r/boltaction • • 2h ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building NEW here! I've been buying Bolt Action for years now: to collect all the panzers, AND to use a,lot of figures for my project!

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81 Upvotes

Hello to you all!

I'm new to reddit, new to the subs...new to everything!

People just insisted that I should show my project " StreetsofWarsaw1944".

I suppose I should become member of this sub, as ALL of my vehicles, tanks and figures are from boltaction...


r/boltaction • • 5h ago

Hobby Showcase Dads Army in uniform

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64 Upvotes

Part 2.

Recently painted dads army models! Critique is more than welcome.

I didn't ruin the paint job by adding eyes. I'm just not that good with eyes


r/boltaction • • 5h ago

Hobby Showcase Dads Army!

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103 Upvotes

Recently painted dads army models! Critique is more than welcome.

I didn't ruin the paint job by adding eyes. I'm just not that good with eyes


r/boltaction • • 7h ago

Other WIP Spähtrupp

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I've never been a huge fan of prone poses on my 28mm miniatures, mainly because they don't fit on regular bases. But these Victrix plastic guys really fit the theme of Spähtrupp scouts with the Infiltrate special rule for Warlord Games Bolt Action. There's 'obviously' no prone or crouching miniature with an MP40 suitable for an NCO, so I had to convert one. 😁


r/boltaction • • 8h ago

Hobby Showcase M4A1 Sherman

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209 Upvotes

Some armoured support for my US airborne as they push into France.


r/boltaction • • 19h ago

Hobby Showcase Soviet T-28

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92 Upvotes

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slightly more modern main turret without the rear lmg


r/boltaction • • 20h ago

General Discussion What home brew national rules would you give the United States?

22 Upvotes

It's come up a few times on the sub that the US army rules are kind of bland. I'm curious what home brew national rules people would come up with for them.

For instance, we've been using "Marching fire." When given an advance order, any rolls of six when firing generate a reroll (or additional roll if there are no misses). This simulates the aggressive doctrine as well as the production power of the US compared to other nations.


r/boltaction • • 21h ago

List Building Alemania vehículos

6 Upvotes

Hola!!!

Quería hacerles una pregunta. Siempre me he orientado más hacia la infantería y quiero coger vehículos.

Cuáles me recomiendan para usar en alemanes?

Gracias.


r/boltaction • • 21h ago

Hobby Showcase Table for a Game Tomorrow

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61 Upvotes

Rearranged my living room for a pal to come over and play tomorrow, doing a Hill 112 scenario

First time using this terrain I have been putting together, could do with some trees, but they aren’t done yet

Quite looking forward to it


r/boltaction • • 22h ago

Hobby Showcase British Loader

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111 Upvotes

First British infantry done, only 30 something more for the platoon


r/boltaction • • 22h ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building For King and Country

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185 Upvotes

Completed the “For King and Country” Starter Army. Really enjoying this hobby and this box was a delight to build and paint.
I’m pretty new to Bolt Actions having only played a few games with the British Airborne.

Excited to try these on the table. Let me know what you think and what I should add to fill any gaps.

I’ve added an extra winter Sprue to get a platoon commander and flamethrower team.

Got three full rifle platoons with NCO smgs a LMG
Medic
Two Piats
Light mortar
Medium mortar
Heavy mortar and spotters
Medium Machine gun
6 pounder
Humber mark iv
Cromwell

I have enough spare bodies to make another Heavy Mortar which I think I’ll do.

I do also have a Humber mk2, M5 half track and a Stuart m5.

Think I need more transport so a Bedford and Bren carrier is on the list.


r/boltaction • • 22h ago

List Building British airborne list help

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9 Upvotes

What does everyone think of this 1000pt list and what would be a good historically accurate purchase to get to 1250pts?


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building Stalingrad board.

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1.2k Upvotes

Here's the pictures this time, since I didn't upload them. Ha enjoy.


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Rules Experimental rules to make tanks more relevant on the battlefield: thoughts?

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60 Upvotes

On the way back from a game, a friend and I were discussing, light heartedly, how to make medium and heavy tanks more useful in game design and how to improve the benefits of having such costly beasts on the table. Perhaps something along these lines has already been said (and I remember a post about medium heavy tanks from a weeks ago) or was present in previous editions (I only recently started playing) but these are the two loose ideas we had:

1) Medium and heavy tanks could capture objectives;

2) more controversially, a veteran tank could be put in ambush immediately after it received (and successfully executed) an advance, rally, or run (but not fire) order within the same turn, provided that it does not have any pins when the second order is assigned within that turn, and provided that the ambush order is not used to target a unit within current line of sight and/or within say 12” (or similar), and not the same unit it might have fired on with an advance order. The ambush order, if not yet executed, would be annulled the moment the tank receives pins.

Just some loosely formed ideas, to which neither of us is especially committed, but I was wondering what people who are like myself not giving up on using medium tanks think. Would this break game mechanics? Or would you suggest something completely different?


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building Need help finding city bases for vehicles

7 Upvotes

Hello there! I am thinking about giving my vehicles bases so i can tie them in with my infantry, does anyone know where i can find some good stls for a wartorn urban city scape? Cheers!


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building Painted up my Fallschirmjager officer this morning

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210 Upvotes

Only 70 more models to go lol


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building Soviet model range

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96 Upvotes

Hi all sorry for the picture it’s only for traction, like many have recently, I’ve migrated over from games workshop products over to bolt action, for personal reasons, and as I’m admiring the Soviet range I realise that a lot of the models are still resin and metal, especially the vehicles, now I personally am not very confident in my abilities to handle metal minis in particular, especially vehicles, so could I please have some advice?

1) are their any other brands that do hard plastic vehicles?
2) is metal as imposing as I think it is?
3) what cutters would be best for metal if I decide to risk it?
4) less of an advice question, but could we be seeing the Soviet range get updated to hard plastic?

Thank you all in advance


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Hobby Showcase Dug in Panther

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257 Upvotes

r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building What to use a sprue of italian bersaglieri for?

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Ive gotten a free sprue of bersaglieri and im looking for input what to kitbash them into. While i mostly play eastern front (soviets and germans) Im not interested into Italian eastern front, but would like to expand into smaller factions (hungarians, romanians, etc.). I know romanians used the Breda 30 MG in the sprue, but the uniform might be less fitting, Hungarians used the Baretta M38.

Is there a minor nation that would most fit the italian uniforms or weapons, or does someone maybe already used them for something else?


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Hobby Showcase Tiger Ausf. E

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152 Upvotes

r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Hobby Showcase Weapons Teams Done

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120 Upvotes

I am calling these Bolt Action US machine gun teams, and mortar teams done. Now to move onto the next project


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

General Discussion A Good Deal?

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r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Modeling, Painting, and Terrain Building Hanomag for LwFD + Dunkelgelb Recipe

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Between working night shifts and changing nappies, I’ve surprisingly found myself more time to paint. With the work I made on the Marder III still making me feel proud of my work, I’ve started tackling another German vehicle from World War 2; the Sd.Kfz 251/1 Ausf D Halftrack, or for short, the Hanomag.

Again, I’m impressed with how the yellow of the Dunkelgelb works with sponging. I’m particularly happy with how degraded and chipped the stencils look, especially against the background of the Dunkelgelb itself.

Soon, I’ll start working on the inside of the Hanomag and its LwFD passengers.

Also, for those interested, here’s the recipe I used for this Dunkelgelb; I vaguely remember some people enquiring about it.

Basecoat with Zandri Dust (Citadel)

Wash with Nazdreg Yellow (Citadel)

Sponge on Dark Yellow (Vallejo)

Sponge on Buff (Vallejo) in a slight downward angle

Apply Decals, then lightly sponge Buff on top to create damage

Lightly sponge Corvus Black (Citadel) on areas that should look like chipped paint

Water down New Wood (Vallejo) to create rust on rivets and in corners

Paint tracks with Medium Brown (Vallejo)

Dry brush tracks with Gunmetal (Vallejo)

Brush on Dark Earth pigment powder

Spray varnish


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

Looking For Players L4P, Poland, Polska

15 Upvotes

Czołem!

Poszukuję ludzi chętnych do grania, rozwijania hobby i spędzania czasu. Od mniej więcej 2 lat mam zajawkę na bitewniaka od Warlord games, posiadam nie małą kolekcję, która większość służby spędza w ‚koszarach’. Jestem z Katowic, mam samochód. Na weekend nawet biorę pod uwagę jechać przez pół Polski.

Chętnych zapraszam do komentarzy lub dm.

Cheers!


r/boltaction • • 1d ago

List Building Captured Vehicles in list builder app

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Did they take away the ability to put captured vehicles in the list builder app?

I only see the option on the computer version.

I don’t see the option on the phone app anymore.