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Re: [DSII] Unit Markings

From: Indy <kochte@s...>
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 08:31:25 -0500
Subject: Re: [DSII] Unit Markings

John Crimmins wrote:
> 
> 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?

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

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