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Market Garden, Cadet bolt action introduction
Recommendations: 310
About the Project
A couple of years ago the Squadron got involved in a ww2 wargame at armed forces day, when asked recently if there was anything new they'd like to do of a parade night someone suggested wargames. As such I'm building a couple of forces to introduce them to the game hopefully extending to a full blown campaign.
Related Game: Bolt Action
Related Genre: Historical
Related Contest: Bolt Action: Western Desert Boot Camp
This Project is Active
Churchill
First time trying to highlight something and overall it looks pretty good, any advice is welcome as I’m unsure as to reducing the contrast with a wash or not.
Fluff time
Churchill had wanted to go ashore in the first wave on D-DAY however he was understandably prevented from doing so. As such he may get used as an officer reinforcement when things start to go sideways. Considering an officer jumped with a brollie and a chicken completed all it qualifying jumps and landed at Arnhem it really isn’t too big a stretch.
Cheap grass mats
£6.99 from aldi, Artificial grass carpet. Comes in 1m x 2m and available in green and dark green. 
Non-slip latex backing and the feel pretty goodChoice of primer
Priming the British infantry in army painter's army green as it's similar to so of the webbing I've seen, hopefully this will make it easier for mum to paint as its less fiddely?
Weapons primed in red oxide as im thinking it'll be a nice base for wood
Experimentation, as a scheme it looks good not sure for the period though, im thinking of adding a brown contour to help reduce and break up some of the greenConcept of Operations
The scale of market garden is quite rightly a huge undertaking especially at 28mm so why bolt action? Put simply whilst researching wargames I preferred the larger models than 15mm of Flame’s of War as it would be easier for me to paint myself and also to teach cadets.
Having decided on a figure scale I’ll need to establish an independent ground scale and decide just how much to map, to this end I came across what are apparently copies of the 1st airborne Division, 30 corps and german military maps relevant to the operation on SOFmilitary
Image 1, 30 corps covering Son to Arnhem
Image 2, Airborne map of Arnhem
Image 3, German map Nijmegen to Arnhem
Bizarrely the airborne and German maps seem to disagree on the location of the road bridge so I’m going to compare them to other sources
Using map 1 my current plan is to condense the route and towns into a ratio so that they remain the same scale and when I’ve confirmed a venue use these to decide the final map size
But how to game it?
Currently each airborne contingent will be assigned at least one of their actual Drop Zones this will be where reinforcements will arrive periodically between turns, with exact position decided by paper airplane. In the event of a plane missing the table the declared contents will be available using standard reserves dice rolls in the course of the game. However the players will need to maintain the security of the DZ in order to keep recieving reinforcements. As for 30 corps and to some extent the German forces it’s going to be a long road.
Washing the street
Washes were an ancient brown acrylic paint diluted with boiling water and a black ink. The ink although never sticking to plastic, stuck like the proverbial to paper and turned the whole lot black. The brown paint became somewhat red and will hopefully add a differential in tone once dry
