Another tip: No stalker girlfriend behavior on A&A.org!!
As a bonus for everyone waiting through my sudden bought with Acute Having-A-Life Complex (AHLC), I’ve included detail shots of each plane…
UPDATE
US Air Force
US Fighters
US Tactical Bombers
US Strategic Bombers
US Air Force - Navy Camo (No B-17’s)
US Air Force - Flat Olive Drab Camo
US Air Force - Desert Camo
US Air Force - Late War Camo (by this point, no camo was necessary)
Complete US Air Force
Sorry guys… Absolutely will be done tomorrow. I didn’t like one of the colors of the desert camo and the new one looks 10x better. I’m 90% finished with them and will post the pics tomorrow evening.
It’s not easy having fans! :|
where do u live , c’uz u only post late at night here(21-2am)
East Coast, USA. I’m a night owl.
Air force coming tomorrow or the day after! Just have to finish a small bit of detailing.
Four camos!
Hey allwork (mind if I call you allwork?)!
Would/Have you ever paint anything other than A&A units, like for other games?
Talking about Descent, Napoleonic Wars, or any other game? If you have please post! :)Thanks,
Well, it’s not a very well-known game, but to warm up to the A&A minis, I painted my ‘Monsters Menace America’ figures (just the monsters - still haven’t got around to the army figures ironically).
Here they are:
@Brain:
US NAVY!!!
Oh yeah! I can’t wait.
Actually it’s the USAF.
Well, to be fair, the USAF wasn’t established until 1947. In 1940, it’d be the US Army Air Corps (USAAC), reorganized to the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) in 1941. And of course, the one that may be of interest in the Pacific would be our US Naval Air Corps (technically under the Bureau of Aeronautics, though the term USNAC was widely used before and during the war).
Though to make this relevant to the thread, quick question to AllClay… will you also be painting a set of Hellcats from the original Pacific?
Oh, and awesome job on the land forces, AllClay. And a big thumbs up to Variable on those Japanese Guadalcanal pieces. I swear, if I just had more time (and patience), I’d try my hand at painting my own AA pieces… oh, well. I’ll satisfy myself admiring the work of others. Keep it up, guys! :-D
Yea, I actually thought about the air force title just after I posted it (then I thought, nah, nobody will say anything heh).
I’ll be painting:
12 Strat Bombers (B-17s), 12 Tactical Bombers (A-24 Banshee or SBD Dauntless), and 16 Fighters (8 Hellcats and 8 P-38 Lightnings).
Alright:
United States Ground Support
US Mechanized Infantry
US Artillery
US Supply Trucks (a la Battle of the Bulge)
US Tanks
US Olive Drab Camo
US Dark Camo
US Mediterranean Camo
US Full Ground Force
Nice work Variable! Pics coming tonight guys… Left my camera in the studio over the weekend. :|
Went on a big camping trip last week… Finishing detail work tonight, maybe tomorrow…
these are perfect! simply amazing are you doing the rest of america?
Yes. Thanks!
these are perfect! simply amazing are you doing the rest of america?
Yes. Thanks!
@Brain:
I third that.
these are perfect! simply amazing are you doing the rest of america?
Yes. Thanks!
You painted the metal cap on the canteen… You’re INSANE man!
Dehydration is a soldier’s worst enemy.
@Brain:
US Infantry coming later tonight… Finishing up the roundels. Stay tuned.
I would think that the roundels would be the longest part of the paint job.
It’s about a third of the total paint time.
Update (with surprises!):
United States Infantry
European Drab Infantry (x15)
European Camo Infantry (x5)
Airborne Infantry (x5)
Pacific Marine Infantry (x10)
Pacific Marine Camo Infantry (x5)
United States Infantry
US Infantry coming later tonight… Finishing up the roundels. Stay tuned.
Good idea for the Hellcats… Now I just need to buy an original copy of the game (I only have the board :|).
On another note:
Three uniforms for the US infantry - Western European (olive drab), Mediterranean Desert, and Pacific Marine.
What specific Marine uniform do you guys think? Khaki? ‘Tattered’ green?
I have a PILE of B-17s, but I do agree with AllWork, that crappy ones next to yours would be a bit off.
I have always wanted B-25s. What if we used this as the U.S. Tactical Bomber? Would that be inappropriate? I just wanted to put one on carrier… :-D
I agree the B-24 looks a lot like the Halifax, but it will be in green instead of tan. For those painting them, what color were Halifax Bombers? I think the iconic US version was unpainted like Brain’s pic.
Finally, the B-29. I’m very mixed on this one. I really want them because of the popularity. But a few problems arise. First, they would be huge, like the Soviet bombers, but the US doesn’t have room on the map for that like the Russians do. Second, I always thought if this as a tech piece for LR Bombers. Ugh, so conflicted…
I guess my order of preference would be: B-25, B-24, B-17, then B-29 (only because I’m conflicted on this one).
Yea - if it wasn’t the B-17, I’d say the B-25… Easy to distinguish from the Halifax by the number of engines and unique body style, and was used in every theater for the entire duration of the war (even used in the famous Doolittle Bombing Run after Pearl Harbor).
C-47 Skytrain should be the air transport in my opinion.
The B-25 would not be a good choice for a tactical bomber in the AA games as they must be a good fit for the Aircraft carriers. I am assuming that FMG will have an SBD for that. @Entek:
I agree with previous posters that this is one of the occurrences where WOTC got it right with the B-17’s, but for variety’s sake I vote for B-29’s. If nothing else they could be used for the Long Range/Heavy Bombers Tech pieces for the USA. Now if you’re talking US Fighters I vote for P-47’s, and I think that the B-25 would fill the more Tach Bomber Roll then a Strategic one.
We do not want to get into a situation where we have two different tactical bombers similar to the deal in AAP40 where we got P-38s to put on the carriers. Then we had to rob F6Fs from another game for our navy. That would leave the B-24 and the B-29 as choices. Of course the B-29 would be a good fit for the heavy bomber tech.
We’re talking strategic bombers.
For fighters, I say that the P-51 Mustang is the choice as far as historical importance.
The point is I want to do a DIFFERENT unit. As it has been mentioned above, you can always mix your stock units to have more types!
Yea, but mixing the crappy molds of the Hasbro models with the diamonds you plan on producing would seem a bit of a crime.
I agree that the B-24 would look too similar to the Halifax, unless you plan on doing a different UK strategic bomber.
What were you thinking about for the US air transport?
I recently went to a touring WWII aviation show with my dad. We took a 1/2 hour flight in a B-17 (one of the few remaining functioning B-17s in the world). There was also a B-24 available for flight too that the pilots told us was the more rare find. Taking a flight in either was the same price but every single person there who paid took a flight in the B-17.
That being said, the B-17 is the iconic WWII American bomber. If you want to go by production numbers, then you could argue that a US marine wouldn’t be worthy of production either.
@Brain:
I want to see some P-40 Warhawks with the Flying Tigers paint.
*See first page - the single Chinese Fighter (has the shark face accurately there, but not a good pic of it). The Flying Tigers fought with the Chinese, and one unit accurately represents that… All A&A variants have only one fighter starting in China. Maybe I’ll do one with US markings for my 1942 and original board for the sake of completion, but no more than a single unit.
I’ve toyed with the idea of doing 1/2 P-38s and 1/2 Hellcats… Not sure yet. Don’t want them to look too similar to UK and ANZAC units. We’ll see - that hurdle is a few weeks off.