LHoffman's Painted Sculpts For Your Consideration

[LHoffman]

@Swedo:

Awesome work, as usual!

I have a question though, why do you have decals on both wings? Since everything else is historical accurate and very detailed, why did you add a decal on the right wing?

Thanks Swedo (and Paul)… thought we would keep things going here since we do have some new stuff to show.

To answer your question: I put decals on both wings, first, because that was how Paul wanted them (customer gets what the customer wants) and, second, not all pictures I have seen of early war schemes have just 1 star on the wing. I have seen a number with 2 (such as those below). Markings were not always completely uniform in the service.

For A&A purposes it can also be easier and necessary to compromise some exact details for easy recognition during gameplay, or because the size of the piece will prohibit being completely true to real life.

As Paul said also, he plays the game with his dad (who is a WWII vet) and the easy recognition factor is important for him.

[Swedo]

I dont criticize, i was just curious. Now i know :) and i personally thinks it looks better with a roundel on both wings, i never understood why they only had it on one wing, anyone knows?

I guess its the same reason why some of you put stars on the wings of the soviet air units!

[LHoffman]

No problem… just letting you know.

[jluna1273]

Question:  where did you purchase those decals for the aircraft? Unless I missed them completely, I haven’t seen those on the I-94 Enterprises website.

[Tall Paul]

Jluna,

––The decals are from I-94Enterprises.
Set US-102 includes the Blue circle w/White Stars and Red “dots” that are separate but can be added.
Set US-138 includes the Red/White rudder stripes.
The letters and numbers were also I-94 sets although you didn’t ask about them.

––I happened to see your question and thought I’d save Lucas some time looking them up.
I think Lucas did a great job on these!  :-D

“Tall Paul”

[jluna1273]

Tall Paul,

Thanks for the info, specifically the set numbers. I must have just missed them, I will look again. And yes, I agree, he did an outstanding job on these.

[jluna1273]

On the subject of decals: has anyone found “Union Jack” decals? I looked on I-94 Enterprises and didn’t see anything.

[LHoffman]

@jluna1273:

On the subject of decals: has anyone found “Union Jack” decals? I looked on I-94 Enterprises and didn’t see anything.

Yeah, we have been having a similar discussion and cannot find them anywhere. Supposedly, Flames of War has some, but I have looked and been unable to find them.

[jluna1273]

@LHoffman:

@jluna1273:

On the subject of decals: has anyone found “Union Jack” decals? I looked on I-94 Enterprises and didn’t see anything.

Yeah, we have been having a similar discussion and cannot find them anywhere. Supposedly, Flames of War has some, but I have looked and been unable to find them.

I emailed Dave Winfree from I-94 Enterprises last night to inquire about “Union Jack” decals and any plans to produce them.

The answer was “Yepper, about Labor Day”. So, now everyone knows and keep an eye out around that time.

[LHoffman]

@jluna1273:

I emailed Dave Winfree from I-94 Enterprises last night to inquire about “Union Jack” decals and any plans to produce them.

The answer was “Yepper, about Labor Day”. So, now everyone knows and keep an eye out around that time.

Excellent… I considered doing that after your comment. Hadn’t thought of it before, but at least it is being done.

[Tall Paul]

@LHoffman:

@jluna1273:

I emailed Dave Winfree from I-94 Enterprises last night to inquire about “Union Jack” decals and any plans to produce them.

The answer was “Yepper, about Labor Day”. So, now everyone knows and keep an eye out around that time.

Excellent… I considered doing that after your comment. Hadn’t thought of it before, but at least it is being done.

––Man,…that’s GREAT NEWS! And talk about good timing, too.
----Well, Lucas, I guess you now know two things. 1.) You won’t have to hand paint all of those “Union Jack” flags,
and 2.) you’ll be painting my British-Pacific(Calcutta) armor and artillery forces very soon.

Go “TEAM WARMACHINE!”

“Tall Paul”

[LHoffman]

Here is the latest delivery for Tall Paul. Will post more pictures later.

(Lots of tanks.)

[jluna1273]

So nice. Reminds me of my days stationed at Ft. Hood, TX. One road had all the unit motor pools and you could see tanks and trucks lined up everywhere.

[LHoffman]

@jluna1273:

So nice. Reminds me of my days stationed at Ft. Hood, TX. One road had all the unit motor pools and you could see tanks and trucks lined up everywhere.

Yeah… sort of the effect I was going for.

[LHoffman]

Included below are:

US Army Tanks (17) Stuarts and (17) Shermans
US Marine Corps. Tanks (12) Stuarts and (12) Shermans
ANZAC Tanks (5) Stuarts
US Navy Fighters (2) F4F Wildcats

[LHoffman]

The ANZAC Stuarts and US Army/Marine Corps. Stuarts are HBG units modified by Sgt.WilTan

[LHoffman]

Shermans are unmodified HBG. Except that the US Army version has the coaxial flamethrower removed.

US Army tanks are standard olive drab green. USMC tanks have the same base color, but are darkened slightly with a wash and have dark green, “jungle” camouflage stripes.

[Tall Paul]

Lucas,

––I really enjoy seeing the pics of your work as they are all well-lit and in focus, some showing the tanks in quite detailed close-ups. Good Job! I only hope you took a few (dozen) more (G).
----I’m very much looking forward to receiving these US Army and USMC Stuart and Sherman tanks along with the Anzac Stuarts. They’ve been a while in coming but I’m very happy that the “WARACHINE TEAM” factory is now producing at full speed and I’m looking forward to literally hundreds more units modified/detailed by Wil and painted by you. BTW, the Anzac ‘Commonwealth’ Shermans should be included Wil’s next shipment to you.
––The paint jobs look GREAT and I can’t wait to put my beady little eyes on them myself.
––The ‘flag’ decals on the tanks top-rear decks look as good as I’d hoped. I think it will hugely aid in identifying unit ownership from even 10-15 feet away. That’s important on my enlarged gameboard, especially with my 88 year old Dad. Since my Dad almost always plays America he will now have some sharp-looking units to kill my brother and me with, haha.  :-D

Keep up the EXCELLENT WORK!
“Tall Paul”

[LHoffman]

@Tall:

Lucas,

––I really enjoy seeing the pics of your work as they are all well-lit and in focus, some showing the tanks in quite detailed close-ups. Good Job! I only hope you took a few (dozen) more (G).
----I’m very much looking forward to receiving these US Army and USMC Stuart and Sherman tanks along with the Anzac Stuarts. They’ve been a while in coming but I’m very happy that the “WARACHINE TEAM” factory is now producing at full speed and I’m looking forward to literally hundreds more units modified/detailed by Wil and painted by you. BTW, the Anzac ‘Commonwealth’ Shermans should be included Wil’s next shipment to you.
––The paint jobs look GREAT and I can’t wait to put my beady little eyes on them myself.
––The ‘flag’ decals on the tanks top-rear decks look as good as I’d hoped. I think it will hugely aid in identifying unit ownership from even 10-15 feet away. That’s important on my enlarged gameboard, especially with my 88 year old Dad. Since my Dad almost always plays America he will now have some sharp-looking units to kill my brother and me with, haha.  :-D

Keep up the EXCELLENT WORK!
“Tall Paul”

Oh, you have not received them yet? … I assumed you got them yesterday, as they were supposed to arrive. Perhaps they are delayed a day. I didn’t want to put these up until after you got them in your possession.

Thanks Paul.

[Tall Paul]

Lucas,

––I just received the Tank Divisions along with their own air cover today, late Wednesday afternoon.
Wow! I love 'em.  :-D
––BTW, you shouldn’t ever need to hold back posting your pics because I haven’t gotten my grubby hands on them yet. But you know, that probably is an astute decision on your part because after I saw the pics,…I WANTED THEM,…haha.
----Since they came in I started modifying some new storage trays for them like I had been planning. I’ll fill you in on them later, maybe with some pics, too.
----Again, the paint jobs and all of the details are terrific! The black ‘wash’ on all of the tanks is very effective and not only looks great, but accentuates all of the details.
----The only thing I think we might slightly alter is to put a light or medium brown “dust/dirt” wash on the remaining U.S. Army units to be done. This would make them visually distinctive from the US Marine units as they look quite simular at the moment. I can “dust” the Army units you just sent me myself. Don’t get me wrong,…They all look GREAT just as they are,…and I’m very happy with them. I just want to make them different from each other. The black ‘wash’ simply made the Army o.d. green units simular to the Marine’s dark green camo stripes.

Again,…Great Job!  :-D

“Tall Paul”