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.
