E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne - a Band of Brothers Bolt Action project by Bothi

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Project Entry by bothi

... 3 years later ...

October 6, 2018

Tutoring 8

Skill 5

Idea 5

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After the existing part of 1st Squad was finished I stopped working on the project for about 3 years. So it was only a few weeks ago when I went back to this army. This time I am commited to at least finish 75% of this army that has grown over the years to more than a hundred minis.

First problem was to recreate the paint scheme. Fortunately I had writen a step by step painting guide for these. For anyone interested, here it is (loosely translated from German):

Step	Title	Color	Comment
1	Base Coating	Brown Violet Green	Entire Minis
2	Skin	Bestigor Flesh
3	Highlights Skin	Elven Felsh
4	Large Highlights Uniform	Brown Violet with Hellion Green	don’t forget the chin strap
5	Fine Highlights Uniform	Brown Violte with more Hellion Green	Light drybrush on Helmet and don’t forget the chin strap
6	Base Color Equipment	Baylor Brown with Hellion Green
7	Highlights Equipment	Baylor Brown with more Hellion Green
8	Inner part of mouth	Red Gore
9	Teeth, Eyes and Helmet	White	Spade on Helmet, Officers with vertical line
10	Mouth Edges and Eyebrows	Bugmans Glow
11	Eyes	Black
12	Corrections Face	Elven Felsh
13	Corrections Helmet	Brown Violet Green
14	Helmet Camo 1	Bestial Brown
15	Hair	Bestial Brown
16	Helmet Camo 2	Steel Legion Drap
17	Helmet Camo 3	Caliban Green
18	Helmet Highlight 2	Baylor Brown	on topof the Steel Legion Drap
19	Helmet Highlight 3	Brown Violet	on top of the Caliban Green
20	Weapon Holsters and Boots	Bestial Brown with Red and Black	Pistol Holser, Knife Sheath and entire Boots
21	Highlights Holsters and Boots	Bestial Brown with Red	Pistol Holser, Knife Sheath and Boots
22	Helmet Highlight 1	Bestial Brown with Red	on top of the Bestial Brown
23	Bootlaces	Baylor Brown with more Hellion Greed
24	Wooden Parts	Bestial Brown	Rifles and lower parts of the entrechment tools
25	Wood Highlights	Steel Legion Drap	50% on the same parts, upper half
26	Metal Parts	Gunmetal	Rifles, SMGs, Grenade, Ent. Tool shafts, Knife handles, Drinking Bottle Clasp, Other Claps
27	Rifle Shading	Nuln Oil	Rifle metal parts
28	Metal Shading	Black Ink	SMGs, Grenades, Ent. Tool shafts, Knife handles, Drinking Bottle Clasp, Other Claps
29	Base	Bestial Brown	Only where needed
30	Decals		Flag and rank right, Eagle and rank left
31	Decals fix up	Army Painter Matt Varnish
32	Dipping	Army Painter Dark Tone
33	Matt Coating	AP Matt Varnish with a drop of GW ‘Ardcoat	entire mini
34	1. Snow Layer	Snowpaste by Noch	use a lot
35	2. Snow Layer	Snowpaste by Noch	bullet holes, explosion craters, don’t forget the gras
36	Blackshading	Nuln Oil	bullet holes and explosion craters
37	Blackshading 2	Black Ink	centre of bullet holes and explosion craters
38	Blood	Blood for the Bloodgod	only where needed
39	Edge Cleaning		get rid of excess snow
40	Black Rim	Black