test model for my paras, opinioins please!

[petercooman]

HEy guys,

I have just started work on my british airborne, but having never before painted camo fatigues on 10mm, i decided to make a test miniature.

Do you guys think this looks good enough for ww2 paras? the skin still needs a wash and the webbing a drybrush but you get the idea.




I rather have some opinions before i do this entire lot 


Cheers

[Techno]

Definitely don't regard myself as an expert on different types of 'camo' Peter......But that looks pretty damn good to these old eyes.
Cheers - Phil.

[fred.]

The size and colour of the green and brown blobs on the Denison smock look good.

But, ( there had to be a but didn't there) the base colour for the smock is a sandy yellow  rather than the mid-brown of the British battle dress.

Also the helmets were green rather than brown   

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I agree with Fred.
Great job

[fsn]

Wot Fred said, and Lemmy's rarely wrong.

However, it is an inspiration to someone who has a company of them to paint. It's lovely brushwork. 

[NTM]

Although Fred is correct the way you have painted this figure works for me. There is a danger that if you go for the correct base colour that the webbing could get lost. Compromises like this sometimes have to be made.

[petercooman]

The size and colour of the green and brown blobs on the Denison smock look good.

But, ( there had to be a but didn't there) the base colour for the smock is a sandy yellow  rather than the mid-brown of the British battle dress.

Also the helmets were green rather than brown   

So lets brainstorm. I made the basecoulour for the uniform by applying graveyard earth followed by a devlan mud wash and then drybrushed earth again. Would it help washing with gryphonne sephia instead? giving it a yellowish tone?

The helmets will definately look greener, as i will drybrush them with camo green for the webbing.

However, it is an inspiration to someone who has a company of them to paint. It's lovely brushwork. 

Thanks! just get cracking 

Although Fred is correct the way you have painted this figure works for me. There is a danger that if you go for the correct base colour that the webbing could get lost. Compromises like this sometimes have to be made.

Yeah it works for me too, but i am just looking if there are simple ways of making it better. My regular army types have some 'artistic license ' to them too. But this being a much smaller battlegroup then my regular army, allows to put some more time in it and get it as right as i can!


Thx all for the replies!

[petercooman]

On second thought, what if i keep the sequence but replace the last drybrush by a desert yellow drybrush?

And i meant catachan green not camo green. Camo green would obviously be too light

[Steve J]

I think the jacket base colour needs to be lighter. The following links have plenty of info and I used these on my 28mm Paras to good effect:

http://www.artizandesigns.com/guides/BritishParatroopsColours.pdf
http://www.artizandesigns.com/guides/new/painters%20guide%201944%20british%20denison.gif
http://www.artizandesigns.com/guides/new/painters%20guide%201944%20british%20para.gif

Hope this helps.

[Albie Bach]

Very nice.
A lighter jacket base colour might also let the camo show up more. I can see the irony in that, but I hope you see my point. 

[fred.]

I've got a few 10mm paras painted http://www.kerynne.com/games/BritishParas.html though mainly not Pendraken



I went for a buff colour for the webbing, to make it stand out


As for painting order, it looks like you have the whole figure done in battle dress brown, so I would at this stage paint the jacket in desert sand, then proceed as before.

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Helmet, Russian uniform 924, camo strips flat earth 983 and green ochre 914

Smock base English uniform 921, highlight the whole thing green ochre 914, this will give some depth! then reflective green 890 then flat earth 973 last two colours covering about 50% of visible fabric

Webbing Russian uniform   924 highlighted w grey green 886

Trousers English uniform 921

Boots &chinstraps black

That's the Battlefront version anyway...

Edited with correct numbers

[Fenton]

For the webbing in 10mm I would be tempted to go straight to grey green as the base colour

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Just going back to sort the numbers, they've all defaulted to 886! 

[Fenton]

And 886 is green grey so I must be right  

but a little weird