Colditz - the board game upgrade

My initial thought was imagined was to upgrade the meeples to miniature sentries and POW people.

The amount you would need are:
16 geman sentries and 5 sets of 8 POWs
altogether 56 miniatures are needed

Upon the new release of the game I was so happy to find that a miniatures box to upgrade the components was available – but I baulked at the cost!

Many Moons past until I found some sentry models, scouring miniatures pages for ‘passive’ ww2 miniatures which is relatively hard in itself!

I decided to go for 20mm as it is similar size to the meeple but also small enough to play with but big enough for some detail. I thought 15mm would be too small for what i want and 25-28 too large.

I found some at a 20mm scale, the german sentries suprisingly were from a company called table warfare:

https://tablewarfare.com/german-army-including-officer-nco-and-private-with-mg-and-11-privates-with-rifles.htm

This is for a marching troop of german infantry 14 figures for just under £8 – bargain!

not only do they do marching germans but they also have a few i could use, for the initial phase of this I went for a pack of their german sentries too:

https://tablewarfare.com/german-army-sentries-in-greatcoats.htm

which brings me up to the number needed for the germans, however in the future i feel i will also go back to get a couple of their sentry vignettes:
https://tablewarfare.com/german-army-sentry-and-sentry-bbox..htm
https://tablewarfare.com/german-army-road-block-with-sentry-box.htm

I also picked up a similar set for naval miniatures:
https://tablewarfare.com/british-navy-including-2-officers-cpo-and-eleven-ratings.htm

although not historically accurate their at attention pose is great for POWs I may use these to spread through just to add a bit of variety for the POWs

with the germans completed it was on to the POWs!

the best miniatures for POWs I could find at 20 mm after much searching were found at a company called CP Models

They have a whole range for Downed Pilots including British, American, Russian and German

The best by far are their British POWs:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/bc05-raf-bomber-crew/

This is a great find as it means I can theme the 5 groups of POWs, in the original game the 5 different groups of POWS were:
American, British, French, Dutch and Polish

Now American and British will be easy, the other three would be harder to do, so i may change the teams slightly

the biggest problem here is that there aren’t 8 different models in the link above and i want a bit of variety with the POWs

However the company also does WW2 civilians with the best miniatures being:

generic POWs:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/cv08-generic-prisoners-guard/

russian civilians:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/cv07-soviet-era-male-peasants/

and male civilians:
https://cpmodels.co.uk/shop/cv02-male-civilians/

However there will be more i presume as there are many more miniatures on their site i could use for both sentries and pow’s