Posts made by Swedo

Thank you. I Like your work too. I dont have the same patience as you though. Im currently working on the infantry… it takes forever and is so boring!

I am in the process of painting now

well upload images here so we can see :) always fun to see what people do!

Do we need an Axis & Allies General forum or Axis & Allies Projects for things like painted minis, custom boards, and other cool things people created with their bare hands?

Yes i think so. To inspire others or to find ideas how to paint or alter your pieces. Its fun to see how other did and ask why they did that way. If someone has questions how to do a certain thing, then there would a good place to ask.

This is how i painted my US and German ships:

Well to be honest… i havent painted the swastikas or the iron cross. they are stickers i made in paint and printed out.  :-D

It would be fun if more than me upload pictures of their painted pieces here. So we can inspire each other for the endless struggle to paint these little Fu**ers.
I started this project when i got unemployed. But i got a new job 1/3 in the process and the painting halted. When i restarted to end this pain, the tan paint had dried up. Thats life i guess…

Here is UK!

Mathilda and a tea-bag

Spitfire and Halifax

BB from top to bot: Prince of Wales, Repulse, Duke of York and King George V

CV top to bot: Illustrious, Formidable and Victorious

CA top to bot: Kent, Suffolk, Berwick and Sussex

DD

Submarine, transport and artillery not painted. (tan paint got dried up :/)

Here is Japan!

Type 95 and Type 92

Zeros and “Betty”

CV: from left to right: Hiryu, Kaga, Akagi and Soryu

The fleet with Yamato and Musashi. (other BB is unnamed. CA is Atago, Maya, Takao and Chokai)

The bunch! Ask for pictures for Infanty and transport.

Next Is USA!

Shermans and Howitzers

P-38 and B-17

CV from left to right: Hornet, Intrepid, Yorktown and Enterprise

CA from left to right: Canberra, Portland, Salt Lake City and Indianapolis

BB from left to right: Wisconsin, North Carolina, Iowa and Missouri

The whole gang! Ask for pictures of subs, transports, destroyers or infantry

Hey, i have painted some of my 1942.1 units, and i think i might inspire others to paint theirs if i post some pics.

I have no prior experience of painting playing pieces or anything else for that matter. (so be nice)

I had 2 options before i started to paint. Historical or playable. I chose a mix. My units are historical in that matter that they have appeared like this sometime during the war (not the same time though) and i chose camo patterns and colors unique to a nation (germany - gray, US - green and so on)

I also chose to paint historical ships. (though some of the ships had sunk by 42 or wasnt built yet. i mean hey c’mon, a ww2 game without bismarck?)

First out is Germany!

Panther Tanks

Luftwaffe with their Bf-109 and Junker Ju 88

Alternative baltic camo. BB - Tripitz, CA - Admiral Hipper. DD - random

Baltic camo. BB - Bismarck, CA - Prinz Eugen, CV - Peter Strasser. DD - random

(In plain grey i have CA - Blücher and Seydlitz. CV - Graf Zeppelin.)

All german forces. Ask if you want pictures or infantry, u-boat, transport, artillery or the other plain grey fleet.

The attacking sub attacks, and then the defending sub defend. If no one hits, the attacking sub attacks again and the defending sub defend again. this will repeat until one strikes and the other misses, both strikes or one dives. if the defending sub dives then the transport will be lost.

Ok, thx. And it wont matter if the fighter passes over terretories with AA guns? (same in 1st edition?)

Lets say that germany has a bomber in Poland, and armies on all terretories around. Russia has a fighter in caucasus or karelia, can that fighter attack the bomber in Poland and then return safely home?

Do you have to be logged in to see the pictures? How do i post more pictures, without browsing?

Yamato, British bomber and Iowa

Here are some german and american units. When im done with all units i might take some better pics.

Tirpitz and Admiral Hipper

Bismarck and Prinz Eugen

Missouri and Intrepid. (must be easier way to upload images here? only 2/post is little slow :S)

Enterprise and Yorktown

Oh now i got more options :) i post my pictures here instead. I got a new job so i dont have time to paint that much, but i can upload new pictures some day.

Some fighters and Japanese Carriers

I dont wanna be that guy, its a really good map and all, but theres something that always bothered me with the 1942 map, and maybe you can fix it :) The island between Sweden and Denmark, (Bornhom) is white on the map, as if it was a part of Sweden, when it is a danish island which was occupied by the germans, so it should be black. And also to put a british roundel on Iceland.

A question about the 1942 map with neutrals. Can the neutral terretories be occupied when theres no IPC points in it? (Eire, Rio de Oro, Angola, Mozambique)