Bolt Action Grenadiers

[Deadmanwade]

Having recently finished batch painting a large number of evil egyptian space robots for some other gaming system, I decided to reward myself by painting up some of the Bolt Action Germans that I have in my 'to do' pile. (It is a very very large pile sadly). So over the weekend, I got a group of six models painted and based and ready for the tabletop.
I am sure that the uniforms are not historically correct, but hopefully they are close enough to look the part on the tabletop. Sadly when I was assembling the models, I appear to have glued in all the panzerfausts upside down, I thought that the metal bar along the top was a trigger/handle not the sight. Whoops.



My aim is to get enough of these guys done (and their Russian opponents) to run some games of Operation Squad at the end of May. I will then keep working on both forces so that ideally I will have enough minis to play the new Bolt Action game when it is released.

[Parus Ater]

You don't post often but when you do it's a treat!
I don't know a an indepth amount about German uniforms but I've thousands and only one thing pops out as being odd here and that's the braid on the edges of the collars. Braid like that, as I understand it, show Sgt rank. Not "innacurate" as such but unrealistic but you could paint squads for them all Other than that they're pretty spot on.
Be proud, man!

[Deadmanwade]

You don't post often but when you do it's a treat!
I don't know a an indepth amount about German uniforms but I've thousands and only one thing pops out as being odd here and that's the braid on the edges of the collars. Braid like that, as I understand it, show Sgt rank. Not "innacurate" as such but unrealistic but you could paint squads for them all Other than that they're pretty spot on.
Be proud, man!

I wasn't sure about that bit. I was basing them on the painted minis being displayed in the Warlord online store.
http://store.warlordgames.com/german-in ... 4368-p.asp


It's easily dealt with, with a lick of black paint and saves me some hassle on the rest of the squad.

So:
The regular troopers just have the two short braids on the front of the collar in silver/white?
The NCOs have a silver/white braid edge on their collars and the two short braids on the front?
How about the officers? Am I right in thinking they have 2 short gold braids on the front? Do they have a braid along the edge as well?

I've been looking at a copy of some Osprey plates and a wiki page, but I still cant make head nor tail of it.

[mikeland]

Excellent painting. I have a few of these on my bench waiting to be painted next.

[Cubster]

Great stuff, straight form the pages of 'Action' or 'Commando'.

[Vogless]

Good stuff, DMW! Good job!

I'm planning on upping my forces from one platoon to three with the new plastics. Really looking forward to getting started now that I've seen yours finished.

[Helen]

Lovely painted miniatures.

Helen

[Evan]

All German NCO ranks had aluminium braid around both the collar and the shoulder straps, privates/enlisted didn't ( arm stripes are not German NCO rank insignia, they are senior privates). Officers had rank distinctions on the shoulder boards only. They all wore variants of the small two bar insignia near the collar ends - Heer troops that is.

[grant]

I dig them. Very nice!

[NTM]

All German NCO ranks had aluminium braid around both the collar and the shoulder straps, privates/enlisted didn't ( arm stripes are not German NCO rank insignia, they are senior privates). Officers had rank distinctions on the shoulder boards only. They all wore variants of the small two bar insignia near the collar ends - Heer troops that is.

Senior private (Oberschutze) distinction was a circular patch with a 'pip' on it. Single and double stripe were Gefreiter and Obergefreiter respectively equivalent to Lance Corporal and Corporal in the British Army. It was the various ranks of Sergeant (Unteroffizier and all the different forms of Feldwebel) which had the collar and shoulder strap braid. We Brits would class Gefreiter/Corporal as an NCO but I believe this was (and still is not) the case in the German Army.