CRC's Crazy Compendium 2; Eclectic Boogaloo

So I did mention before that I had a bunch of beige webbing on other Tommies that needed changing, so I thought I’d go over some of my experiments to re-colour them rather than just re-paint the whole chaps. Here I’m doing it using washes from Citadel but I would think that similar paints from other companies would also work. I would advise against the Contrast paints, unless you thin them down just because of the coverage you get. As you’ll see, the ability to add a few coats to subtly change colours is really useful. And while I have used this for webbing, you can use similar ideas to shift with all sorts of colours. You want your old beige minis to have some yellow panels? You can do that with these same ideas.

The first experiment I wanted to try was to try and tint the Sniper to be a bit more green, so I got some Biel-Tan Green shade that is a much more green shade rather than the brown-green colour of Athonian Camoshade. Using a shade means that the colours below will show through a bit so I can keep some highlights I did earlier. I also had to remember what I had done before with the Athonian Camoshade and discovered that I must have used two coats of the paint to reach the colour previously on the Sniper.

And so the final result looks a pretty good match and was quick and easy to re-colour using only two paints. I could possibly get away with just the Biel-Tan Green, but I like the slight brown tint I get this way…

I might put up a post related to some research for the Archer SP 17pdr that I was doing earlier…but I might not be painting my tank for a while, so I might save it for when I get ready to paint. No more webbing posts now, I promise.