Germany - Waffen SS - Bolt Action - Warlord Games

Hello everyone!

A good friend of mine has been pestering me about painting the rest of my Bolt Action stuff for a very long time now, so I decided now was the time to paint the last 21 infantry models I had laying around and was planning to use in play.

The experience of batch painting 21 models which had to have Oakleaf and peadot camouflage on most of their uniforms was not a pleasant one, and more than once I was very close to losing my mind :-p

But now they are done! and I managed to take a few army shots.

Still have a Panther, a Hanomag halftrack to paint, but that will be for future projects.

Here are a few more pictures.

Chris

  

  

  

  

  

Tiger I - Warlord Games - WGB-WM-123

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I posted an update on this blog, so I thought I'd better take some pictures of my Bolt Action Tiger I from Warlord Games which I finished a few months ago (Just never got around to taking pictures before now...).

It was very fun to paint a larger tank for a change, and 1/56 is actually a quite nice scale to work with. The model was pretty great and fit together nicely even though it mainly consists of 4 large pieces of resin and the detail is superb. Coming from having primarily painting 1/100 scale tanks it was also a little challenging, but the overall techniques are exactly the same as when I paint the smaller vehicles.

Sadly I had to rush it to completion, so there wasn't time for pigments and stuff like that, I just had to many other projects that needed my attention. Still turned out nice though :-p

Painting mainly with Ammo of Mig acrylics and washes.

That's it for now, hope you like it :)

Chris

Test Figures for German Bolt Action Army

 Hello everyone

As yet another side project I decided to start painting a few figures for my own Bolt Action Army (German of course), just to get a feel for the figure size and colors I'm going to use.

So far I've finished a single Waffen-SS Grenadier armed with a STG44 and my commander figure is also slowly getting there :)

Here's a few more shots, I'm sorry about the quality but it is a lot harder to take pictures of infantry than big tanks :-D

Also since it has been a while since I've posted pictures of my Bolt Action Tiger...

It's pretty much ready for some weathering and I'm quite pleased with how it looks so far !



That's it for now, hopefully more updates soon (or Check out the facebook pages for more WIP pictures)


Chris

Tiger I - Bolt Action - Warlord Games (WGB-WM-123)

Greetings everyone

Recently my "local" hobby store had an Bolt Action sale with 50/70% discounts on everything in stock so I decided, that even though I don't play the game or collect any of the figures for the game or in that scale (1/56), I had to get something.....damn you discounts!

Most had already been sold but this single Tiger was still in stock so I thought I'd just get that. I have no previous experience with the quality of Warlord Games miniatures (I have seen pictures though) but I must say, after having opened this kit and assembled it, that the quality is superb! So many crisp details everywhere and very few mold lines etc. that had to be cleaned.

This tank is basically just 4 large pieces of resin with white metal details (Mg, hatches, barrel and the 2 commander figures), and everything just looks fantastic.

Overall huge thumbs up to Warlord Games from me, and I might just after having tried this collect a little Bolt Action army at some point (When I've reduced my stack of FoW things).

Anyway, I have never painted a vehicle in this size before and I'm quite looking forward to it actually. Its naturally quite a lot bigger than the 15mm tanks I'm used too, but still not as big and ungainly as a 1/35 scale tanks.

Even though the plan was to continue with my 1/35 Panther I had to throw some paint on this quick :-p  

Here's a couple of pictures of the assembled tank and after I primed it gray. I did actually try to do some preshading with gray as the base color, black for shadow and white for highlights, but they kinda got lost a bit after the dunkelgelb got on there :-p so Just did some quick highlights.

And here's after a few different shades of dunkelgelb. I think I'll do some soft edge green and brown camo during my next painting session :)

That's it for now, I'll try to keep you updated on the progress :) either here or on FB


Chris

Michael Wittmann - Battlefront - GBX16 - Continued!

Update time!


So I finished my Command Tiger (or well I need to make the antenna), but otherwise I think I'll call it done. Great model, still a bit sad about the tiger in the box actually wasn't the one depicted on the box art, but whatever it isn't that important.

Still need to paint the figures and the car, but that will be at some later point.

Hope you like it.

Chris

Michael Wittmann - Battlefront - GBX16

Hello everyone!

I recieved this set as a christmas present and I must say after having just finished 4 Plastic Soldier Company Tigers that zimmerit just makes everything more cool :-D

The PSC Tiger might be slightly more reaslistic scale wise, but this kit makes up for it with the zimmerit and the extra figures and car. The only negative thing I have to say about my kit, is that the tiger provided in the box isn't actually the one depicted in the picture...looks more like a generic battlefront tiger to me, but all the figures are the same. Also as far as I can tell no decals was provided in the kit, this might be normal for BF kits (haven't really done a lot of those) but luckily I have plenty laying around.

I'm not actully making Michael Wittman, since my army is currently of the 3. SS Panzerbattalion, so I'm just building it as a command Tiger.

 The model is very nicely detailed and very easy to assemble.

As usual a primed the model white, sprayed it yellow, then highlighted it slighty and applied the camouflage pattern. Sadly I had to do this twice, because the first time around I primed it with a Testors Gloss coat I wanted to try out, sadly this completely ruined the paint job, so I had to do it over.

After the camo was applied I gave it a good nice gloss finished and applied the decals I wanted. After this had dried I gave it a dark wash/pin wash and let it dry.

After the wash had dried up I gave it a hightlight using some oil colors, just mixed a light sandy color.

Hopefully I will be able to sit down a do a bit more on this model, maybe later this week.



(Very sorry for the crappy photos...not at home currently)