Hey A&A forum, I wanted to ask if anyone would like to add their info to this map. I am adding emails and names of players all around the world. It’s awesome that after this long there were still responses. This might be useful for people looking to connect with others to play with.
I’ve decided to begin the process of customizing my A&A pieces to make them more my own. So, that being said, I took the advice offered in this post and ran with it. I ran to my local Michaels, spent about $20 for all the working parts, and started this evening with my 1941 version of A&A seeing that version not only has less pieces but will not be showcased in all of my future competitive games with others. Don’t want my initial paint job leaving a poor impression (ha ha ha).
So, that being said, I started off with the Japanese infantry this evening and tried a couple different painting techniques. My first inf I painted the base area around his feet a light-dirt color and then applied the grass color immediately around that. Mixing wets didn’t seem like the best idea, so I modified to paint the green outer portion first, and learned that dabbing the brush is much more effective and better looking than stroking the plastic. For my last three, I made one final modification in painting the inner base color first and will apply the grass later after it has dried. It’s a small first step, but I figure I will be learning as I go and I don’t want to do a lot in one night and then realized I botched something up. 
I also realized, after painting, that I may want to paint the outer ring around the base the same color as the nation, or just not paint it. It might look strange unpainted, so I’ll likely opt to painting it the same color as the nation.
Stay tuned for more painting…
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Round 2:
Finished up the soldiers, and the bases are looking pretty good regardless of aforementioned techniques, at least from first glance. I was having a surprisingly hard time creating orange from red and yellow though, so that is a to-be-continued endeavor. I hate wasting paints just endlessly squirting a bit more orange, a bit more yellow. The Japanese “orange” is a lot closer to brown so I decided to play around with the burnt sienna I have.
I started on the planes, seeing as those will likely be somewhat easy (Rising sun, white background, black cockpit and nose and maybe some other detail.) I realize that the planes look quite juvenile with that base coat. They may need a few more coats to get them looking better, but for future painting I may just start with spray paint for the base. I’ll be using a toothpick next to do the rising sun emblem as professionally as possible on the planes. After all, these German made FW-190 Japanese planes gotta look their best. Same goes the the Japanese Tigers! 
@vodot Getting into an easily importable form is the tricky part. See the google forms link I just put up, I will be putting in names and locations as well as contact info weekly. Ideally, you could filter out people who play a specific version of A&A.
This is just what I was looking for, thank you!
For those interested, I have started a project with Google Maps to create a global map of all Axis and Allies players. It would make seeing where players are located, organizing events, and seeing who plays what much more simplified. It is a big project though, and I realize I would be spending a lot of time collecting player names from here and elsewhere. To make this easier I am requesting a few things:
This would be of priceless value to the community and potentially could develop into some kind of app as well. I view this as a great way to get the community more organized! Here is a link to the project so far.
Part 4: Starting the ships, adding decals to the tanks, skin tones on the soldiers
Today spent some time adding paint to the sprayed ships, including painting the water jettisons on the subs black (this was very tricky and ended up looking a little sloppy). Advice for painting the jettisons: toothpicks are not small enough! If you do use toothpicks, you’ll have to dab a dot of black for each tiny jettison.
The battleships were a bit easier, and painting the decks, bridge, and smoke stacks were all done in silver. I plan on adding the final grey coat last after the deck and stacks/bridge dry. I experimented with how to add the national emblem, and will probably opt for a white background with a red dot on the bow of the ship. In the future I may do that with the rear end of the ship.
I painted the tranny smoke stacks silver and added a white background for the emblem on the destroyers. All in all, the Japanese navy is coming along nicely.
The armor is pretty much done. I added a white flag to the front side of the armor and will be adding the red dots later. For the aircraft, I’ll be adding a red band around the rear part of the plane. I was debating between sky blue and red and may alternate just for some variety.
The soldiers got some skin! And I just want to say that adding the paint alone brings out the contours of their facial features in an excellent manner on their own. I may add a touch of black to certain areas of the face but that will be a last step. The next step will be panting their uniforms, rifles, and helmets.
After all this is done, I will be spray painting the japanese bombers white, the aircraft carrier black, and then will add the details to those. The Japanese are about 55% done all in all and I’m pleased with the results so far even if they do look a bit amateurish. Stay tuned.
@djensen That would be great as well, a unity of effort on creating a player map would be awesome for local groups and figuring out where the best location to have a convention could be.
Ultimately, if you wanted to REALLY expand this, you could have this for all board games and filter out games people play and all other sorts of details.
But one step at a time, there are still issues with this method. 
@sansmerci I like the flames here.
@red_smurf17 it is linked in the title of the original post.
Hey A&A forum, I wanted to ask if anyone would like to add their info to this map. I am adding emails and names of players all around the world. It’s awesome that after this long there were still responses. This might be useful for people looking to connect with others to play with.
@sansmerci I like the flames here.
@sansmerci Holy cow this makes my “customization” effort look laughable.
@djensen That would be great as well, a unity of effort on creating a player map would be awesome for local groups and figuring out where the best location to have a convention could be.
Ultimately, if you wanted to REALLY expand this, you could have this for all board games and filter out games people play and all other sorts of details.
But one step at a time, there are still issues with this method.
Updated as of 24 April 2019.
Problems:
Need ability to filter out who wants to play what
Filter out players by state
Integrate map so that when players input their data, it will appear instantly.
Further suggestions welcome.
Form for A&A Map: https://goo.gl/forms/H9wiA40yZEGMcGDU2
Updated: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aNA2C9eZk5RUOFKnQveCHQvHVUbvEwmx&usp=sharing
Please feel free to fill this out! I will only be using this to pull names from now on, as going off the forums can be difficult.
@vodot Getting into an easily importable form is the tricky part. See the google forms link I just put up, I will be putting in names and locations as well as contact info weekly. Ideally, you could filter out people who play a specific version of A&A.