painting SG figures question

Has anyone taken to giving any of their figures a small touch of national
identity? For example, a small national flag patch on the arms of the figs?

I am currently painting NAC figures and am thinking about a small flag of St.
George for a British Platoon, and so on.

Does the canon history preclude this?

From: Jim Hopper jhopper@technicalpoint.com
> I am currently painting NAC figures and am thinking about a small flag

<grin> They're your figs, paint 'em any way you like. There are no Official
Uniforms. *I* can't put flags on *my* minis, but that's because of my painting
"skills" (or maybe that I use 6mm for SG).

Don't see why not - the FSE armoured car on the back cover of the SG2
rules has a French tricolour roundel on the side of the hull.

Alternatively, paint the flag for each power bloc (from FB1)

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/3565/#graphic has them listed
under 'fleet emblems'

> Jim Hopper wrote:

> I am currently painting NAC figures and am thinking about a small flag

<PEDANT>
Cross of St George would denote an _English_ Platoon. British, if such a
concept exists in the NAC, would be denoted by the Union Flag.
</PEDANT>

> Does the canon history preclude this?

There's nothing in the background as written to preclude the use of national
flags to identify units from different nations within the main blocs.

Hi,

What would be more typical (I think) to see on the uniforms would be a
divisional flash indicating the unit that the platoon was part of. My troops
have divisional flashes, coz I think it looks pretty.

Of course if you say your figures are from the "1st English Division" then a
George cross (which is quite easy to paint, Genius) would be very appropriate.

Just my ignorance spreading unocntrolably (",)

Hi Folks,

> What would be more typical (I think) to see on the uniforms would be a
then a
> George cross (which is quite easy to paint, Genius) would be very

As someone else pointed out, "Paint them however you like"...

However, I wanted some kind of "unit" marking on my NAC also. I wanted to give
my NAC some kind of flavour, without being obvious about it, so I chose the
regimental colours of the regiment they're supposedly representing. There's a
writeup in the TO&E section of
http://www.stargrunt.ca on the 123'rd battalion, Royal New Anglian Light
Infantry, and they "perpetuate the history and honours of the Queen's Own
Rifles of Canada". The regimental colours are rifle green (of course) and
scarlet.  So, I did the right shoulder board/pad/armour plate/(whatever
it is on the NAC figures) in rifle green, with a scarlet stripe. The rest of
the figure is the standard uniform colour I chose (in the case of the NAC,
it is grey fatigues - I assume they use uniforms that change colour to
match whatever terrain they're in, anyway, so the grey colour was a
"generic" colour for "in-garrison".  Or something.  Anyway, rather than
trying to paint a flash on the sleeve, doing the whole shoulder board thing
worked well, and was tres-simple to paint.  And it looks fine, which is
the important thing:)

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> adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:
[...]
> As someone else pointed out, "Paint them however you like"...
and
> scarlet. So, I did the right shoulder board/pad/armour

We expect to see a squad of these entered into the painting contest at ECC
this weekend.

No pressure or anything. I'll enter in something for comic relief.  ;-)

Mk

> At 06:57 28/02/02 +0000, Richard wrote:

Same here, I use simple shapes, easy to paint.

You can see a example here:

http://www.users.bigpond.com/derekfulton/Gallery/Gallery.htm

click on the NSL - Dirtside and Stargrunt link and look at the NSL Jager

squad, I've used a inverted yellow triangle with a black border and red
stripe. Paint the black first, then the yellow and then the stripe.

Cheers

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jim Hopper wrote:

> Has anyone taken to giving any of their figures a small touch of

I've put the union jack on the left shoulder of my NAC figures.

Cheers,

[quoted original message omitted]

> I've put the union jack on the left shoulder of my NAC figures.
Show off!

> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----

I assumed they were detachable/switch-off-able for field use. I know the
dutch flag on our uniforms is velcro-ed on, and removed in the field.

Cheers,

[quoted original message omitted]

> On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Richard Kirke wrote:

> >I've put the union jack on the left shoulder of my NAC figures.

> Show off!

Not really - the trick is not to try and the EXACT union jack, but
something which gives the impression of...

Cheers,

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, K.H.Ranitzsch wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----

That depends on my mood, really;) But as for field dress, isn't it common to
remove insignias in the field, anyway?

Cheers,

:
> > Has anyone taken to giving any of their figures a small touch of

If you game in 6mm you are scaring me:]

Derk,

Yeah I know, just joking! BTW how? Coz my brother (who was briefly on this
group but has sadly didn't have the time) has just aquired someNAC figures.

If you are prepared to give away your trade secrets ;-)

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Richard Kirke wrote:

> Derk,

Have a look at

Quoting Derk Groeneveld <derk@cistron.nl>:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Jim Hopper wrote:

At the request of the other half, one of my squad leaders has a St Andrew's
cross on his helmet (he's somewhat serious about his scottish ancestry... the
idea being that figure can be swapped in as the platoon commander if he's
running the NAC) The other squad leaders have various other logos made of
red/white/blue on their heads.

Nice minis! Cheers, I think I can see how, forwarded to my brother now

Cheers

Richard

> From: Derk Groeneveld <derk@cistron.nl>

those are nice soldiers, nice paint jobs; my only "complaint" with GZG
and  DENIZEN  figures/vehicles and etc, are that they are smaller than
my much loved V1, V2, and V3 40K IG troopers (star grunts, generic IG
metal and plastic, metal cadians, metal and plastic  catachans - ie the
ones that have a soldier feel and look! LOL i even like the HOLLYWEIRD butt
ugly steroid pumped plastic catachans).

sigh. i am holding out (probably wasting my time!) for plastic multipiece
cadians, which tened to look more like soldiers than the rest of the IG
figures now in production.

i like the EM-4 plastic troopers (which are  hard to come by in NOWHAR
TN) as they are close to the size of the aulde IG, and the new COPPLESTONE and
FOUNDRY stuff for the same reason.

the same comments apply to the gangers and militia types that see use in my
games as space pirates, gangers, rebels, psychopukers, shadowpunkers, and etc.

hurra! for MR . T!!!!!!!

DAWGIE

> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Richard Kirke wrote:

> Nice minis! Cheers, I think I can see how, forwarded to my brother now

Thanks, and quite welcome:)

Cheers,

> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:

> those are nice soldiers, nice paint jobs; my only "complaint" with

And even worse than that, the GZG and Denizen miniatures even have.. *GASP*
realistic proportions! No oversized heads, muscles or way too big weaponry!;)
I vastly prefer the GZG and Denezin figures, myself.

I have to agree though, that the old style IG were fairly decent figures; I
have a squad of those running about somewhere, too. They tend to team up with
my grenadier figures;)

Cheers,

> At 09:49 4/03/02 +0000, you wrote:

Yes, nice miniatures.

Cheers