From SteveA: Bolt Action US Army/Marines (60 points)

This here is the beginnings of my Bolt Action WWII Pacific Theater US Army/Marines.  Its my first attempt at painting WWII soldiers, so hopefully I did justice to the uniforms using a variety of Vallejo, AK, Army Painter and Citadel Paints.  

To inform my target color palette googled up images for "WWII US Pacific Theater uniforms" and  watched HBO's "The Pacific", and then soon released the sprues of Warlord Bolt Action US forces I had used to build these minis appeared to assume the climate of the European Theater and if I am creating a Pacific Theater force, then my future mini builds for this army ought to undergo some uniform conversions to better reflect the heat the soldiers in the Pacific had to endure.   So for the sake of my own head canon story for this force, these troops I painted here are newly arrived reinforcements from the mainland and have yet to start tearing off sleeves to better adapt to a tropical battleground.

For this first effort, I aimed to represent the US Marines as the Bazooka Team wearing camo helmets, and the US Army as the typical olive green with or without the mesh netting.

I have long wanted to add WWII allied forces to my collection of painted minis, so I very much enjoyed painting these and then placing them into my display cabinet to await future games of Bolt Action.

12 x 5pts 28mm Foot Figure = 60 points

Squirrel = My other submissions this year are 28mm 40k Space Marines and 10mm American Civil War Union forces.

Steve, these are some great looking Pacific Theatre US infantry and Marines! The Pacific is the one theatre I've never gotten into with my own WW2 gaming and painting but you've set a great example with these American troops, they look very "cool" (jungle temps notwithstanding) indeed.

Sixty big points for your tally!

Dallas