Bolt Action Germans

This post is part of a series of showcase posts, where I show what models are in my miniatures collection. This one shows my current Bolt action Germans. The post may grow over time if I add more miniatures to my collection. This force is a 28mm scale world war 2 German Army, intended for Bolt action (by Warlord Games) but could be used for any 28mm world war two wargame.

This force grew mainly as a reaction to my British Paras. I love playing Bolt Action and couldn’t just stop at one force. I needed an opposing force for them to play against. I wasn’t really looking for anything too fancy with this force, wasn’t trying to recreate any particular regiment or anything like that, purely just wanted an opposition force if I ever took my Para’s for a game where I needed to supply both sides! I was quite pleasantly suprised when painting these chaps though. I just went for the basic camo scheme. Wasn’t looking to do any complex SS peadot camo, as I was sick of doing things like that from painting the Denison Smocks on my British Paras, the result was quite good, and very easy to paint.

Bolt action german vehicles

I bought a couple of vehicles for my germans, Which still need to be painted. The Panzer IV is by Der waffenhammer, which I think I picked up at the sheffield war games show. It’s in 1:56 scale.

The Stuka du fuss was for a specific scenario which I put together for a game at the club, it’s in 1:48 scale. It looks too big next to the panzer, but when they’re on opposite sides of the table it doesn’t look daft. The SDKFZ 222 is also in 1:48, and also still needs painting. I really do need to get cracking with these vehicles!!

Bolt action Germans

The above picture shows my full force. It’s mainly from the German Army starter set from Warlord games, with a handful of extra figures that I got in a random selection pack from North Star Figures. This gave me enough to get three 10 man sections, a 5 man section of volks grenadiers, a panzerfaust team, a sniper team and a command unit.

These are all fully painted. The only things left to paint are my mortar team and my MG42 both came from Warlord games.

Bolt action Germans

Bit better images of the units.

Bolt action Germans

Bolt action Germans

Bolt action Germans

My full force laid out.

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