The long road of painting the units - Updated 1/16 Vid added

[John Brown]

siredblood, your Russians are cool. I haven’t seen anyone paint their ground force vehicles, the way you have painted them. I love the way your navy looks. Superb job on this set. :-D

John

[siredblood]

@John:

siredblood, your Russians are cool. I haven’t seen anyone paint their ground force vehicles, the way you have painted them. I love the way your navy looks. Superb job on this set. :-D

John

Thanks, though you lost me, not sure what you men about the ground units… color?

Ive had a few redo’s here and there, trying to keep army’s noticeably different on the board. Ive also had to redo some markings on the units, not so much historically accurate anymore, but more game friendly. Our game last week, one of the players got confused on the British and French warships, so even though the British didn’t use roundels on the navy, well… they have roundels now lol.

Another edit is Italy, the game roundel is not really on any unit, they use the … um, lost it…cant remember the name, but the 3 line marker… anyway, so since the units are equipped with that mark, ill be replacing all the roundels in the game to match.

There are many more edits, due to markings.

[John Brown]

@siredblood:

@John:

siredblood, your Russians are cool. I haven’t seen anyone paint their ground force vehicles, the way you have painted them. I love the way your navy looks. Superb job on this set. :-D

John

Thanks, though you lost me, not sure what you men about the ground units… color?

Ive had a few redo’s here and there, trying to keep army’s noticeably different on the board. Ive also had to redo some markings on the units, not so much historically accurate anymore, but more game friendly. Our game last week, one of the players got confused on the British and French warships, so even though the British didn’t use roundels on the navy, well… they have roundels now lol.

Another edit is Italy, the game roundel is not really on any unit, they use the … um, lost it…cant remember the name, but the 3 line marker… anyway, so since the units are equipped with that mark, ill be replacing all the roundels in the game to match.

There are many more edits, due to markings.

I never seen anybody use a tannish color on like the trucks and tanks. Most people go with the standard green camouflage or winter camouflage. That is what meant. Sorry for confusing you, lol.

[siredblood]

oh, think its the light, see the game pic, you can see they are more greenish :) …. the pic of the planes, you can see the artillery, that’s the color of the tanks/trucks. I didn’t notice the tan effect from the light haha

[John Brown]

@siredblood:

oh, think its the light, see the game pic, you can see they are more greenish :) …. the pic of the planes, you can see the artillery, that’s the color of the tanks/trucks. I didn’t notice the tan effect from the light haha

Wow, yeah, I see the difference, now. Well, there still awesome, lol. :-D

[Der Kuenstler]

Great work - I’ll be looking here the next time I take on some unit painting!

[siredblood]

Thanks for the comment DK! Sorry for my lack of updates lately, I’m adding the decals to Italy now, then I’m done!… I gotta get posting pics :) . Some of the being busy is, been playing lol, and I’ve gone back to all the countries to add magnetic planes/carriers, which I’ll show my take on it in another thread.

[siredblood]

I know I said Germany was next, but they are undergoing the magnetic planes retrofit lol.

I have played twice now with the introducing of magnetic planes/carries, man… what-a-difference! IF you have not played with some, you don’t know what your missing!

OK, so back to the topic, here are the ANZAC forces! And these were a real treat to paint, the detail in these units are outstanding, I was happy with all of them, except for the Mech, which I replaced with some from HBG, the stock one was good, but I couldn’t live with the turret gone, with no hole haha!

100 pieces!

Not sure who ill post next, I have Germany/Italy left, so well see if Germany gets its magnetics done before Italy get painted troops :)

Also, not sure what happened with the Soviet pics, why they resized to 600, ill repost those later.
Oh and ooops, looks like I forgot to paint the tank barrel holes black lol

Thanks for looking!

[John Brown]

Awesome job, on the Anzac. Can’t wait to see your Italians and Germans, as well. :-)

[siredblood]

Thanks John! Another thing I was stoked about with the ANZAC, was the subs, super stoked finally being able to put the number on the coning tower! …. I feel like the transports look like the Titanic though lol

[John Brown]

@siredblood:

Thanks John! Another thing I was stoked about with the ANZAC, was the subs, super stoked finally being able to put the number on the coning tower! …. I feel like the transports look like the Titanic though lol

Yes, the Anzac pieces are very cool. A lot of people do not like the infantry, but I do. I like all the Anzac pieces to be honest with you.

I hope, someday, that HBG will make the French pieces, but I feel it will be, a year away, before they are available.

[siredblood]

I was a little torn with the ANZAC infantry at first, seeming too large, but I really scrootenized them, and found them to be close to the others, except for Italy, which seem smaller. Granted the base is in fact larger, but if the US troops were standing up straight, it would be comparable to the ANZAC IMO.

I saw the free french pieces, they look great, but for me, in all honesty, I have no desire to redo anything lol, I’m so over painting haha.

[siredblood]

Italy was the winner :)

I really like the Italian units, I actually didn’t replace anything. I had to mod a few of the ships to allow decal placement, but other then that, they were good to go!

I went with the desert scheme since Russia is green, we don’t want green vs green lol.

Ill have Germany up this weekend, then ill make a video with the setup and do some fly overs, really see the pieces in action.

95 pieces for this set. I am a little surprised on the amount of ships there are, if Italy has the income to get this many ships, Allies are doing something seriously wrong haha!

Again, that’s for looking!

[John Brown]

Wow siredblood, fine job on your Italian units. I love the desert look, as well. Tremendous job on these pieces. Love the stripes for the navy, because it sets apart the Italian navy from the others.

[siredblood]

Thanks John! I noticed about everyone who paints Italy adds the stripes, we all must find the only pic of an Italian Battleship on the net for a ref lol.

[Der Kuenstler]

More great work!

[siredblood]

Thanks KW, im pretty stoked this endeavor is about over, even more so, I cant wait to make the vid :P

[siredblood]

Well my friends, this endeavor is over!

1200+ Painted Units / 800-1000 decals …… About 400 bucks in paint, adding(replacing) units, decals, and airbrush… yes to paint dirt lol!

And WOW, looking back to the first post, 10/10… so 2 months of painting! Ill will be keeping the topic alive a tad longer, as I have gotten a few more units I want to paint, just NOT now! I bought 5 US Marine troops, and 5 German greatcoat troops, save those for a rainy day. Also, I want to do a setup, and make a vid to show the pieces on the board, which ill do this week.

Im also excited to post my current project, which ill do later today :P

Without further ado, Germany!

I used 2 schemes, Gray and DAK, I replaced all the tanks and Mech with units from HBG, 2 variants for the mech, and 3 variants for the tanks, and I added more AA Guns and Infantry totaling 163 Units.
Thanks everyone for the comments and looking, its time to put away the paints… well most of it! For now, ill be relaxing the rest of the day… sigh of relief!!

[seancb]

I have no artistic skill with a paint brush whatsoever and at 40 years old, I’m not feeling I will learn.

Fantastic work.
You cannot see me but I’m seething with jealousy right now.

[siredblood]

Thanks for the compliment sean!- the “you cannot see me” part made me laugh!

I was hoping to post my new project today, but having last minute design issues, so it will have to wait till tomorrow :(

Thanks again!