Toblerone77's Paint Warfare.

[toblerone77]

Early USN aircraft.

[CWO Marc]

@toblerone77:

This photo inspired me to paint some early USN carrier aircraft.

Nice picture and good job painting your sculpts similarly.  My guess is that this is pre-war photo, possibly of a training squadron.  The US eliminated the red dot from its aircraft roundel shortly after the war broke out, since it resembled too much the red disc of the Japanese roundel, so the picture pre-dates December 1941.  And as I recall from the Technicolor film “Dive Bomber” with Fred MacMurray, the USN used a yellow paint scheme for its trainers.

[toblerone77]

Thanks Marc.

[Der Kuenstler]

Great work! Makes me want to give it a try - although magnetizing my carriers may come first…

[CWO Marc]

@Der:

although magnetizing my carriers may come first…Â

Yes, I can see why this might be a more, um, attractive option.

[toblerone77]

@CWO:

@Der:

although magnetizing my carriers may come first…�

Yes, I can see why this might be a more, um, attractive option.

Lol nice Marc.

[toblerone77]

@Der:

Great work! Makes me want to give it a try - although magnetizing my carriers may come first…

Thanks Der Kuenstler.

[Der Kuenstler]

@CWO:

Yes, I can see why this might be a more, um, attractive option.

lol- yes I’m drawn to the idea.

[dangermouse650]

Nice work  :-D

[toblerone77]

Thanks!

[jluna1273]

Toblerone77,

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

[CWO Marc]

@jluna1273:

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

There’s information on this topic over here:

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=31455.msg1156638#msg1156638

[toblerone77]

@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.