Posts made by mentok27

@Spitfire38:

Very impressive work Mentok! I’ll echo the others and say that your work is very clean. The lines are crisp, the camouflages aren’t distracting, and the color schemes are pleasing to the eye. I assume you use acrylic paints, from what I can tell from the photos. What brand do you use?

I’ve got somewhere in the vicinity of 150 paints that I’ve amassed over my 15 years of war gaming. Half of them would be the previous generation of GW’s citadel paint range and then the remaining half is a 50/50 mix between the newer citadel range and Vallejo paints.

I lost interest in games workshop games 7 or so years ago but I was in truth I always loved the hobby and army building aspect more than the gaming and every now and then I get nostalgic and break the paints out on different things…. Flames of war, 28mm medieval, dystopian wars… But none of these I lasts long on and I just end up with expensive half finished projects…

Thank guys! I’m pretty bummed that I’m not gonna be able to make anymore progress on these for the next 2 weeks…… But that’s what happens when you work away.

The grand plan I’ve got means this will never reach a point where the project is completed. I’d like to have small assortments for all the minor allies and axis nations… Plus a handful of neutrals like Sweden, Spain, turkey and Argentina. this level takes it beyond what will realisticly see use in game but its pretty cheap compared to the other hobbies I’ve been involved in.

Also I do have a few closer shots of that setup I did last week so tonight after work I’ll post them up and probably do a big HBG order for some things I wanna focus on when I’m off work next!

Over the years since anniversary edition came out I’ve gotten the urge from time to time to paint the pieces… I’ve started a few times and I’ll do a few dozen components here and there but generally Ive barely made a dent. I’m going for a hybrid look between accuracy and ease of identification when in use on the board afterall these are gaming pieces not scale models.

On my last RnR from work I was in the mood for some painting and knocked out quite a few pieces! The following pictures were taken over a few days to show my gaming mate the progress and get him keen for a game soon… I have got more stuff from previous painting fads done up but at this stage no photos to show.

First of all on this round was the French navy.

In previous painting stints ive managed to knock out sufficient japanese, American, British and soviet fleets with only german, italian and australian having minimal painted pieces and I’d like to square them away soon.

Next up was a random impulse… I did a spare set of British navy pieces and a set of the ships from the HBG allies set as the Canadian navy, this was mostly just for fun and the celery green decks are in the same vain as tan decks on my UK fleet and the lighter Blonde on FEC ships. This is a prime example of the gaming piece aspect taking over from the painted model angle.

Next I did a quick set up to draw inspiration on what to work on next

I ended up doing more italian ground units, which I didnt snap a phot of but I shouldn’t ever need anymore after how many I did!

It also became clear that I’d been avoiding the air units for too long, with only a dozen german Me109’s and a few dozen mixed RAF units done I’d need to bunker down and make some headway

Needless to say I’m very pleased with the results and the look great with the IJN As well

Inspired by my japanese planes I decided to get started on the Italians!

And that’s us mostly up to date…. I did do another 22 japanese infantry but I didn’t quite get them 100% before I flew out for work.

Those are nice and helpfull plates but for the immediate time I’m thinking flat colour. Eventually the piece will be fully painted with only the base of infantry and spot colour on the armor and aircraft that will tie them back to the national colour….

Spanish Republic is plum but other shades of purple are open and I reckon there’s another shade of blue I could use.  Anyway… Was just wondering if anyone else has given the subject some thought

Not that there’s anything wrong with using generic neutral pieces but the hobbyist in me would like my hbg 1939 game to have individual neutral nation pieces, eventually fully painted but in the mean time I was just gonna get extra pieces and paint them in a flat colour……semi unique to each neutral… But what colours?

Turkey
Greece
Sweden
Argentina
Iran
Norway
…

Many more

I’m thinking of getting some extras of the axis minors and doing sets for Croatia and Slovakia… Long term they will be fully painted but in the short term I need to pick some national colors for the pieces.

Essentially all the current hbg colors are claimed more or less as hbg market them.

Any ideas? I don’t have any game to actually play with them on but the hobby aspect of painting them is the draw for me.

I agree. Generals + admirals maybe with them having no stats of there own but conferring a reroll to a combat or something.

Did my second ever HBG order which brings me up to owning at least one set of every color of every battle piece set they’ve done(except dark green US)…… 4 of the vinyl battle maps and a heap of custom roundels… Huh… As I was typing this I got the shipping notice! Fast service!

Man. I’m so keen on these newly listed expansions for global…. Ideally I’d love it if stuff like winter war and battle for Africa came with small a3 ish maps so you could play just those fronts as aaa express.

I feel like as Spain,South America, Scandinavia, secret weapons, downfall and unthinkable bring us less historically accurate events we need action cards to bring that narrative flow…

A deck of say 100 cards and each side gets say 10 random ones split between the nations.

Cards could add something that just spawning troops and rushing them to the front doesn’t provide…

Subterfuge - move half the enemy forces In any one zone into an adjacent zone during your combat move.

Forced march - in your non combat all infantry can move an additional space for one turn

Pro neutral - when attacking a neutral nation using a force of equal or greater strength to its defenders they will declare as pro(axis or allies) and join your cause.

Code breakers - you may re adjust your forces In a defending zone with forces from adjacent zones…

So many more possibilities but you’d have a random bunch and they’d be one use only obviously… Would add a little to getting temporarily unexpected outcomes… Depending how and when they were used of course

@Gargantua:

Not new swabia!

What about a race to the moon?!?

The moon thing is a little much for me… Swabia is as well but downfall would make a good expansion map I’d think… Not historical condition of japan… They’d have too be a little better off.

with all these new pieces and game mechanics it would be nice to have another couple of map/scenarios to game on. Operation Downfall the US invasion of japan and maybe a US invasion of german New Swabia(antarctica) to prevent the germans unleashing vengence weapons.

On iPhone now… Have to wait till I get to a PC to look/order but I’m in for 2 Greys minimum.

Sounds good. I’m painting my minis anyway so exact colours aren’t a big issue in the longterm but since painting is slow many pieces will remain bare plastic through many games…. Also there’s a need to mark all pieces in a nation set with the national colour so in that regard I suppose it’s important to lock in nation/colour mash ups.

Now we need more maps and custom games to play on… Winter war, Budapest, earlywar:Poland, early war:west… I’m yet to get the italian map but it seems almost to good to be true. I think games with a focus on the less played fronts or battles are where the real fun will be…

I’ll be getting this map for sure when I get my order sorted. I only started playing a&a with anniversary and P/E/G-1940 and Italy has become a true favorite of mine…. I’d be all over a north Africa map as well…