From PeteF: Adventurers' Landing - Antifa June1944 (70 points)

The US contributed 73,000 of the 160,000ish troops that landed in Normandy on D-Day. The size and scope of the largest naval/air/land operation in history  is mind boggling. This Bolt Action/Chain of Command Squad represents just a few of the many anti-fascists who took part in Operation Overlord.

For this challenge I tried a different, faster, painting style based on a Pete The Wargamer video for painting GIs. It's a block and wash technique - I usually do layering and add a fair amount of detail. For these I went for something that looks OK from 3 feet away - they aren't going to win any awards!

In the Before Times thanks to Facebook marketplace I scored a large lot of WW2 minis from a guy who was giving up on the hobby. He even threw in his paints and brushes. It made me sad to see someone leave wargaming but happy to restock The Shelf of Shame with WW2 figures after finishing off my Blitzkreig Germans in Challenge X.

The figures are from Warlord and to be honest I don't love them. I threw them together a little too quickly when I was scrambling for something to enter for Adventurer's Landing in the preparation phase of the challenge. Not only did I do a poor job on the gluing and mold line removal, I screwed up the priming. As an experiment I went with a cheap auto primer and it came out very grainy on some of the minis - either wrong temperature or spray distance or both. I'm becoming a fan of brush on primers!

 

However, Pete the Wargamer's guidance is great for getting figures on the table quickly and with desaturated WW2 uniforms it works well. I learned a lot about US uniforms in the process - there's a surprising amount of debate about the variations in the colours. As usual the Osprey has too many pictures of specialists and not enough of the ordinary infantry.

Ten 28mm figures and a room bonus for a total of 70 points.