More painted pieces for consideration

@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.

@jwo1984:

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:

http://wp.scn.ru/

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!

@jwo1984:

@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?

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

jwo1984,

@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

@jwo1984:

@Tall:

jwo1984,

@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

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

Man, these are really awesome. I haven’t finished all mine, so I am definitely inspired by some of your paint schemes.

@jwo1984:

just wanted to share a few pics of some painted HBG Japanese expansion unit set….which are highly detailed and quality pieces. Fun too paint if anyone else has started or finished them! Slowly working my way through the kit…just finished the naval pieces I was most excited about the Yamato, Nagato, and Unryu carrier

Those are definately, sweet! :-D

jwo 1984,

––Nice! Good job. Keep the wonderful pics coming.

––I noticed your flags on the ships and they look nice.
----I plan to have a hole drilled behind the bridges on all of my Capital Ships thus allowing a large flag to be placed there denoting that a Commander is aboard and giving the ‘bonus’ to the ship/task force.

Tall Paul

@Tall:

––I noticed your flags on the ships and they look nice.
----I plan to have a hole drilled behind the bridges on all of my Capital Ships thus allowing a large flag to be placed there denoting that a Commander is aboard and giving the ‘bonus’ to the ship/task force.

Good idea and very nice-looking customization feature.  The bonus could be called a Flagship Bonus, flagship being the designation of the ship from which a fleet commander literally flies his flag.