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

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

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... 3 years later ...

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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

 

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Epic work and task list! Very informative. 😀

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