Bundeswehr infantry, Cold War Under Fire January 2026
It should be no surprise to anyone by this point that I, like many of my ilk in the miniature painting subculture, struggle to stick to any one period at a time, instead flitting back and forth like a moth to an ever-moving, time-travelling flame. In that spirit, here we have four West German Bundeswehr infantrymen from the early- to mid-1980s. My fascination with Germany in this period - and its role as something of a buffer state between East and West - is still going strong, and painting figures like these make me think I really should book another trip over there soon. Sadly, Cold War-era miniatures in 28mm seem to be in rather short supply (I suppose it’s probably less popular as a gaming period than, say, Napoleonics or WW2), but Under Fire Miniatures never ceases to disappoint.