I really need advice from experienced painters.

Another approach is to use the ANZAC Grey-Brown colour from the two editions of Pacific 1940, by considering that this colour depicts the self-governing Dominions of the Commonwealth which were at war during WWII: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. (Newfoundland is excluded because it was being governed from Britain at the time, and Eire is excluded because it was neutral in WWII.) In my sculpt collection, which is arranged in multiple trays, I use the Pacific 1940.1 ANZAC sculpts (which are British-patterned) to depict Canada, and the Pacific 1940.2 ANZAC sculpts (which are ANZAC-patterned) to depict the southern Commonwealth Dominions (Australia, New Zealand and South Africa). The only cross-tray adaptation I had to make was to loan Canada some of the 1940.2 AAA sculpts, since 1940.1 doesn’t have any.

I’m currently building my Global War set, and I’m painting a lot of pieces to make pieces of a certain color that are not available. (i.e. Orange submarines). I’ve found good matches for most of the colors, but I’m having trouble with two sets in particular:
-Classic Japanese/HBG Yellow Gold
-Revised UK/HBG Celery Green

Has anyone found paints that are decent matches for these color pieces? Can be spray, or brush on paint. Don’t have to be perfect matches, just close enough that you can tell what nation the pieces belong to.

@CWO:

Just as a general suggestion: if you’re going to the trouble of carving the map out of wood, it might be a good idea to limit the actual woodwork to the most basic elements (country shapes and names), without carving into the wood the kinds of details (like IPC values) that might potentially be subject to adjustment under house rules or other types of setup changes.

Right, definitely don’t want to carve the lettering and numbers. My original plan was to do an iron on ink transfer before I poly the whole thing, but now I’ll look at options for changeable IPC Values. Thanks!

@AlphaKappa:

I’d be interested.  I’m pretty handy with the Adobe suite.  Want to post a sketch of what you envision?

Thanks, I’ll send something on the weekend.

By the way, the pictures here…

http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=32700.0

…will give you an idea of what the acrylic sheet looks like, both on and off the map.  In some of pictures (click on them to expand them) you’ll see the removed sheet at the top of the photos.

Does he happen to have a website or other example of work?

I have a copy of that game, complete with everything. First board game I played after the original shogun.
Ill see if i can help out. Im assuming you really need the deployment part, correct?

I think that the map most definitely achieves your criteria’s.    I am not such a fan of the colors but they fit with what you want, and are simply a knee-jerk omg reaction that will dissipate.  I like the de-cluttering of it thou, and it is definitely easy to see who starts where this way.

When you get a final version up I’d be tempted to print it out as a replacement board myself specially if you put up the PSD and allow us to make our own modifications if needed… Love modifying my boards!