Painted playing pieces

Those are very nice!

i second your opinion Imperious Leader

Those pieces are much more elaborate than the ones I painted.  I also recognized that at this scale, historical accuracy is just not a priority.  Also for me I wanted them to use the idea, “This color goes to this nation” sort of approach.  My most elaborate ones are for the Japanese.  Back when I was playing Revised, I also wanted two colors of UK troops because of the temperate and tropical environments.  I may have painted Marines for the US in the Pacific if I had stuck with it long enough.

For the Japanese, I used three colors for “bodies”, sand, IJN Green and IJA Green.  I added a lot of meatballs and silver for glass on the fighters.  I also painted the lower hull of all ships with Battleship Grey.

The UK were painted either a regular green or a color called Armor Sand for tropical uniforms.

The decks of US warships were painted “wood” and the superstructures were painted battleship grey.

Russian Pieces were colored a pale brown.  German pieces were colored European Grey.  Chinese pieces were going to be a dark brown.

Now I have a new challange to find colors for French, Italian and Aussie pieces.

so… the US fleet is as good as ready now… Maybe not historicly correct, but playable :)

ok?

@chagadiel:

i am happy and there is no mistaking those italian ships. i dont know what country used the deck design i got from a ghq painted set of ships but i thought that would good forthe italians

Nice work!  It must take a lot of squinting to paint sculpts which are that small…or do you use some sort of magnifying glass?

The diagonal recognition stripes on the decks which you mention were indeed used by the Italian Navy.  I’m not aware of any other country using them.

By the way, the shot of the cat sleeping in the box is a great picture!

@chagadiel:

Good stuff chrillenilsson like you say they may not be totaly accurate but they look like ships rather than olive plastic and are easilly distinquishable as american. good decals are they from ghq?

I am also haveing trouble coming up with ideas for the anzacs to make them destinquishable from the brits.

thanks…
I agree… And yes, the decals ae from them. I really like them and they are affordable. I live in Sweden, Europe and still they came pretty quick. The thing about the decals is that they dont break that easy, which is good :)

Keep up the good work!

@CWO:

@chagadiel:

i am happy and there is no mistaking those italian ships. i dont know what country used the deck design i got from a ghq painted set of ships but i thought that would good forthe italians

Nice work!  It must take a lot of squinting to paint sculpts which are that small…or do you use some sort of magnifying glass?

The diagonal recognition stripes on the decks which you mention were indeed used by the Italian Navy.  I’m not aware of any other country using them.

By the way, the shot of the cat sleeping in the box is a great picture!

Well, I dont know… I´m not using any magnifying glass. Some paint end up in the wrong place, buy hey… That must have happened in WWII as well, for real :) I guess…

@chagadiel:

my cat made a peacefull protest against the war while we had a break by sleeping in our dice box.

Imagine if it had done a ‘violent’ protest by killing all the plastic soldiers :-D

@chagadiel:

Thats a result that the stripe pattern is Italian. i guess there was a reason it felt right to go with the stripes.

Some more germans finished

good… But U could really use the decals for the german cross… I have a picture of mine… let me see if I can find it :)

Like this. With the decal on the wing.

Can somebody please do a thread where they show HOW TO PAINT AA PIECES?

I want to learn how to do it properly. Post pictures of the tools and types of brushes and technique ( step by step)

I will make it a sticky for everyone to benefit. It is time to do this right now.

Make sure whoever makes this thread that they tell people where to buy the paints and brushes.

Include dry-brushing and how to do it.

I can do a tutorial on how I am doing it… Although, maybe it isn´t the “right” way to do it… I can not measure myself with clay and virtua…

But better than nothing, and always a start :)

Maybe it will be up this weekend due to heavy work in the week :)

@chagadiel:

I did not know they are making more miniatures.
i have been buying some sherman and german tanks for variety from another figure company since the scales are identicle. But what i want is a wildcat ot corsair for the pacific. wicked.

I dont know what the answer is to your cornundrum. I would say yes paint your new ones but if you got the time paint just the ships of those you havent replaced yet maybe  a few tanks of each unreplaced side

Hey Chagadiel, I bought some P-51s, P-40s, and Corsairs from a place on the internet (I think it was from Brookhurst Hobbies). They are pewter, but I was using them for painting anyways. You might want to consider those if you want wildcats or corsairs:

(Picture is so you can see the scale versus the OOB pieces)

Gaa!  Don’t know how I missed seeing this thread!  These. Are. Awesome. Both artists.

chrillenilsson - Really, really like the naval pieces in particular (especially those Jap carriers with the bushido symbols/words!!!  I know doing those aren’t easy  :-o).  The choices for your colors are top notch as well, cool camo. Nice touch with the Navy on the U.S. BB’s.  :mrgreen:

Chag - like your ideas for emphasizing the different platforms on the ships…  And those scorch marks - excellent idea.  Agree with ya about not using straight silver paint - tried doing that with some zeros once, too shiny.  Nose art on your B-17s!!  :-o  :-D