Finishing options for platoons.

I had a nicely preserved copy of Warhammer English Civil War turn up in the post yesterday, which made for some fun evening reading, and I'm starting to feel that cracking on with the ECW stuff is not too far off. Just need to finish off my ww2 starter platoons, Update my Saga collection for Version 2 (and possibly increase it in size until me and my wargaming chum can play a game of shieldwall), and build a bit more scenery. So 'not too far off' in this case is hopefully by the end of the year, realistically in a couple of years' time!

Back to the present, though. I'm initially collecting these ww2 forces for Bolt Action, on the basis that you need a lot more stuff for that game than for Chain of Command. I'm more keen on the latter game, but BA is nice and easy for casual play. I've been using the Normandy force selectors to start off with.

I'm planning on two separate German forces, a Heer platoon and an SS platoon. At the moment I have two squads from each and they mix happily to make a Bolt Action army, but I'm aware that I should paint up the full requirement of each for CoC. That said, I've nearly finished some support elements for the SS. The Normandy selector allows for 2 machine gun teams and a mortar. These have not come out as good as I'd hoped, and I'm not sure if it is varnish issues, or in some cases the patchy quality of some of the sculpts. Either way, I'm calling them done apart from adding some more vegetation. I'm going to have to wait until after the current crisis is over to get my hands on some, though.

Also, please forgive the quality of the photography. It's hard to set up a light box with a 4 year old running around the house!

I'm really not pleased with how these came out in the slightest.

On top of these, I have also managed to finish off the final elements of the British Platoon:

Not my best work, particularly in terms of the Germans, but I'm calling them done anyway. I'm pleased that I have actually finished a complete British army with all options (apart from all the available tanks, but I dislike painting tanks, so a couple will have to suffice.

I'm looking forward to my Gripping Beast delivery arriving. I have more SS metals to do, but after the state of these, I'd really like to move on to some Dark Ages for a little break.