The Road to Falaise Bobs on going 15mm WW2 Adventure
Hobby week day 3 update
Today so far has been on of finishing off units, 1stly I’ve finished the painting stage of the U.S paras. I used wash post the contrast coat phase to brown boots and rifles, dark green on helmets and packs , the used Vallejo dark gun metal on wpns.
I used my recently purchased magnifying glasses to pick out details of faces, finishing them in a few hours.
One of 4 lolly pop sticks worth.I then stuck them to the bases and used GW texture paint to hide the circular lines and break up base surface, colour not important as will paint most of base army painter green before putting on a dark wash prior to flocking as with British Infantry
With the Lollipop sticks free, I now stuck my Armoured infantry platoon down using pva.
Yesterday I base coated most of the built British Army painter Green, which is darker than the Death Guard green used on Yanks.
As I’m trying to get a reasonable match to my previously completed British , but with out all the stages, I then tried one coat of GW Earthshade wash, on a test M5 Stuart which wasn’t really dark enough. So after block painting the track and mg’s in dark gunmetal, tried another coat of Earthshade, think need to thin it a bit next time as it left a few dark blotches which I toned down with a very light brush of PP paints army green.
I think the effect is close enough.
The new one is on right, once detail is done decals added and a bit of sand weathering done think it will be pretty close.
nice work Bob, looking good 🙂
Jobs a good one here. The infantry is looking particularly smart!
Fantastic work buddy