Operation Paintskrieg

ithkrall

All posts about my fully customized and painted AA50 set are now on my blog vom-krieg. Thanks for all the support.

beerbelly

You’ve done a fantastic job!

Krupp Steel

Wow, very nice indeed, can’t wait to see tho other axis nations all done up. :-D

ithkrall

Thanks guys.

Current plan is to paint the nations in turn order according to the 1941 scenario (Makes as much sense as any other selection system i could think of)

I’ve done the German Battleships, Cruisers and Aircraft carriers and will try to update pictures later in the weekend.

Off to the model store to grab a flames of war “Soviet paint set” today ;)

Imperious Leader

what types of paint did you use and what colors or brushes were used?

hakan

NICE!!!

ithkrall

@Imperious:

what types of paint did you use and what colors or brushes were used?

I have a bunch of Citadel paints from my Warhammer 40k days. Codex Grey was used a lot, as well as your basic colours (Black,Red). All models were spray based by a can of citadal chaos black after i blue tacked them onto a cardboard sheet. (Actually the packing box my aa50 came in chopped up)

For the german specific tones I use the Flames of War German Infantry Paint set. Flames of war is a local New Zealand model company and they do national paint sets based on historic uniforms.

http://www.flamesofwar.com/Default.aspx?tabid=141&art_id=760

Brushes, I use a standard 1 for basing, 0 for most detail and a 000 for real fine work. My brushes are not good and probably need to be replaced as i’ve been using some of them for about 8 years on and off.

Blaarg

very nice. I used to play 40k and was a pretty good painter if I don’t say so myself.

Gargantua

But you did say so yourself… :P

ithkrall

So I got home from work to find that my partner had been playing with my Axis and Allies models :-P

http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=DSCF0411ed.jpg

I had to laugh and take this picture.

mpc220

Excellent job! Love the planes.

souL

I’d skip painting seldom used units (Russian naval vessels and Italian bmb come to mind.

ithkrall

@souL:

I’d skip painting seldom used units (Russian naval vessels and Italian bmb come to mind.

I thought about that, but im not really painting the game for play reasons, more of a painting exercise.

I really like painting and just wanted to do a project, for the sake of doing a project almost.

I could play AA with old bits of cardboard, this is just for fun

ithkrall

@mpc220:

Excellent job! Love the planes.

I need to do a picture of the underside of the planes as I painted them a very light blue and the contrast between top and bottom is quite nice.

ithkrall

@Nickiow:

Just out of intrest, did you consider dry brushing?.

Also Flames of war models paint up and fit very nicley on the discs, ive tried the dry brush over basic national coulours and a more detailed approach and don’t know which way to go as i kinda like both!!.

I normally do a bit of drybrushing on models, but i fnd the AA50 models too small to really utilize that technique. I did drybrush the metal parts on the German artillery (88flak) however. I tend only to drybrush metal.

What I do instead is a lot of inking. Taking black (or a darker shade of the original colour if black is overkill) and the original shade, mixing them and then applying a lot of water. You then coat the model in the watered blackish mess over the original paint. It falls into all the cracks and once dried, you paint the higher areas of the model again and is creates a nice layered effect. When I post pictures of the fleet you should see that a bit better.

The key to painting, i think at least is practice. Start simple and build up. Be prepared to paint lots of crappy models, you should see my original blood bowl team from when I was 13!

I learned a lot from various friends who paint in a whole league above me (One friend even has a couple of games workshop golden demon placings) . I sat with them and painted horribly for years and they gave me advice and guidance. Slowly, and surely I got better. I’m not a fantastic painter, but i’m not horrible either.

katfishkris

wow very nice. makes me want to paint mine. sure would make it easier to distinguish between russian and italian forces. the friend i play with is color blind and sometimes he has a hard time seeing the difference. nice work.