Action Force and the Red Shadows in 28mm scale

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August 3, 2018

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The core of ‘the Enemy’ forces in Action Force were made up of the fanatical Red Shadows. In the toy line these came out in the second wave of releases and were based on the original ‘German Stormtrooper’.

Original German Stormtrooper Action Force figure

So the Red Shadows were effectively a World War II German soldier with a re-colour and a head swap (plus a bazooka!)

From a 28mm scale miniatures perspective this makes things fairly easy (German Infantry are far from hard to get hold of). But what about the unique looking helmet?

The original Red Shadow figure

When I first started down this road a few years ago I had a go at green stuffing the basic shape over existing Warlord Games plastic German heads. It didn’t go well….

Then I happened across the excellent blog by Andy ‘Soapy’ Dormer, who had previously embarked on the same mission. I believe Andy sculpts for Gripping Beast and had made his own Red Shadows heads. Sadly by this time they were no longer available, but encouraged and aware that there were others out there who might be trying to do the same thing I stumbled across these from Macrocosm.