"Warlord/Bolt Action Blitzkrieg Germans?" Topic

Just looking for thoughts on the plastic and metal sets of Bolt Action's Blitzkrieg German infantry.

Warlord USA seems to have been out of the metal infantry squad for some time. Is it no longer in production? The 30 plastic figs for $41 USD looks like a pretty good deal and a cheap way to put a platoon together, but I'm not keen on assembling 30 figs. I am also concerned about broken barrels.

All ready have broken barrels on my plastics starting to replace with Crusader Miniatures metals.

I was afraid of that. Crusader is a metal option that I was looking at as well.

I've been playing games with a fairly large number of Warlord's plastic miniatures for a couple of years. I had some rifle barrels break while removing them from the sprue. But I was able to fix them using the drill and pin technique. I've only had one fail on me since then. It was easily fixed. Use model cement rather than super glue.
I particularly like their Blitzkrieg Infantry. Nice miniatures with lots of character.

I have some. They are kind of a pain in the ass to assemble. They are way better than earlier warlord plastics in terms of assembly and clean up, but they are still a lot of work. And there are really limited options in terms of customization. I wanted to use them to make Germans for Stalingrad kitted out with PPSh-41s but there is no easy way to get a lot of PPSh-41s for them. You can at least build them with MG-34s with magazine cans which is nice.

In the ones I've put together so far I've had no barrels break – they are more robust than the earlier offerings. You do need the plastic snips for getting stuff off the sprue and definitely using plastic cement rather than superglue is the way to go.

79thPA

I have put together a box of the Late War germans and the Blitzkreig and have no problems. I had a box together in about 1 to 1 1/2. I put the bodys together and mounted them on the bases and then lined them up. From there it was a matter of matching up weapons with the pose and then heads and packs. A little bit of planning ahead of time will speed it up.

I also have the plastic Russian and have dropped a few and had no problems

Wow! I'm kinda surprised at the comments so far. I really liked this set. I found them pretty easy to assemble as some rifles are molded to the arms – much easier than the "German Infantry" set where every weapon and arm is loose. However, I have used both sets together to get even more poses. I built about 10 a night assembly line style. Note you will get 5 laying down bodies in this set. You may like that – I found that a few too many as I prefer my sections to look "active". The heads mate up a little different than the other Warlord plastics, having a flat neck surface as opposed to a rounded one. I have not had issues with broken barrels on these, but have had on the American infantry plastics.

79thPA, if you look at our websites, both the UK and the US ones you should find the metal Blitzkrieg German Infantry squad (1939-42), the 10 men squad, available.

Unfortunately these will not be there for long, as they are being discontinued from our range.

We have of course still available the plastic Blitzkrieg German Infantry box, which includes also the sniper rifle and MG34.
Other Blitzkrieg choices in metal are still available through the web site.

If you need less models, individual sprues are available, each of them having 6 models.

I've had two different experiences with Warlord plastics. I love the Russian box for its variety. There's a lot of mix and match possibilities (even with the mix of summer and winter figures). They are a bit of a pain to assemble but look good when you are done.

I'm not so happy with the late war German box or the Panzer Grenadier box. There's only 5 figures per sprue (and its the same sprue in both boxes). Worse, they repeat the same arms 3 times. The arms don't integrate as nicely with the body as well as the Russians do. Finally, the only way you can get a firing MG pose is if you have the gunner doing the Rambo. A prone figure like you get with the Russians would have been nice and with having an extended bipod option as well.

I was hoping to use some of my spare Russian arms for conversions for greater variety but I cannot do that as the Russian arms are significantly bigger.

All of my 28mm WWII figs are metal. If you want to move away from plastics Crusader's early Germans are the way to go. The weapons are very sturdy and won't break. I keep my figs in compact 2-layered Chessex cases with small pre-cut slots and no way plastic figures can survive that intact.

The newly released Late War Grenadiers plastics are absolutely fantastic.

I wanted to get some metals. They have been sold out and recent email to wlg confirmed they are discontinued. So only plastic.