Building a BEF Force: Part 2 - More infantry!

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With the weather being so persistently hot progress has been slow on the BEF, not helped by a flurry of 15mm building and painting (I may make a post for the Fallscrhimjaeger I have painted, but that is for another day)

Regardless I have still managed to finish another 14 figures: the second infantry squad and the light support teams, a 2" Mortar and a Boys Anti Tank Rifle.
Here is the figures that make up the first expansion to the force. Again all figures are warlord games metals. Sadly as they only do the one squad of BEF this squad looks similar to the first one I have painted, however the advantage is that they are lovely figures with good detail and depth which make them fun to paint.

As said above only having the one set of poses will limit the variety, in a effort to combat this I made sure that each pose has a different head to the one that they had in the first squad. For instance the NCO has a moustached head with a helmet instead of the bare head in the first squad. The other difference is that the crouching figure's bayonet broke off so a small bit of green stuff was used to show the figure holding the rifle around the muzzle.

The Boys AT Rifle team turned out to be very quick and easy to paint since they are prone figures, meaning only one side of detail which is very clearly moulded. Like the Bren guns I gave the Boys rifle itself a wash of black to give it some depth considering the size of the weapon, with the metal on rifles this is not so much of an issue. 

The 2" mortar also proved a relatively simple team to paint. A bit of research led me to paint the mortar a bronze-green colour, but as with most weapons a variety of green shades can be used without much trouble. With the changes to High Explosive rounds in second edition of Bolt Action this unit may not prove to be that effective, but at the moment I am focusing on building a mixed force rather than an effective one. The chances are once the force is completed and I have played a few games with it I'll add units to increase its effectiveness.

Next up is some heavier support teams - a Vickers Machine Gun and a 2 Pounder!



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