 2819 Paige Fox, Reporter of Note

Reaper Savage Worlds 9033 Lacy O'Malley, Muckraker (another Kolchak)

West Wind Superfigs SF-CV01 Civilians 1 includes Female Reporter and Male Cameraman

Regarding Geraldo Rivera:

Hey, he's still around, isn't he? I hear he's working on a pinup calendar these days, but I don't know how well that's going to fly.

Yeesh! That's an image that's going to take a while to scrub from my brain.

TAG has a "not Dennis Hopper" and a "not Andy McNab".