Operation Paintskrieg

Just a quick update. I have finished the USA and China forces, the only thing left to paint is the AA guns and the Industrial Centers. The next time i update i will post pics of USA/China/AA/ICs and a few pics of the entire game setup.

Hopefully this will all be done by the end of the week.

The beast has been slain! I am essentially finished with this project! Pretty awesome sense of achievement to get it done. Im planning on going back and doing a few touch ups over the next week or two (Flags for the German and Russian carriers and battleships for example), but for all purposes my AA50 set is fully painted!

No full shots of everything set up yet, will do those over the next few days. Here are the last models painted

US Infantry

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

US land forces

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

US Bombers

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

US Fighters

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

US Capital Ships

Ok history buffs, name the carriers :)

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

US Support Ships

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

China

You can’t quite see it too well in this pic but the P38 has a tiger mouth :)

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

Industrial Centres

Went really simple here, not too exciting

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

AA guns

Made the AA gun stands out of a bolt and miliput. Gun fastened to top of bolt by blutac so it can be removed

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

AA gun detail

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

Paints used for Operation Paintskrieg
_For anyone wishing to do this i thought it may be an idea to catalogue the paint range I used for each nation. This may not be 100% accurate as i’m doing it from memory. I will update if i find something wrong.

Paints are marked CT for citadel games workshop range and VL for Vallejo range. Vallejo paints paint code number included_

Core Paints

These are used on every set

CT Chaos Black
CT Skull white
CT Codex grey (used on most ships)
CT Boltgun Metal (metal on most models)
CT Space wolf grey (underside of aircraft)
CT Bronzed flesh (all skin)
CT Flesh wash (washed over bronzed flesh)
CT Blood red (used a lot on flags etc)
CT Scorched Bown (most rifles)

Germany

CT Codex Grey (German national colour and side of ships, base colour for aircraft)
VJ German Field Grey 830 (Uniform and armour)
VJ luftwaffe cam green 823 (Aircraft camo)
vj Camo Biege 821 (ship decks)

Soviet Union

CT Malachite red (Soviet national colour and ship sides)
VJ russian green 894 (Sov armour, bomber and helmets)
VJ USA tan earth 874 (infantry jackets)
VJ Khaki 988 (infantry pants)
VJ German cam brown 826 (ship decks)

Japan

CT Blazing Orange (Japan national colour and ship sides)
CT Chainmail (Fighters)
VJ Yellow Oche 913 (tanks)
VJ Middle Stone 882 (uniform)
VJ Khaki Grey 880 (helmets)
VJ german dark green 979 (bombers tank camo)
VJ …… (ship deck, forgot, will check)

UK

VJ Dark Sand 819 (National colour, ship sides and infantry uniform)
VJ Iraqi sand 847 (tanks and helmets)
VJ London grey 836 (tank camo)
VJ Flat eath 983 (ship decks)
Ct Scorched brown (aircraft)
VJ german dark green (aircraft camo)
CT regal blue (flag)
Ct blood red (flag)

Italy

Ct Scorched Brown (National Colour, ship sides, decks and aircraft camo)
VJ Desert yellow 977 (Armour and helmets)
VJ Green Ochre 914 (Infantry uniform)
Ct Snot green (flag)
Ct blood red (flag)
(Aircraft) not 100% on this one will check and edit

USA

CT Knarloc Green (national Colour and ship sides)
CT Chainmail (bombers)
CT regal blue (flag and fighters)
Ct blood red (flag)
VJ Brown Violet 887 (tanks and helmets)
VJ US Dark green 893 (us Infantry)
VJ Flat eath 983 (ship decks)

China

CT Scorpion green (national Colour)
VJ Yellow green 881 (uniform jacket)
VJ Khaki Grey 880 (uniform pants)

Industrial Centres

VJ saddle Brown 940 (building)
VJ London grey 836 (Roof)

@Bjergmose:

Good job. Pat yourself on the back  :-)

Langley - Saratoga - Yorktown - Enterprise - Wasp and Hornet.
What did I win?

4 of them sunk during WWII.
All of them ready for the outbreak of WWII.

Shouldn´t the shark mouth be under the red dots?

Close but not 100% Lexington instead of Langly, the others are correct. I have this massive 1000 page book of most of the machinery of WWII and the pictures of the US carriers show that some of them had the CV nmber on the deck. I had some transfers lying around and thought it would be a nice touch.

Not too sure what you mean about the red dot?

Last bits, cant wait until FMG brings out new bits for me to paint.

Anyway, a couple of setup shots

All models waiting in box

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

Shot of Europe

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

Shot of Pacific

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

@Bjergmose:

Oh well 5 out of 6.

I mean that the shark mouths should be under the propellers (spelled right?).
So they would be on the outside of the 2 propellers.

Oh i didnt know that :)

The only flying tiger pick I could find was of a Kittyhawk and it had it on the nose so i painted it there. Ah well, it still looks cool :)

@Imperious:

Your killing me with these pictures!!

arrrg.

Oh yeah IL, thanks for the idea to base the AA guns on those bolts. You suggested flak towers for AA guns a while back and it got me thinking how i could make the AA guns look more fortified and more identifiable for each nation. Cheers for the inspiration  :-D

@miragehunter:

Thank you Captain Kiwi for inspiring us all!  I absolutely love your painted playing pieces.  It adds a whole new element to the game.  I too will make an attempt to do my own operation paintskrieg.  About how long did it take you to do this? Plus one for you this wonderful art work that you have shared with us.

Funnily enough the timeline is quite trackable by posting dates on this forum. I think i kicked off about 1 March and finished 31 July. I was only painting while I was watching TV in the evenings (Most shows i can paint and listen to and get 90% of whats going on). The easiest thing to do is set short goals. I did each nation one at a time and tried to get a certain amount done each week. Three weeks per nation seems about right, 1 week for infantry, 1 week for air and land units, 1 week for the fleet is how it worked out.

Several times i thought “Yikes, ive got so much to do still!” and thought i wouldn’t get through it. The key was having something else going on to keep your mind from going mad. I suggest old TV shows you love running in the background. (If NZ Comedy central didn’t play 5 episodes of south park back to back on Saturdays this would never have got done)

@Rammstein:

Very nice work indeed. I’m jealous, if I had the time I’d love to paint all my sculpts.

More pics would be great. I’d like to see more closeups of the various theaters.

Just curious, what’s with the Chinese setup?

Next time i set the game up ill take some more snaps

As for China, we changed the setup after China got wiped off the board in j1 5 games in a row. Our setup is 1 china infantry per territory, and move the fighter back 1 territory. China also gets 1 infantry per 2 territories controlled rounded up.

China still gets wiped off the board, but usually not until j3 now.