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I grew up playing historicals with my dad. Johnny Reb was a perennial favorite. He used to get mad when I would paint my union troops with non standard colors. I remember pouring over 'Osprey' books to get my troops painted right. One time I was at a tournament in Albuquerque NM, this guy had a beautiful Napoleonic army in the 35mm miniatures. Everything was painted perfectly except Napoleon himself was done up entirely in a flourescent uniform. The tournament promoter (a guy named Glen) got so freaking mad he threw this dude out of the building. It was a terrible scene. Frankly I think historical gamers should allow a little flexibility for the more eccentric personalities the hobby draws... I stopped CW reenacting because 'stitch counters' were so damn obnoxious about equipment fieldings. Frankly I hate spending thousands on a hobby. So what if the paint schemes are a little weird? The army is painted!!

I just like to see painted troops! Wont play with non painted troops... personal rule. Paint troops how you see fit.

- J


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I wouldn't have an issue.. But prefer historically close, I'm not so much a stickler that ill look at someone and complain that their 1941 Germans aren't the right color field grey. That's just silly. As long as they are Germans fine. Now in regards to red colored Germans.. Definitely no problems. I've often wanted to do an army that for each side that simulated red force vs blue force. In that I mean every model on the red side is red only and the same concept for blue. That desire is based on that history channels show where the guy busts open what looks to be a war game table and one force is blue the other is red.. I forget what it's called but I thought it'd be neat to simulate that on the table!

We do this in the military with our micro-armor stuff. Makes for great FUOPS (future plans and operations) training and great tactical training. Usually our stuff is spray painted blue, and enemy stuff is either red or green. Whats great is when your GPC holder buys enough micro-armor to represent your entire brigade and then throws it in the trash after training.

/ I have lots of microarmor.

- J

Here is my innaccurate british paint. Vallejo paint guide lists the Helmet and the Sherman As Russian Grn. I used English Ivy Green.As for the uniform i used Vallejo German camo medium brown. So what do you think?

I think it's about feel and atmosphere as well. We've all seen WW2 movies where a very, very heavy filter is put on the image to change its colour. We've all seen early colour war footage where colours are either washed out or over exposed. And we've seen footage in black and white (the majority of period footage in black and white).

The original poster wanted some sort of red WW2 germans. I showed a late war uniform that has a ton of red brown on it. I think go all the way to a bright red is stretching it. It's outside the atmosphere of filters and war footage we have seen. People can do what they want with their figures, but there is a point of departure from expectations that might be too much for some or most people.

As for the British in the Ivy Green, I think that does fit within the variety of filters, footage and photographs from the period. It meets expectations of a military drab and it is even a colour the British used.

It's also important to remember that to make our brains see depth and colour on a small object, we need to increase both the brightness and the contrast. For my Russians, I use a brighter green and then wash it down with a darker russian green colour.