Re: Painting Camouflage on figs/tanks

At 7:28 AM -0700 6/28/99, Robert A. Crawford wrote:
>	I've had great success with a very simple three-color scheme:
>
>	o Paint the figure (vehicle or PA) a dark color, black or
>olive.
>
>	o With an old brush loaded with a little paint (more than
>for drybrushing, less than for covering), peck at the figure with
>two other, lighter colors (ie, tan and light green). Don't cover
>the entire figure with these colors, but let the base color show
>through.
>
>	o Drybrush lightly with an even lighter color.

I do something similar. I use a black undercoat, and do a "damp brush"
of the layers of color and highlighting. I find that a damp brush
effect dries quickly enough to do production of large numbers of minis.
The black undercoat should be left showing in places to outline areas
of color. Look at stills from a cartoon, all the colors are flat, but
the outlining makes the colors stand out.

>	I have some examples on my web page. The pictures aren't
>great, but give some idea of the results:
>
>	http://www.iac.net/~crawford/hobbies/miniatures/6mm_sf.html
>	http://www.iac.net/~crawford/hobbies/miniatures/25mm_sf.html
>
>	The NAC PA on the second page are painted this way.

gotta borrow a digital camera...

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