Waffen SS Army VLOG – Part 6
November 8, 2017 by johnlyons
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When I do it I find a wet pallet is invaluable to keep the paint fresh. For a faster application you could also try sponging on the patches then going back and adding a few dots with the cocktail stick afterwards.
Great video, for people who may not know the schemes you’re representing could you show a reference picture of the camo off?
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Yeah I was a bit worried about it when you finished the second attempt but once the first and second were together, it tied it together. Looks great! Especially on the first test with the helmet
I only have a pet hamster and I’m not sure if he would be very good at wielding a cocktail stick to help paint camo patterns
Looks great! According to the scheme sample I simply would try to cover the smok with roughly 30% lighter colour dots blending with the other two browns. What do you think?
Anyway you have still a lot of work ahead. Keep sticking!
Yeah I’d agree the base layer ended up being a bit dark.
I like how quick it was, and it looks good. seen other videos out there but I think they are for money painters and it was like 30-45 mins a mini. I wonder how sponge/stipple and toothpick effect would be as Avernos mentioned.
Looks great. Tempted to try this myself
They look great when put togheter, specially the hat.
A question (maybe too soon xD). Why prime in greenest grey if the mini is going to be brown instead of priming it brown? The rest of the clothes/details will be of the prime color?
I wanted to get the basic fieldgrey down because once it’s down it’s unlikely to need any other work done to it. And I didn;t want to paint in and around the legs of every guy
I don’t envy you having to paint a lot of that!
The only thing I would say from looking at your pattern, you maybe need some more stray dots in the dark brown outside the patches to break up your areas of base coat.
Good work and try not to go cross eyed.
Having only painted british denison smock camo this is really interesting to see. A wet pallet like @avernos said is inevitable here I think as it takes some time to get one mini painted and it helped me alot in getting my paras done in reasonable qualitiy. Imho camouflage really gets alive when being shaded / washed and highlighted here and there. Great work after all, thumbs up.
Looks a good representation of the camo for the time invested.
Maybe look at make up sponge brushes for getting the patches of colour down, then using sticks to lay the spots over? You could rough up the end of the sponges with tweezers to get a more irregular pattern
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Looks very good. I had a hard time doing mine for flames of war. Never thought of the toothpick which is odd because I use one for eyes sometimes.
The acid test is when you put them down on the table and they just blend into the terrain 🙂
The best camouflage is never seen 😉
that looks fantastic John the hard bit is staying strong to do the complete unit before a melt down.
I resemble that remark
Lol.
Every time you turn that mini around I find myself thinking “Man, Warlord plastics have really come a long way since I assembled all those bloody British infantry!” One thing that always troubles me about ‘realistic’ (and by that I mean – effective) camouflage is that on infantry models, you can’t really tell what you are looking at when you are three feet away. Is that a man? Some sort of bush? Is it part of the mat and perhaps I just need glasses? To counter that, I always add contrasting gear, over do the shading and paint highlights onto… Read more »
that looks great John, must give that a go myself 🙂