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Boot Campers Pull Out All The Stops
Mar 3 2017 @ 17:30
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The Boot Camp members really have been going great guns with these plastic kits and working on all manner of interesting kits.
There are now ranks and ranks of tanks waiting to be played with and the artillery is coming together too. There are also plenty of different 'ways' of assembling the vehicles so people have been conscious of that too.
What is your opinion on batch building a force for the tabletop?
I find when doing a flames of war army that I have to build and paint them at once as I’ll never be able to match the paint style if I did them separately.
Looks good so far and the tables look excellent, can’t wait to catch up with the rest of the weekends reports.
I usually work my way down the army list, like right now I’m working on my first 1000pts of Falschirmjaeger, so I’ll always have a playable force at hand.
Yeah I normally write up an army list to a points amount, build it up and then work through the painting.
I normally swap between unit types to keep the pace going, gun teams, then tanks followed by an infantry platoons say. Mixing it up means that I don’t get bogged down with painting many stands of infantry.
It really does look great in 15mm scale when you’ve completed the force and it’s all ready to go..
are thanks comes with stat cards for Tanks skirmish too?
For team yankee i assembled and painted a unit completely before moving on. Too many little bits that can get mixed up if you are mass removing from sprue. That said i still messed up bits of my Hinds…
German 15mm tanks are getting churned out quicker than Russian tanks in WW2. Nice work guys (and girls).
I wonder if all those tanks could go up against the nachtwolves !!!!!
Ivery never been good at making things in batches , mix up my parts lol , looking good can’t wait to see all the army’s painted up and fighting in the deserts of north Africa
I love the assembly line format when doing a ton of models which are identical. The question I always have in any miniature war-game is WHICH VARIANT do I build. I hate not having all the options, but putting magnets on these tiny vehicles can be a challenge. Do I pick this barrel or that barrel. I know that is half the fun of war-games but my problem is I build the model one way and then after playing a few games wish I wold have built it in a different version. I know proxy is always one way to… Read more »
I’ve never been able to afford to buy a whole lists worth of minis in one go but I do usually batch 5-10 troops for building and painting or wait until I have 2 or 3 vehicles and do them as a group. As much as it’s easier to match the painting that way, YOU MUST WRITE DOWN YOUR PAINTS. That being said I’ve only painted 28mm minis and a few X-wing repaints so I don’t know how I’d aproach a dozen tanks.
I tend to build up a core list, then cherry pick support to what ever mood I am in. Also a great way to shake things up when you can slot in different units at a moments notice.
When it comes to tanks I tend to build them by Building the hull, then the turret and leave the tracks seperate. Then I batch paint hulls, tracks, turrets. Then I camo to taste and character so they look uniform but distinct.
I tend to build units at a time as that is how I purchase them. I have seldom been able to get a whole army at once. When I do I tend to do like items in larger batches to speed things up. I do generally assemble before painting.
Hats off to you historical guys. I can’t tell my ass from a tank tread on those sprues. Keeping everything period appropriate and loadout accurate is a gift.
Would have been nice for battlefront to have the actual designations of the tanks on the unit cards in addition to the , long, short, and up armourd tags.
Ideally with my late war Germans i try keep to the same way for painting all my vehicles, i have a batch of tanks i want to paint up but im waiting on a few more items before i do. My British/ Canadian infantry i painted all at once and i think they turned out great. even for my basic painting skils
Very cool guys looks like a blast.
Generally not a batch builder but that’s more because of not having lots of hobby time more than anything.
Those artillery bases are clever, I like how they have optional indents for where you put the gun crew.
I usually start out getting my favorite models (Warmachine/Hordes, Malifaux and 40K comes to mind) and then build armies from there. That way, I am sure that the factions I play, have my favorite miniatures 🙂
I think going to a boot camp is the only way I’d “finish” an army – they’ve gotten further in 1 day than some of my stuff from over a year!
these are the kinda events I wish could happen more often at my local gaming club
Getting started is the hard part. Having others working with you helps. I have found that having painting sessions with fellow hobbyists have been the most productive. There are a couple of youtubers who do skype paint and talk sessions.
Those Panzers look nice with all the stowage options.
BOW tankagrad?
Batch building can make someone burnt out pretty fast but for some reason there is that tiny satisfaction when you slowly assemble your production run like a tank factory lol