Blitzkrieg Project

The most Important part besides chosing between weapon options befor building the minis is to choose a colour scheme and decide on which paints to use.

In historical wargaming in can be a bit of pain in the back to get the right colours for a specific uniform. However there are paint brands like Vallejo that provide certain tints and hues in their colour range.

The easiest way is to pick up a paint set for specific uniforms or camo schemes but you often get paints in it you already have and this method is also a bit pricey regarding the wealth of diferent uniforms use in WW2.

Another way would be to mix your own tints, but if you are not accurate while mixin every time the colour will turn out differently every time. You could use an empty dropper bottle and mix a large quantitiy of the needed colour to extend your existing range.

The best method for me is to look at paintings of the specific period (in early WW2 photos were only in black-and white). I research in Books and the internet. Sources I can recommend are Osprey books covering a lot of different periods and Pinteres providing a lot of material which can be saved in collections with no ned to save every image on your harddrive.

What can also be found on the internet are painting schemes already provided by hobbyists or even paint brands or miniature brands themselves. Check out Youtube for painting tutorials or Websites of manufacturers to find some tips on how to paint your minis.

Video by Pete the Wargamer on painting Blitzkrieg Germans:

The research on correct uniform colours is a science on its own but we should not forget that the colours on the mini are only a represantation of the uniform and that camo  patterns cannot be applied in the right scale because hardly anything would be visible at the gaming distance of half a meter away. I therefore always try to find a compromise between historical accurancy and what I think looks good on the mini and the tabletop.

Below are some resource  examples of colour schemes I was coming across during my research. They were randomly picked and are no kind of advertising whatsoever!