How to: Painting 1/72 WW2 Bren Carriers for Rapid Fire Reloaded

Rapid Fire - once one of my favourite games, and alongside 15mm Ancients & Seven Years War, and 25mm ACW, one of the main occupiers of my gaming time in the 1990s.

Whilst I enjoy 28mm Bolt Action immensely, RF in 20mm remains a modelling and gaming favourite even though I haven't played it for many years. It’s certainly on the agenda however, given that I game at the same club as Rapid Fire guru Don McHugh. He recently, alongside game creators Colin Rumford & Richard Marsh, put on an impressive Market Garden game at the Games Bunker in Weston super Mare. All the talk about RF and my enduring love of the models had me digging these out of my looooong painting queue!

Enjoyable models to put together and paint, and it only took me a day! There’s something about multiple 20mm scale WW2 models on the tabletop! Here’s the paints etc that I used:


Models / Figures:
Plastic Soldier Company German uniform spray / Humbrol Light Olive - Primer / basecoat
Vallejo English Uniform - uniforms & straps on tarpaulin
Citadel Cadian Fleshtone - faces / hands
Citadel Creed Camo contrast - helmets
Citadel Black Templar contrast - berets, bren barrels and vehicle tracks
Citadel Eshin Grey - camo stripes
Citadel Agrax Earthshade brown wash & Army Painter Dark Tone black wash where appropriate (as described in the video)

Basing:
Basing texture mixed with polyfilla powder, PVA glue and Vallejo Khaki paint for most of the basing
Remnants of the above basing, mixed with coarser basing material, Vallejo US Dark Green & Vallejo Olive Drab used for green basing patches
Khaki areas on basing highlighted with Citadel Rakarth Flesh, green areas highlighted with Vallejo Olive Green


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