Posts made by jwo1984

What a cool product! Keeps the shine on things like chain mail and such very cool. You use a metallic paint or silver on most of the centres of your ships right? So you will retain your shine on the bridges of the ships! Also great news about the Amerika release date for end of November I hope that’s true. We all have Christmas time off perfect for painting up some units.

Hey Cyanight… If your familiar with any modelling paints at hobby shops the Tamyia paints have a good flat sheen protective spray. I use it on my pieces and have found it works well… 2-4 coats and your nice and protected and your paint colors aren’t altered!

I too have ordered HBG’s Amerika game… Mostly for the AMAZING sculpts! Do you know any news on when it’s supposed too be shipped?? You said this month I haven’t heard this?? But then again it’s getting close too a year I think from their estimated delivery time so your right could be next month… Or well into 2015 haha. I do hope that US set comes out sooner tho. I really want to paint those p47 jugs and liberty b24 bombers!

Those Gotham 229’s look awesome cyanight great job man… I would be buying up research die tryin too get those paint jobs on the board for sure ! I like your armour too… Just a thought ever considered using a flat or dull sheen clear coat on some of your pieces? You have some nice details and some great work on your tank tracks some times the high gloss shine can blind some of the details just imo… But great work! Your Germans and UK armies are my favorite :)

I’m pretty sure the Brit sword fish pilots felt the same way when they came up on the 109’s in the med lol…. I actually use one of the AA 1914 bi planes painted in French markings for the fighters in London ans france haha

Hey Cyanight any reason you cut out the swordfish in your RAF selection ?

Your Churchill tanks are nice! love the detail you pulled out of them well done!  Are all your decals I 94?

Thanks John that’s awesome

did you send him any british aircraft as well? too see if he can make sizes too fit Lancaster, Halifax, spitfire and the hurricane pieces.  Particularly on the fuselage of these planes where the union jacks are placed….I image the spitfire is just way to small I cant even attempt to paint a roundel on that fuselage.

This is really cool man! This table and map has eliminated so many Hassels when playing a global game! Good job I like how you have two US corners

Just looked over your thread again spitfire. Saw you 190’s very cool effect they do look like they may have been supporting some of rommels Afrika core in The desert! Ever thought of showcasing some of your other units spitfire? Maybe more of your air? I would love to see more of your renditons of airpower for the nations! Lhoffman has some great air he painted with just about every air unit type painted for the Germans in dark green schemes.

Great spitefire thanks! If you could really focus in on your washes…that would be great for myself personally. All the pieces I have painted have all been mixed color and dry brushed. Your style seems too implement washes even with ships planes and tanks? It looks like on John Browns japanese naval units there could be some washes over some of the ships?

I the same as you Hoffman. I haven’t spent much time on infantry as I just needed shear numbers for game play. But spitefires infantry have inspired me too put some time Suddenly the 3 ipc meat shields painted so well makes you cringe too lose them off the board! I just dry bruhed color layers on my infantry too but am clearly lossing some depth and blends the washes brings out. I think your GI here has some good color depth on his uniform.

Lhoffman, yes I think it doesn’t take too much time to add alittle weathering too your pieces and with some of the detailed sculpts that are coming out, it all just adds too the eye candy on the game board!

Wow I had no idea how small the uk cruiser was till your chart here! Now I am annoyed too lol. In my opinion even though #3 # 4 are as long as the king George my eyes had no problem distinguishing the two ship classes. I think because the cruisers are long and narrower with less heavy gun detail. If you painted them differently maybe a different shade of brown on your deck I think it would look distinguishable on the board in my opinion.

hope this can give some ideas! I will say I tend too be more particular with details and extras on the pieces but that’s cause I am only painting 2-4 of the unit types. I have mad admiration to the volume guys who are turning out quality units in variety of colors squadrons and shear numbers! wow guys!

Spitefire38, any chance you could do a few stage shots of your infantry men? I m curious too see your process and how you get your colors and details on the men? if you get a chance of course  :-D

and my final brush the last one…the fat boy.  it has its long fan, and can catch ever little detail in the sculpt.  I like to use this one for adding maybe rust to a tank or vehicle.  If I am trying for the rust effect I will just throw a little brown in the silver and a dab of red.  Then I just dry brush over the body, or the tracks if its a tank.

next I have my medium brush…the middle brush its short and stubby the bristols are all split.  I like too use that one too create big flakes of paint that have come of a wing where a lot of aluminum might be exposed. Japanese Vals are great for this one…

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for the barracuda’s once I painted in the panel lines on the wings, I painted some silver spots close or on those panel lines, cause I figured realistically paint on a plane would be lifting along the edges of those lines…

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