Time for Action...

....well Bolt Action to be precise. Now I have never been a one for gaming WW2. I did try out Flames of War a couple of years back, even collecting an American armoured rifle company and a German Panzer company. All the figures and books have since been listed and sold on EBay. Now I do not regret selling this collection as I put the money to good use and got sick of the figures gathering dust in a box, especially when my regular club opponent John left the club (He was well into WW2 gaming).

A couple of months ago Neal purchased the Bolt action rules from Warlord games, including their new fangled dice for issuing the orders. Now I have managed to play in 3 games so far. The rules are quick and easy to pick up and give a reasonable representation of small action games. I even tried the walk a squad across open ground to see what happened. Lets just say they didn't make it across. Suffice to say I enjoy these, I don't need many figures to play which keeps the budget down. So I took the plunge and got my self an early war British platoon from Forged in Battle. Must say the figures are very nice and excellent value.

So to painting, I must admit the uniform colour had me rather flummoxed. It seems to range from a green to brown in shade so I settled on a lightish green given a brown ink wash and I think they came out okay., though not too happy with the helmets. Took me approximately a week to get these all done.

I've gone for a mix of base sizes, this is just a personal choice as it was one of the drawbacks of flames of war, however with a skirmish game 40 individual figures become a pain to move, hence multi-bases with spare riflemen for casualty removal.