Home Guard - Officer & Second Section

"Mr Brown goes off to town on the 8:21,
But he comes home each evening and he’s ready with his gun."

Well, this has taken rather longer than anticipated as life intruded and painting took a back seat for a while.

I have however finally got the boys who will make Mr. Hitler think again finished and off the painting table. The plan this time was to do the second section along with an officer and his assistant and a Home Guard medic to make a playable (albeit small) force. The officer, assistant, and medic are Warlord figures, the rest are Foundry.

The paints used were the same as for the first section, with a bit more time spent on shading faces and some attempt at darkening up around eyes. I'm still not very confident about painting faces (certainly not to the amazing quality I've seen elsewhere) but am trying to improve a little.

All figures primed with Vallejo Leather Brown surface primers.

Then base-coated with a 50:50 mix of VMC English Uniform and Brown Violet. After the base-coat all of the flesh, hair, wood, and leather areas were repainted with the brown primer.

The rest of the blocking was done as for first section with the exception of the officer.

I haven't been able to find a figure I'm completely happy with for use as a Home Guard officer so the platoon have a regular officer on loan in BEF gear.

His outfit is English Uniform serge rather than the greener Home Guard denim and his webbing is Green Ochre rather then German Camo Beige.

His assistant is Home Guard and is having a cup of char while he waits for the Rupert to decide where they're gong.

The second section is also joined by a fairly mature Home Guard medic, who is probably a local GP, a reserved (or scheduled) occupation. (Though if they're less luck he might be a Veterinary surgeon.)

The section NCO has a Thompson SMG (with what appears to be a muzzle brake), the rest of the section have rifles (a mix of 303 and red banded 30-06).

Finally the section gets some fire support in the form of a Browning Automatic Rifle.

And the Corporal's (unofficial) loader.

BAR don't have loaders as such in Bolt Action, but this rifleman is carrying a spare magazine for the Corporal.

So, they're finally off the bench.  I still have an MMG team, a Northover projector, and some "old soldiers" (BEF figures) to do, but I think I'll switch to something else for a bit and see if I can rekindle some enthusiasm and get a bit more done.

11-11-1918