How many people paint unit markings on their DSII tanks, and how do you do it?
I've begun work -- as much work as a freezing cold painting room will
allow, at least -- on those truly lovely Brigade tanks that I won at
GZGECC, and I've decided to go for a bit more detail than I normally bother
with.
I've never bothered with unit markings before, but it seems like an excellent
way to go about adding some color and detail to these tanks...but I'm stuck
for a good, visible, and paintable method of doing so. GW tends to paint the
front left corner of their Imperial tanks with different stripes of color;
this is distinctive and eye catching, but not something that these designs
lends themselves to.
Any suggestions?
Just to add a point, the company banding that G-Dubya uses is taken from
the old markings on WWI tanks.
Anyway to the point, have you considered just picking a symbol and painting
that on (square, triangle, hedgehog, etc), varying the colour for unit, that'd
be simple and effective, probably.
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G'day,
> How many people paint unit markings on their DSII tanks, and
In insane moments we've tried, rings on the barrels being the easiest, and
tail lights etc. As for fancier stuff Derek is actually looking into decals of
the right size I'll get him to give me the details for you.
Cheers
G'day,
Derek has sent me the following links for DS and SG sized nose art
This one hjas it about half way down the page
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/store/store.cfm
Otherwise the general entry is via
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/
Hope they help
Cheers
I paint platoon and element numbers on my tanks (1-1) (First platoon,
first element). Makes them pretty easy to field, but becomes a hassle when I
go
to non-standard deployments.
Bill
> How many people paint unit markings on their DSII tanks, and
I use a combination of things; from slightly different shades of base color,
to different colors painted on small but visible detail areas, and finally
small WWII decals. The latter has had some of the best affect, but are hard to
find. I picked up a couple of sheets in a local hobby store ages ago
(combinations of colored squares with numerals and small unit emblems -
various animals etc.), but did not save the company name or anything.
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> At 07:45 PM 3/2/03 -0000, you wrote:
This, I should have known.
> Anyway to the point, have you considered just picking a symbol and
I may well end up doing this, but I'm hesitant -- my inability to paint
identical symbols is sadly limited. Good, simple decals of geometric shapes
would help tremendously.
> At 10:28 AM 3/3/03 +1100, you wrote:
Oh, those *are* nice! If I get three or four of each sheet, that'd be an
excellent way to pick out some of my units. Plus, I can use the nose art on
some of my Silent Death fighters.
Thanks!
> At 08:47 PM 3/2/03 -0600, you wrote:
Those sound ideal -- what size were the sheets? I can try talking to my
FLGS owner, maybe he can narrow thigns down a bit for me.
From: "Noel Weer" <noel.weer@verizon.net>
> I use a combination of things; from slightly different shades of base
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> John Crimmins wrote:
> How many people paint unit markings on their DSII tanks, and how do you
I've used Skytrex' 1/300th aircraft decals (http://www.skytrex.com/) -
the WWI German crosses are perfect for NSL tanks (and spaceships). They
also make 1/144 scale versions which do nicely for 15mm
> I've never bothered with unit markings before, but it seems like an
I have been painting up my 1/300 scale W.W, II aircraft and been putting
on decals for national markings. The smallest decals are about 2mm and besides
the major national markings you also have the Cross of Lorraine for Free
French, Polish, Italian and others. There is also have nose art for the W.W.II
bombers.
They also carry decals for W.W.I and modern aircraft and W.W.II armored
symbols. How
about 1/300 Egyptian, Israeli, Syrian or Chinese.
http://www.i-94enterprises.com/decal1.htm
I have ruined quite a few decals to learn how to apply the decals that small
but you can do it with a small hobby screwdriver, a dish of water and a paper
towel. Just remember that surface tension of the water is your friend and
enemy.
From: "sch@t-online.de" <KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de>
> ----- Original Message -----
The sheets themselves were about 5" x 3". Roughly 144 on each sheet.
I remember they had them in WWII German, English, and American. The English
were the ones I grabbed because the German was mostly crosses and the American
were mostly stars.
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I had forgotten about GHQ's decals, but having just reviewed their stuff I can
say it was not theirs.
The numbers are a bit different - variety of colors on the sheet, and
the emblems were things like kangaroos, rhinos, armed fist, and that sort of
thing. The scale may have been slightly larger than 1/300, but they work
well.
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> John Crimmins wrote:
On some of my larger tanks (e.g., Deimos heavy tanks) I paint a number on the
back for identification purposes [for me]. For all
my other tanks I put dots (1-4) under the turret (these are mainly
for platoon leader identification).
On some of my large Jupiter tanks I've painted chevrons for platoon ID
purposes, but nothing more detailed (my painting skills are already taxed just
painting chevrons on these tanks!). I'm currently painting up a bunch of
German and Russian WWII microtanks for a DSII "kursk" scenario I want to run
at ECC VII and am probably going to grab GHQ's decal sheets. Any extras from
that I'm thinking to fold over onto my numerous Brigade and GZG tanks.
Mk
G'day John,
> Oh, those *are* nice! If I get three or four of each sheet,
No worries. Tell me how it pans out and I may finally give in and get Derek
some;)
Have fun
There are scale decals for WW2 armor out there - specially british,
consisting of squares, triangles, and circles. These could be of help.
Kevin Walker Horizon Concepts, Inc.
D20 Editor/Writer & Miniature Painter
sage@chartermi.net
> On Sunday, Mar 2, 2003, at 23:33 US/Central, John Crimmins wrote:
> At 07:45 PM 3/2/03 -0000, you wrote:
> Kevin Walker wrote:
> There are scale decals for WW2 armor out there - specially british,
Try Skytrex again - I have a sheet of their 15mm WWII British markings
that might suit