painting the whole set is a gigantic task. something i have not done.
i started with the country i love and end up playing mostly the americans and then do the next lot.
I finaly got to play the germans last weekend and becuase of the extra minis i have got for them i was able to be anal and play the first two rounds with dark grey panzer4d’s and dark grey mechs. Then replace new tanks with the new camo panzer4’s stug3’s and yellow cammo half traks and finaly at the end of the game my tigers and elephunts.
The allies took great pleasure in bombing my tigers to hell after they counter attacked the allies off the normandy coast.

The raised parts will do a good job especially if you do washes. They look nice and detailed. The mechs i did was one of two experiments and i liked the one with helmets i kept the paint brush random after all men dont sit there perfectly in line and added a couplie of dabs of highlight on parts of the helmets. It really doesnt matter if they are perfect as the eye and brain pick it all up and except it so.

Some great modding i tried modding some U.S transports but it was messy at such a fine scale. Thanks for mentioning my half tracks too

very nice painting. The dark lineing/washes give them thats sence of depth/scale which makes them easy on the eye.

no but germany with held back from attacking russia for four rounds and britain was alone until america got in.

Last game i played i built a tank each round plus infantry. i kept the tank stack  behind the front in the south of russia. Its objective was to intimidate and threaten a counter attack and look for an advantage. While my infantry slowly held off the germans the tank stack went south and piled through the italians which were doing really well and helped the uk recover.

very nice tall paul like the factories

the hmg sets are really nice and have been eyeing them up espeacillay the lvts and ships. not as good as the metal ones but far cheaper and unbreakable. I reckon they will paint up really nicely. unfortunatly the cost of shipping makes it easier for me to buy the metal ones at a slow trickle with out much shipping.

@Viracocha i have moved since joining the forum to the fens but its about the same distance unfortunatly i dont get much free time these days with the baby and work. but i will keep it in mind

Cheers.
liveing along way away from friends and our one year old has left us with few chances to play that often but we are taking advantage of the royal bank holidays for a two day marathon next weekend. i am playing germany.
it is starting to look good now with all navies painted and most countries done except for infantry. france and china are both not yet done but it gives me incentive to destroy them.

added some picks of my german mechanized divisions except for the half tracks they are all GHQ AND CINC miniatures includeing stugs, hummels, elephants and tigers

here are the anzac ships i have finished

I tried to modify some of the liberty ships to tankers and and a marine troop ship with mixed results. the marine ship looks a bit close to the cruiser i think