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HBG Neutrals Painted

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Most Holy Customizer
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The True neutrals and Mongolians
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Yavid
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check me out I get to be the first to say. nice job Most Holy they look awesome. very easy to tell which ones are which
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Great job man, they look awesome
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Viracocha Customizer
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Sweet! Dammit… now I need to get some neutrals…
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Gargantua Liaison TripleA 11 10
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LOL damn blue suit Mongolians.

Nice work Holy…
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Rammstein
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I ordered me some neutrals the other day. Nice work!
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jluna1273 2026 14 13
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These are nice, I needed ideas for my neutrals and these are a great start. Good job.
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Derek
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You Gawddammm Mongolians mess up my schitty wall for the last time!
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georgemak1 12
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Great job my friend
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Most Holy Customizer
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Thanks
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Can anyone share some of their painted 1914 units?

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• • • Windrunner21

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I am working on painting my 1914 game pieces and would love to see what you all have done. Especially naval, artillery and plane units. Thanks!
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Can HBG and GHQ be mixed?

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@Modest_Proposal:

carsonbparker -

So, considering you are trying to make a full GHQ set, do you find the battleships, carriers, and heavy bombers (without stands) to be too large for the standard Global and/or Anniversary map?

Perhaps if I tactfully choose only a few large battleships and carriers and stuck mostly to the medium-smaller ones + support carriers.

,David

I think with the bombers is were the real problem would be. In the average game there usually aren’t tons of carriers and battleships littered across the board so even though they’re a little big its doable. A big carrier like the Yorktown or the battleship Yamato or Bismark can easy be longer than an individual sea zone. The destroyer size is perfect and cruisers and smaller battleships fit nicely. The Yorktown for instance is a quarter longer than my middle finger so they’re close to 4 inches long. But I just finished the Japanese Escort carrier Ryujo and it’s honestly a great size (maybe more like 2.5 /inches). Tanks are perfect, mechanized infantry is just right, fighters are a tab bigger but good size. Bombers now can span more that a whole country. For instance the German HE-11 bomber has a wing span of about 2.5 / 3 inches. On the ground they would virtually take up all the space of say Western Germany. The magnet flight stands I use have a nail shaft to hold them up (they’re kinda heavy compared to plastic) and the pewter base I use is around the circumference of a quarter so the stands them selves still take up some room. As the gentleman noted as well the pieces are a bit heavier bit I like the solid feel they bring and they’re kinda tacky on the board which is cool. Regarding the bigger ships I’ve never been one for shying away for using task cards or zones. The big navies always use these anyways in my games so they’re not much of a problem. I’m also going to be to be using a bigger board soon so that will help with the pieces being on the bigger side. It’s just the tactical and heavy bombers that need to be lifted to make room for the pieces on the bottom.
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Acrylic & Spray Paints that Match '40 Unit Colors

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• • • gtg21

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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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Proper Scaling of HBG's custom sculpts; does size matter?

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• • • Wolfshanze

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I’ve gotten several private messages and some responses in this thread… so just as a head’s up and a community service…

Because of the private messages, I have ALREADY made a deal to unload my custom units, and they are, in-fact, already mailed off.

I know its kinda pointless now, but if you’re still that curious as to what I did have, here’s the complete list of the custom HBG units I had purchased in the last few weeks to beef up my bins… since I later made a decision to pull them and not use them, I did eventually re-order equivalent numbers of default/original OOB A&A units from HBG to beef up my numbers (like if I didn’t like the two HBG Japanese Fuso battleships, I reordered two OOB Kongo or Yamato battleships to replace them… so-on and so-on. Anyways, here’s the (now kinda pointless) list:

(BTW: you may notice that for the most part, planes are missing from this list… I found most custom HBG aircraft to be good enough and scaled well enough to survive my “off-scale axe”. So there are many HBG planes like P-47s and F4F/Hellcats that survived the cut and made it into my permanent bins)

HBG Battle Pieces (custom units)

US - Olive Drab:
5x Pershing Tanks
5x M5 Stuart tanks
15x M4A3 Sherman tanks
5x P-51 fighters

5x Essex CVs
5x South Dakota BBs
2x Nevada BBs
5x Baltimore CAs

UK - Tan:
10x Churchill Tanks
10x Valentine Tanks

5x Ark Royal CVs
3x King George V BBs

Russia - Brown
2x KV-2 tanks
11x T-34 tanks
4x T-26 tanks

German - Black
2x Schleswig Holstein BBs
2x Seydlitz CVs
8x Pz-III tanks

Japan - Pumpkin Orange:
10x Type 97 tanks
5x Ki-43 fighters
2x G8N Rita bombers

2x Kaga CVs
2x Ryujo CVs
5x Nagato BBs
2x Fuso BBs
5x Mogami cruisers
5x I-400 subs

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HBG's new German set- release date?

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• • • AlphaKappa

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@wimo08:

HBG latest newsletter said it’s delayed.Â

Thanks for the update.
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"Tall Paul's" RUSSIAN units, detailed & painted by the "WARMACHINE Team"

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• • • Tall Paul

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Guys,

––Well, our intelligence officers are telling us that a group of twenty(20)
Russian Rifle Infantry (Winter scheme) have just completed training(painting) and are ready for deployment in Siberia or elsewhere in NorthEast Asia. Some might get transferred to Scandinavia, at least until HBG releases their 'Winter War" expansion set for their Global Warfare 1939 game. IMHO “Allworkandnoclay” did a gret job on these soldiers. Enjoy!

“Tall Paul”

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-A Painting Tutorial and Resource for A&A Global-

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• • • Spitfire38

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@coedewa What specific questions about camo do you have?

Here is a process I provided earlier in the thread re: a German woodland camo for armor. I’ll reiterate that you want to go light to dark when applying colors.

The woodland camo is a 3 step process. First of all, I painted a dark khaki color, based off of a photograph or drawing. Then I painted a burnt sienna brown in stripes and an occasional “splotch”, to simulate the camo. Then I painted a dark forest green overlapping the brown, making sure to cover most of the piece. There are many different kinds of camo, but as a general rule, it looks better when it overlaps, when it’s not a predictable pattern (you don’t want parallel stripes running along the length of the piece :-)), and when you cover the entire piece, then paint details over it. This makes it look more authentic in my opinion.
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My Painted Europe 1940 Set

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• • • Spitfire38

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@Albert:

@Spitfire38:

I have looked at I-94’s decals and thought about it… the only ones I have trouble with are the Russian stars. I enjoy hand painting the insignia and I feel like it makes it look more uniform when it’s all paint, but like you said, it would definitely save some time :lol:

Well you could save some effort there as Moscow ordered upper wing stars to be painted out on the eve of the German invasion……plain green was also changed to green with a black disruptive camo pattern http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/index.html

I didn’t know that they painted over the top-wing stars. Thanks for sharing! If I were to paint them again, I’d probably leave them on or use decals, just for easy recognition on the game board, but I like knowing what was historically accurate.

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