Battle of Britain PSC Game Preparation - 1/300 Planes Painting

Take a quick look at my 'behind the scenes' frantic painting tray situation a few months back, all in preparation for the Stockton Pendrakon "Battle ground" wargaming show where I helped put on a Battle of Britain game (by PSC but revamped from an older TSR version). I decided that the little bland little playing pieces (standard raw plastic grey) in the PSC game needed to be painted up proper to look authentic (see below, the RAF contingent are being prepared, as the models had handy roundel indents I decided to try and paint them by hand - there are also a few 1/300 "metals" I found [milling to the left hand side, two Fairy Battles, two Hurricanes and three Spitfires] these were just  "kicking about", but in the end I did not use them): 

My good old fashioned Tamiya paints come to the rescue as the RAF fighters (Spitfires and Hurricanes) receive their classic BoB [Green/Brown] basecoats and I used a Revell acrylic Sky Blue for their undersides (see below, twelve basic fighter markers are required for the game, the exotic Bristol Blenheim, BP Defiant and a Gloster Gladiator are seen as "stretch goals"): 

Finally a flight of painted Hurricanes takes to the skies. The main purpose of the game was to show how a "double blind" version of the game played, so the painting was a "bit of chrome" (see below, with a WIP Blenheim, lurking in the background, varnish drying and ready for battle against the Luftwaffe): 

Squadron scramble teh RAF "are all up" (see below, 100% of RAF planes needed for the game are complete, nine on green mat and three on brown wooden table):

Both sides needed to be represented so once the RAF were finished out with those dark green paints for the Luftwaffe. A selection of seven planes of various "representative" types were required, some fighters, some bombers. I did use some existing painted metal Me 109s and a Stuka, to which I hand crafted some crosses on. It was the medium tactical bombers that I was really after. The He 111, Ju 88 and Do 17z  (see below, the first application of the base colours was rather unimpressive as the two colours were almost too close together to be able to distinguish between them): 

The painted Luftwaffe "end game" or rather finished products looked better though, as I darkened one and lightened the other - even though painting on the crosses by hand was nearly the very end of me (see below, a Heinkel He111 "Blitz Bomber" and a Dornier Do17z light/medium reconnaissance bomber): 

And with that they were ready for the show and off they went!

Show game report: https://exiledfog.blogspot.com/2021/11/stockton-battleground-2021-battle-of.html