Friday 2 January 2015

A Token Effort

Alright everyone, strap yourselves in, I'm going to reveal my first completed paint job of 2015. And here it is...

No, the models aren't invisible. These are supposed to look like this.

Three tokens for Bolt Action!

You see, every time I use my excellent and entirely fair partisan force, I hear a lot of moaning about the three bombs that I'm allowed to place on the table. Amongst all the many many whinges of bitter losers, there is one justifiable complaint - despite using all painted models for everything else, I've been using whatever change happens to be in my pocket to represent the bombs. So, I've finally rectified that with these beauties.

I've tried to make these look like "potentially suspicious objects" rather than obvious bombs - my interpretation of these is that they represent areas where the partisans have been up to something, but they aren't necessarily a bomb themselves (hence there's only a 1 in 6 chance of one going off when a unit moves up to it. 

So, I've used whatever bits and pieces I can find to make each token. We have two sticks of TNT... or possibly just some old piping. There's a land mine, or maybe it's just a discarded wheel. And there's the mysterious box - is it empty, or packed with explosives. I'm sure my opponents will have a lot of fun every time I roll the dice to find out! 


8 comments:

  1. Cracking start to the year, Matt. Nice little objectives which will doubtless add loads to your games - I'm painting up several for my "7TV" games as I too dislike using tokens/pennies etc - they break the atmosphere imho. I would be interested to know what size bases you've used though please? I use very thin 40mm (so I can hide the objective's random value token beneath it).

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    1. Thanks!

      These are all on pennies - the rules for the bombs specify no larger than 20mm, so a penny is about the right size.

      I do still need to make a proper objective marker as well, I have plans for that...

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  2. Very nice. Looks like they took more skill to make than they do to use. :)

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    1. Ha! You weren't complaining too much when they helped us to victory on Monday...

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    2. Pah! I seem to remember that it was the brave sacrifices of the noble soldiers of the glorious Soviet Union that brought victory.

      Your toys may have helped a little...

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  3. Great idea, well executed dude!

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  4. Brilliant! I'll keep these in mind when I start building a Partisan force for Chain of Command!

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  5. Just the ticket, well down that man.

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