On The Bench: Bolt Action and Warmachine

The local game store I frequent is running a Journeyman League for Warmachine to kick off the new rules set (Mark III). I haven't played Warmachine in years. I played fairly heavily during Mark I and a bit in Mark II but then it faded out. I sold off my Cygnar army and decided I wasn'y going to play anymore. However, with the league starting and a way to make a fresh new start I decided to at least go a bit into a new army. I went with Khador solely because I wanted to paint them up as a WWII Soviet army.

Here we have the beginning. The one model that actually has paint on it is the Marauder that I'm adding for week 2 of the league. It has just the basic of paint on it. No shading, highlights, decals, weathering, dust, mud, etc. All of that will come later. I'm using Flames of War Soviet colors with a few P3 paints thrown in.





I'm also working on my first Bolt Action squad. I've got quite a bit on order that hasn't arrived yet. This is a squad of German Blitzkreig infantry I was given at Historicon so I went ahead and put them together. Here we have a pretty standard squad with an NCO and right hand man, both with SMGs, an LMG and reloader on the move, an observer (prone), another reloader awaiting his prone LMG, and several regular riflemen. The reloader is modeled after Corporal Upham from Saving Private Ryan even though he's in a German squad. I couldn't resist building him this way. Next step is to add gear and packs, clean them up and start slapping paint.



Apologies for the terrible pics. I really need to figure out some lighting and how to photograph minis. They really do look better in person.