Posts made by sgtwiltan

Great stuff Lucas. Love the paint. How are your Eyes?
As far as Paul’s comments about the pants, I always get asked if I want a diet coke when I specifically asked for just a Coke.
I always ask the waiter if I look fat in my jeans.
I am 35 pounds heavier than when I got out of the Marines and slowly fashioning a well rounded gut to emulate the first trimester.

Thanks Lucas.
I’m doing the Mod part and You are the paint master.
Eventually I’ll have fully painted pics up along with the workup to get to the fully finished stage but that is in the future.
I think I’m going to use my second post on this thread for ships and my third post for Planes and the fourth for etc stuff.
I got lots of plans but they require quite a bit of time to come to fruition as well as finishing commitments to Paul.

Redid some pics. I like this new format. More organized.
Enjoy

More Detailed pics put up on page 1.
Since Paul has got most of my early Panthers and Tigers, I got a little carried away to fulfill the final pieces
I owed him and managed to build another 50 Panthers of the Aufs. D and A varieties.
20 Tigers have also been built as well as the detailing of 35 German half-tracks.
Still a long way to go since after completion of build comes base coating, washes, dry brushing and final
detail painting and highlighting. The pics on the thread are constantly going to evolve as I find new ways
to show the details and better pictures to show them through their evolutions.

I also did an informal weight test of the tigers. It took 9 OOB tigers to equal the weight of 1 GHQ tiger.
This is why I expend so much effort on plastic pieces. I’m not sure how well the game boxes would
hold up to the weight of the much more detailed but way heavier GHQ models as you would need hundreds
to replace the OOB game pieces.

Any ways, enjoy.

Awesome.
I love how many painted sets are showing up.
Even though I’ve not played A&A in a number of years some of you may not have even reached yet,
the potential of what the game experience could be like get my juices flowing to get my games to look
as playable as possible not just by the mechanics but the inherent ADD of men and boys to have toy Soldiers.
Keep 'em coming.

Great Job!
You got just the look I was going to do on my own pieces.
I use the same techniques as you do for painting.
Looking more closely on some of my old pieces, I see that I might need to add more pin washes to accentuate deep recesses and leave most
of the raised details alone to make them pop out.
Love the armor schemes.

Yeah, Nice stuff. It’s good to see some of the color schemes I plan for my own pieces and to see how they look on the board.
Have you tried a little more drybrushing to really pull the details out of your painted pieces. One thing I’ve noticed is that camo scheemes tend to make those tiny games pieces look like camo blobs and make the pieces look indistinct. Camo IS supposed to do that but then you lose ability to distinguish details. This is where some back and forth about true historical schemes butt heads with game piece Identification. I’m not knocking your painting since I’m going the same route but I see I need to do more deep shading and dry brushing on mine to accentuate the effort the modellers put into their pieces.

Either way, your game looks great and thanks for the “recon”

God I’m so jealous!!!
I’ll have pics up soon from the WaffenFabrik to update Paul’s German and my own Threads.
No wonder Paul has been so enthusiastic about me getting on with the warships.
I work in batches and creative flows so It’s hard for me to jump around but now it seems that there is impetus for some Pacific units.
I’ll have the revised Howitzers on the production line so you can have them to go along with those gorgeous units.
If you liked the originals, you’ll love these new ones since they have at least 8 more detail points that Lucas can accentuate.

FREAKING PHENOMINAL!!!
A+++++++++

I was curious about the places I was at in the 1990 gulf war and was amazed to still be able to find some of our fortifications though satellite images.
Some of the places looked blurred out so the Saudis must have built defenses in those areas and did not want them to be displayed. I wonder how visible some of the WW1 battlefields look from satellite views. It’s the only way for those of us to see the actual battlefields without actually traveling to those locations.

I noticed upon further research into paint schemes for US forces that might help with unit IDs between Army and Marines forces.
US Army forces made much more use of white ID stars than Marines as the likelihood of other enemy vehicles was much more prevalent
in the European theater. The Marines basically had the run of he pacific islands with their organic armor due to the paucity of Japanese armor
arrayed against them. You can go to tracklink to see many 1/35th examples which will also give you more ideas for color schemes.

I think the first set I will have completely painted for my own use will be the Battle of the bulge due to the lesser number of equipment types and then
move on to the Guadalcanal game for the second set.

Hope this helps a bit with tabletop IDs for your US units.

Updated pics with new Panther, OOB Artillery, HBG 38Ts and more T34s

A lot of the scratch builds are almost 15+ years old back when my eyes were still good. All originally built to replace the stock A&A units.

And to answer your question below, I used styrene sheets and rods of different thicknesses cut with an exacto. The patterns were from
plans in books or measured lengths from stats in meters and then divided by 285 to get the size in mm.

You could also differentiate the US army Tanks with “invasion” stripes around the turret since I have not seen pics of Marine tanks having them.
Like these.
http://www.track-link.com/gallery/717
http://www.track-link.com/gallery/2640

Actually these were more pre and early war markings done in white. Yellow was later used for lower visibility as in the sherman in the second pic.
here’s more ideas
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/US/M4_Sherman.php

Updated Pics on page 1. New pics at the bottom.

The technique is called pin washing where you don’t wash the whole model but only put the wash in recessed areas to keep the base coat from darkening. The dry bush highlights the dark spots and the base coat but since the basecoat hasn’t been darkened, the color looks brighter.

Paul, I’m just amazed at your patience!
I’m chomping at the bit to get mine as a complete set for just one game box and you are far ahead of me with my own.

Thank you. I’ll have Paul’s modified HBG T34s and my own A&A modified T34s with russian green paint up this weekend.

Lucas, Marine units used more disruptive camo due to the closer combat distances of the pacific jungle theater. You could use a lighter brown rather than black to differentiate the units from Army ones. Leave a bit of black on the edges of the stripes to accentuate them.

Pual, sorry, I’ve been delinquent in my production but things have settled a bit for me to start working on the backlog. Your T34s are finished and I’ll have them sent to Lucas after I take pics of them on my thread.

Forgot to add. Great job with the painting. The higher contrast does bring out the details. You got any closeups of the Brit Stuarts?

Tall Paul.
Good to his word.