Here is the IJN Shinano that I painted for the GHQ catalog a few years ago. This was my first painted aircraft carrier and I was trying to figure out how to do the deck markings.
My friend, Tanner Simmons, aka WWII Central, had created a decal for the deck markings and sent a couple to me. I admit I messed up the first one but the second one came out okay. That sure made things much easier than cutting and pasting to get the various markings I was looking for. Now we have Flight Deck Decals and things are much easier.
Damn Pete! That carrier is gorgeous! Once again I am blown away by your work!
Just curious, do you collect / play in all the genres you model? or did you do some ships and planes specifically for the catalog and you don't necessarily collect them. Do you do other non-GHQ miniatures or other scales?
I'm waiting for the Pete Skaar museum to open so I can come take a look in person!
Here is a GHQ KV-1 going over a CinC bridge. I added bridges to my European Terrain Maker streams about 2 1/2 years ago and took a few photos of the completed bridges both with and without vehicles on them.
The water is just paint with a gloss clear coat over the top. For the color, I used 2 shades of old Polly Scale Luftwaffe Greens. It is too bad I can't get Poly Scale paints any more.
Here are a couple more river/stream/ bridge pictures.
I am in the process of adding more tanks to my Afrika Korps as I am short some short barreled Panzer IVs and Panzer IIs. I finally finished up 3 Panzer IVF1s and 5 Panzer IIs to add to my existing forces. The decals are by Flight Deck Decals. I am using a single digit tactical number as used by 15th Panzer Division. I had to carefully cut out the number from the 3 digit set.
I will be running a Mein Panzer game at Sand Wars here in Mesa, Arizona in May.