20% off RRPFrance · 1 kits
36× Multi-pose plastic infantry · 1× Plastic Char B1 bis medium tank · 1× Metal HQ · 1× Metal medium mortar team · 1× Metal MMG team · 1× Metal 25mm anti-tank gun
Prices, and how to paint them
Bolt Action Miniatures
Bolt Action is Warlord Games' 28mm tabletop game for the Second World War: two platoon-sized forces of historical infantry, tanks and support weapons, activated by drawing order dice instead of each side taking a full turn. Armies are real nations rather than invented factions, which is what makes the painting side interesting — a uniform colour is a fact to look up, not a choice to invent. Below is every Bolt Action kit and box we can price across the shops we compare, and the tools for matching a real WWII colour to a real paint.
Bolt Action armies
Each army page lists every kit and box we can price for it, cheapest shop first.
Perry Miniatures make 3 of the kits and boxes on this page. Every Perry Miniatures kit, by period, compared →
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Starter armies and boxed sets
The multi-unit boxes, where a shop we compare stocks one.
20% off RRP
20% off RRPFrance
42× French plastic infantry, buildable as regular infantry, fortress troops, chasseurs à pied, engineers or colonial troops · 1× Heavy Weapons Platoon: light and medium mortar teams and medium machine guns (built from the plastic infantry) · 2× Light howitzers ('French 75s')
20% off RRPGermany
36× German Grenadier plastic infantry · 1× Heavy Weapons Platoon: mortar teams and machine guns (built from the plastic infantry) · 1× Panzer IV medium tank · 1× Sd.Kfz. 251/8 'Stummel' half-track howitzer carrier · 1× PaK 40 anti-tank gun
20% off RRPGermany
36× Waffen-SS plastic infantry · 1× Heavy Weapons Platoon: mortar teams and machine guns (built from the plastic infantry) · 1× Sd.Kfz. 251/10 commander's half-track · 1× StuG III assault gun · 1× PaK 40 anti-tank gun
20% off RRPGermany · 1 kits
36× Afrika Korps Infantry (plastic) · 1× Afrika Korps 8.8cm Flak 37 (plastic) with 7-man crew (metal) · 1× Afrika Korps MMG Team (metal) · 1× Afrika Korps 81mm Medium Mortar Team (metal) · 1× Panzer III Medium Tank (plastic)
20% off RRPGermany · 1 kits
48× Plastic Infantry in Greatcoats · 1× Metal German HQ · 1× Metal MMG Team · 1× Metal Medium Mortar Team · 1× Plastic Opel Blitz/Maultier · 1× Plastic Panzer IV
20% off RRPGermany · 1 kits
1× 2nd Lieutenant (Veteran) · 2× Grenadiers accompanying the 2nd Lieutenant (Veteran) · 10× Waffen-SS Grenadiers Squad with 10 assault rifles and 2 panzerfausts (Veteran) · 10× Waffen-SS Grenadiers Squad with LMG team, 4 SMGs, 4 assault rifles and 3 panzerfausts (Veteran) · 10× Waffen-SS Grenadiers Squad with LMG team, 2 SMGs, 6 assault rifles and 2 panzerfausts (Veteran) · 1× PaK 40 Anti-tank Gun · 1× 81mm Mortar Team · 1× MG42 MMG Team · 1× StuG III Ausf. G with Schürzen assault gun · 1× Tiger I Heavy Tank
20% off RRPGermany · 2 kits
36× Multi-pose Fallschirmjäger (Winter) · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Officer · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) NCO · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Medic · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Radio Operator · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Sniper Team · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Panzerschreck Team · 2× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Medium Machine Gun Teams · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) Medium Mortar Team · 1× Fallschirmjäger (Winter) PaK 40 Anti-tank Gun · 1× Sd.Kfz 222/223 Armoured Car · 1× StuG III Ausf. G Assault Gun
20% off RRPGermany · 4 kits
36× Multi-pose German Veteran Infantry · 1× German Veteran Infantry Officer · 1× German Veteran Infantry NCO · 1× German Veteran Infantry Medic · 1× German Veteran Infantry Radio Operator · 2× German Veteran Infantry Medium Machine Gun Teams · 1× German Veteran Infantry Medium Mortar Team · 1× Sd.Kfz 222/223 Armoured Car · 1× Panzer IV Ausf. B/C/D Medium Tank
353 kits, priced
Soviet Union
£4.00 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £0.50
Soviet Union
£4.00 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £0.50
Soviet Union
£4.00 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £0.50
United States
£5.80 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £0.72
Germany
£7.20 at the cheapest of 2 shops — save £3.60
United States
Germany
£8.40 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.05
United States
£8.40 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.05
Great Britain
£9.15 at the cheapest of 4 shops — save £1.20
Great Britain
£9.15 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.20
Germany
£9.15 at the cheapest of 4 shops — save £0.95
United States
£9.15 at the cheapest of 4 shops — save £1.20
Also in 1 box
United States
£9.15 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.20
Also in 1 box
Germany
£9.20 at the cheapest of 2 shops — save £1.15
Also in 1 box
Germany
£9.20 at the cheapest of 2 shops — save £1.15
Also in 1 box
Soviet Union
£9.20 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.15
Soviet Union
£9.20 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.15
Soviet Union
£9.20 at the cheapest of 3 shops — save £1.15
What is Bolt Action?
Bolt Action is Warlord Games' 28mm Second World War game: a platoon a side, historical armies rather than invented factions, and an order-dice system that alternates single units into action instead of handing one player a whole turn. Kits are plastic and metal, usually mixed within the same force.
It suits anyone who likes their hobby time split between painting and a little research — the uniform, the vehicle colours and the unit organisation are all documented rather than designed, which changes how you plan a paint scheme.
Starting an army
Most Bolt Action forces start from a platoon box — a squad or two of infantry — built out with individual unit boxes for extra squads, vehicles and support weapons such as mortars or anti-tank guns. A boxed starter army bundles a smaller version of that with the rulebook, dice and a second force, which is the easier route in if nobody you play with owns the rules yet.
Warlord field nations across every theatre of the war; the strip above lists the ones we can currently price kits for.
Painting a Second World War army
Historical painting is a different job from a Warhammer faction. The palette is fixed by the subject, the same six or seven colours cover most of a platoon, and the interesting decisions are weathering and consistency rather than colour choice.
Our paint tools do not care which game a colour is for: the matcher will find the closest pot in 35+ ranges to a British battledress or a German field grey exactly as it does for a Space Marine chapter, and price every one of them.
Independent Shops That Stock Bolt Action
37 shops in the UK, read from each shop's own site and dated on its page.
Prices were last checked 25 Sep and can change — the retailer's own page always has the final say. Affiliate links — how we make money.