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Trewets journey into Bolt Action German Panzer Grenadier 901st
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About the Project
Hi boys and girls. I am starting an escalation league in Bolt Action starting in the new year with a few friends. This project is to chronicle my journey from 500pts of infantry upward through the points,250pts increase every month. We are the build,paint and base new units and play at least one game with the new units every month,with a new opponent each time. As most of us are new to the game,me included it will help to learn the capabilities ,nuances and set backs if any of our forces. Points in the campaign will be awarded as follows 3 points for a win 1 point for a draw 0 points for a loss 1 point each for painting,building and basing your new troops every month. The scenerios will be draw randomly so as not to give any given army an advantage.
Related Game: Bolt Action
Related Company: Warlord Games
Related Genre: Historical
Related Contest: Bolt Action: Western Desert Boot Camp
This Project is Active
Spotter based and ready for action
Here is a highlight for the forgotten spotter attached to the howitzer.
Just about finished painting
I have finished painting both my winter squads to a table top standard and based both squads differently,to help differentiate them on the table when setting up and packing away.
New recruit
Gone through my army list again to make sure everything was spot on and have found out that I could giggle the points around so that the howitzer can have a spotter.
The lieutenant has contacted HQ and they have sent an urgent new addition to the platoon.You May have noticed him front and centre on one of the other photos,he still needs basing.
Small hiccup
Based the units heavy howitzer and decided to add a snow effect that I got in one of the Assetdrop subscription boxes a few months ago.
The flock on the base is held down with PVA, the snow effect comes in two parts a liquid element and a “fixed” fine white powder.
All went down great to start with, or so I thought.Some hours later the snow flock started to bleed the colour from the flock and to crack.
I have decided to seal the flock with a layer of varnish then to try the snow effect on top.
Glossary well sort of
Have carried on with my winter army
The troops have been given two coats of varnish,one of gloss first as this tends to be tougher physically and gives a protection layer, then a Matt varnish to give a flat realistic finish.
Update 13/10/19
Not much progress on the project over the last couple of days.
I have been busy continuing the squad paint jobs and brain storming how to base the mountain troops, whether to add rocks and green grass to the base and how many of each and do I then put snow effect on top or just leave it be?
I do want them different to the standard grenadier squad for contrast and so I can see the different squads in the transport box for ease of use.
I will add photos of the bases when I have made a final decision.
next thing to think about is the basing of the artillery piece I want to use in the army.
I have gone to a green grass scatter to begin with but I am not totally sold on this…..more head scratching in my future lol.
Platoon attention
Have decided to field the Bolt Action squad as a reinforced Grenadier squad as follows
second lieutenant 50pts
schutzen squad ten men. 127pts
veteren grenadier squad ten men. 173pts
Sniper team. 65pts
medium artillery. 85pts
Total. 500pts
As you might be able to see the howitzer does not fit on the round base supplied in the model pack so I have made a hard point for it.The ammo boxes that come with the howitzer looked like they would make great objective markers so have based them separately.
The extra crew are also base separately so that casualties can be removed during the game if needed.
