From JamieM - 28mm German grenadiers (35 points)

I’ll admit to being a teensy bit terrified about this submission..... you see, I’m almost exclusively a grim dark, fantasy, superhero, post apocalyptic, spy fi type chap who doesn’t really do historicals. And this is a historical post. To a blog where there are loads of people who know tonnes about historical wars and things. And I don’t....... But herewith find my submission anyway - some metal WW2 German grenadiers from warlord games that were fun to paint, especially the brilliantly expressive faces.

Whilst researching these, I turned first to the internet. I was confident that the internet would tell me the right colours to use, so imagine my surprise (and horror) to learn that the internet couldn’t agree on the correct colour scheme!

Deciding to carry on regardless, I sort of took a flier at something that I thought was about right for generic grenadiers from what I could gather from all of the sources. These chaps were so common (and kit seemed to change around fairly often) that I figured I’d get some things wrong (what colour were radios in WW2? What colour were the canteen lids? What’s the colour of the big ammo box that one of the chaps seems to be reaching into?) but that they’d look alright in total from three feet away.

The camo is mostly copied from an artisan miniatures painting guide and the officers coat is supposed to be based on a rubberised motorcycle outfit that appears to have been pretty popular for soldiers to grab when they could (not just for motorcycle riders), but I think I’ve gone a little bit too green with it as it should be an off white colour. I think.

I’ve relied entirely on warlord to provide gear that is consistent (probably the western front?) and also used an actual paper book from my shelf to help me once I realised that the internet couldn’t supply an easy solution.

Anyway, these fellas should net me 35 points for 7 28mm figures and be useful for chain of command and bolt action.