A Frosty Goose-Step (WW2 Late War Germans on parade)

 As promised in a previous post, here is a small parade post of my fully painted WW2 Winter Germans force. I do have more to add to them, but I think I'll leave those pieces for when the mood takes. I think all of these sculpts are by Warlord Games from their Bolt Action range (Including the plastic half-track and resin Hetzer tank). Lots of fun details and dynamism to them which made them fun to paint.

To start off a full shot of the whole force. The organisation of this collection is per the basic German Reinforced Platoon Bolt Action army list on Easy Army dot com. (Shame about the background, but they are stored in a barn so "barn-background" is what you get.)

When I took this and checked the pic on my phone it looked fine! O well. Daylights gone now and all these guys are packed away now.

Lieutenant and Adjutant. 

Waffen-SS Squad and their Half-track ride.

Heer Grenadier Squad.

Volks Grenadier Squad.

Heer Medic.

Flame Thrower Team.

Panzerschreck Team.

Hetzer tank hunter.

Those observant enough may well notice the absence of this tank from the initial group shot. We’ll the blighter was hiding deeper in one of my storage boxes than I had anticipated and I had thought it had gotten lost somehow! But it turned up so I had to get a pic in for completions sake. 

And a bonus Forward Artillery Observer.

And that's it! As mentioned above, there are more pieces in my unpainted mountain to add to these: 

Panzer iv H tank

Sniper Team

Heer Grenadiers in Winter Greatcoats

The remainder of the Waffen-SS squad

Hope you enjoyed seeing these as much as I found enjoyment knowing that this project could be called "done" AND that I can now host a fully painted Winter themed game of Bolt Action at home once time allows - something to post on in a later publication.

Now back to finishing that last section of Canadians before I can get in with this year’s new army.

Cheers - Dai

Not another 2023 post?

 Yep it’s true. Along with just about everyone else in the hobby blogosphere I’m about to lay out my plans for the coming year and bore you with a short recap on the previous one! If it makes you feel any better, logging this stuff helps with motivation in general which in turn should encourage more hobby output which then means I post more often and show off what I’ve been working on, which will hopefully encourage you readers to work on your own projects and then post about said work and then encourage me to do likewise! Rinse and repeat. 

2022 for my hobby went by like a loud wet fart into clean underwear. So much potential to be proud of but sadly leaving a lackluster result. A few things were done for sure, but not nearly what I’d hoped to achieve over a 365 day period. A lot of that had to do with my private life getting stupid-busier and my space to actually attempt hobby work disappearing almost altogether. Things in these regards are soon to change a little so I’m hoping to be able to both work on projects and post about that work more so this year.

Now I’m not promising weekly postings, but I will pledge to at least posting monthly. Minimum. And I have a large new project that I should finish up this year which I am rather excited about. 

My wife generously allowed me to purchase my own Xmas gift “from her” and thus started my new 28mm WW2 army for Bolt Action:1940 Greeks! Seeing as my late war Germans and Soviet’s were at a point I can call fully painted, I felt I wanted to work on a new force from the early years of the war. I had been drooling over some gorgeous sculpts on Facebook by a designer and producer out of Athens, Greece called Studio Historia, who prior to Xmas stuck up a sweet army deal on their Ebay store. Three weeks later and a shockingly small parcel arrived from the Mediterranean nation with some simply lovely 3D-printed minis inside. I have supplemented these with some Great Escape Games metal minis and a couple Etsy purchases for 3D printed tanks and transports. 

So expect lots of green uniformed fellows with impressive moustaches in the near future along with captured Italian vehicles. To break up the monotony I also plan to paint up a handful of Dark Ages Saxons and Vikings too (I recently picked up Lion Rampant 2) and more random anthropomorphic minis for Burrows and Badgers.

So there’re the plans for the year and I hope to stick to them. I even hope to get in a few games too (only got to play one face to face game in 2022). As always your comments and encouragement help with the motivation to see the above happen and I thank you for that. 

So until next post where I hope to have a final squad of Canadians done for my Dieppe Landing force - the final piece to finish up for that project prior to starting the Greeks. Belated Xmas and New Year best wishes! 

Cheers (and apologies for the lack of pics. Promise next post will make up for that), 

- Dai