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Flags on Tanks?	12	08 Feb 2023 3:57 a.m. PST
Help with Italian tank crew uniforms	4	18 Jan 2023 12:09 p.m. PST
WW2 US Infantry uniform color	26	21 Dec 2022 3:31 p.m. PST
New: Australian Armour and Artillery Museum	7	11 Dec 2022 4:50 p.m. PST
How to make flames for flame throwers	3	07 Dec 2022 1:57 p.m. PST
2nd Armoured Division 1941 - AFV Colours	6	24 Nov 2022 2:26 a.m. PST
Craft paints. All from one manufacturer?	23	16 Nov 2022 11:11 a.m. PST
A Painting Tutorial Guide and Resource for Axis and Allies	3	10 Oct 2022 3:59 p.m. PST
Dunkelgelb	10	08 Oct 2022 5:25 a.m. PST
Aircraft Recognition Flags? Italian Version?	2	07 Sep 2022 2:29 p.m. PST
Quick Question. British Beret Colour M10's	10	13 Aug 2022 5:24 a.m. PST
Gurkha Officers & Kukris	5	03 Aug 2022 11:59 p.m. PST
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Greek Early WW2 military License Plates & markings	7	25 Jul 2022 3:32 p.m. PST
Anyone use Howard Hues any more?	38	13 Jul 2022 5:47 p.m. PST
Halftrack color?	11	05 Jun 2022 10:32 p.m. PST
How To Paint 6mm Figures in Cinematic Hollywood Style	5	27 May 2022 1:59 p.m. PST
Help with this Picture???	7	06 May 2022 2:17 p.m. PST
Who wore German cammo?	9	15 Apr 2022 12:18 p.m. PST
Black Tree Designs 28mm WWII - How do they compare in scale?	15	02 Feb 2022 2:11 p.m. PST
Painting British Airborne Berets?	8	29 Jan 2022 12:20 p.m. PST
NKVD At start of WWII	7	23 Jan 2022 9:17 a.m. PST
Priming 15mm Shermans for the European Theater	23	09 Jan 2022 2:52 a.m. PST
12mm Review and Painting Victrix Panzer IV	5	06 Jan 2022 6:11 a.m. PST
French Uniform colour	6	02 Jan 2022 8:13 p.m. PST
WWII Russian uniform color	18	16 Dec 2021 9:31 a.m. PST
Finnish Units without Caps (Just Helmets)?	7	16 Dec 2021 9:06 a.m. PST
Guide for the Japanese Army	8	02 Dec 2021 5:32 a.m. PST
Best Guide for Painting British Uniforms	4	25 Nov 2021 2:18 a.m. PST
LATE WAR BRITISH VEHICLE PAINTING TUTORIAL	2	18 Nov 2021 7:03 p.m. PST
Philosophical Consolations	4	17 Nov 2021 4:53 p.m. PST
Airbrushing Help!!!	8	28 Oct 2021 7:21 p.m. PST
German mountain troops in Creta, uniform?	5	25 Oct 2021 1:30 p.m. PST
Panzer Gray?	21	05 Oct 2021 4:22 a.m. PST
Japanese soft skin vehicles: what color?	5	29 Sep 2021 10:56 a.m. PST
German Late War Troops - 15mm Peter Pig & OG	5	19 Sep 2021 1:45 p.m. PST
Spray vs. liquid varnish on Airfix 20mm	18	14 Sep 2021 11:09 a.m. PST
In progress	10	12 Sep 2021 1:17 p.m. PST
Reference photos	2	27 Aug 2021 12:47 p.m. PST
Painting guide for US Marines early WW2	7	23 Aug 2021 11:06 a.m. PST
Vallejo paints.	16	14 Aug 2021 4:05 a.m. PST
15mm WWII US Marines	10	22 Jun 2021 5:19 p.m. PST
Spray paint for 6mm ghq airborne	3	21 Jun 2021 10:38 p.m. PST
Iranian Army in WW2	16	19 Jun 2021 9:59 p.m. PST
Dutch uniforms 1940	17	17 Jun 2021 6:41 a.m. PST
Fallschirmjager Marsh Pattern Painting Guide.	3	16 Jun 2021 8:52 a.m. PST
Step-by-Step - Painting Soviet Sniper Liudmylla Pavlichenko	7	11 Jun 2021 4:18 p.m. PST
GI web gear color?	7	09 Jun 2021 5:48 p.m. PST
Painting & Weathering the Ferdinand Jagdpanzer Sd. Kfz. 184	2	16 May 2021 9:39 p.m. PST
Red Army's White Tanks	6	14 May 2021 9:27 a.m. PST
British Armor colors in Tunisia?	5	09 May 2021 1:12 a.m. PST
Leaf foliage on Tanks	6	04 May 2021 12:18 p.m. PST
Commanders? Paint, then Attach!	2	24 Apr 2021 1:49 p.m. PST
Keep a Journal!	25	20 Apr 2021 11:10 p.m. PST
vallejo color for Japanese SNLF	9	20 Apr 2021 1:42 p.m. PST
Houses at Battle of Bulge, suggestions?	7	30 Mar 2021 11:18 a.m. PST
Free French in Paris August 1944	7	20 Mar 2021 3:38 p.m. PST
Painting WWII Japanese tanks?	14	11 Mar 2021 10:11 p.m. PST
Belgium infantry	5	10 Mar 2021 4:55 a.m. PST
US Paratroop Colours	4	10 Mar 2021 4:55 a.m. PST
1/144 or 10mm WWII Decals	3	25 Feb 2021 3:41 a.m. PST
Vallejo Spray Paints	35	23 Feb 2021 3:27 a.m. PST
How to - making walls for the Mediterranean	35	18 Feb 2021 9:54 a.m. PST
Preventing paint flaking.	10	09 Feb 2021 11:13 p.m. PST
GHQ Paints	6	28 Jan 2021 4:17 p.m. PST
Rubber stamping vehicle markings?	13	28 Jan 2021 2:41 p.m. PST
Camouflage masking techniques	5	26 Jan 2021 5:03 p.m. PST
How to paint German Gebirsjägers	1	22 Jan 2021 9:55 p.m. PST
Help, color recommenations for German great coat	7	20 Jan 2021 2:52 p.m. PST
Help, colours for Itlalian anti-tank guns	4	20 Jan 2021 7:26 a.m. PST
Help, colours for Allied anti-tank guns	9	18 Jan 2021 7:13 a.m. PST
15mm Snow bases	8	16 Jan 2021 4:41 p.m. PST
Como pintar civiles armados de la 2GM	4	08 Jan 2021 8:52 p.m. PST
Italeri 15 cm Field Howitzer sFH 18 in 1/72 Scale	6	08 Jan 2021 7:54 a.m. PST
German infantry in great coats, Anzio, Bulge	1	04 Jan 2021 10:02 a.m. PST
WWII Artillery Painting Tutorials	4	03 Jan 2021 1:43 p.m. PST
USMC uniforms, getting the colors right.	10	19 Dec 2020 8:38 a.m. PST
28mm late war British & German	3	17 Dec 2020 10:42 p.m. PST
"HOW TO" - Winter Germans Part 1	1	16 Dec 2020 10:11 p.m. PST
Help, colors of Bersaglieri motorcycles?	11	10 Dec 2020 7:39 a.m. PST
German SS Soldier Ardennes Offensive.	7	08 Dec 2020 11:08 p.m. PST
Is my Panzergrau too Dark?	12	07 Dec 2020 3:00 p.m. PST
German Armor Colors for Tunisia?	9	30 Nov 2020 5:02 p.m. PST
Armor scheme, 12th SS Armor at Bulge	8	29 Nov 2020 10:24 p.m. PST
Italian Tank Paint Schemes Greece and North Africa	3	28 Nov 2020 6:15 a.m. PST
German MG42 Gunner Kharkov	1	10 Nov 2020 9:42 p.m. PST
Uniformi delle forze armate italiane nella seconda guerra	4	31 Oct 2020 12:35 p.m. PST
T-35 Soviet Heavy Tank	2	27 Oct 2020 8:13 a.m. PST
British Tanks on Crete	7	26 Oct 2020 3:47 p.m. PST
Finished Panzer III platoon	6	26 Oct 2020 8:44 a.m. PST
Vallejo equivalent, Italian armor, Base Green	6	21 Oct 2020 6:25 a.m. PST
Painting Katyushas	5	20 Oct 2020 4:48 p.m. PST
British webbing 1940	10	13 Oct 2020 5:27 p.m. PST
Italian & German armor and trucks, Sicily. 1943	3	08 Oct 2020 4:04 a.m. PST
WW2 French cavalry flags	7	07 Oct 2020 4:14 p.m. PST
Color Modulation Paints - WW2 German Gray	1	07 Oct 2020 3:29 p.m. PST