Operation Paintskrieg

[ithkrall]

@HannibalSW:

Wow, my compliments on another solid paint job that makes me envious!

BTW what did you use for the stars on the ships?  Looks like a decal of some sort.

My local model store has loads of stuff for flames of war, so i grabbed a transfer set. You can also see some of the cyrillic script on the russian tanks as well.

Annoyingly, flames of war doesnt do Japanese models so ill be winging the paint scheme a bit.

[falconrider]

I’m very impressed, well done!  Are you planning to paint the IC & AA units as well?

[Pan]

I’ll second what everyone else has said as well…very impressive indeed!

I have a question as well…is this sort of work something that is available for purchase?  What I mean is does anyone sell fully painted and historically accurate sets?

[Omega]

I want someone to paint my units!!

I think I will go to a local shop where they hold Miniatures game. Maybe someone will paint them for me :)

Robert

[I like Ike]

WOW  :-o That is some really impressive stuff!  Well done.  I’m soooooo jealous.

[falconrider]

Whilst on the topic of painting, i play Warhammer Fantasy and love to play but hate the painting so paid an overseas company to paint my stuff.  They did a good job and were priced well.  Maybe i should get them to paint my AA minatures too.  If your wondering who they are you can find them at www.paintedfigs.com

[ithkrall]

Falconrider

Yep gonna do the AA guns in a generic grey and most of the IC’s in a redbrick look. However, I plan to paint all the nations starting IC’s thematically and leave them in the individual nation bits boxes.

That overseas company looks ok, and are reasonably priced. My 40k models are of that standard or higher already so I doubt I woudl use them.

Omega

Give it a go, just be prepared to pay a bit. After all, even painting 670 models to a lowish standard takes a long long time.

Pan

Don’t know of anyone who sells painted AA models. I know if I was to do another set i would charge a fortune as its very time consuming.

Thanks all for the comments and compliments. Japan will hopefully be done in the next 2-3 weeks and I will post them up once i’ve finished.

[ithkrall]

Phase Three is complete, and not a moment to soon! Too many damned ships!

Moving on the the UK next, planning on doing the armour and artillery in 8th armour colours. And I need to figure out how to do little union jacks. PS. I will be redoing some of the german and Russian ships with flags as well.

Core folder for Operation Paintskrieg

http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/

Japanese Infantry

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

Japanese Armour

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

Japanese Artillery

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

Japanese Air

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

Japanese Capital Ships

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

Japanese small ships

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

[Bjergmose]

I really like the infantry.
But I think the naval units shouldn´t be shiny metal.
They are a bit too “gamey”,
meaning that they look cool for playing, but they don´t
really look like warships IMHO  :-)
I paint myself and know that if they look like real ships
your fellow players can´t distinguish between the naval units.

Quote one of my co-players (after submarines mess-up)
“Why don´t you just paint them the same color ?”(instead of all looking greyish)
“Then there wouldn´t be any reason to paint them!” (they allready have their own colors)

Check out my italians:

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/459976

[ithkrall]

Yeah, it was a conscious decision to paint them in that way. No Japanese ship in WWII had big orange waterline markings as far as i’m aware of.

95% of my painting background is in men and tanks, i had never done ships before. So faced with the decision of

a.) Paint them super accurately, but harder to distinguish
b) paint them like game pieces, less accurate but easy to identify

I went with B, there are pros and cons to both sides. (Most of my friend are not military history freaks like me)

In fact it was yours and sam hills pictures on BGG that inspired me to do the painting in the 1st place, I saw your guys work and went “damm, thats cool, i reckon i should give this a go”. So thanks for the inspiration

For those who haven’t seen Sams job, its pretty good, especially the bases for his aircraft which he hand cast himself.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/451770

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/451767

[ithkrall]

Relooking at your ships and sams, i may go back and repaint the metallics in codex grey on the ships.

I’ll do a demo and see how it looks.

After all, i think the german ships do look better in that regard

[ithkrall]

Stage 4, The British Empire!

For a New Zealander, this is essentially “The Home team” for me. Also, being in the NZDF has meant a lot of travel for me in the last month so this has taken a lot longer than normal to finish. Next up, the Italians.

UK Infantry

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

UK Armour and Artillery

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

The RAF

Photo isnt the best, may redo later

http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=UKAir.jpg
UK capital ships

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

UK Support ships

http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/?action=view¤t=Ukfleet2.jpg

Core Album

http://s458.photobucket.com/albums/qq305/ithkrall/AA50/

[Imperious Leader]

topic set as sticky for the time being.

[ithkrall]

@Imperious:

topic set as sticky for the time being.

Cheers IL

Italy is getting base coated tonight, probably less turn around on Italy than other nations, so 2-3 weeks, then I will do the chinese infantry (already been gifted a p-38 for the tigers!), then the US.

After that I plan to do the IC’s, and figure out a way to base the AA Guns so they look like flak towers (Thanks for the idea of flak towers whoever suggested that in the FMG pieces thread). Then I will go back and do flags for the German and Russian fleet capital ships.

Hopefully by the time this is done FMG will be brining out the first series of new pieces :)

[Imperious Leader]

Your painted pieces would be an inspiration to others to do the same. It certainly adds to the game as much as anything else.

[Bjergmose]

Nice ones. 8-)
I think I have to start over again.
My italians were the last ones I finished, so the early countries
needs some repainting. So now you inspire me  :-)

[ithkrall]

@Bjergmose:

Nice ones. 8-)
I think I have to start over again.
My italians were the last ones I finished, so the early countries
needs some repainting. So now you inspire me  :-)

I took your advice on the fleet models if you hadn’t noticed :)

[Bjergmose]

Yeah I noticed.

Your flags are cool, but I have seen pictures of the RN-flag
as Englands flag (white w/red cross) and Union jack in top right corner.

How do you store your naval units to protect the flags?

[ithkrall]

@Bjergmose:

Yeah I noticed.

Your flags are cool, but I have seen pictures of the RN-flag
as Englands flag (white w/red cross) and Union jack in top right corner.

How do you store your naval units to protect the flags?

Yeah, I know the “real naval flags” are different to what i’m using, for example ill use the “red/white/green” for italy…… mainly as its SO much easier to paint, and people playing will recognize the national flag easier than the military flag.

As for storage I do nothing special. The flags are made out of high thickness art paper and are actually very very sturdy. I bend the paper in the middle, glue the rod in the centre, and then bend the paper back so its double sided. Then I paint on the metal rod. The flags are really stiff and sturdy.

[ithkrall]

Stage 5 Italian Forces

The Italian are finished, in fact i finished theme last week but left my camera at work.

Have started on the US infantry last night

Italian Infantry

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

Italian land

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

Italian Air

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

I did the Italian air force symbol wrong, but it looks close enough …. oops.

Italian Navy

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