Painting a Bolt Action Polish army in 24 hours. 

GIVEAWAY WINNER - Congrats Bob McGregson for winning the Soviet army! ☺☺ I hope you guys enjoyed the video! I'm so happy to finally have an army (with a little more work to do).

Been meaning to give Bolt Action a go for a while now, cool stuff!

Welcome to another video and another 24 Hr painting challenge. I love depriving myself of sleep and taking on massive painting projects. We got it this time!! Let's go!!

Models for Hero’s... first I heard of this charity but I am totally on board... hah punny! This hobby and painting models has helped me so much through dark times and will always be a hobby I maintain. Also I am Polish and my grandfather was a machine gunner so this video rocks!

Every time I see a video now I just see a hand coming through that hole in the studio. Great job as always. Cheers!

Models for heros are an absolutely amazing charity! Its fantastic news that a RU-vidr with as many viewers as you is giving them some light! Cheers!

My mate has tried getting me into bolt action for months...maybe this is the push to get some games in after lockdown? Best of luck with the charity challenge, and keep these challenge painting vids coming!

Quit a nice way of painting an army like this in batches.. Liked how the bases made the colours pop even more.. Weldone

Awesome, well done mate, I did miss a bit more shots of the 'finished' army though, would have like to see a bit more. And I was a bit worried about all the colours before the end, but the washes made them come really nice together, it looked great!

Nice work Olly! Great backstory with Grandpa Bob, and such a great cause :) keep up,the great work!

You're a real trooper dude, don't think I've got it in me to do ONE 24 hour challenge, let alone three or four, keep up the good work.

This is absolutely fantastic Oli and what a great cause it was for. Can definitely see you are becoming more comfortable with these challenges and your airbrushing skills. Given I am still waiting for my own Bolt Action army to arrive I can wait to crack on with mine when they arrive.

Great job Oli. Enjoyed watching as always. 😊

I'm never going to do one of these "Paint X miniatures in X hours" things myself, but I like watching other people do it. Nice work!

Good job Oli! Loved the family link to the army choice. Keep up the good work 👍

I have an bolt action army based on my Grandfathers experience in WW2 as well. It was in my pile of shame but I have brought it out of the pile and I started building it up tonight! Thanks for the inspiration!

Great video Ollie, feeling quite inspired to get my Bolt Action British Paras clipped off the sprue and built up!! Thanks for the inspiration.

I didn’t know about this charity. What a great cause, thanks for sharing.

Awesome challenge. These challenges are getting better and better. Keep up the good work.

Woohoo! Congrats on finishing a 24 hr painting challenge Oliver. I must say this was the perfect video for me to get out my old SS army that are collecting dust in a box and remind myself on how much points i have and why bolt action is such a great game! Keep up the good work and hope your move to the new studio transitions smoothly!👌

Love watching these 24 hr videos

I really enjoyed watching this and talking to both you and the gents from Grim Dice Tabletop Gaming. You need to work on Belgians next.

Good job Ollie! I watched BOTH streams and really enjoyed having a chance to be part of this. Was fun to paint along with you all. 💪🏻👍🏻

Great job Olly. Your models look very good. I've never done any WW2 stuff in 28mm, though I do quite a lot of scale model aircraft in 1/72.

Really nice job ! Greatings from Poland :)

We need Bolt Action Plastic Italians!

As much as I love 40k and AOS it’s great to see another gaming system. Video has convinced me to give this a go 👍

Just love your 24h videos, it's really awesome you can do 24 hours of painting.

Poles were my first BA army. I used the vallejo paint set and it was like painting by numbers but took ages! These look cool! Good work and a great charity.

What an awesome historical link to an epic challenge! Congrats on completing this fine round

You were talking about the studio you work in but the cement wall is a really good looking backdrop

Always fancied a go of bolt action! They came out great in the end!

Cracking Challenge guys, was good to watch everyone involved. Well done all.

The reddish earth really complements the khaki uniforms, great choice :D

Got the british airborne starter and I'm nearly half way through after more than 30 hours of work. Nice painting! Looks like I need an air brush aswell.

Madness in sues setting goals way ahead of the curve

These look great and a nice little change of pace from the GW models.

It just shows what can be done when you set your mind to it. Good job!

Well done! In can be so difficult to work in the time pressure, but you earned the "and a bit" to see it done.

This is very cool I'm loving the 24 hour videos

Great video... looking forward to seeing them on the tabletop.

I was gutted for you when your previous army was stolen, so really pleased that you have a new Polish army to be proud of. Nice one mate!

Never painted anything like these before, I should give it a shot sometime

Even unfinished they look amazing!

Enjoyed seeing your concepts and look forward to seeing more

Bolt action looks fun. Reminds me of playing Close Combat on the PC. The Pegasus Bridge set is once if my dream mini purchases

Great work...getting back into using an airbrush, loved the tips on using one. Cheers Nick

Great content ! Always loved Bolt Action but never been able to get the miniatures. I am crossing my fingers !

Good effort . Well done . And viola . A proxy imperial guard regiment .

Nice work. They look great. And well done on supporting such a worthy cause!

I haven't played Bolt Action but after seeing this and getting the free US marine sprue from this month's Wargames Illustrated I might have to look into it.

I’ve looked at Bolt Action and have thought about playing, this video has convinced me to at least buy some models to paint! Great video and charity.

For the record, you are right. The Polish cavalry never charged tanks. Though the tanks they were engaged by were Pzr Kpw Mk II which were miniscule by even the Mk III & IV tanks the Germans had. What happened was the cavalry caught a German supply column in the flank and were tearing them a new one when the tanks showed up. The Cavalry were supported by machine guns by the way. A German news reel team came on the scene after the cavalry had withdrawn and made the story up for propaganda. No mention was made of the chopped up supply column. Just as an aside, that little TKS tankette looks like the model with the 20 mm gun which was piloted by a heroic type who fought and destroyed a significant number of German tanks using ambush tactics. The Germans said the tank was so small and fast it was like trying to hit a cockroach.

Just when I wanted to try to get into bolt action this video comes out to feed my need.

Funny coincidence, I've started watching Your channel for Kill Team content, and lately I've been interested in Bolt Action. Fingers crossed

Seems pretty great, great job!

I juet got into wargaming around 2 months ago. Winning the prize would be really cool!

Never thought of using the airbrush for the base khaki colors. Great idea!

I don't think I could do 24 hours, but good on you using your gifts to help charity!

Great effort and such a good cause! Wish I had time to do a 24hour challenge, I might make some progress that way!

Great work from you and Grim Dice. Fantastic effort for a brilliant cause!

Great video, makes me want to paint up my bolt action.

Love the vids would love to see more bolt action stuff 😁

Fantastic to see bolt action pop back up. Hope you get to catch up on your sleep soon. Cheers

The real story behind the Polish cavalrymen is the tale of I believe C squadron, 18th Pomeranian Uhlans and the Charge at Krojanty. The 18th Uhlans were actually in the middle of conversion to the modern mechanized standard. Their A and B squadrons had already been converted to armored vehicles and was trying to get mounted up on the first day of the war. The still horse mounted elements of the 18th responded to a break through by elements of the Wehrmacht 76th infantry regiment, who'd broken the line of Polish border troops near them. The lancers rallied, and rode out to battle, catching a battalion of infantry at rest, they charged, and routed the German infantry. This actually had massive impact on the initial campaign, as wild stories of Polish horsemen in the German rear terrorized the German logistical element and through quite the wrench in their works generally. Unfortunately for our heroic lancers of the 18th however, they too were caught at rest shortly after their charge by German armored cars, and many Uhlans and their mounts were cut down by machine gun fire as they rallied and fell back. It's the bodies of these fallen Polish heroes and their horses that the German propagandists showed to Italian newsmen and spun as stories of Polish cavalry charging the mighty tanks of the Wehrmacht.

Fingers crossed these look really cool

Another good effort especially in 24hrs, looking forward to next months challenge 🤣🤣😉

Always love your challenges, and for a really good cause!

Some amazing looking models

This looks awesome I also want to start a Polish Bolt Action army but kind of don't know where to start. For the story of the Polish Cav charging tanks that is German propaganda. What really happened was the Polish infantry was being suppresed by the German troops and coudn't move so the Cav charged the enemy guns so that the Infantry could pull back. While the Cav troops where fighting the German troops some German tanks came in to support their troops killing the Cav troops.

Interesting video, I guess you're a glutton for punishment. I couldn't imagine bashing out a bolt action army without simply just spraying the uniform colour on first, the fact you go full on with the zenifel hightlighting is impressive with a speed painting challenge. Good job.

Great job ! Glad you managed to push through such a daunting quantity of models ! Thumbs up !

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A really important thing to be part of .

Keep up the good job brotha love the reason for doing this!!

Nice work, I find my BA guys incredibly tedious going compared to big chunky Space Marines, but having picked up an airbrush in lockdown it might be time to try a similar project.

Brilliant charity and great content

They look really amazing. I really hope you can raise a lot for Models for Heroes

Madlad doing 24h painting challenges! Kings of War next? :p

Good video and a good cause what more could you ask for (except maybe cake)

Cool to see your charity efforts :)

Great effort! Good to see you doing historicals on the channel!

Definitely gonna miss that gritty wall, but I'm happy to hear about your improvements to your working quarters!

Loving the 24hr videos and the inclusion of your Irish belle as well. Keep the great work up guys

It definitely helps with motivation if there is some emotional resonance in the project. Well done!

You are only going to be able to play it in 1939.....you should have British paratrooper to represent the Market Garden brigade. And there is actually a incident where the polish cavalry charged a motorised recon German unit (they had armoured cars) and almost broke them before the German recovered and pushed them back. There is a scenario in the Advanced Squad Leader module The Last Hurrah that allows you to play the engagement.

Great to polish up my polish painting skills

24h painting is truly a feat! well done.

Great to see your progress!

Was in Grim Dice last week.....cracking little shop

hope once your set up in the new studio we can see some Blot Action battle reports need some new videos to watch when am on my bike haha.

Always loved WW2 and miniatures and its shameful I only found out about Bolt Action about a year ago, it would be cool to build and paint the Soviets Finest

Great job on the charity stream

Nice video! Really enjoyed it, and I wouldn't mind something to paint, but best of luck to everyone!

It's nice to hear the money is going to charity

Looks cool!

As for your painting challenges. You have to re-think your schedule. You give your self too many levels to complete the number of models. Look at Midwinter Minis Guy and his painting techniques for quick jobs. They still look parade ready standard and he did like 2000 points of Death Guard in 25 hours and they were not bad.

cool to see Poles being painted!

A great cause, well done.

A great video for a great cause dude :) Keep it up!