Together we stand

In between waiting for various stages of the bases paint jobs to dry it was onto building the models.

This is the first time I’ve assembled anything from warlord.

The detail is great and there is lots of variety available in terms of heads and equipment.

I must confess that Ive probably been spoiled by using GW plastics in the main.

There was a lot more clean up required hence the nail file (much better than a metal file on soft plastics IMHO) but the main issue I had was with the position of the mold lines.

They run down the middle of the figures and are often over some fine detail making getting rid of them at times tricky or impossible without taking out detail.

Say what you like about GW prices but sometimes you pay for what you get.

The instructions for the plastic bren carriers are also now very old school when compared to what GW will provide and the best order in which to attach things tool a bit of trial and error.

Again I would recommend using child labour.

My eldest is now up to weilding some clippers in anger. Seemed to keep him happy, and more importantly……start them young!

Id run out of my normal plastic cement so got some Tamiya clear plastic cement via a well known online supplier.

Now this seems to be considered the bees knees by some but I struggled slightly with it.

Might be the plastic might be the glue, might be me…who knows. The contactg time to set seems a bit longer to what im used too.

Main issue was the F%$£” backpacks. Think this is a design issue with the contact between the backpack and the models back being quite small…..they kept coming off and resulted in surges of blood pressure.

Confession time: Ive never played bolt action so I’ve gone with the rule of cool with weapon load outs. 10 man squads with 1 SMG and 1 LMG seemed about right…..who knows?

The officer I equipped with a trusty Webley revolver.

The sprue comes with a pistol holster but due to a magazine pouch it didnt fit well onto the belt, so some clipping/carving action was required.

The circular warlord bases come on a sprue. Rather than cut them all out I’ve kept them in strips of 5 and mounted the miniatures using “blue tak” to make priming in batches easier.

I’m going to cover the assembly of the metal artillery pieces, a 6pdr and 25pdr field gun later.

They too caused some premature ageing but thats another story.