Accurate Miniature Equivalents for Custom Painting your 1940 E&P


  • @calvinhobbesliker:

    @cminke:

    WHAT ABOUT CANADA??? :cry:

    Canada gets British troops

    Just like ANZAC

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  • hahahahahaha! really?  ha! for real, will you paint a set for them then see where they kick as?

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    @cminke:

    hahahahahaha! really?   ha! for real, will you paint a set for them then see where they kick as?

    At most, I’ll do the same as I’m doing for the Union Jack UK and neutrals… Maybe 5-10 infantry. Nunca mas.


  • maby a tank for the open setup?


  • @cminke:

    maby a tank for the open setup?

    Ah, if only I had a camera high-res enough to do them justice, I’d show you guys my Canadians.
    I painted 2 infantry and a tank for the initial setup, and I think that’ll be good for the sake of simplicity.  The maple leaf is no harder than the ANZAC crown.
    Just a British infantry with the Canadian roundel at the base, the tank is just a British tank in camo with the Canadian roundel on the back.
    I also did a Yugoslav infantry (russian mold, painted differently with the red, white, and blue roundel at the base) and a Greek infantry (british mold with a grey uniform and a blue base with a white cross ala War At Sea Greek roundel).
    I think I’ll do an Iraqi infantry next after I finish my UK units.


  • @robbie358:

    @cminke:

    maby a tank for the open setup?

    Ah, if only I had a camera high-res enough to do them justice, I’d show you guys my Canadians.
    I painted 2 infantry and a tank for the initial setup, and I think that’ll be good for the sake of simplicity.  The maple leaf is no harder than the ANZAC crown.
    Just a British infantry with the Canadian roundel at the base, the tank is just a British tank in camo with the Canadian roundel on the back.
    I also did a Yugoslav infantry (russian mold, painted differently with the red, white, and blue roundel at the base) and a Greek infantry (british mold with a grey uniform and a blue base with a white cross ala War At Sea Greek roundel).
    I think I’ll do an Iraqi infantry next after I finish my UK units.

    You need some finnish units to.

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    I’m not going to do any more nation specific units. Sorry guys - this project is already insane enough as it is, and I want to move on to some other things (like the custom cabinet box I’m going to make to store them).

    Tell me what you guys think of this… I altered a Japanese mold tank for the Italian tanks… I’m not quite sold on it yet… If nothing else, I may just make a mold of the A&A:50th Italian tank and cast them.

    Japanese Mold (front) and my altered version

    Altered Tank vs A&A:50th Mold

    Front & Back

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    @robbie358:

    @cminke:

    maby a tank for the open setup?

    Ah, if only I had a camera high-res enough to do them justice, I’d show you guys my Canadians.
    I painted 2 infantry and a tank for the initial setup, and I think that’ll be good for the sake of simplicity.  The maple leaf is no harder than the ANZAC crown.
    Just a British infantry with the Canadian roundel at the base, the tank is just a British tank in camo with the Canadian roundel on the back.
    I also did a Yugoslav infantry (russian mold, painted differently with the red, white, and blue roundel at the base) and a Greek infantry (british mold with a grey uniform and a blue base with a white cross ala War At Sea Greek roundel).
    I think I’ll do an Iraqi infantry next after I finish my UK units.

    The ANZAC crown was the bane of my existence for four hours…


  • is it just me or is the barrel on the Italian tank huge


  • I don’t think anything that is 4mm should be considered huge  :lol:


  • If you ask me, I think you did a pretty darn good job on that modification to make a Japanese tank into an Italian tank!  Maybe just trim the barrel back a tiny little bit and once you’ve painted them I don’t think it’ll even be readily noticable that it was modded!


  • i ment the thickness


  • Boy you are setting up jokes left and right aren’t you?  :-D

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    It’s not the size of the barrel that matters, it’s the accuracy and rate of fire.


  • @maverick_76:

    Boy you are setting up jokes left and right aren’t you?  :-D

    I held back Maverick….  :lol:

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    A few notes on the Italian Infantry:

    They are the poorest quality of all the A&A infantry molds I’ve worked with. I’ve had to patch the right shoulder and butt of almost every soldier, as well as having a nightmare with a huge mold mark on the left side of the face. Lots and lots of extra scraping… Despite, they’re about 60% finished (still have to paint the bases, guns, and leather belts/satchels.

    On a different note, as a side project, I just finished painting my ‘Fury of Dracula’ board game miniatures. If anyone is interested, you can check them out at Board Game Geek:

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/20963/fury-of-dracula.


  • So you would consider the AA50 Italian units to be the definitive Italian molds in the game then?  Just curious.

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    @robbie358:

    So you would consider the AA50 Italian units to be the definitive Italian molds in the game then?  Just curious.

    Well they’re the same sculpt… I suppose it’s just that they are either the hardest molds to fill or something like that. I assume the A&A50 infantry had the same issues.


  • @allworkandnoclay:

    A few notes on the Italian Infantry:

    They are the poorest quality of all the A&A infantry molds I’ve worked with. I’ve had to patch the right shoulder and butt of almost every soldier, as well as having a nightmare with a huge mold mark on the left side of the face. Lots and lots of extra scraping… Despite, they’re about 60% finished (still have to paint the bases, guns, and leather belts/satchels.

    On a different note, as a side project, I just finished painting my ‘Fury of Dracula’ board game miniatures. If anyone is interested, you can check them out at Board Game Geek:

    http://www.boardgamegeek.com/images/boardgame/20963/fury-of-dracula.

    Wow man, those are impressive, very good work! I like the cobblestone on the bases.

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