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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@LevHunter

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!

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.

@sansmerci I like the flames here.

@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

Map: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdrive.google.com%2Fopen%3Fid%3D1aNA2C9eZk5RUOFKnQveCHQvHVUbvEwmx%26usp%3Dsharing%26fbclid%3DIwAR1nmjIs6Aom4YNFpdbcG4ZxhgQtYrL278Gvxr8lsjCtM4GUzzRbxwUAJII&h=AT3WzsWgwPgqfqFDa4yMhqUx9uMQYE9nUG9elZTQyMLdNfg-o3U0rib2gwAZMmU6PaaESYzQ4f7Cl1-MmRV_UBMSa5j0PlgljeasG5WZEosUzVml2jra1rtqZJ_7563BKuWnFy2CQHm5PoI0Fg

Updated: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1aNA2C9eZk5RUOFKnQveCHQvHVUbvEwmx&usp=sharing

@LevHunter

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.

@LevHunter Ignore.

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Germans round 1

TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: World War II Global 1940 2nd Edition, version: 4.0

Game History

Round: 1

    Purchase Units - Germans
        Germans buy 1 destroyer, 1 factory_minor and 1 fighter; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; 

    Politics - Germans
        Germans takes Political Action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Germans and Russians from Neutrality to War
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and British from Neutrality to Allied
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and UK_Pacific from Neutrality to Allied
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and ANZAC from Neutrality to Allied
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and French from Neutrality to Allied
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and Neutral_Allies from Neutrality to Friendly_Neutral
            Germans succeeds on action: Political Action Axis To War With Russians: Changing Relationship for Russians and Neutral_Axis from Neutrality to Unfriendly_Neutral

    Combat Move - Germans
        2 bombers moved from Germany to 110 Sea Zone
        1 battleship moved from 113 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 124 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 118 Sea Zone to 111 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 108 Sea Zone to 110 Sea Zone
        1 submarine moved from 117 Sea Zone to 109 Sea Zone
        3 armour moved from Holland Belgium to France
        2 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to France
        3 infantry moved from Western Germany to France
        1 artillery moved from Western Germany to France
        4 infantry moved from Holland Belgium to France
        2 artilleries moved from Holland Belgium to France
        4 mech_infantrys moved from Western Germany to France
        1 infantry moved from Romania to Yugoslavia
        6 infantry moved from Greater Southern Germany to Yugoslavia
        2 artilleries moved from Greater Southern Germany to Yugoslavia
        1 armour moved from Greater Southern Germany to Eastern Poland
        3 infantry moved from Poland to Eastern Poland
        1 armour moved from Poland to Eastern Poland
        1 armour moved from Romania to Bessarabia
        1 infantry moved from Romania to Bessarabia
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Poland to Bessarabia
        1 fighter moved from Slovakia Hungary to Bessarabia
        2 infantry moved from Slovakia Hungary to Eastern Poland
        1 fighter moved from Holland Belgium to 110 Sea Zone
        1 fighter moved from Norway to 110 Sea Zone
        2 tactical_bombers moved from Western Germany to 111 Sea Zone
        2 fighters moved from Western Germany to 111 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Germany to 110 Sea Zone
        1 tactical_bomber moved from Western Germany to 111 Sea Zone

    Combat - Germans
        British scrambles 1 units out of Scotland to defend against the attack in 111 Sea Zone
        British scrambles 3 units out of United Kingdom to defend against the attack in 110 Sea Zone
        Battle in 111 Sea Zone
            Germans attack with 2 fighters, 2 submarines and 3 tactical_bombers
            British defend with 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer and 1 fighter
                Germans roll dice for 2 submarines in 111 Sea Zone, round 2 : 2/2 hits, 0.67 expected hits

Combat Hit Differential Summary :

Germans : 1.33

Savegame

@everyone I’ve started making a map for A&A players to put in their information to so we can all more easily figure out where players live. Feel free to fill out this form, map is attached.

https://goo.gl/forms/H9wiA40yZEGMcGDU2