Colditz - the board game upgrade

“…Hitler says he wants to do something to put a smile on the Berliners faces. So Goering says “Why not jump?”

So since last time I did a few sprucing up things of the german sentries. I tried doing the base in swastika colours but it didn’t look great so i painted them black… However once dried I thought I would add something a bit to give the base a bit more life… (i love how these turned out)

..as you can see above I added Nazi flags to the base and also gave them the SS armbands and hat decorations (As best I could) – I have a fairly shakey hand for 20mm as I found out! But I’m pretty happy with the overall stylings it gives the model. I will probably do the bases of the POWs in the colours of the meeples and the flags of each nation as well.

I varnished the new areas I painted (Armbands and helmet decorations and the base)

next I started getting base colours down on the POWs. I had a go at three areas:

1) Light blue RAF officer uniforms – I didn’t have the correct blue for this so I mixed miniature warpainter deep blue with game colour sombre grey (as this is a blueish grey) at about 1:1 and this gave atleast somewhere to start with (in the picture below these are the two duplicate officers on the left

2) The second lot were the ‘army’ POWs – at first I was going to paint these as the civilian french Prisoners within Colditz but it didn’t look great with browns, reds, muted grays etc. So i then went back and coloured them in game colour caymen green as I want the teams to have a vague uniformity to help when playing top down with these. There are duplicates here so in the future i will move some of these out with new miniatures I’ve bought.

3) The Navy at the back, these are a place holder but I quite like how they turned out (mainly they are a place holder as 14 models for 7 pounds was too cheap to not go for initially) Again I didnt have the correct blue but got close mixing Army warpainter heavy blue with army warpainter matt black at a ratio of 1 matt black drop to 3 warpainter

I also mentioned previously that the bases on some miniatures were already circular in the correct size, I decided to break most of the bases off and file the corners down to put them on the same bases as all the others (the mdf ones) to create uniformity… which you can see in the last picture with the downed pilots (below)

I’ve only done half as my hand started to hurt – some of the bases are quite thick!!

Lastly I found this website:

http://www.milicast.com/shop/home.php?cat=144

which has an area stating 1:76 to 1:72 – unsure exactly how big or small these will turn out but they had some great army soldier is passive positions:

British soldiers on parade:
http://www.milicast.com/shop/product.php?productid=2105&cat=153&page=4

and British AFV crew in casual poses
http://www.milicast.com/shop/product.php?productid=276&cat=153&page=1

If these are a similar size, I’ll go to town and buy lots so there is as much variety as possible!