Colditz - the board game upgrade

The Germans arrived and were a good size in comparison with the meeples.
Below is a picture of the POWs which arrived in the week after, they are of similar proportions – however some have circular bases of about 10mm whilst others have no bases or rectangle bases.

I sorted them into 5 rough teams of 8 and german sentries.

I bought some 10mm metal discs as these would fit in with the miniatures with bases already, however i didn’t read that these were magnets, once they arrived I realised they would cause some havoc sending minatures all around the board!

I then ordered some 10mm mdf discs which looked good and proceeded to glue all the miniatures that needed bases onto them. However later on i may glue all onto the bases but I would have to cut and file back alot of metal!

I then went to paint these miniatures.

I painted on air spray surface primer (i live in a flat and havent bought a suction fan yet for my airspray gun)

I then took the german sentries and went to town on them first.

I took:
1) game extra opaque heavy charcoal and painted the uniforms in this
2) painted the faces in nocturna natural flesh
3) painted packs and straps in military warpaint paints Oak brown
4) guns in nocturna burned flesh (for some difference to the oak brown)
5) washed the model in dark tone
6) touched up and then washed the uniform in a blue ink
7) highlighted the faces with army warpainter monster brown
8) highlighted aspects of the gun in gun metal (then dark tone wash over the top)
9) because they were to be handled i then put a varnish on the top to protect