Posts made by dangermouse650

On my first quick glance i thought no they aren’t mine but then i saw the yellow sub, gosh it has been a while since i looked at my pics, those lexingtons were the product of shapeways. I find that as i am getting older, i have less and less me time for games and other hobbies, it really should be the other way around. Family and work demand more when i should be doing less. Such is life. Happy gaming my friends.
P.S. Photobucket is the pits, i lost hundreds of files ( like so many others) not only on this site but on my rc sites as well. They suck.

I have soaked some pieces in Dettol for a few days and they cleaned up rather well.

Nice work , lots of detail

Nice work, time consuming and needing a very steady hand, well done

@John:

@dangermouse650:

Great work John

Thanks DM.

Where have you been?

Have you been working, as of late?

Yes, work has been very hectic and other life happenings that are keeping me too busy to paint……but keep up with yours your doing great.

Great work John

Cool work dude. 8-)

Nice work….

Map looks great, i like your style.

Excellent work, crisp and clean lines.

Awesome work DK

Nice work John, looks real good all together, unfortunately i still can’t get myself to sit down long enough with out falling asleep, work is relentless at the moment……

Nice work John, keep it up.  8-)

Sorry guys, have got a serious lack of motivation to sit down and paint these last 2 weeks, hopefully i get over it soon. On the other hand, i have been motivated to do this.

Painting has been on hold for the past week, work has been extremely busy, hopefully get back to it next week.
    Disaster struck a couple weeks back with my fave rc plane, gust of wind took away my control and turned it into the trees. Most of the wing survived but the front was crushed and torn apart by the motor and battery.  A week later my spitfire also lost control, the damage to that wasn’t so severe, just tore the wing mounts  off and busted the prop.
  I spent most of yesterday piecing my jet back together, had to reconstruct the front and put some reinforcing in the sides and cracks in the wing. Went out for a test flight, a few minutes in and it ejected bits off it and stopped. The motor mount had come adrift. So, new motor mount, new prop and more holes filled, try again tonight after work……

Dynamics of a near perfect game by both sides:

• Among top players, there are surprisingly few battles. Defense is cheaper than offense in Axis & Allies because infantry are consistently the most overpowered unit in every official Axis and Allies edition.
• Both sides accumulate large stacks and seek to project offensive and defensive power efficiently. Exchanging of valuable border territories will happen where the battles have positive expected values for each side.
• If both sides are accumulating units in the same proportion, axis is favored because concentrating units in 2 powers is better than 3. To maintain balance, allies usually need a 10 income edge over axis.
• The winner will accumulate defensive units until it can move adjacent to the enemy stack. If that enemy stack is forced back, the aggressor gains additional income without any battle. This can happen iteratively up through moscow/Berlin falling. The winner is able to bully the loser into retreating up to the point that the income differential is too large to come back from without a single large battle. I’ve both won and lost games where I had a stack of over 200 infantry and 100 tanks. I think my record was over 200 tanks at one point.

Wow, that must be one heck of a long game……

Cool, i like the idea, might just give it a try if i ever find the time. Nice units jwo.

A very good write up, i have found the games i play always seem to drag out, there is no quick victory.

Epic post guys,keep up the good work  8-)

Thanks for comments guys, cyanight, look forward to seeing some pics of yours.

Thanks for comments. Yes, these are brown-washed and then dry-brushed. I chose a gray for the dry-brush thinking that when metal is out in the elements the paintwork fades and flakes off, also from lots of use. I have over done it on a couple of the pieces, brush wasn’t quite dry enough but overall i think it turned out ok. It has given them a weathered look i think.

I used to do this with the old classic aa back in the 90s, always fun to have more pieces on the board, i haven’t tried it with any of the newer games, certainly change up the starting scenario……

A small Italian land force

These will join the oob sculpts.

FMG italian tanks

heavy tanks

FMG italian artillery

Armoured cars