More painted pieces for consideration
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jwo1984 & others,
hey Lhoffman, I looked back and saw your custom pieces, and they are very well painted. your precision with decals, and deck lines bravo! I saw you painted the HBG me 262’s, and hats off too you. I ordered a few but man were they ever small…I never ended up doing them, but after seeing how nice yours turned out you may have inspired me too try. Although HBG has that axis minor set coming out with a new me262, and I might just wait for those.
––Please let me jump in here and toot “LHoffman’s” horn since he is too modest to do so himself. The paint/decal work that he did on my German Luftwaffe was simply AMAZING! The tiniest of details like cockpit framing are not only there,…but very straight and correct!
––He absolutely deserves loads of applause for his work. Thanks again, Lucas.
----BTW, have you watched those DVD movies I sent you yet?Tall Paul
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John,
I don’t think there is a Me262 being made on the Axis Minor 2 set. I just looked it up, and it isn’t on there.
Jwo, where did you see this?
––The ME-262 Jet Fighters were included in HBG’s German Expansion Set and are also available separately from HBG.
Tall Paul
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@Tall:
John,
I don’t think there is a Me262 being made on the Axis Minor 2 set. I just looked it up, and it isn’t on there.
Jwo, where did you see this?
––The ME-262 Jet Fighters were included in HBG’s German Expansion Set and are also available separately from HBG.
Tall Paul
He was talking about the new German set.
He has the expansion set Me 262’s, but he thought the new set was going to have them, but the new set does not show the Me 262 jetfighters that were in the expansion set. :wink:
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I don’t think there is a Me262 being made on the Axis Minor 2 set. I just looked it up, and it isn’t on there.
Jwo, where did you see this?
John brown you are right, I was mixing up the sets. axis minors have no me262, I was thinking about the kickstarter game HBG is putting out called Amerika. Don’t know if any of you looked into this game but the custom pieces they have coming look nothing short of deadly awesome. Below is the German set for Amerika with the me262
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Lhoffman, calling you out again sorry seems your work is just too popular :wink: I really liked your f4 wild cats that you painted. since you are into historically accuracy for your pieces have you ever used or checked out this site:
its called “wings palette” and has virtually every paint scheme for every squadron of all countries involved in the war for there planes! an amazing site. I have used paint schemes for all my wildcats, in fact when HBG didn’t have any wildcats in stock I went out on ebay to buy Guadalcanal so I could have tons for the pacific! (I also wanted to try playing Guad as well)
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here are some of my wildcats with paint schemes attempted too match the references…
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@Tall:
––BTW, have you watched those DVD movies I sent you yet?
Tall Paul
I certainly have and greatly enjoyed them both. Best thing about movies is that you can enjoy them over and over again. Thanks again.
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Lhoffman, calling you out again sorry seems your work is just too popular :wink: I really liked your f4 wild cats that you painted. since you are into historically accuracy for your pieces have you ever used or checked out this site:
its called “wings palette” and has virtually every paint scheme for every squadron of all countries involved in the war for there planes! an amazing site.
Thanks JWO…. and no, I have never seen this site before. It looks like it has a massive amount of information on it. Which is great.
While I do focus on historical accuracy, I tend to focus more on general schemes that I like rather than ones that are specific to one squadron or another. However, there are some specific ones that I may like too, so this is a very helpful resource. Thanks for sharing!
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I don’t think there is a Me262 being made on the Axis Minor 2 set. I just looked it up, and it isn’t on there.
Jwo, where did you see this?
John brown you are right, I was mixing up the sets. axis minors have no me262, I was thinking about the kickstarter game HBG is putting out called Amerika. Don’t know if any of you looked into this game but the custom pieces they have coming look nothing short of deadly awesome. Below is the German set for Amerika with the me262
Thanks buddy, I knew I wasn’t going crazy just let, LOL!
Great job on planes and carriers. They are sweet.
You need to check out Spitfires German Navy, he just did on his thread.
Nice job man! :-D
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jwo1984,
here are some of my wildcats with paint schemes attempted too match the references…
––NICE WORK on your F-4F “Wildcat’s”.
Tall Paul
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@Tall:
jwo1984,
here are some of my wildcats with paint schemes attempted too match the references…
––NICE WORK on your F-4F “Wildcat’s”.
Tall Paul
are they suppose too be “F6F hellcats” or “F4F wildcat” replicas for A&A Tall Paul?? the “wild cat” was used too start the air war at Guadalcanal in the summer of 42, which is were I think the boardgame picks up…?
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@Tall:
jwo1984,
here are some of my wildcats with paint schemes attempted too match the references…
––NICE WORK on your F-4F “Wildcat’s”.
Tall Paul
––All I can do is show you some pics and give you my opinion. When the A&A-Guadalcanal game was produced they made a U.S. Navy fighter they called a “HELLCAT”, although IMHO it looks much more like an earlier “WILDCAT”. The F-4F Wildcat, although ‘stubby’, had a much smaller frontal air intake than the F-6F Hellcat which had a much more bulky, brawny airframe structure.
––As I knew that HBG would one day produce some actual F-6F Hellcats for us, ….to me this simply seemed an oportunity to use the OOB units as earlier F-4F Wildcats for the early US Navy and the Marines on Guadalcanal,… and when HBG produces their F-6F Hellcat paint them in the all-blue US Navy scheme thus easily distinguishing from each other.Tall Paul
are they suppose too be “F6F hellcats” or “F4F wildcat” replicas for A&A Tall Paul?? the “wild cat” was used too start the air war at Guadalcanal in the summer of 42, which is were I think the boardgame picks up…?
––Notice in the TOP pic the large intake of the F-6F Hellcat, BOTTOM pic shows the much smaller intake of the F-4F Wildcat
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I see it now Tall Paul thanks for the distinguishing. I try too be as accurate as I can while still having fun and making the game and pieces on the board “distinguishable” for other players that aren’t so into the history as a few guys on the forum like myself are. Guess we will all have too wait for Santa HBG too fill our stockings (online shopping carts) with more and more accurate pieces for our historically needs! Until the next batch…(I just received my HBG new Japanese expansion set which the pieces are AWESOME) I will be joining you on the red sun rampant painting train!
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Guys,
––After looking at my last posts I realize that someone might get the wrong impression of me as being “overbearing”. I hope not. I do have a passion for military history and I’m a ‘people person’ so I thoroughly enjoy the exchange of ideas, opinions, and information between us ALL. I get a lot of enjoyment from this,…and I can learn things that I haven’t experienced or read about yet.
----As you just stated, I think it’s also important that we keep in mind that this is a GAME,….and that we understand that by sometimes our making some ‘compromises’ to historical acuracy will pay off in more FUN in our GAMES. IMHO the rules should be kept as Simple, and Logical as posible to ‘speed’ our gameplay. I also have made certain ‘compromises’ in order to improve the easy & quick identification of units, their types, and their owning countries. What a great game this is!
----I’m looking forward to seeing MORE of your painted units in the future. Keep up the good work.
––BTW, here’s a pic of my F-4F “Wildcats” in U.S. Navy-Early war paint jobs that “LHoffman” did.Tall Paul
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“Tall Paul” I believe you are just as enthusiastic as anyone really when it comes too creativity and what skills and talents people can do too this game. Its great too hear form anyone whether it is praise of the work, or some helpful suggestions (ie decal work) and keeps the category forum going. I think it is all good and keeps up the motivation for all the hardwork guys put into there games!
these early war wildcats from LLhoffman you have are very nice! I love the historically accuracy and the resemblance too the pic is very good! Question Tall Paul, so do you commission LLhoffman to paint your aircraft, and you paint the infantry? ?
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