Island assault box (BA)

 

 

 

 

I walked into the store (C.M.) just to grab some plastic glue.
I walked out with a big box of Bolt Action figures – to be precise, I bought the Island Assault box 😊
Luckily, my wife was waiting outside the store, so I didn’t have time to buy even more stuff.

Lately, I’ve been working a lot. I leave the apartment before 6, get back after 6 – in the evening.
So yeah, I treated myself with something to build during my vacation…
While everyone gives me weird looks for gluing and smudging paint on plastic, and here I am – past fifty.
Of course, part of the blame for the purchase goes to Rašo, too – he gave me a discount 😊
He gets me like that every time 😊

That evil transparent wrapping stopped me from tearing the box open right in front of the store and digging into that beautiful plastic… even though I knew exactly what was inside.
A few days later, I’m in Dalmatia… the sun just came up – perfect for clipping plastic off the sprues and assembling mighty warriors who look like they fought over Pacific islands back in the 1940s… of the last century.

…food, sea, beer… repeat a few times, and suddenly I’ve got 48 fat little warriors in front of me.
Since I’m also a bit heavier than my knees would prefer, I don’t mind that heroic scale.
The Chi-Ha’s built, later on the M3 half-truck too… black primer, white dry brush… time flies…

I’m already back in Zagreb… mixing the best paints I have, trying to hit the fine details with a brush.
That’s not going well – the tip of my cheap brush keeps bending the wrong way… there’s some fixing to do.
Can’t just slap on white glue and sea sand… got to treat those fine grains with shades of brown and yellow…
I need to bring in some jungle foliage…
I’ve got some dried lichen I picked up in the woods a few months ago…
I glue it on with superglue – gluing my fingers and the desk too – it holds great and burns a bit when peeled off the skin…
Drying, painting in matching tones, dipping in contrast and speedpaint washes…
Some of it falls off, sticks to my slippers…
The cats are loving it, the wife’s losing her mind…

I’m putting markings on the vehicles.
Trying to follow the instructions, as if the guys from Warlord really know which exact symbols were used.
They’re just looking at old photos – same as me.
The markings are clean – I hate it when they’re smudged after all that effort and then you can’t see a thing.
Maybe it’s just a phase, and one day I’ll mess them up with pigments 😊

I finished it all in two weeks minus a day, took some pics on the balcony and now I’m wondering:
Will this pumped-up squad ever see battle, or just show off in the box?

Here are a few photos too – gotta brighten up the post a bit…

 

 TomZG, 2025_01