LHoffman's Painted Sculpts For Your Consideration

@sgtwiltan:

Great work and paint jobs!!
I feel better working with you now that I’ve seen these.
Hope you have fun with my pieces.

Thanks for the thumbs up Sarge. Have seen your stuff too and am very impressed. Look forward to receiving them.

@Viracocha:

Cool Tiger… I’m going to start painting my tigs soon, I’ll try that scheme on one of them I think Hoff.

Yeah, didn’t turn out as well as the picture, but it’s a work in progress. Now that I have an airbrush, thanks to Paul’s convincing, I might be able to make the next ones better. Although, I feel like I am wasting my time if I paint something other than Wil’s juiced up Tigers.

As you may have noticed everyone, my project will be somewhat on hold as I am currently working on some units for Paul. However, I am glad for the chance to paint something with real meaning and refinement which turns into a finished product… plus I get to work methods out at the same time. It’s really a fun gig. There will be pictures posted here, on Paul’s thread and probably Wil’s too, so don’t fear. What with so many talented guys painting or modifying their sets we are not left wanting for new pictures.

@sgtwiltan:

Yeah, can’t wait to see what you do with them. Judging from your detail on ships, they might be hard to let go after you paint them.
Check out track link or missing-lynx for painting ideas. Of course ou’ll have to translate them to 1/285th or 1/300th scale from the original 1/35 scale
models.

Thanks, I will do that. And hey, I know what the feeling is like about parting with your hard and satisfying work… so if you ever wanted to make some for yourself and send them to me, I would love to paint them for you. Unless of course you would enjoy painting them yourself, in which case I totally understand. But the offer stands regardless.

@Tall:

Lucas,

––Wil just sent me, and I forwarded to you a pic of the AK Cargo Transport ship and Early-model Stuart Light Tank prototypes. Check 'em out as they’ll be headed you way, along with the more modern type of Stuarts before too long.

“Tall Paul”

Yes, I did see. It looks like fun and I will be waiting, if not quite ready to start.

Thanks Spitfire.

I have not added anything for a while because I am in the midst of a project for Tall Paul… some of the units may show up here eventually.

Here are some pics of Tall Paul’s sets to give you something to think about.

Battle on Guadalcanal with USMC F4Fs.

Early war F4F Wildcats (Midway).

All planes are numbered for men who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

These are mostly, but not entirely, finished US Navy aircraft.

Paul is having (from L to R) 8 SBD Dauntlesses, 12 F4F Wildcats, 8 TBF Avengers and 8 F4U Corsairs.

There will be a mix of early war (with tail stripes and red dot in star) and mid-war planes. Plus some F4Fs as Marine Corps. fighters, as you have seen. (These do not have their final dull-coat varnish applied, so there is still a bit of a sheen coming off the decals. This mostly disappears after a spraying.)

@Swedo:

Awesome work, as usual!

I have a question though, why do you have decals on both wings? Since everything else is historical accurate and very detailed, why did you add a decal on the right wing?

Thanks Swedo (and Paul)… thought we would keep things going here since we do have some new stuff to show.

To answer your question: I put decals on both wings, first, because that was how Paul wanted them (customer gets what the customer wants) and, second, not all pictures I have seen of early war schemes have just 1 star on the wing. I have seen a number with 2 (such as those below). Markings were not always completely uniform in the service.

For A&A purposes it can also be easier and necessary to compromise some exact details for easy recognition during gameplay, or because the size of the piece will prohibit being completely true to real life.

As Paul said also, he plays the game with his dad (who is a WWII vet) and the easy recognition factor is important for him.