@the-captain they are water slide decals.
I would like some advice
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G40… I have decided to add Canada as a playable county. Obviously UK troops start there, but they will start with 6 IPC… I have peices to use that are historically accurate… My only problem is color… Anyone have any ideas what color to use… Would like a few. Ideas before I settle and paint them. Most my game is hand painted as accurate as possibly, but I but even then keep the base to out of box color… Any color idea would be appreciated.
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If a stand alone nation historically had strong ties with the another one then its better to assign it similar colour but making it distinguishable enough.
It’s Britain’s dark brown
Its Canada’s potential dark mustard
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One color that some gamers have used for Canadian units comes from the old A&A Revised game. When that game was first released, the UK’s units were in a shade of green, lighter than what the US’s pieces were in. This color is sometimes referred to as seafoam green, sometimes as celery green. See below:
UK pieces in light/celery green, picture 1 (source: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/76919/axis-allies)
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UK pieces in light/celery green, picture 2 (source: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/88496/axis-allies)
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UK pieces in light/celery green, shown with in mass with pieces from other powers in mass (source: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/72417/axis-allies)
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The same UK pieces in tan, to show the difference (source: https://boardgamegeek.com/image/1006268/axis-allies)
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While “official” A&A pieces in this color were only made for the Revised version of the game (and not all of the Revised games came with green Brits, only the earlier editions), new pieces in (roughly) this color is available from Historical Board Gaming (HBG). Sort their battle pieces by color, and take a gander at what is available in what HBG calls celery green. You can also buy some of the old A&A Revised pieces in celery green, but it’s not cheap.
I hope that helps.
-Midnight_Reaper
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Another approach is to use the ANZAC Grey-Brown colour from the two editions of Pacific 1940, by considering that this colour depicts the self-governing Dominions of the Commonwealth which were at war during WWII: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. (Newfoundland is excluded because it was being governed from Britain at the time, and Eire is excluded because it was neutral in WWII.) In my sculpt collection, which is arranged in multiple trays, I use the Pacific 1940.1 ANZAC sculpts (which are British-patterned) to depict Canada, and the Pacific 1940.2 ANZAC sculpts (which are ANZAC-patterned) to depict the southern Commonwealth Dominions (Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). The only cross-tray adaptation I had to make was to loan Canada some of the 1940.2 AAA sculpts, since 1940.1 doesn’t have any.
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