Pyrotechnics
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Post by Pyrotechnics on Dec 29, 2011 21:44:34 GMT -5
Hi guys!
Having recently received an influx of models thanks to Santa, I wanted to ask you how you all paint your camo. What sorts of techniques and patterns do you use to make it look more like camo and less like mere splotches of paint? I've tried to do some camo, but I'm not really sure if I like it. Sadly my camera broke just before christmas, so no pictures for critique yet.
I was also thinking that I will organise the guardsmen into permanent platoons, rather than ones that I tailor on a game-by-game basis. To this end I was going to mark each guardsman in a platoon with a pattern on his right shoulderpad and then make a squad marking on his left shoulderpad. What sorts of patterns would you suggest?
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Post by cmssrreath on Dec 30, 2011 3:00:10 GMT -5
my cams and warpaint are all very horrible, but if you go for a search there are heaps of different patterns to use (check out different country uniforms and forces, eg AU army and navy have same pattern different colours) www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/242021.page good link i found for you from dakkdakka easy to follow and the further you go down the better finish you will end up with. For my chaps ive gone army marking on the right pad then squad on left which is simply a squad number but gonna go back and ad in a platoon letter as well. |
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Post by DadCRO on Dec 30, 2011 19:18:53 GMT -5
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Post by RedsandRoyals on Dec 31, 2011 1:21:35 GMT -5
A word of advice; while putting your IG in permanent platoons/squads might seem like a good idea, if you're transporting a lot of models at once, it's not. Unless you're scrupulous about sorting casualties when ou remove them, and packing up your men, you're going to be spending a long time trying to sort random IG into units when you take them out of their case. I had this problem myself, and eventually abandoned trying to give permanent unit assignments to every model.
That said, if you don't mind the sorting, platoon markings can be everything from a shoulder pad painted a certain color (blue for one platoon, red for another, etc), to the transfers we get in each box (Command squads have two numbers and a central skull motiff, such as 2*skull*1, and elite units start with either 00 or 1, according to the old codex), to marking shoulder pads or bases with numbers. I wouldn't recommend anything too complex, though.
Reds
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Post by Empirespy on Dec 31, 2011 6:49:10 GMT -5
My platoons are marked accordingly, right shoulder pad is painted with platoon symbol (For me it is a V, and a T), the left is painted with his number in the unit (number 1 is a sergeant, number 5 is a heavy weapon, the rest are standard) and then the edges of his shoulder pads are painted to the squad colour (Red, black, white and yellow). As to Reds comment about sorting, a simple way to do it (my way) is to have them displayed in squads, then simply place them into your case, in order, so squad 1 goes at the top, 2 goes in the next one down etc. and then deploy them in order, when casualties occur, place them in squads, in the place you keep casualties, they don't need to be ordered, just sort of in the same place as the others in his/her squad. When the time comes to pack them away, put them in the same way you did to go out. I've only done this three times now, and it has actually speeded up the time I take when packing/unpacking.
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Post by Gerner on Dec 31, 2011 10:48:47 GMT -5
Hey Pyro Try to take a look/read in my blog here: commissar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Painting&action=display&thread=13605Also I would recommend to use one step lighter colour than you have planned. Start with base colouring them. Then you begin the camo part. You can either do them in vertical stripes, y's or blotches. Then you wash it with with a same colour as you based it with. Finally you do some highlights and then it's done. Hope it helps.  |
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Post by Machine Gun Kelly on Dec 31, 2011 11:25:45 GMT -5
A word of advice; while putting your IG in permanent platoons/squads might seem like a good idea, if you're transporting a lot of models at once, it's not. Unless you're scrupulous about sorting casualties when ou remove them, and packing up your men, you're going to be spending a long time trying to sort random IG into units when you take them out of their case. I had this problem myself, and eventually abandoned trying to give permanent unit assignments to every model. That said, if you don't mind the sorting, platoon markings can be everything from a shoulder pad painted a certain color (blue for one platoon, red for another, etc), to the transfers we get in each box (Command squads have two numbers and a central skull motiff, such as 2*skull*1, and elite units start with either 00 or 1, according to the old codex), to marking shoulder pads or bases with numbers. I wouldn't recommend anything too complex, though. Reds Being lazy in front of the emperor is heresy. Please stay in your spot until the inquisition has the time to send someone over to collect you. It will be done right after I have filled the applications and the matter has been handled by the administorium. |
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Pyrotechnics
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Post by Pyrotechnics on Dec 31, 2011 19:28:38 GMT -5
Hey Pyro Try to take a look/read in my blog here: commissar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=Painting&action=display&thread=13605Also I would recommend to use one step lighter colour than you have planned. Start with base colouring them. Then you begin the camo part. You can either do them in vertical stripes, y's or blotches. Then you wash it with with a same colour as you based it with. Finally you do some highlights and then it's done. Hope it helps. Wow, your camo looks brilliant!  I'll try to do something like it, but how do I wash it with the same colour I based it with? Do I just water down the paint a lot or do I need to buy a wash? My fatigues are ice blue, grey and white, though I'm not sure which colour to base the fatigues and which to use as camo stripes. |
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Post by Gerner on Jan 1, 2012 6:15:30 GMT -5
What I meant is, if your base colour is green, then find the green wash who match best. For example I use gretchin green for the clothing and charadon granite for the metal/armour, using thraka green wash brings the whole together and creates depth and more colours. I would suggest you to buy asurmen blue and water it down a bit. Hope it helps. |
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Post by Soap on Jan 1, 2012 14:58:35 GMT -5
Cammo for tanks is easy. Take a couple of cans of spray paint of your desired colour scheme and a pack of blu-tac. Give the vehicle a spray of black undercoat and let it dry. If you are having black as part of the pattern then take some blu-tac and possition it in a cammo pattern and spray the vehicle with the 2nd colour. One coated in the 2nd spray, be quick to remove the blu-tac as it will melt round the edges. Once thats dry repeat the step until your happy with the result. Also try using a spray gun rather than cans of spray for more colour options. This is what I did with one of my baneblades with just two cans of spray paint. commissar.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=picpost&action=display&thread=9390Hope I'v helped some. |
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I'll try to do something like it, but how do I wash it with the same colour I based it with? Do I just water down the paint a lot or do I need to buy a wash? My fatigues are ice blue, grey and white, though I'm not sure which colour to base the fatigues and which to use as camo stripes. 
