Posts made by John Brown

Guys, I thought I would share a tip about decaling your pieces.

Have your ever painted a piece that you were proud of, but it got messed up because of one stubborn decal that just wasn’t going on the piece smoothly?

I’m sure some of you have experienced this.

TIP 1: Make sure to use hot water when separating the decal from the film, and change the water often. This will make it so much easier on you, in the long run.

TIP 2: When putting a decal on the piece your painting, bump the corner of the decal, to straighten it out. If the decal will not maneuver into the correct position, for you, you then need to get a pair of tweezers, and take the decal off of the piece, to reposition it.

If your piece is too dry dab a little more of the decal solution, before putting the decal in position again.

TIP 3: If a piece has more than one decal to put on, always start with the hardest decal, first.

I cannot tell you how many times, I’ve ruined a paint job on a piece, because the last decal, either got stuck on the piece and dried on it, or too much decal solution was put on, or while maneuvering the decal, it messed another decal up, as well as the paint job.

I’m no expert, and have only been painting for 3 years, but these are some things I have experienced that I thought I would pass along to you guys who are new at painting and decaling.

I hope these can be of help to someone getting into this.

Cheers! :-)

John

@R:

I was thinking about Canada & WW2 India Flag also.  Maybe Republican and National Spain flags, just the bars, no Crown in the center.  Spain Flags would be on one Card.Â

What about Manchukuo?  Siam?

I very much would like these flags as well.

If you go the HBG’s website, all these colors Andy6049 is talking about, are under the battle pieces link, that you click on first, then click on battle piece colors, then you can click on each unit piece, you desire to purchase.

I hope this helps.

Cheers!

John

@bgugs:

I figured you guys could tell what it was going for, what I meant was it looks more yellow in the picture than it does in does when you hold it in your hand. But thank you I hopefully will have more to show soon. I hope to have the entire OOB Japanese air force done within two weeks of now. I am waiting to place an order from HBG that will give me some new Japanese aircraft but I am not counting that in the air force yet

I see what you are talking about. You’ll have to forgive me, lol, I’ve been doing honey do’s for my wife today, and the list was quite long, lol.

I’m just tired. :-D

@bgugs:

The color doesn’t show that well in the picture but its color matches this pretty closely

bgugs, it is close enough. Sometimes, you may not get a perfect match, but if it is close enough, people will be able to tell what you were trying to achieve.

Awesome job! Can’t wait to see more. :-)

Cheers!

John

Appreciate the comments. You must have been busy the last few days. Haven’t seen any of your work.

Are you and your friend painting anything, this week?

@DMcLaren:

Sweet!�  Nice job, John!�  Don’t you just love the HBG Stukas?�  Lots of great detail on those pieces.

They are my favorite planes, of the war, because they wail, like banshees. They are fun to paint as well. They just look mean and nasty, lol. :-D

Hey guys, I just provided my first official link to a forum, on the first page.

Some of you have already seen this video of YG’s, but those of you that haven’t.

Here it is.

Cheers!

John

PS As some of you know, I’m not very good at computers or technology, but this a big step for me, lol, so thanks to the guys on the forums that have helped me with this sort of thing.

I can’t understand German, but I know what your doing, and that is cool, and will make it easier to keep track of. :-)

Super job on this spreadsheet.

Cheers!

John

@Spitfire38:

I’m loving the armbands!

Thanks Spitfire, I appreciate it. :-)

This the last picture!

I hope you enjoyed these. Next up will be my painted, SS ELITE TOOPS!

There will four of these. I also will take a picture of all of, GROUP ONE.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers!

John

Third picture is the SStroopers!

Second picture!

**GERMANY

GROUP ONE: GREY CAMO SCHEME
PART FIVE: PARATROOPERS**

I painted four of these. Two are SS troopers.

I decided two paint these in tri-color camouflage, using dark grey, light grey and German grey.

First picture!

@Requester45:

@CWO:

keep in mind that “broad acceptance within the A&A community” isn’t necessarily the criterion for assessing if a modification is successful; in practical terms, the real criterion is whether it’s acceptable to your gaming group.

Im glad you brought this up, as my friends and I are constantly debating things like this. We will be implementing some of the rules I run across on the forum for test runs, and see if we like them, however we are not ones to deviate too much from the OOB rules. We are currently trying to work on the R&D to see if we can modify it in a way that is even and not at chance. I see alot of these on different AA members YouTube channels as well as here on the forum, I just can’t seem to agree with most of them.

That is the beauty part of the community. What works with one group, might not work on another group.

The cool thing is, you can pick and choose what works for your group.

You can choose some house rules, or none at all.

Cheers!

John

@generalTrible:

I have one I love it there is no chance of manipulation of the dice by me cuz after all I usually play solitaire

I have to play a lot of games like that, so that is nice to know. :-)

@DMcLaren:

Panzerfausts!  Those look great!  And combat medics too- do you have special rules for those?  Great job on that truck- love it!  I especially like the canvass top- nice work there.

Thanks! They were fun to paint.

A few of the guys on the forums have house rules, and HBG has combat medic rules for the 36 game, that I’m looking into. :-)

LAST PICTURE!

Next will be the Airborne Troopers!

I hope you enjoyed these!

Cheers! :-D

John

SIXTH PICTURE!

FIFTH PICTURE!

I got new decals for my troops, combat medical decals for the arms and helmets or hats.

They are really cool.

I will have a combat medic for every scheme.

The Germans will have a medic for the regular and light infantry.

Each scheme, a truck will have one as well.

Eventually, I will do combat medical ships, at some point, so be on the look out for that. :-D