@SeaYa I might do that physical option. It’s a split nine to ten hour with two stops, one down and one back. That would work pretty well, if a bit different.
Operation Paintskrieg
-
Falconrider
Yep gonna do the AA guns in a generic grey and most of the IC’s in a redbrick look. However, I plan to paint all the nations starting IC’s thematically and leave them in the individual nation bits boxes.
That overseas company looks ok, and are reasonably priced. My 40k models are of that standard or higher already so I doubt I woudl use them.
Omega
Give it a go, just be prepared to pay a bit. After all, even painting 670 models to a lowish standard takes a long long time.
Pan
Don’t know of anyone who sells painted AA models. I know if I was to do another set i would charge a fortune as its very time consuming.
Thanks all for the comments and compliments. Japan will hopefully be done in the next 2-3 weeks and I will post them up once i’ve finished.
-
Phase Three is complete, and not a moment to soon! Too many damned ships!
Moving on the the UK next, planning on doing the armour and artillery in 8th armour colours. And I need to figure out how to do little union jacks. PS. I will be redoing some of the german and Russian ships with flags as well.
Core folder for Operation Paintskrieg
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/
Japanese Infantry
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=JapanInfantry.jpg
Japanese Armour
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=JapanArmour.jpg
Japanese Artillery
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=JapanArty.jpg
Japanese Air
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=Japanair.jpg
Japanese Capital Ships
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=JapanBigShips.jpg
Japanese small ships
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=Japansmallships.jpg
-
I really like the infantry.
But I think the naval units shouldn´t be shiny metal.
They are a bit too “gamey”,
meaning that they look cool for playing, but they don´t
really look like warships IMHO :-)
I paint myself and know that if they look like real ships
your fellow players can´t distinguish between the naval units.Quote one of my co-players (after submarines mess-up)
“Why don´t you just paint them the same color ?”(instead of all looking greyish)
“Then there wouldn´t be any reason to paint them!” (they allready have their own colors)Check out my italians:
-
Yeah, it was a conscious decision to paint them in that way. No Japanese ship in WWII had big orange waterline markings as far as i’m aware of.
95% of my painting background is in men and tanks, i had never done ships before. So faced with the decision of
a.) Paint them super accurately, but harder to distinguish
b) paint them like game pieces, less accurate but easy to identifyI went with B, there are pros and cons to both sides. (Most of my friend are not military history freaks like me)
In fact it was yours and sam hills pictures on BGG that inspired me to do the painting in the 1st place, I saw your guys work and went “damm, thats cool, i reckon i should give this a go”. So thanks for the inspiration
For those who haven’t seen Sams job, its pretty good, especially the bases for his aircraft which he hand cast himself.
-
Relooking at your ships and sams, i may go back and repaint the metallics in codex grey on the ships.
I’ll do a demo and see how it looks.
After all, i think the german ships do look better in that regard
-
Stage 4, The British Empire!
For a New Zealander, this is essentially “The Home team” for me. Also, being in the NZDF has meant a lot of travel for me in the last month so this has taken a lot longer than normal to finish. Next up, the Italians.
UK Infantry
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=UkInfantry.jpg
UK Armour and Artillery
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=UKLand.jpg
The RAF
Photo isnt the best, may redo later
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=UKAir.jpg
UK capital shipshttp://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=UKFleet.jpg
UK Support ships
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=Ukfleet2.jpg
Core Album
-
topic set as sticky for the time being.
-
@Imperious:
topic set as sticky for the time being.
Cheers IL
Italy is getting base coated tonight, probably less turn around on Italy than other nations, so 2-3 weeks, then I will do the chinese infantry (already been gifted a p-38 for the tigers!), then the US.
After that I plan to do the IC’s, and figure out a way to base the AA Guns so they look like flak towers (Thanks for the idea of flak towers whoever suggested that in the FMG pieces thread). Then I will go back and do flags for the German and Russian fleet capital ships.
Hopefully by the time this is done FMG will be brining out the first series of new pieces :)
-
Your painted pieces would be an inspiration to others to do the same. It certainly adds to the game as much as anything else.
-
Nice ones. 8-)
I think I have to start over again.
My italians were the last ones I finished, so the early countries
needs some repainting. So now you inspire me :-) -
Nice ones. 8-)
I think I have to start over again.
My italians were the last ones I finished, so the early countries
needs some repainting. So now you inspire me :-)I took your advice on the fleet models if you hadn’t noticed :)
-
Yeah I noticed.
Your flags are cool, but I have seen pictures of the RN-flag
as Englands flag (white w/red cross) and Union jack in top right corner.How do you store your naval units to protect the flags?
-
Yeah I noticed.
Your flags are cool, but I have seen pictures of the RN-flag
as Englands flag (white w/red cross) and Union jack in top right corner.How do you store your naval units to protect the flags?
Yeah, I know the “real naval flags” are different to what i’m using, for example ill use the “red/white/green” for italy…… mainly as its SO much easier to paint, and people playing will recognize the national flag easier than the military flag.
As for storage I do nothing special. The flags are made out of high thickness art paper and are actually very very sturdy. I bend the paper in the middle, glue the rod in the centre, and then bend the paper back so its double sided. Then I paint on the metal rod. The flags are really stiff and sturdy.
-
Stage 5 Italian Forces
The Italian are finished, in fact i finished theme last week but left my camera at work.
Have started on the US infantry last night
Italian Infantry
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=ItalianInfantry.jpg
Italian land
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=italianarmour.jpg
Italian Air
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=italianair.jpg
I did the Italian air force symbol wrong, but it looks close enough …. oops.
Italian Navy
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=Italianfleet.jpg
-
Just a quick update. I have finished the USA and China forces, the only thing left to paint is the AA guns and the Industrial Centers. The next time i update i will post pics of USA/China/AA/ICs and a few pics of the entire game setup.
Hopefully this will all be done by the end of the week.
-
The beast has been slain! I am essentially finished with this project! Pretty awesome sense of achievement to get it done. Im planning on going back and doing a few touch ups over the next week or two (Flags for the German and Russian carriers and battleships for example), but for all purposes my AA50 set is fully painted!
No full shots of everything set up yet, will do those over the next few days. Here are the last models painted
US Infantry
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USInfantry.jpg
US land forces
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USLand.jpg
US Bombers
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USBombers.jpg
US Fighters
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USFighters.jpg
US Capital Ships
Ok history buffs, name the carriers :)
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USCapitalShips.jpg
US Support Ships
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=USShips.jpg
China
You can’t quite see it too well in this pic but the P38 has a tiger mouth :)
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=China.jpg
Industrial Centres
Went really simple here, not too exciting
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=ICs.jpg
AA guns
Made the AA gun stands out of a bolt and miliput. Gun fastened to top of bolt by blutac so it can be removed
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=AAguns.jpg
AA gun detail
http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=AAgunsdetail.jpg
-
Paints used for Operation Paintskrieg
_For anyone wishing to do this i thought it may be an idea to catalogue the paint range I used for each nation. This may not be 100% accurate as i’m doing it from memory. I will update if i find something wrong.Paints are marked CT for citadel games workshop range and VL for Vallejo range. Vallejo paints paint code number included_
Core Paints
These are used on every set
CT Chaos Black
CT Skull white
CT Codex grey (used on most ships)
CT Boltgun Metal (metal on most models)
CT Space wolf grey (underside of aircraft)
CT Bronzed flesh (all skin)
CT Flesh wash (washed over bronzed flesh)
CT Blood red (used a lot on flags etc)
CT Scorched Bown (most rifles)Germany
CT Codex Grey (German national colour and side of ships, base colour for aircraft)
VJ German Field Grey 830 (Uniform and armour)
VJ luftwaffe cam green 823 (Aircraft camo)
vj Camo Biege 821 (ship decks)Soviet Union
CT Malachite red (Soviet national colour and ship sides)
VJ russian green 894 (Sov armour, bomber and helmets)
VJ USA tan earth 874 (infantry jackets)
VJ Khaki 988 (infantry pants)
VJ German cam brown 826 (ship decks)Japan
CT Blazing Orange (Japan national colour and ship sides)
CT Chainmail (Fighters)
VJ Yellow Oche 913 (tanks)
VJ Middle Stone 882 (uniform)
VJ Khaki Grey 880 (helmets)
VJ german dark green 979 (bombers tank camo)
VJ …… (ship deck, forgot, will check)UK
VJ Dark Sand 819 (National colour, ship sides and infantry uniform)
VJ Iraqi sand 847 (tanks and helmets)
VJ London grey 836 (tank camo)
VJ Flat eath 983 (ship decks)
Ct Scorched brown (aircraft)
VJ german dark green (aircraft camo)
CT regal blue (flag)
Ct blood red (flag)Italy
Ct Scorched Brown (National Colour, ship sides, decks and aircraft camo)
VJ Desert yellow 977 (Armour and helmets)
VJ Green Ochre 914 (Infantry uniform)
Ct Snot green (flag)
Ct blood red (flag)
(Aircraft) not 100% on this one will check and editUSA
CT Knarloc Green (national Colour and ship sides)
CT Chainmail (bombers)
CT regal blue (flag and fighters)
Ct blood red (flag)
VJ Brown Violet 887 (tanks and helmets)
VJ US Dark green 893 (us Infantry)
VJ Flat eath 983 (ship decks)China
CT Scorpion green (national Colour)
VJ Yellow green 881 (uniform jacket)
VJ Khaki Grey 880 (uniform pants)Industrial Centres
VJ saddle Brown 940 (building)
VJ London grey 836 (Roof) -
Good job. Pat yourself on the back :-)
Langley - Saratoga - Yorktown - Enterprise - Wasp and Hornet.
What did I win?4 of them sunk during WWII.
All of them ready for the outbreak of WWII.Shouldn´t the shark mouth be under the red dots?
-
these pics are really nice.
-
Good job. Pat yourself on the back :-)
Langley - Saratoga - Yorktown - Enterprise - Wasp and Hornet.
What did I win?4 of them sunk during WWII.
All of them ready for the outbreak of WWII.Shouldn´t the shark mouth be under the red dots?
Close but not 100% Lexington instead of Langly, the others are correct. I have this massive 1000 page book of most of the machinery of WWII and the pictures of the US carriers show that some of them had the CV nmber on the deck. I had some transfers lying around and thought it would be a nice touch.
Not too sure what you mean about the red dot?
Suggested Topics
