Clipping away the cigarette from the flamethrower man was an excellent precaution...
@Andrew-se4tg6 ай бұрын
Really???
@lexi_99956 ай бұрын
@@Andrew-se4tgFlame thrower operators don't tend to smoke, or so I understand.
@RainShadow-yi3xr6 ай бұрын
@@lexi_9995I wonder why?
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
its funny, i actually gave his assistant a cigarette AND a jerry can haha!
@Scyfer922 ай бұрын
I would've left it on as some sort of dark humor gag
@iangabor68226 ай бұрын
I've been playing BA since it came our in 2012 and not once has the question "can I convert every sprue" crossed my mind. I think you may just need help Jordan...
@user-cy4bo2ys5p6 ай бұрын
I used the 8th Army minis to build kilted highlanders.
@denovemportem6 ай бұрын
All of them amazing, but the Fiji Commando is off the scale!!!! Simply outstanding! :o
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@roberthartburg2666 ай бұрын
I kitbashed some Bolt Actions US Infantry with the Undead Ghouls from Mantic, because you know they are G.I.s. Do you get you get it? G.I. = Ghoul Infantry! They make a lovely addition for my Weird War games monster rooster. I find they ended up looking like people possessed by evil spirits, like US soldiers that became Deadites. You could also use them for a lovecraftian themed Game, call them Pickman's squad. They could be what happened if the US government rounded up the Ghouls that live in the Boston subway to use them as cannon fodder. My next project will be to take some Soviet Infantry and give them dog and chimp heads to represent the human/animal hybrids the Soviets tried to make in their early years as a way to creat the Soviet New Man through Eugenic projects
@borscope6 ай бұрын
I wanna see you ghoul GI conversions. Link?
@roberthartburg2666 ай бұрын
@@borscope I tried to post a link, but youtube removed the comment.
@jamesfirth-haydon73816 ай бұрын
This has to be the video of the year for Bolt Action. Loved it. Also now a subscriber as I’m sorry I have never seen it before.
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
that is very kind! Thank you!
@IowncubaАй бұрын
for the Hungarians I think the full length carcano rifles on the Italian sprue will also work really well! they have a very similar profile to the Hungarian 35m so at 28mm I think they'd look spot on
@scalehistoryslc819Ай бұрын
@@Iowncuba ah that’s a good point!!
@ErwinHistory6 ай бұрын
I CANNOT contain my excitement for other parts!
@ValhallaGames6 ай бұрын
This video was typical you; Great work converting and an awesome community member by sharing so others could follow to help them also. Fantastic stuff!!
@NCR_Ranger_77186 ай бұрын
Honestly already giving me ideas with just that Fiji one, got a few us sprues lying around from when i needed thompsons for my brits might have to give it a go
@NCR_Ranger_77186 ай бұрын
Bit stumped on head gear can't find any photos.
@rileyernst90866 ай бұрын
Pretty sure the Fijian commandos would have went barefoot. They'd be running around in the jungle. Something that they grew up doing, their feet would be hard as leather. No use for boots.
@joekws6 ай бұрын
There's a couple of conversions that I'd definitely be interested in doing at some point, namely using the new french plastics with italian heads for Winter greek infantry and with that one you could play fast and loose with the weapons given the greek supply situation. The other is Slovaks, from the italian plastics and prob german riflles since theyre both gwer 98 derivatives. The big issue is helmets, sort of like when trying to convert bulgarians and I dont know anybody who does files for czechoslovak helmets. Kind of a tease given the nice new rules. Great video though.
@Webster743656 ай бұрын
You could have made KNIL using the 8th army sprue
@nanktank6 ай бұрын
I never considered using the Italian sprue for Hungarians, great idea!
@walt_man6 ай бұрын
It BLEW my mind to finally have plastic 28mm WW2 infantry. Felt like I was waiting for 20 years lol. I don't play WW2 on tabletop [personal reason], but I collect the miniatures. Fantastic video, clear audio, production is Borat: "Niiiice"
@plastikpanzerfactory67336 ай бұрын
Hot damn dude. This was an awesome video.
@rileyernst90866 ай бұрын
I have one tiny nit pick. If you clipped off one of the sight hoods from the sten and glued it to the end of the styrene on the Owen gun, it would have been as fiddly as hell. But it'd make the gun look 110%.
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
ooo great catch!
@stevesandford14376 ай бұрын
Really great work! xx SF
@yendub6 ай бұрын
One I thought you might have done with the British Army is combine the British and Canadian box bodies with the arms from 8th army. Combine the other way with the 8th army bodies and British and Canadian arms. At that point you can mix and match your heads to a variety of theaters. Indians in Burma "Forgotten Army"? Done. Aussies? Done. SAS raiders? Of course. Or, put on the standard steel helmets for a multi theater British Army.
@tentimestay91816 ай бұрын
Love the plastic drainpipe(?) clatter at 16:03 hahaha
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
I apologize, i also meant to have a generic pottery breaking sound effect put in at that part too and i totally forgot. Won't make that mistake again
@automatic62166 ай бұрын
The British 8th Army sprue would actually be perfect for doing the Philippine Army 1941 soldiers who, alongside US Regular Army troops, famously fought in Bataan against the Japanese and infamously were brutalized by the Bataan Death March. The US Marines sprue would also make a great conversion for those, just give them the 8th Army "Tommy Helmets" - this would also suit the early war US military perfectly as well - circa Pearl Harbor and Wake.
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
I agree! I've seen a number of people tackle this conversion so i wanted to try something a little different haha!
@automatic62166 ай бұрын
@scalehistoryslc819 all that being said, your conversions are amazing!!
@SpaghettiGringo6 ай бұрын
Awesome! Great inspiration! Especially the flamethrower!
@jonnywach40373 күн бұрын
Might borrow some of those flamethrower ideas for a french engineer.
@scalehistoryslc8193 күн бұрын
Do it!!!
@lubbockleft6 ай бұрын
Cool project!
@powerwolf-vw8st2 ай бұрын
Bolt action sprues were abit of a shock to the system after years of paint/make by numbers 40k and fantasy kits. It was straight back to the days of Lotr sbg for me personally. But only.. the designers of the kits clearly intended you to kitbash and convert them to within an inch of their life going by the included examples of small food for thought reposes included in picture within the boxes. I've come to the conclusion that they are actually abit of a converters dream. And that if your going to get into bolt action you should infact buy a few boxes with parts that may be useful to you or some of the single sprues perhaps although that ends up being abit cost prohibitive actually in the long run.. better to have a large pile of extra bits by getting a selection of the very generously packed boxes. I've did all sorts of small characterful stuff from making army chaplins to trying to making a go at depicting the desperate stealing and pilfering of russian equipment and gear during the winter. US Gis with lugers mp40s and stalhelm trophies on their pack, Recreations of famous bits of ww2 footage.. the inspiration pool is endless almost. And what cant be achieved with modelling is often easily achieved with a different colour.. reenactors may be able to spot tiny differences in the various wool tunics used by different factions at different times but it often dosent matter that much i find as long as the overall intended effect is achieved. Especially from a foot or two away...
@adrianfirewalker41836 ай бұрын
Amazing skills!
@worldwarmini3919Ай бұрын
Great video!
@DMDuncan376 ай бұрын
Great convertions 👍
@friendlyneighbourhoodnerd15 күн бұрын
This is not really a kitbash I imagine, more green stuff work to fix some details, but I would love to see you make Greeks out of the Italian plastics. Really the only (to my eye) glaring "mistake" is that the Italian troops' uniforms have lapels (except those wearing the Sahariana smock, but that doesn't really look like a jacket) while on the Greek uniform they're closed - the same difference exists between Afrikakorps and normal German uniforms.
@scalehistoryslc8194 күн бұрын
perhaps I will give this a go with Wargames Atlantic italian kit!
@craig60663 ай бұрын
I’d love to see how you base these guys. I’m struggling to give minis with puddles on their feet (like the Fiji commando) a jungle base
@scalehistoryslc8193 ай бұрын
You could do a couple things. First, you could file the puddle down a little bit so its not quite so pronounced. I didn't do this with the fiji commando because i didn't want to risk breaking the legs i had glued on. Secondly, which is what i did, is you could build up some thick texture paste and/or putty around the puddle base.
@philRminiatures6 ай бұрын
Superb poses and paint job!!
@TroyTempest77711 күн бұрын
Amazing stuff! Subbed !!!
@scalehistoryslc81911 күн бұрын
@@TroyTempest777 thank you for the support! And just in time, Part Two will be uploaded soon!!
@Webster743656 ай бұрын
You could have made some KNIL using the 8th army sprue, they were known to wear shorts
@nathantudor57636 ай бұрын
I can forgive the rule breaking in the Fijian commando. Such awesome models! Well done!
@nathantudor57636 ай бұрын
Also. I’m totally doing an entire army of Hungarians, to go alongside my winter kitbashed Hungarians 😋
@Castillo5252 ай бұрын
Great video
@c3aloha6 ай бұрын
I tried using Japanese heads for 442nd soldiers and the heads were comically tiny compared to US infantry bodies. As you said Warlord might’ve been a little too overboard with the racial sculpting. 😂
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
Some new sculpts for them would be awesome
@TheKsalad6 ай бұрын
Almost like training your soldiers to survive off nothing but rice and honor doesn't really stand head-to-head against Billy who eats a farm's worth of corn and cows every day - even IRL photos show how small the average Japanese veteran was compared to a fresh US marine
@c3aloha6 ай бұрын
@@TheKsalad true but it’d be nice if all the models were compatible!
@pocketsizedintifada6 ай бұрын
i found this video via the algorithm and it's 10/10 🔥 i'd love to figure out a way to kitbash bolt action soviet cossacks
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
Thank you for the kind words! I gotta do both soviet sprues for the next video so maybe i can figure out something cool for cossacks...
@pocketsizedintifada6 ай бұрын
maybe use greenstuff to make a cossack papakha around the fez of a handschar wearing head from the Waffen SS sprue?
@BigTiBu6 ай бұрын
That Owen gun has given me a great idea....
@andrewheile15726 ай бұрын
Great, vid! Sweet music
@dakotah76835 күн бұрын
Historical oversight as puttees on Hungarians was not common. Helmet is somewhat wrong as well.
@1076bless2 ай бұрын
Brilliant where’s part two
@scalehistoryslc819Ай бұрын
It’s in the works!
@coleacanth89446 ай бұрын
What about the Music man?!??? I need some links please>>>
@chrisdavis36426 ай бұрын
Looks really close to 35th scale!??? Is it??
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
nope, these are all 1/56th, 28mm heroic scale
@ilikerunescape11006 ай бұрын
Sorry was new Georgia meant to be New Guinea? G in E
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
Nope! The battle of New Georgia was after Guadalcanal and before Bougainville, it is also in the Solomon Islands
@GhostMaker006 ай бұрын
Charlemagne was actually a division
@danmorgan36856 ай бұрын
We really need to stop using the phrase "heroic scale". These miniatures are out of scale 28mm.
@HO-bndk6 ай бұрын
Ye gods. The sculpting on all those figures is grotesque! Are they intended to be such dumpy, ugly caricatures?
@scalehistoryslc8196 ай бұрын
Caricatures, yes, but to be fair most of the dumpiness probably come from my painting 😂
@TheKsalad6 ай бұрын
Wargaming miniatures have different priorities to scale models, I'd rather paint giant heads and disproportionate weapons than need a magnifying glass to paint the buttons of a jacket.