Standardized Colors

@Imperious-Leader

Suspended from Reddit, but probably Germany grey, Italy yellow.

Because so many of the ship types are too similar (to my admittedly weak eyesight, at least), I have decided to use some poker chips of various colors as bases for these ships. These poker chips are the same exact size and type as the white/grey, red, and green ones already included in the game.

Since we need to be able to tip the capital ships (battleships and aircraft carriers) onto their sides (to indicate when they are damaged), I don’t need to uses poker chip bases for them. That leaves the other four classes (cruisers; destroyers; subs; transports). Since I did not want for these chips to use any color that is already used by the game pieces (wither as chips or as units), that left me with purple, orange, yellow, and pink as my options.

So, I’ll be using purple for cruisers, orange for destroyers, yellow for submarines, and pink for transports.

Here is an image of the work in progress: my cruisers on purple poker-chip bases.

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Thanks for tolerating my bragging about my project. ^_^

Franklin

@coedewa

Valejo has all WWII paint you can imagine. Most of them are even named, for example: German Camouflage Red Brown, German Tank Grey, Afrika Korps Sand Yellow, etc.

For example, all you need to do is decide which year you want your Luftwaffe units from - since Luftwaffe colors changed during the War depending on which season (Summer or Winter) and Theatre of War.

Luftwaffe paintings are named RLM and then a number, for example RLM 65 or RLM 65 A (grey).

As the War progressed, various camouflage paintings became less available due to shortages in general.

Most Tank models in Late 1944 and Early 1945 were from the production line painted overall Tank Grey since this paint was still plentyfull.
This color was also perfect for City Fighting.

Frontline units needed to repaint their equipment with everyrhing they could find or capture from the enemy.

You might find inspiration here:

Panzer Colors I Panzer Colors II Panzer Colors III Messerschmitt Bf 109 in action Ju 87 Stuka in action SS Armor

All of the above are from Squadron/signal puplications
Multiple other books are available from this company.

Also check out:

The Eastern Front - Armor Camouflage and Markings 1941 to 1945, by Steven J. Zaloca & James Grandsen

I use waterbased paint from Valejo and acrylic paint from Humbrol.

After painting is dry, I add multiple layers of Matt Spray Varnish for further protection against wear and tear.

You can check out on this forum:
Global 1940 Game Report Thread. There you’ll find some pictures of the units I have in my Axis & Allies game.

Japanese A&A Pacific 2nd Edition Color Match
Hey All.
If you are looking to match the default color for the Japanese, try Vallejo Liquid Acrylic 804 Transparent Orange and Model color 140 Flat Brown mixed 30 to 1 sprayed on an undercoat of 131 Orange Brown. It’s a dead match.
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Rust-o-leum Rustic Orange

I’ve always had a problem with HBG’s “orange” Japanese units not being of the same tone of orange from OOB A&A… most other colors of custom HBG units seem to match pretty good, but that orange always seemed off to me… so much so I’ve never kept a custom HBG Japanese unit in my nation bins… sad, cuz I really like some of them.

(and yes, I’m one of those anal-retentive guys where if the color is just off a tad, it “ruins” it for me… I know I’m odd that way).

P.S.
Dang, I just realized this forum won’t let you use the first three letters of Japanese units without blanking it out as a profanity.

Very nice work. I’m way too unsteady of hand and mind to pull that off.

Ideally yes, however… the HBG set is missing G40 sea units that the UK Pacific might buy during a game, where the French won’t need any units after the initial setup.