COBRA forces for Bolt Action/K47

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Project Entry by dukeexeter

COBRA Marksmen

October 17, 2018

Tutoring 3

Skill 6

Idea 7

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Sniper team ready for action

Finally I have more progress to show on this army. Today I finished my sniper team. Unfortunately, I could not find any actual COBRA characters who nicely fit the role of a Sniper, so I went with some artistic license. The miniatures are the German Mech Grenadier Snipers from Westwind productions Secrets of the Third Reich range. I fell in love with thier sci-fi look and thier big flowy ponchos. I wanted to experiment and re-create the SS peadot camo in Cobra style. I think it came out well.

test patches of the camo pattern

So here is how I created the camo pattern. First I start with a grey primer. For the basecoat I mixed VMC Luffwaffe uniform WW2 and AP Crystal Blue to get a nice navy blue color. Next I added splotches of VMC Black and VMC Grey Green. Over all that I washed it with AP Blue Ink. Then I came back and used a tooth pick to add small dots of the black and grey over the opposite colors. Lastly I finished with more dots of AP Crystal Blue everywhere.

I am very happy with how it turned out; the camo pattern looks very unique to me. I only needed one figure actually, but since both looked so cool I decided to keep and paint both for fun. The camo cloaks were definitely my favorite part to paint, but a close second was the rifles with those camouflage wrap/netting.