Collins Does a German Winter Offensive

Sorry all, that took a lot longer to paint up than I anticipated. I haven’t added a map to the maptable yet, that’s on order from Etsy thanks to the help from Gerry’s clinic!

I’ll post that up once it’s done. Then I’ll have to move onto another nation and call this one done done, rather than just done.

I *needed* to buy the new armies of germany book for v3… because you know, everything changed (and yet nothing changed) and also the soldier of fortune model was a Stalingrad themed one with General Paulus looking at the map going ‘so we are fooked here, here and here…’

This meant that it became reasonable to get to just above the £50 cut off for free postage. It’s at this point that the fallscrimjager mortar and the military policemen on motorbike and sidecar entered the chat.

Hang on a minute… they’re not wearing parachutists helmets!

nope, a dead simple headswap fixed that and i have a plan for the paintjob.

i’ll paint them in normal heer trousers and the chap with diamond pattern will get them painted a different colour from normal german grey in an attempt to make it look like he liberated them from someone who no longer needed them

Every year the Peeps at OTT go back through the golden button winning projects to review them against various criteria to provide them with brilliant money can’t buy prizes!

In 2024 this very project was awarded ‘Ancient Disciple’ in the end of year community awards!

Many thanks to the team for the accolades.

And here draws near the ending of this project! thanks for following along and please all express your thanks to the coding in the project system that misinterprets the metadata in the images and tries to correct the orientation but somehow always gets it wrong… sorry about that, pester OTT people about it. (fixed now thanks to buggeroff)

I’m properly happy with how this lot has turned out. It’s my first attempt at a winter army and it came out really well. I could have more wintering putting on the models themselves, you know how snow and frost sticks to everything, eg the coats, boots and helmets etc. but im not gonna do that, this is good enough!

All I have to do is see what changes BA 3.0 brings and decide whether 3 mortars is a good idea or not. either way, its good to go as a recce force and will also be able to be used for chain of command as infantry with lovely set dressing.

In an attempt to soothe the ruffled McCabe feathers im returning to this being an infantry force. To do that ive gone and ‘created’ (more designated really) a few models to be interesting vignettes for jump off points in chain of command or objectives in bolt action.

the majority of this is just warlord models on big bases, but the ammo boxes came from a mantic mystery terrain crate and the grey one is just loads of stuff from the warlord sprues I have left over put together in an aesthetically pleasing way.

After this, I expect this will be a completed force until I get my hands on the new BA rules and need to tweak it, eg, with more mortars or nebelwerfers by the million etc.