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Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 02:34 AM UTC
Is there any way of painting realistic digicam, ive tried and failed many a time < please help.
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Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:01 AM UTC

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Is there any way of painting realistic digicam, ive tried and failed many a time < please help.


Would you consider using camo decals instead. Check the site below and there are 3 types of US digi camo. Also have a look at the demo at the bottom of the page on how it works.

http://www.tasca-modellismo.com/english/item3.html

Regards
Paul
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Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:24 AM UTC

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Is there any way of painting realistic digicam...


Yes. Here are a few tutorials that may help.

US Army ACU camo

USMC MARPAT 1

USMC MARPAT 2

Good luck.

tskross
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Posted: Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 03:38 AM UTC
Also I just saw this yesterday, alpine miniatures has begun putting some painting guides (or links to Calvin Tan's website) on their figure pages, here i one:

http://www.alpineminiatures.com/imagepages/paintingguide.html

and a more detailed sbs here:
http://zyclyon.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html

hope that helps! Good luck
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