Can we kitbash EVERY Bolt Action Sprue? PART ONE
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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- Since Bolt Action was first published as a game system in 2012, Warlord games has released over 20 plastic infantry kits, and with each new frame they roll out, the quality continues to improve. However, there is one question that has been plaguing world war two wargamers for years…is every Bolt Action sprue kitbashable? Lets find out!
This project took FOREVER, so please make sure to point out all the mold lines i missed and any historical accuracies!
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Clipping away the cigarette from the flamethrower man was an excellent precaution...
Really???
@@Andrew-se4tgFlame thrower operators don't tend to smoke, or so I understand.
@@lexi_9995I wonder why?
its funny, i actually gave his assistant a cigarette AND a jerry can haha!
I would've left it on as some sort of dark humor gag
I've been playing BA since it came our in 2012 and not once has the question "can I convert every sprue" crossed my mind. I think you may just need help Jordan...
I used the 8th Army minis to build kilted highlanders.
All of them amazing, but the Fiji Commando is off the scale!!!!
Simply outstanding! :o
Thank you very much!
I CANNOT contain my excitement for other parts!
I kitbashed some Bolt Actions US Infantry with the Undead Ghouls from Mantic, because you know they are G.I.s. Do you get you get it? G.I. = Ghoul Infantry! They make a lovely addition for my Weird War games monster rooster. I find they ended up looking like people possessed by evil spirits, like US soldiers that became Deadites. You could also use them for a lovecraftian themed Game, call them Pickman's squad. They could be what happened if the US government rounded up the Ghouls that live in the Boston subway to use them as cannon fodder. My next project will be to take some Soviet Infantry and give them dog and chimp heads to represent the human/animal hybrids the Soviets tried to make in their early years as a way to creat the Soviet New Man through Eugenic projects
I wanna see you ghoul GI conversions. Link?
@@borscope I tried to post a link, but youtube removed the comment.
This video was typical you; Great work converting and an awesome community member by sharing so others could follow to help them also. Fantastic stuff!!
This has to be the video of the year for Bolt Action. Loved it. Also now a subscriber as I’m sorry I have never seen it before.
that is very kind! Thank you!
for the Hungarians I think the full length carcano rifles on the Italian sprue will also work really well! they have a very similar profile to the Hungarian 35m so at 28mm I think they'd look spot on
@@Iowncuba ah that’s a good point!!
You could have made KNIL using the 8th army sprue
It BLEW my mind to finally have plastic 28mm WW2 infantry. Felt like I was waiting for 20 years lol.
I don't play WW2 on tabletop [personal reason], but I collect the miniatures.
Fantastic video, clear audio, production is Borat: "Niiiice"
Pretty sure the Fijian commandos would have went barefoot. They'd be running around in the jungle. Something that they grew up doing, their feet would be hard as leather. No use for boots.
I never considered using the Italian sprue for Hungarians, great idea!
One I thought you might have done with the British Army is combine the British and Canadian box bodies with the arms from 8th army. Combine the other way with the 8th army bodies and British and Canadian arms. At that point you can mix and match your heads to a variety of theaters. Indians in Burma "Forgotten Army"? Done. Aussies? Done. SAS raiders? Of course. Or, put on the standard steel helmets for a multi theater British Army.
You could have made some KNIL using the 8th army sprue, they were known to wear shorts
There's a couple of conversions that I'd definitely be interested in doing at some point, namely using the new french plastics with italian heads for Winter greek infantry and with that one you could play fast and loose with the weapons given the greek supply situation. The other is Slovaks, from the italian plastics and prob german riflles since theyre both gwer 98 derivatives. The big issue is helmets, sort of like when trying to convert bulgarians and I dont know anybody who does files for czechoslovak helmets. Kind of a tease given the nice new rules. Great video though.
Honestly already giving me ideas with just that Fiji one, got a few us sprues lying around from when i needed thompsons for my brits might have to give it a go
Bit stumped on head gear can't find any photos.
Bolt action sprues were abit of a shock to the system after years of paint/make by numbers 40k and fantasy kits. It was straight back to the days of Lotr sbg for me personally. But only.. the designers of the kits clearly intended you to kitbash and convert them to within an inch of their life going by the included examples of small food for thought reposes included in picture within the boxes. I've come to the conclusion that they are actually abit of a converters dream. And that if your going to get into bolt action you should infact buy a few boxes with parts that may be useful to you or some of the single sprues perhaps although that ends up being abit cost prohibitive actually in the long run.. better to have a large pile of extra bits by getting a selection of the very generously packed boxes.
I've did all sorts of small characterful stuff from making army chaplins to trying to making a go at depicting the desperate stealing and pilfering of russian equipment and gear during the winter. US Gis with lugers mp40s and stalhelm trophies on their pack, Recreations of famous bits of ww2 footage.. the inspiration pool is endless almost. And what cant be achieved with modelling is often easily achieved with a different colour.. reenactors may be able to spot tiny differences in the various wool tunics used by different factions at different times but it often dosent matter that much i find as long as the overall intended effect is achieved. Especially from a foot or two away...
I’d love to see how you base these guys. I’m struggling to give minis with puddles on their feet (like the Fiji commando) a jungle base
You could do a couple things. First, you could file the puddle down a little bit so its not quite so pronounced. I didn't do this with the fiji commando because i didn't want to risk breaking the legs i had glued on. Secondly, which is what i did, is you could build up some thick texture paste and/or putty around the puddle base.
The British 8th Army sprue would actually be perfect for doing the Philippine Army 1941 soldiers who, alongside US Regular Army troops, famously fought in Bataan against the Japanese and infamously were brutalized by the Bataan Death March. The US Marines sprue would also make a great conversion for those, just give them the 8th Army "Tommy Helmets" - this would also suit the early war US military perfectly as well - circa Pearl Harbor and Wake.
I agree! I've seen a number of people tackle this conversion so i wanted to try something a little different haha!
@scalehistoryslc819 all that being said, your conversions are amazing!!
Great convertions 👍
Hot damn dude. This was an awesome video.
Great video
Amazing skills!
I have one tiny nit pick. If you clipped off one of the sight hoods from the sten and glued it to the end of the styrene on the Owen gun, it would have been as fiddly as hell. But it'd make the gun look 110%.
ooo great catch!
Awesome! Great inspiration! Especially the flamethrower!
That Owen gun has given me a great idea....
Cool project!
Really great work! xx SF
I can forgive the rule breaking in the Fijian commando. Such awesome models! Well done!
Also. I’m totally doing an entire army of Hungarians, to go alongside my winter kitbashed Hungarians 😋
Superb poses and paint job!!
Love the plastic drainpipe(?) clatter at 16:03 hahaha
I apologize, i also meant to have a generic pottery breaking sound effect put in at that part too and i totally forgot. Won't make that mistake again
Great, vid! Sweet music
i found this video via the algorithm and it's 10/10 🔥 i'd love to figure out a way to kitbash bolt action soviet cossacks
Thank you for the kind words! I gotta do both soviet sprues for the next video so maybe i can figure out something cool for cossacks...
maybe use greenstuff to make a cossack papakha around the fez of a handschar wearing head from the Waffen SS sprue?
Brilliant where’s part two
It’s in the works!
I tried using Japanese heads for 442nd soldiers and the heads were comically tiny compared to US infantry bodies. As you said Warlord might’ve been a little too overboard with the racial sculpting. 😂
Some new sculpts for them would be awesome
Almost like training your soldiers to survive off nothing but rice and honor doesn't really stand head-to-head against Billy who eats a farm's worth of corn and cows every day - even IRL photos show how small the average Japanese veteran was compared to a fresh US marine
@@TheKsalad true but it’d be nice if all the models were compatible!
What about the Music man?!??? I need some links please>>>
Looks really close to 35th scale!??? Is it??
nope, these are all 1/56th, 28mm heroic scale
Charlemagne was actually a division
Sorry was new Georgia meant to be New Guinea? G in E
Nope! The battle of New Georgia was after Guadalcanal and before Bougainville, it is also in the Solomon Islands
Ye gods. The sculpting on all those figures is grotesque! Are they intended to be such dumpy, ugly caricatures?
Caricatures, yes, but to be fair most of the dumpiness probably come from my painting 😂
Wargaming miniatures have different priorities to scale models, I'd rather paint giant heads and disproportionate weapons than need a magnifying glass to paint the buttons of a jacket.
We really need to stop using the phrase "heroic scale". These miniatures are out of scale 28mm.