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Tjoek '20 '19 '18 Customizer
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Well done!

Where do you get your water slide roundels that you use on the trucks and planes?
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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I’ve gotten them from several places. These particular ones I believe are from
historicalboardgaming.com
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thetruegriffin
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great pieces. your UK division numbers, you get those from HBG too? pain in the butt aren’t they? I haven’t found a good way to get them set without tearing a few. they’re very finicky. everything else from HBG is awesome. was curious if you cracked the code with those British division decals though.
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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Check out my website. Www.combatminiatures.org

Will be selling some decals that are hard to find in the sizes we need, along with some painted units.
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thetruegriffin
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neat. if you want to outsource some painting, i’d be interested. haha.
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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Just added these to the website. Buy as a pack or seperate

www.combatminiatures.org
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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Painted up some SS Tiger
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John Brown '18 '17 '16 '15 Customizer
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Those are sweet! :-)
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DMcLaren '20 '19 '18 Customizer
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Nice camo! I may have to get some of those SS decals from your site. Are the numbers from I-94? Is the camo based on any historical reference?
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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I believe the numbers may be from GHQ. The Camo is the same i used on my SS Infantry Jackets.

I will be getting in Afrika Korp, Union Jack, Italian Fascist & German Socialist decals later this week.
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John Brown '18 '17 '16 '15 Customizer
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Very cool!
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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British Boats with New Union Jack Decals
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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Avro
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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Russian Heavy Armor
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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GHQ armored Car with Flag Decal from Combat Miniatures
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bgugs
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These pieces look awesome, can’t wait to use my decals
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Johnson73 Sponsor '18 '17 '16 '15 '14 Customizer
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HBG Kaga with the Standard of Admiral of IJN on its Deck
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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).

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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.
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Counters to replace "Battle pieces"

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To me, that’s the same concept of using the chassis of a Lamborghini with the body of a Yugo. A Lamborghini isn’t just about the engine that drives it, people love it because it’s how it LOOKS.

The same thing can be said of Axis and Allies. Maybe the body of a Yugo is more practical to some, but I wouldn’t bother playing Axis and Allies at all, if I felt I was sitting in a Yugo.

If you don’t know what a Yugo is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MknuRE2Bcg

Built in Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, the Yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. Interestingly, in a car where “carpet” was listed as a standard feature, the Yugo had a rear-window defroster, reportedly to keep your hands warm while you pushed it…
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Painting IC's

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Thanks everyone for your replies, I finished last night. Really happy with how these turned out.

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Finding Good After-Market Pieces

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I have opened my Airfix and find that, although the base/pedestal is shorter, the pieces are of a height with those produced by HBG. I’d feel comfortable using them on my board. My big concern is that the plastic is very soft, and some pieces so finely molded that you’re almost certainly looking at damage-in-storage, if not straight out of the box. They can also be a pain to cut cleanly from sprues, resulting in damaged to pieces during removal.

HaT pieces are in much harder plastic – so hard, it’s brittle. They are noticeably beefier than Airfix pieces in the same scale, but about as tall. I got a Serbian WW1 pack.

Waterloo 1815 miniatures in 1:72 scale are taller, also brittle, and beefier still, but are also acceptable. Sprues for special molds (e.g., machine gunners) are fiddly, creating risk of damage to pieces during clipping.
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Redleg13A starts to paint his own pieces

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Redleg,

First, you have a beautiful family. Second, Your paint jobs look great. I have to really give applause to your freehand markings. It’s true decals are cleaner and sharper but I my self have used none on anything I’ve painted and I’m developing a way to layer and paint my own markings (It’s been holding up my project severely) I simply can’t afford to buy sheets of decals that I might only use a handful of.

One tip That I’ve adopted, is to use ultra-fine Sharpie permanent markers for small lines and details where a brush won’t do or may slop (canopy frames). Lastly I’ve learned from table-top gamers of much larger scale (Warhammer, Bolt Action) models that at the scale Axis & Allies models are you can “mass paint” with fewer details on many units to create large armies, fleets and air forces that will look phenomenal from eye level to table top . Anyway us A&A painters have our work cut out for ourselves. I salute you sir.

Anyway, keep on painting, Nice work.
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Toblerone77's Paint Warfare.

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@jluna1273:

Toblerone77,

Question for you: how did you get the “CUSTOMIZER” tab on your profile?

Marc has your answer pretty much there. The link kind of shows why, what, when ,where and who made this happen.

There are people here a lot better than me on a lot of subjects involving customization and HRs/game ideas, and I was surprised I even received it.

“Customizer” covers a lot and I’m sure in time others will be awarded this badge. For myself I nominated a few who really showed they were doing a lot for the game. Most notably “Most Holy” and “alllworkandnoclay” they both paint and Most Holy is the host of Dicestruction podcast. This to my knowledge is the only podcast which features Axis & Allies exclusively. These guys were just a couple whom I nominated. I asked a few people to move allworkandnoclay’s thread to customizations to help all those who paint and customize their units as a tool.

The credit for much of this goes to YoungGrasshopper who suggested the badge for Der Kuenstler initially, whom I also nominated for his war room and his HR work.
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Italian tank paint schemes

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Awesome! Ready-for-the-desert scheme, sweet.
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"Tall Paul's" ITALIAN units, detailed & painted by the "WARMACHINE Team"

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Guys,

@coachofmany:

very nice!
**––I’m glad you enjoyed them. Lord knows I CERTAINLY ENJOY HBG’S PRODUCTS!

Tall Paul**

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