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painting camoflage
houdini
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 06:15 AM UTC
i am painting a figure, and i am trying to decide on a late-WWII camo pattern. does any one have any suggestions on what kind of paint i can use?
thanks a lot
matthew
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 06:18 AM UTC

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i am painting a figure, and i am trying to decide on a late-WWII camo pattern. does any one have any suggestions on what kind of paint i can use?
thanks a lot
matthew
what nationality is he? americans were mostly an olive drab color with canvas ammo belts and the like,and lots of germans had a dotty type camo with,red-brown, olive drab,and black
houdini
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 06:55 AM UTC
oh, its german infantry
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 07:06 AM UTC
is it an ss troop? if so then follow the dot pattern
houdini
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 07:23 AM UTC
it is the tamiya geman front-line infantryman, panzer grenadiers. they give me 3 types of camo patterns and colors on the box but i dont really like those
Plasticbattle
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 11:41 AM UTC
Hi Houdini
There is an excellent page on Missing links where a few guys including Mark Bannerman have great articles on how to paint camo patterns and faces. This is worth bookmarking and looking back on when the need arises.
Hopefully this helps!
houdini
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 11:53 AM UTC
hey thanks a lot, that really helps :-)
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 12:33 PM UTC
This thread reminds me of the time we sent the young Private to supply for a can of camoflague paint!
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Posted: Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 03:30 PM UTC

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This thread reminds me of the time we sent the young Private to supply for a can of camoflague paint!


I hope it was as good at the Testors Spray cans of SS Pea (tm), US Woodland (tm), 6 Color Desrt (tm) 3 Color Desert (tm), MERDC Artmored Vehicle Red Desert (tm), Gray Desert (tm), Summer Verdant (tm), Winter Verdant (tm), German Ambush (tm). etc, that I use. #:-)
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