Accurate Miniature Equivalents for Custom Painting your 1940 E&P


  • i think everyone does


  • Wow, great stuff as always. I love those factories.


  • @allworkandnoclay:

    So I’ve started the massive task of painting my Pacific 1940 set. Because a) I love WWII and A&A, b) I have to make everything I do as authentic as possible, and c) I love self-torture; I’ve been researching what the closest equivalent piece of equipment for each faction would be. I thought this would be a good forum to post the list, as there’s some speculations as to what the Europe 1940 unit-makes will be.

    A bit of the info I got from some the older A&A rulebooks (listed under unit descriptions), but too many of those were vague or inaccurate. So using the intraweb, books, and a lot of coffee, I’ve composed this list… Note that some of the items are repeats as nations would have borrowed technology from each other. Also I haven’t started on France - feel free to post your own ideas for their units.

    I’d love to get everyone’s reactions, input, links, pics of their own painted sets, and in-general comments.

    Thus:

    Russia

    @allworkandnoclay:

    Russia

    -Artillery - M1938 122 mm Howitzer

    Katyushkas  :-D

    -Mech Infantry - M3-A1?

    no HT. Trucks. Red Army lacked of HT, didn’t have many mech infantry, had Motor Infantry Instead. “Mech Infatry” were ‘tank riders’ (literaly infantry riding on top of tanks, they used to do that a lot)

    -Tactical Bomber - Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik OR Petlyakov Pe-2 Peshka

    Shturmovik

    Germany

    -Tank - PzKpfw V Panther

    PzKpfw IV was the most common armor unit used as MBT by the Werchmatch though the war.

    Japan

    -Aircraft Carrier - Shinano class

    only one built of this ‘class’

    USA

    -Fighter - Lockheed P-38 Lightning

    P-51 Mustang for Europe
    F6F Hellcat for the Pacific

    China

    -Fighter - Curtiss P-40 “Flying Tigers”

    abso-fucking-lutelly!  :-D

    Italy

    -Fighter - Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore
    -Tactical Bomber - Savoia-Marchetti SM.84
    -Strategic Bomber - Piaggio P.108

    where are you planning to get those ones? (I would love having some SP84 Spaviero. (note: I don’t think the Spavieros could land on a AC)

  • '16 Customizer

    I’m also hand painting my pieces (they don’t look quite as good as yours… love your infantry roundels) and I was wondering how you do the very delicate details such as the swastika on the german battleship and the numbers on the side of the USSR tanks. ie. what tools you use. I have my own tools that I find pretty handy but not quite as accurate as yours (needles, brushes, shishkabob sticks)  :-)

    great work!


  • Does anyone know when he’ll be back? These were what made my day so often.


  • i think in may

  • Customizer

    Finally got a camera and these are my latest finished units: French Inf, Artillery, Tanks, Mech inf, AC and Air Force.

    French Infantry.jpg
    French Armour.jpg
    French Air & AC.jpg

  • Customizer

    Japanese Forces

    Japanese Infantry.jpg
    Japanese Armour.jpg
    Japanese Air Force.jpg

  • Customizer

    Soviets Forces

    Soviet Infantry.jpg
    Soviet Armour.jpg
    Soviet Air Force.jpg

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    British Forces

    UKP Infantry.jpg
    UKE Infantry.jpg
    UK Air force.jpg

  • Customizer

    More Brits and Chinese.
    All my naval pieces are painted the same pretty much except the Aircraft Carriers. I did them this way to keep down confusion of what is what on the board. Also to save time :wink:

    UK Armour.jpg
    UK Navy.jpg
    Chinese Forces.jpg

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    US Forces

    US Infantry.jpg
    US Armour.jpg
    US Air Force.jpg


  • Those are great, but…
    Can you start your own thread?
    Will they be enough to hold me over until may?

  • Customizer

    I checked with Allwork earlier if it was OK to post the pics here, he’s a tremendous influence on all of us that paint these, I can’t wait to see his German infantry. I’m painting the Italians now. I have them almost done I just have to paint the bases. I’m going with the three gun flag for mine, I hate painting circles  :wink:

  • Customizer

    Just finished the Italian Infantry. I’m not happy with the tanks so I’ll probably change the paint scheme on them. The last pic is a shot of the process I use, I stick them onto nails with blue sticky tack, I find it easier this way as I tend to mess up the paint if I hold them with my fingers, it makes dipping them easier as well.

    Italian Inf.jpg
    Italian Forces.jpg
    Italian unfinished.jpg

  • TripleA '12

    Hey allworkandnoclay,

    What’s the latest with your german units? How are they coming alomg?

    Thank you


  • Most Holy…

    I think your troops would be nicer if U gave it a spray with some anti shine matt varnish… Keep up the good work…

    regards

  • Customizer

    My friends give me crap for the shine as well. I gotta try something different. I’m going to look into the ink wash Allwork spoke of earlier. I might work on the Germans soon, all I have left are them and ANZAC, until a new game comes out that is…


  • @Most:

    My friends give me crap for the shine as well. I gotta try something different. I’m going to look into the ink wash Allwork spoke of earlier. I might work on the Germans soon, all I have left are them and ANZAC, until a new game comes out that is…

    Just pick up a can of Matte Varnish spray paint … that will (or should, I don’t know if it will 100% at this point) take the shine off of your pieces and make them look even nicer.

    Of course, an ink wash done right will help by providing more detail and depth as well.

  • Customizer

    I found a couple of great apps for the iPhone with pictures of almost all the WWII planes in one and a ton of tanks and other vehicles in another. the only problem with the apps is that all the pictures are in profile it would have been nice to have top down shots as well especially for the planes. these will help to make better Italian planes for me as I just painted camo and the tri-color flag on them.
    http://iphoneapp.jourist.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117&lang=en

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