TripleA Manual Gamesave Post: Germans round 1
TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: Ozteas 1941 Global Setup, version: 4.0
Game History
Round: 1
Research Technology - Germans
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
TripleA Manual Gamesave Post for game: Ozteas 1941 Global Setup, version: 4.0
Game History
Round: 1
Research Technology - Germans
Combat Hit Differential Summary :
Test summary from TripleA, engine version: 1.9, time: 6:29:13 PM
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This is just what I was looking for, thank you!
Part 3: Finishing up the armor and aircraft. Preparing the Japanese Navy for customization
I found spray painting the tanks to be very helpful. Special thanks to @robert-t for the tip on that one. On top of the grey coat, I painted some basic Camouflage to them and am considering adding the Japanese emblem to the upper rear flank of the tank. In the future, I’m considering googling how to apply some country-relevant decals to the units seeing that a red dab of paint will not suffice for every nation. Saving this instructional page for later painting.
Additionally, as you may have noticed, I painted the base rim of the soldier figures. In the future, I’ll just be painting the entire base the country colors. While the grass and dirt adds a touch of realism, I would rather be able to easily tell which infantry belongs to which country. The Raw Sienna paint matched up closely with the Japanese base color.
Finally, I spray painted the Japanese naval units (save the carriers) gray. As a note here, the manner in which you allow the pieces to dry and shaking as much excess paint off the units as possible it wise. The sheet I let these dry on left some fuzzies ingrained on the bottom side of the ships. I also noticed the submarine slits on the sides of the units looked great on one side but were covered on the other. This was because of how I let the paint dry and it’s a lesson I learned for next time when it comes to spray painting: Let as much paint drip off as possible, and let them dry on a hard surface you do not mind getting dirty. Letting them dry the same way you will be using them is also a good idea as that’s how they’ll be observed for their life as pieces. For the ships, I will be painting namely the decks, adding the Japanese emblem to the decks, and possibly adding some WW1 era camouflage to those bad boys. Stay tuned.
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! :laughing:
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. :sweat_smile:
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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Just finished up a game a couple days ago with some friends, and it always seems to come down to a valiant last stand at Moscow followed by either an admission of defeat or (as is the case with the game we played) Italy is contained and the Allies can still hold Egypt to some extent.
That is an interesting idea that could be considered when the Germans look as though they are a couple turns away from taking Moscow. I’m not sure I’d do it just because of the amount of time to move those infantry would make it totally obvious to the Axis what you were doing. At that point you are completely giving up Russia’s IPC income to the Axis which is not very wise. The advantage to this Alamo battle is that the Axis also lose a lot of units and Germany remains licking it’s proverbial wounds for a turn of the game at least.
So while it’s interesting and I have never considered it, I’m not sure it would be worth it.