Paint & Review: Wargames Atlantic British Expeditionary Force [How I Paint Things]

Thanks to Wargames Atlantic for sending along a box of these rather natty new miniatures to have a play with! Check them out here: https://wargamesatlantic.com/products...


The British Expeditionary Force would be thrown back across the Channel by the relentless German blitzkrieg, culminating in the famed evacuation of Dunkirk. In the tense days that followed, the threat of invasion loomed large in the minds of Great Britain's government, and steps were taken to raise a citizen militia capable of resisting a potential hostile landing by sea or air long enough for the nation's beleaguered regular forces to mount a counter attack.


Stood down in late 1944 and officially disbanded on the last day of 1945, the Local Defence Volunteers - later the Home Guard - would most famously return to the public consciousness with the television show 'Dad's Army,' which poked fun with a knowing wink at the slightly haphazard, slapdash efforts of the early Home Guard in the same way as Noël Coward and George Formby had back in the '40s. Thankfully, those volunteers who were too old or declared unfit for regular military service would never have to see action against a determined, well-equipped invader, but we wargamers do have a tendency to wonder, "What if..."


00:00 - Intro

00:53 - Looking at the Kit
05:38 - Priming Notes
06:38 - Basecoats
10:23 - Shading
11:17 - Highlights
15:51 - The Finished Miniature


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THE BASE: Layer of slightly watered down PVA, then sand. Cover in Flat Brown, heavily overbrush with Brown Sand, then drybrush Dark Sand. PVA again and static grass with tufts to taste, and paint base rim in Flat Brown. Done!


PAINTS USED:


PRIMER:
English Uniform (Vallejo Spray Can)


ARMY PAINTER:
Tanned Flesh


VALLEJO:
English Uniform
Flat Brown
Iraqi Sand
German Camo Medium Brown
Beige Brown
German Grey
Refractive Green
Silver Grey
Dark Sand


CITADEL:
Agrax Earthshade (Shade)
Lahmian Medium (Technical)
Cadian Fleshtone (Layer)
Kislev Flesh (Layer)


VARNISHES:
Varnish+ (Instar)