Re: painting SG figures question

adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 
[...]
> As someone else pointed out, "Paint them however you like"...
> 
> However, I wanted some kind of "unit" marking on my NAC also.  I
wanted to
> give my NAC some kind of flavour, without being obvious about it, so I
> chose the regimental colours of the regiment they're supposedly
> representing.  There's a writeup in the TO&E section of
> http://www.stargrunt.ca on the 123'rd battalion, Royal New Anglian
Light
> Infantry, and they "perpetuate the history and honours of the Queen's
Own
> Rifles of Canada".  The regimental colours are rifle green (of course)
and
> scarlet.  So, I did the right shoulder board/pad/armour
plate/(whatever it
> is on the NAC figures) in rifle green, with a scarlet stripe.  The
rest of
> the figure is the standard uniform colour I chose (in the case of the
NAC,
> it is grey fatigues - I assume they use uniforms that change colour to
> match whatever terrain they're in, anyway, so the grey colour was a
> "generic" colour for "in-garrison".  Or something.  Anyway, rather
than
> trying to paint a flash on the sleeve, doing the whole shoulder board
thing
> worked well, and was tres-simple to paint.  And it looks fine, which
is the
> important thing :)

We expect to see a squad of these entered into the painting contest
at ECC this weekend.

No pressure or anything. I'll enter in something for comic relief.  ;-)

Mk