E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne – a Band of Brothers Bolt Action project by Bothi

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About the Project

After visiting the first Bolt Action Bootcamp in 2015 I came away with my first Bolt Action minis. I went with American Airborne, as I love Band of Brothers and always wanted to recreate them on the tabletop. I started painting right away and finished about a dozent minis. But as we weren't playing BA at all at the time it somewhat went dry in the sand.
We started getting back into Bolt Action a few month ago with playing the Battle of the Bulge campaign by Warlord. There is a project about this already:

BATTLE OF THE BULGE – BOLT ACTION CAMPAIGN BY ANDRE77 AND BOTHI

But as the above mentioned project is about our campaign, I though why not put up another project on my progress on the famous Easy Company. Currahee!

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The Man himself!

Oct 11 2018

Tutoring 0

Skill 4

Idea 4

3 Comments

Started to work on Dick Winters tonight. I tried to get the limited Historicon model for years with no luck. But then Warlord re-issued a lot of their limited figures for their anniversay last year. Thank you for that.

He is not finished yet, as I only had 1,5h tonight to paint, but it’s a start. But there is a lot left to be done and I tried out wet blending for the first time. Not sure if I like the result. Judge for yourself:

3rd Squad, Fire Support

Oct 7 2018

Tutoring 6

Skill 10

Idea 7

No Comments

As I finished 1st Squad during the Bootcamp last weekend I got to work on 3rd Squad during this week and finished today.

3rd Squad you say? This is only due to the numbering I have below the bases. And as I wanted to paint a fire support squad next, 3rd Squad was up 😀

The Squad consists of:

a Sergeant with SMG
a PFC with a BAR
a Sarge, a Corporal and 2 Privates manning 2 .30cal MGs
a Corporal, two PFCs and a Private with Carbines

As an MG team consists of two soldiers in Bolt Action and they can be killed individually, I magnetized the second guy onto the MG base. This way I can remove the second guy and still leave the MG. Or I can remove the MG and still have the second guy running around. It was a bit fiddlely with the snow, but I am quite satisfied with the result.

Entire Squad

Rifle Section

MG Section

Sarge (NCO)

BAR Gunner

Carbines

MG1

MG2

Magnetization on MG teams

1st Squad, finally finished

Oct 6 2018

Tutoring 2

Skill 7

Idea 7

No Comments

So after 3 years I went back and finally finished 1st Squad. Due to the very detailed step-by-step I’ve written years back I was able to reproduce the paint scheme quite well. I only had to replace a few of the colors as they went dry or I had used them up on other projects. But judge for yourself.

The Squad was completed to consist of 12 men with 2 more rilfe men, 2 men carrying SMGs and a single BAR gunner.

The new guys!

Rifle Section (6 Rifles, 1 BAR)

Assault Section (5 SMGs, incl. the Sarge)

1st Squad completed

... 3 years later ...

Oct 6 2018

Tutoring 8

Skill 5

Idea 5

1 Comment

After the existing part of 1st Squad was finished I stopped working on the project for about 3 years. So it was only a few weeks ago when I went back to this army. This time I am commited to at least finish 75% of this army that has grown over the years to more than a hundred minis.

First problem was to recreate the paint scheme. Fortunately I had writen a step by step painting guide for these. For anyone interested, here it is (loosely translated from German):

Step	Title	Color	Comment
1	Base Coating	Brown Violet Green	Entire Minis
2	Skin	Bestigor Flesh
3	Highlights Skin	Elven Felsh
4	Large Highlights Uniform	Brown Violet with Hellion Green	don’t forget the chin strap
5	Fine Highlights Uniform	Brown Violte with more Hellion Green	Light drybrush on Helmet and don’t forget the chin strap
6	Base Color Equipment	Baylor Brown with Hellion Green
7	Highlights Equipment	Baylor Brown with more Hellion Green
8	Inner part of mouth	Red Gore
9	Teeth, Eyes and Helmet	White	Spade on Helmet, Officers with vertical line
10	Mouth Edges and Eyebrows	Bugmans Glow
11	Eyes	Black
12	Corrections Face	Elven Felsh
13	Corrections Helmet	Brown Violet Green
14	Helmet Camo 1	Bestial Brown
15	Hair	Bestial Brown
16	Helmet Camo 2	Steel Legion Drap
17	Helmet Camo 3	Caliban Green
18	Helmet Highlight 2	Baylor Brown	on topof the Steel Legion Drap
19	Helmet Highlight 3	Brown Violet	on top of the Caliban Green
20	Weapon Holsters and Boots	Bestial Brown with Red and Black	Pistol Holser, Knife Sheath and entire Boots
21	Highlights Holsters and Boots	Bestial Brown with Red	Pistol Holser, Knife Sheath and Boots
22	Helmet Highlight 1	Bestial Brown with Red	on top of the Bestial Brown
23	Bootlaces	Baylor Brown with more Hellion Greed
24	Wooden Parts	Bestial Brown	Rifles and lower parts of the entrechment tools
25	Wood Highlights	Steel Legion Drap	50% on the same parts, upper half
26	Metal Parts	Gunmetal	Rifles, SMGs, Grenade, Ent. Tool shafts, Knife handles, Drinking Bottle Clasp, Other Claps
27	Rifle Shading	Nuln Oil	Rifle metal parts
28	Metal Shading	Black Ink	SMGs, Grenades, Ent. Tool shafts, Knife handles, Drinking Bottle Clasp, Other Claps
29	Base	Bestial Brown	Only where needed
30	Decals		Flag and rank right, Eagle and rank left
31	Decals fix up	Army Painter Matt Varnish
32	Dipping	Army Painter Dark Tone
33	Matt Coating	AP Matt Varnish with a drop of GW ‘Ardcoat	entire mini
34	1. Snow Layer	Snowpaste by Noch	use a lot
35	2. Snow Layer	Snowpaste by Noch	bullet holes, explosion craters, don’t forget the gras
36	Blackshading	Nuln Oil	bullet holes and explosion craters
37	Blackshading 2	Black Ink	centre of bullet holes and explosion craters
38	Blood	Blood for the Bloodgod	only where needed
39	Edge Cleaning		get rid of excess snow
40	Black Rim	Black

Easy, 1st squad

Oct 6 2018

Tutoring 2

Skill 9

Idea 8

3 Comments

After finishing the HQ I started to work on the first squad. As I had not had all the minis yet the squad was only 7 men strong at the time. There are a couple of Privates, PFCs and Corporals and the squad is lead by a Staff Sergeant.

The Sarge

PFC of the assault section

Entire Squad

Screaming Eagles HQ

Oct 6 2018

Tutoring 3

Skill 5

Idea 5

No Comments

Here we go. First of all there will at first some aweful pics in the first post in this project. These are old pics (3+ years) from when I first started painting these. I guess I really didn’t know how to take pics back then.

The first thing I painted was a few of the HQ models. These are my Lieutenant, his accompanying First Sergeant and Technical Seargeant.

The LT

LT with his two Sergeants

Next up was the Observer. He doubles as an artillery or aircraft observer in the game. He is a Technician 4th Grade and accompanied by a Technician 5th Grade.