SgtWilTan's mods and conversions of A&A pieces

@sgtwiltan:

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.

Well they are impressive nonetheless. How long did those normally take? And what did you use (knives, plastic blocks…)?

Wil & Others,

@sgtwiltan:

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

––I see war clouds gathering in the near future. Great work!

“Tall Paul”

Wil,

@sgtwiltan:

More Detailed pics put up on page 1.
Since Paul has got most of my early Panthers and Tigers
Sorry about that,….and thanks again.,
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.

––It’s always great to hear from you, especially when you are showing your latest modifications completed and in process. I’m in a bit of a hurry right now,…and I don’t remember if any of those Half-tracks were headed my way or not, but I hope so. Great work on the pics you’ve posted. I’ll check 'em out more once I’m home again.

Go “WarMachine Team”

“Tall Paul”

@sgtwiltan:

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.

Incredible Wil, absolutely incredible.

Wil,

––Just a “head’s-up” for you. I just added three sets of HBG’s Japanese Expansion sets to the
three Japanese Supplemental sets that were already pre-ordered. All will be sent to YOU for any modifications you think we need done, as well as your perusal. I’ll order additional numbers of several units whenever they are available for individual sale. You might at least send me some pics whenever they come in, haha.  :-D

“Tall Paul”

@sgtwiltan:

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

I love the new format. Works great. Still in awe. (Have you modded anything besides tanks/ground vehicles?)

@sgtwiltan:

If you want to see some great scale comparisons, look here.
http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=28294.0

I didn’t even know you linked to my thread… Perhaps I should keep up on it a bit more.

@sgtwiltan:

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.

Very much looking forward to it when it comes. Esp. ships.

Wil and Lucas,

––I am always amazed at the quality of ALL of Wil’s mods, whatever type of unit that’s represented. But I agree with Lucas in saying that IMHO the ships will end up being the COOLEST looking of all of the types. Gunships with gun barrels, carriers with (painted) magnetic tape and decal overlays. Magnets on the bottoms of all ships to be used with my magnetic “Fleet Sheets”(copywrited). And all of the Capital ships having a hole drilled in them vertically behind the bridge so a “flag” can be added representing a “Commander” is on board. We have so much to accomplish but it will all look so cool! I really hope we can get a bunch more units completed before next years HBG Gaming Convention. I’d really like to meet and play some A&A games with you two and others using these detailed/painted units for the very first time.

“Tall Paul”

@sgtwiltan:

Basecoated OOB Mod, Raw mod, OOB, HBG mod, HBG with GHQ

Every time I look at this picture I think… poor T-34, it has ED.

Kinda sad, but funny at the same time.

@sgtwiltan:

I was about to ask which one but you changed the pic.
That is why i usually change out the barrels. Too hard to straighten with hot water without mis-shaping the sculpt

Yeah, I noticed I picked the wrong one.

I have been meaning to ask you what materials (plastic/glue) you use to modify the pieces? Not that I have time to do so right now, but I might like to try my hand at it sometime.

Wow… I really did not think it was so involved. WRONG!

I really would like to look into doing this, but I am not prepared with time or money at the moment, so it will have to wait. The problem is that I am constantly learning new techniques and approaches for painting, so it would be difficult to do two at once.

Anyway, thanks for the list. A pin-vise sounds like an interesting tool. Maybe even beneficial for painting, I might look into that.

Wil,

––Even though I know and accept that you are the “Mod King”,….after seeing your latest creations all I can say is;

WOW!

––The artillery units are amazing!  :-o I’m still surprised when I realize that these ordinary units are STILL my favorite that you’ve done. But once I look at your “Mod Magic”, I understand why. Wow! You DEFINATELY have a talent for this.

----I’ve been very busy organizing things for my Railroad & Military History Museum so I have a couple of questions.
1.) Does this latest “batch” of artillery complete the 90 unit order?
2.) Have you been able to complete the “Commonwealth Shermans”?
----You know, it would probably be easier to just send me a list of what you’ve been able to complete so far and what’s still “in the works”. As always, I’m more than happy to pay you whenever you like. Hopefully when “Lucas” returns from his honeymoon we’ll continue production, although possibly on a slower timetable for the painting of units.

Go “Team WARMACHINE!”

“Tall Paul”