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Jungle fashion; you can make a killing from it.

August 28, 2020

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While I would barely even consider it a pun…that title is just a terrible joke; I apologise…

So before slapping the paint onto Captain Tom, I wanted to make sure of a few things, the primary one being uniform colours. Thanks to the marvel of modern technology, being able to colourise black and white photos has created a wealth of pictographic references that any google search can give you. Something I noticed though was some serious variations, even within the same photographs, and so I looked and eventually asked the discord server if anyone knew anything that would help. Thanks to @portcullis (and by extension his grandfather) some colours, and explanations for variations, were suggested and so off we go to some experimentation!

For this colour experiment, I’m going to be using an reference I used in a previous post and my trusty Escher ganger who I practiced the purple hair on! A few more experiments and she may even get finished… 😛

As @portcullis said, the uniforms tended to be a drab khaki that was dyed green for the jungle, so I started with Steel Legion Drab.

Whereas with my NW Europe uniforms (where I would shade with Agrax Earthshade), I went with a nice deep green shade of Beil Tan Green. I also did two coats, or about 1.5...ish. I made it green, that's the important bit.

Next I highlighted with Tallarn Sand, keeping with the drab focus here to give the appearance of wartime emergency dye.

Then added an extra highlight of Rakarth Flesh. This was mainly to maintain a level of brightness with the next step, but might not be necessary.

Then a coat of Waywatcher Green to bring the highlights back to a green tint. To be honest, I think this scheme may work better by doing the basecoat and highlights first, then applying the shade over top. If I were to do this, then I'd skip this step, but definitely keep the previous step of adding those extra highlights of Rakarth Flesh.

Compared to my old colours of, basically, Orc skin, I think this colour is much more appropriate to the reference materials. I liked it enough to finish off this bit of cloth with the few extra details, so I think I'll stick with this, or some form of this, in future.

I think the new colour is definitely a better match to these Osprey images. As an aside, it's fairly close to the Yank, too, so you could use this for Korean War or, probably, Vietnam War Yanks!