Re: Field Marshal Games Pieces Project Discussion thread

Painted my pieces avocado green to distinguish them from the russians.  This is a close match to the green used by Avalon Hill in Axis & Allies Revised for their UK units.  I liked the colour (but not on the UK units) and thought it to be pretty good for the Italians.

I used Krylon avocado green fast dry.

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and more.  I switched out FMG’s trucks with Table Tactics’ half tracks.

I also modified FMG’s battleships by raising the B turrets.

In response to a PM, yes, that is Lego in the background.

@jim010:

and more.  I switched out FMG’s trucks with Table Tactics’ half tracks.

I also modified FMG’s battleships by raising the B turrets.

What about the armored cars? Did you paint them?

@Fishmoto37:

@jim010:

and more.  I switched out FMG’s trucks with Table Tactics’ half tracks.

I also modified FMG’s battleships by raising the B turrets.

What about the armored cars? Did you paint them?

I only painted what you see.  I didn’t do the armoured cars, as I liked using the half track instead for a mec unit.  The armoured car I see as a reconassaince unit, which I don’t see in a game in this scale.  I think there are too many units as it is.

Here are some shots of the painted Italians at war!

Spring 1941.

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one last pic.

dude i love what you did with your Italians. i think i might do this since i want to keep the OOB italian infantry and the halftracks with the rest of FMG pieces. though i kinda want to use their armored cars as Light tanks for now , since there secondary tanks isnt really a heavy tank

The Italian heavy tank is a bit small to identify it as a heavy compared to the regular tank.  Don’t need it anyway.  I would have used the trucks as motorized infantry, but the trucks are larger than I would have liked.  And the infantry are just a tad smaller than OOB.

Regardless, I’m happy I have the pieces.  Now I finally have a distinct Italian fleet.

Nice layout Jim - I like the Italian sage kinda color… though the ape shapes of the OOB Italians always bothered me.  Is that HBG’s map?

@Viracocha:

Nice layout Jim - I like the Italian sage kinda color… though the ape shapes of the OOB Italians always bothered me.  Is that HBG’s map?

I don’t plan on replacing all my pieces with FMG’s so I wanted to keep some consistency with scales.  Although, the difference between the OOB infantry and FMG’s is so small as to not be noticed.

As for the map, no.  The map is not the one available from HBG.  It is from an entirely different game.  Although, it may be available through HBG at some point.  :wink:

Huh… was wondering, I didn’t think that map looked familiar.  What game?

Some details about it here.

Cheers.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=19860.0

@jim010:

Some details about it here.

Cheers.

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=19860.0

Nice one, will check that out…

Ta.

A comparison of the different OOB colours along with the painted Italian ship.

I think Italy stands out much better from the other nations with this colour.

Again, I used avocado green fast dry from Krylon.

Cheers

i really wanted keep it consistent with each other. i think im going to have to buy some half tracks from TT.

Good luck finding them.  The Half-tracks from Table Tactics come from their Central Powers set.  Last time I was checking out Fair Play Games, they were sold out of the Central Powers sets and Jack didn’t have plans to make more of them.

If you’re going to paint the pieces, then just use the Italian OOB mec units.  Or use the trucks from Battle of the Bulge.