Finished: 28mm WW2 Polish Paras

 

My prediction held true and I did get the second batch finished today.

Senior Leader

Junior Leader and Bren Team

Rifle Team

2" Mortar Teams

PIAT Teams

These are all from Warlord Games.

Obviously eighteen figures isn't enough to field a full platoon of Polish paras. If/when I do so, I will simply bulk them out with helmeted figures from the rest of my collection, ensuring that each section or support team has at least one chap with a grey beret (I'm now trying to remember if I have a full 6 pounder crew in helmets...).

The Polish Airborne's Synchronised Hopping Team

Paint Table Saturday 24 April

 

I've made a surprisingly good start on the first batch of Polish paras - I've only got the metals and bases left to paint. I should be able to get that done tonight and have them varnished tomorrow. That will allow me to make a good start on the second batch and hopefully have them finished on Monday.

I won't be doing a "finished" post until both batches are complete.

I'm not sure what will be hitting the table after these. Maybe some terrain?

Wednesday Workbench 31 March

With the 6mm ACW finally out of the way, I've turned my attention to other projects. Over the weekend I had cleaned up the extra US paras and got them glued onto bases. While I was doing that, I remembered the Polish paras I'd bought several months ago and glued them onto bases as well.

Yesterday I added "gunk" to all the bases, which took a couple of hours. Today I primed all the figures.

Polish Paras

US Paras - 1 platoon plus SF-MG team

US Paras - 2 platoon (minus 2 figs), bazooka teams, BARs and specialists

It turns out that I am still short two riflemen, for the HQ squad of the 2nd platoon. I also need a couple of figures to go with the engineer to make a team for Chain of Command. However, there's no great rush to buy them - painting this lot should keep me busy for a few weeks.

Tomorrow should see me starting on the US paras, testing out paint schemes.