Unit Reveal - Group Picture!

It's D-Day, and here is a picture of the full force in all its glory!

I thought it would be nice to get a picture of everything, including the WIP parts, to give you an impression of what's at stake!

We have the US Army on the bottom left, the finished Airborne on the bottom right, then the vehicles, including the unfinished Deuce and a half and armored cars, then a WIP platoon of Rangers on the top right and the unfinished Airborne on the top right.

So, with us being a bit behind the painting schedule, we thought it would only be fair to extend your deadline, too!

Raffle tickets are available until

Saturday, June 8^th, 8 PM CST (Beijing), 1 PM BST (London), 8 AM EDT (East Coast USA), 5 AM PDT (West Coast USA).

And just as a reminder: You can get raffle tickets by contributing through PayPal (there is a button on the top right of this website, if you can’t see it, switch from mobile to web view at the bottom of the page!). PayPal also allows you to use a credit card if you don’t have an account.

One ticket for the raffle is 2 NZ-$, which I about 1.35 US-$ or 1.20 Euros. Multiples of that give you multiple tickets, e.g. 20 NZ-$ give you 10 tickets.

So, when will we have the army finished? I can't guarantee anything, but I would say we will ship it to our lucky winner on the 17th of June, fully painted and ready to go.

What's next? I hope that we will have pictures of the finished M8 Scott, Deuce and a half and at least a squad of Rangers before the deadline for contributions on Saturday.
Everything else will get its unit reveal, too, but likely after the raffle is done.

A Solid Foundation

Hello, most of you may know me as the guy who runs the Tabletop Fix newsblog (please go and have a look if you never heard of it :).

I started playing Bolt Action pretty much as soon as it was released. My main army is British in North Africa, but I also have early war Soviets, Finns and Hungarians, and used to have Italians (which I sold recently to a friend who is actually playing them).

When the the second edition for Bolt Action came out, I grabbed a Band of Brothers set mostly for the softback rule book, and suddenly I had a bunch of US Airborne and late war Germans. After playing around with the army list and getting my hand on more plastic sprues, I ordered some weapon teams and Pathfinders from Black Tree Design. That was all before the idea for Operation Good Cause came along, but I never got around to build them.

Now, I have some 50 paratroopers to add to the army, including a unit of Pathfinders and several Flamethrower, Bazooka and .30 cal weapon teams.

On top of that I took some tanks I had in my stockpiles, namely a Warlord Games  M10 Tank Destroyer and a Rubicon M5 Stuart.

I also scored two M8/M20 Scout Car sets during the Black Friday sale and am waiting for another small order of Black Tree Design miniatures.

The Warlord kit allows to build the models in a way to switch the turret for the MG ring, so I've built them that way. Had to compromise a bit because there is only one .50 cal, but you'll see that it works out fine.

Well, beside these miniatures I also turned out to be the guy who will build and paint most of the army and runs this blog. Over the next couple of months we will announce more units and models, and then reveal the finished army bit by bit.

Next time we will have a look at the contribution of the Christchurch Wargaming Club!