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man your Luftwaffe keeps looking better and better ever new batch you paint up john brown! My favs are your fw190’s in the grey and black camo…and all your german green redone squadron! Great work! painting pieces can get addicting cant it?? especially when you group them all together in formation :-D

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hey guys, so I was searching some camo desert schemes for HBG’s Valentine medium tank and came across this one. Â However looking at the sculps I knew it would be tough to paint these blue lines in because most of the tank is all track! so I cut out and shaped some track guard armour like the photo below just using some clear flexible plastic and glued in too the sides…making these two tanks mk II’s which look to have had the side armour as a pose to the Mk V that HBG has sculpted.

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Sea planes are looking great here John brown! Your lines are getting smoother … And you tackling that trickey yellow nicely! You must be applying more thinner coats to build up the coverage now instead of painting thicker ! These birds look sweet

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I been waiting on that Amerika game set too cyanight. I think it was last March 2014 was the kickstarted fund… Not including the first kickstarter that failed to reach there pledge goal. It’s fustrating but sounds like it’s all shipping issues and port issues from China. I haven’t pre ordered the new German minor set, America set, or France set just cause the wait would be years probably! Haha

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Thanks for checking them out guys!

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These two painted churchills, I tried to put the union jack stickers on the back for country in game indentification. However as you can see after I clear coated over the painted tanks, the sticker began to lift on the corners and even moved off centre, the lacquer must have messed up the sticker glue. So no go on the stickers on the units I would stick with decals as most customizers on here do.

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now these, Yamato and Nagato, are hand painted flags. I painted the rising sun on decal paper, wet it then bent it into shape. Clearly the hand painted to that scale just isn’t as nice as the cleaness of the stickered prints.

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Evening painters and customizers,

Just wanted too share some capital ship “flags” I have been working on for some of my painted battle ships. A few months ago John Brown had found someone who created some union jack stickers in some really good AA sizes. Spitefire had tried them out and had reported much what I had discovered using them aswell. They are difficult to peel off…set up, and leave a raised ridge on the surface where as a decal is flat and ominous. However I have found a use for these stickers (which john brown sponsored me in sending me a sheet…thanks buddy) and I have found they make for excellent ship flags! The scale variety was perfect, and they have the ability to bend and shape them as though they are blowing in the wind passing through sea zones. They are a pain to stick together to get both sides of the flag…but if you have the surgical steady hand it can be done. Bellow are some pics. Please let me know what you guys think and if any other customizers would be interested in capitol ship flags to scale, maybe I can convince this manufacturer to do more sheets for the Japanese, Italians, and Americans.

Thanks guys

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So do you build a Germany navy early in the game to threaten sea lion to keep UK spending ipc’s on the home island rather than dumping them into Africa? I have found from my experience if Italy doesn’t battle the Brits in Africa …. There’s just too many turns UK has to be dumping tanks and troops into Africa making it really hard to take eygpt after a big Moscow battle for Germany.

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wow DM your Italian infranty are simply amazing! the color blending and highlights… superburb! Really like the detail in your mech vehicles … the tire rims look so carefully painted!

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It does! and I can see it can be difficult to play with that kind of distance between players! Â I was fortunate, me and my buddy were both big into risk the game…but started to look for a more indepth strategy game. Â We have always heard of Axis and Allies but thought it was too complex before hand. Â Boy am I glad we picked up the game. We spoiled ourselves and purchased Europe Ed 1, having no clue about playing the simpler intro sets like spring 42. Â So right off the hop we were pairing up tanks with tactical bombers, having the NO’s and air and naval bases. Also they had just released the new 1940 games so we got into the game at a great time!

But like risk I didn’t like the detail of the pieces drowned out by solid blocks of color…like lego pieces scattered across the board…my friend was originally against me painting the pieces…and I had to go out and buy my Pacific 1940 to start painting those pieces. Â But by the end of it he was convinced …it enhances the game so much better!

One thing I like about spitefires reditions of your pieces is how he makes it quite distinguishable between the countries and there units. Â Maybe it is the color themes … or the decals made clearly visiable and the top or sides of the units. Â Something I might have to work on as like DangerousMouse… I search through history and want to replicate exact aircraft color schemes…and tanks and ships as accurately as possible. Â So for a new player playing it can be harder for them to look at the board and really know the difference in the Brit ships and Anzac ships …or Russian green tanks and the US green shermans…

well that’s my little rant. Â Keep painting and enjoying Johm Brown.

ps…I know you had sent me those union jack stickers…spitefire gave a great review of them …however I am using them to create flags on the british ships…they look pretty cool and I will post some pics of them later in case it can give others some ideas or options. Â I think there are a few guys who like the idea of having country flags on capital ships or what not. Â The great thing about these stickers is the variety of scale…so it looks more realistic having some tiny flags rather then massive ones on ships!

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Italy needs transports to get troops and armor over to Africa quick before US starts flooding the med with ships. how do you build and protect transports for Italy to get over to Africa after most or all her navy destroyed by UK and French ships…

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Pacific theater is looking intense John brown. such a great display of detailed and colorful units and pieces on the board! makes me want too launch into a pacific battle right now. Looking forward to seeing the US get painted and added too these shots. Unfortunately the Anzac and Chinese forces are just not enough to contain and fight back the expanding Red Sun!
So is it correct that you haven’t learnt how to play the game yet john brown….if that’s true and when you do, it will make some of these well painted pieces that much more grander…the loss of a battleship or one bomber can be catastrophic in the game…as is the loss of one of these beautiful paint jobs off the board!