"28mm Warlord WWII Mid/Late War US Marines" Topic

All,

Well, here they are, the guys that started this whole descent into madness that is my collection of 28mm wargaming miniatures. The are 28mm United States Marines from Warlord Games, and they are pretty damn cool, I must say. I was in a comic book shop (the same one that got me started back in 15mm five years ago) and saw a box of Bolt Action Marines, and I just couldn't stop staring at you. As some of you may recall, I've gone quite a bit of skirmish gaming in 10mm, and then 15mm (even did some in 6mm). As I'm staring at these 28mm dudes I just kept thinking "I shouldn't be playing company-level games in 15mm AND skirmishing in 15mm, it's silly, I simply must have some of these 28mm guys for skirmish gaming. Yes, I'll just buy one box of these guys. Wait, what is that?" 'That' was the Bolt Action "Island Assault" box, which had Gyrenes, to include a halftrack (not sure why, don't think the Marines actually used halftracks in WWII, minus some specialized stuff like the ones that carried the 75mm guns), and some Japanese, with a Type 97 tank, and a bunker. Well, that did it for me; "I'll just buy this one box and I'll never need any other 28mm stuff ever again." As usual, I couldn't have been more wrong.

NCO laying it down with the Tommy Gun.

Corpsman dashing up under fire to save a young Marine's life.

Smoke'em if ya got'em!

Combat engineer pushing up with a satchel charge, looks straight out of a WWII photo.

BAR man with some brown-side out camo going on.

Frag out!

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There it is, my mid- to late-war US Marine force, rearing to go. I'm super happy with how they turned out, and I can't wait to get them on the table, but still finishing up some Germans and Soviets. As soon as they're done I swear I'm putting the paint brushes down for a year and doing nothing but playing games!

V/R,
Jack

That's some class A brushwork there.
Quite jealous

They look great.

Very nice looking. I liked you have the BAR without the bipod, my Dad told me (USMC 1945) that the bipods were often taken off to lighten the weapon. He got that from combat vets.

ZULUPAUL,

My Father was a Marine also ('56-'59) and he told me the same thing. He toted the BAR around and took the bipod off to save weight….

Dave

Thanks everyone, I appreciate it!

I'll post my Marines for Guadalcanal soon and you'll see they still have bipods, but yeah, they were commonly removed later in the war so I left them off these guys.

V/R,
Jack