Bolt Action: Western Desert Boot Camp Live Blog - Friday
Modelling With The Boot Campers: The German Afrika Korps
Sep 28 2018 @ 16:00
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The armies of the German Afrika Korps have fallen behind the British in terms of speed of assembly, but our Boot Campers have a few tricks up their sleeves for them.
Andy has already broken out his brushes and started painting, while Mick gives us some tips on basing Warlord’s metal booster pack miniatures.
Really missing not being there 🙁 especially now I have seen Andy and Mick
Got a British army box I really oughta get built and gaming with. I’ve tried Bolt Action and it really is a laugh!
i still dont know how andy manages to paint stuff so quickly…. its mental
It’s amazing to watch him at work, the man’s a machine.
Hint for all future boot campers – bring a few metres of barbed wire to keep annoying camera crews at bay while you assemble your forces
Woodfiller for the base.
I have to try that.
Love the wood filler idea! Really simplifies the process. I also love the colors he went with on the German troops.
the glue from hot-glue-guns works similarly becaus it doesnt dry out flat and can be moleded “up” to the base of a mini. also there is the german “pritt- alleskleber” which seems to be some kind of plastic-whatever-when-dry which is excellent for basing with sand. it take the sand and really locks it down. best thing: doesnt dry out much and is a lot more on the plastic side of things > easy painting and washing
Ooh that’s a good one must try that. Thanks mate 🙂
wood filler! now there’s an idea…
It wouldn’t matter which I was building, I would still be dead slow. It takes me forever to build and paint up a unit, much less an army.
Oh, and I’ve used wood filler as basing for years. It works a treat.
Hey, German players are just very particular about our models, Quality over Quantity haha
I’ve used wood filler and filler for basing, then whilst its still wet use a small stone to make impressions in it to roughen it up a little
big guns on the german side
washes are the fast painters friend. get a good selection of them, stick to 2 atmost according to colours used. base colour your mini > wash aways > 40 minis in 5hrs no problemo
Slow and steady wins the race , so they say .
That boot camp looks like a lot of fun
If you play germans you must get used to saying ‘NEIN!’
I’ll have to try the wood filler too for basing ….I do a similar thing with wall filler, but maybe the wood filler would set quicker?
It sets pretty fast 🙂
I love the Mortar with the modeled base with those little rubble or terrain pieces on it.
Hey Mage, cork Matt’s from doodles great for making walls
I guess the Germans are slow due to the logistics of getting stuff from Germany to north Africa through Italy, and you know what the Italian post is like! 😉
looking great!!!
One thing I’ve found when basing up those Warlord minis with “biscuits” at the bottom is to simply file the top edges down so that they don’t have a hard edge. Then when you add the basing material to fill out the base you don’t get those hard edges showing if you missed a bit. It’s a 30 sec job on each mini, and well worth taking the time to do so
Plastic wood filler, that will probably work better than the spackle I have been using. Off to Lowe’s to spend more money for project stuff.
Nice keep it up.
I’m looking forward to the check-ins, I really want to see more of the DAK minis.
The German players are a little slow? Schneckenkrieg?