Bolt Action Desert War Bootcamp

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Nein , Signal Magazine

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LRDG project for the boot camp is aaaaalmost done.

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1257172/

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God Bless America…..wait a minute @oriskany those aren’t the big green war machine!

Fantastic job on getting all that work done and to such a high standard buddy. I look forward to seeing them in the flesh at the Boot Camp and dice permitting to adding some holes to those uniforms and vehicles 😀

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sweet work @oriskany – they are looking awesome. they would take my uberslow ass several months to finish  – lol

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Wonderful job @oriskany. Really looking forward to the boot camp,my first real journey into historic gaming in WWII .

I will be picking everyone’s brains on info squad composition etc.

The tables and buildings  on the VLOG look epic too as always

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For those painting the Brits, here’s a guide to painting the Caunter paint scheme (plus I’ve seen them in RL and the “blue” is more Grey, for some reason the photo’s bring out the blue for some weird reason). Complete with list of paints (and decals)

http://yarkshiregamer.blogspot.com/2015/12/28mm-a13-cruiser-tank-from-box-to-table.html

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@oriskany awesome figures, how you organising your force?

@trewets you have an interesting time ahead 🙂

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@oriskany awesome ! what’s their unofficial name?

Called mine ‘Smirks Smugglers’ or the’ Middle Distance Pudding Squad’ (pudding UK name for Desserts)

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Ah! it is Herr Gaz then!

Kammaraden!

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A Herr Lance!

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A very determined unit of LRDG there @oriskany. ?

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A few more shots from the project page:

Going to try to put a little wash on the weapons for some depth, a light dry brush, and small bits of desert scrub on the bases.

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Thanks, @noyjatat – no , I’m not always painting Americans.  😀  In fact, by count I think I have the most in German miniatures, followed perhaps by Soviets and Americans running neck and neck.

Oh no!  you want to shoot up my brand new LRDG?  But why?  They haven’t hurt anyone … yet.  😀

Thanks, @irishsteve – it’s amazing what a deadline can do for your through-put for miniature work.

Thanks, @trewets – have no fear, we are working up some media for “Scorpions in the Desert” segments during the boot camp, looking to take a deep dive into serious squad, platoon, and company-level infantry tactics during World War II.

@commodorerob – not really “organizing” my force.  Just bought what I thought I could get painted tolerably well and shipped over in time.  I don’t even know which force I’m getting at the boot camp, or honestly whether I’m getting a force at all (totally fine either way).

@bobcockayne – hadn’t thought of a unit name yet.  I’ll have to noodle on that for a while. 😀

@brucelea – thanks very much!

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Re: the boot camp, I’m thinking of setting up another optional campaign, not TOO much unlike what we did for the 4th Edition FoW Bootcamp in March 2017.  Smaller in scope than last time to better fit the Bolt Action scale. I was thinking of setting it near the end of Operation Crusader, so we could include …

* the trench boards the guys are building (near the Tobruk perimeter the British / CW were driving towards)

* the urban tables they were working on (outskirts of Tobruk itself)

* the rocky terrain I know they’re working on (coastal escarpments)

* a lot of infantry action, British forces IN Tobruk (not just 9th Australian at this point, in fact I think 9th Australian had been withdrawn) …

* and both British and Germans roughly equal with the weapons I think we’re getting in these starter kits and “timeline appropriate.”

So … November-December 41. The campaign map would be NOT the whole desert war, but just the divisional ZOCs of two divisions, say German 15th Panzer and British 7th Armoured. Both divisions had plenty of attached / integral infantry that would fit well with the anticipated Bolt Action forces at hand, and if someone wants to pull out an extra / surprise tank or two, they wouldn’t be out of place in a armoured/panzer divisions area of operations.

Of course, I’d only do thins if we had a certain number of people interested in participating.

So just asking … Anyone interested?

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Trooped up to Dublin today for a little hobby supply shopping and armed with a list of paints for painting DAK from the Warlord website, myself and the lovely missus walked around Dublin from one hobby shop to another hobby shop only to discover there seems to be no bleeding shops in dublin that stock VMC ><  thankfully Mark’s Models on Hawkin’s Street has these wee gems 🙂  just need something to practice on ….. DAK primaris anyone o.O

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