Adventures in Bolt Action: Volkssturm!

Get the flags out. Hoot your horn, Give me a big round of applause… I’ve finally painted another unit for Bolt Action!

Volkssturm! The old, the young, and the unfit. The scrapings from the bottom of the barrel.

I thought I’d start my journey of painting the German forces with something a little more interesting than painting lots of grey uniforms. No, to be honest, I started with these because they were metal and didn’t need assembly!

I also wanted to try out the various different colours I have for German uniforms and because these are an eclectic bunch I figured I could throw pretty much whatever I wanted at them.

I primed them all black and then airbrushed a base uniform colour – a couple of different Field Greys, a couple of Browns, and a Field Blue.

From there, it was just adding in the rest of their kit, a bit of work on the flesh, and a few different colour wasehes.

I based them up along the same lines as my Soviet Unit and was surprised just how quickly I’d got them done. Certainly, using the airbrush helped. Spraying just a thin coat over the black primer I was able to achieve some ready made shadowing.

I’m really pleased with how these came out and it surprised me in the fact that I’m now actually quite keen to paint some more Bolt Action stuff, which is good, because I still haven’t finished my tanks!