Ok I have started my 2 company boxes of US infantry.
I have cleaned them and glued them to card, undercoated them primer black with colorkote spray paint, which works wonderfully well.
I have painted the boot brown and now am painting the gaters and jacket.
I have started painting them my usual way that I use with germans in field grey.
That is I paint only the high spots in colour, followed by a lighter high light and then an ink wash.
I have tried this so far with th exception of removing the high light untill after the ink and replacing the high light application with a dry brush instead.
Now faced with about 80+ figures I have been contemplating taking a “short-cut”.
Tell me which one you think will look better in the table top.
Model A
or
Model B
Model B looks like it could do with another coat on the front, the back is a bit blurry so can’t really tell. Seems to be more colour in the crevices than on the surfaces. In light of that I think Model A looks best.
oh and I can see a mold line on Model A’s helmet. Bad you LOL. Don’t worry I just noticed mold lines on my stummelwerfers after I painted them. Will take photos soon. As I near the end I’m getting better at painting FJ. Still will be good to seem them gone.
You you are bustin my balls Hanz Blick! Bustin my balls!
Yes ther is a mould line .. most have been filed this time.. I tried somthing new other than using a blade. This was because some (very few) had sever flash and mould line shift.
Yes Model B has full colour applied but it does seem to fall to valleys. And becase I do thin my paint with water the high spots have thinned. The dry brush picks this up which will be a lighter colour.
Yes theback shot is slightly out of focus.. this new camera has the lates Auto FOcus features.. which means it cant focus a macro shot… and I can’t read the instructions… I don’t know what is a worse built in feature 🙁
Yeah I prefer method A.. even if it takes longer… And because I am used to it I will stick to it.
But I will change the order of the inking and highlighting and change my high light to a dry brush application instead of a brush stroke (or more like a light flick)
I must remember to use flow medium too… as my Tamyia paints are getting claggy even with adding thinner and shaking with three or four buck shot pellets in each jar.
Stummelwarfers… the word just explodes with a feeling of sawn off shotguns! Or blunderbuses!
Look forward to assaulting them with US infantry one day.