First steps into Historical (Bolt Action)

This marks 200 miniatures painted in 2018 and my first crack at historical painting, British 8th Army Black Watch.

I am going to do bits to the bases but otherwise the British are done and it is onto the Germans.

Picked these up at a local fair but they need work as they currently don’t blend with the table.

Picked these up to build some terrain options.

Bases need work but mostly done, quite like the grimy look.

So I have both the British and German forces to paint up so let’s get started.

the paints I will be using are below.

Again inspired by what I saw at the boot camp I picked up 3 bags of palm trees which I will super glue to 2ps and cover in sand.

this is super cheap. I will probably wash the trunks and palms to give a bit of shade.

So I want to start building a table so I can play even yes unpainted models (gasp!).

Now at the boot camp, the team did some awesome work with real sand, I have four children so if I put real sand onto a table I would be finding it in undesirable places forever.

So I have gone with a mat from Deepcut, I think it should work for things like both Desert War, Wild West and other sandy type situations.

I love these mats I have several now for different layouts.

As I have said in the description I apologise for all the things I will get wrong in this project, but I am trying.

So where am well, this is what I have returning from the boot camp.

British Force (the mighty undefeated Black Watch)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Watch

The yet to be defined Germans (boo)