Permission to speak sir...

i got this big problem painting and detailing germans oak spring/fall parka. been dying to get the real look for my next project. Any tip or website that i can refer to in painting the camo pattern and make it look authentic?

Lynn Kessler's recent article in FSM talks about camo in general, shading and highlighting. As to a particular pattern, you'll need a sample and practice. What I did before doing a Scottish set (the clan pattern on a kilt) was to practice the pattern on sheet stock until I lliked the result, then painted the figure (Braveheart, 54mm in the trueClan Wallace set, which happens to be the red Scotch tape plaid).

The way i paint camos is to try and copy a picture as best as i can. A good place for photos of german wwII camoflage is on re-enactment websites. If you are looking for a bit of a quiker way. Find an old brush that is all frayed. And use that to dab your colours on. that way you create a broken pattern.

Cheers,
Paul

You might want to try going to http://www.totalmodel.com and checking out the user gallery....the last one is called UNIFORMS and look for the guy sas....he scanned a bunch of photos out of a book of mine that shows all kinds of full page camo in colour.....I know this helps me when I'm doing SS camo figures and also gives a lot of variations so your stuff doesn't all look alike.

I highly recomend this book.


It has a photographic step by step how to on a German wearing a camoflage smock.

Patrick

LYNN"S NEW BOOK IS EVEN BETTER !!!!!!!!! ... And he has another new book on Diorama's that will also soon be released.


KALMBACH PUBLISHING ( URL for ordering book )
http://store.yahoo.net/kalmbachcatalog/12240.html

Lynn sent me these instruction's below about 1& 1/2 years ago, long before that FSM article was ever published. I know he won't mind me posting them here, since the article was recently published. They should help you.
EICHENLAUB CAMOUFLAGE ( by Lynn Kessler )
To do this camouflage pattern, paint it like I explained in the last email.
- Do the mid-brown background base coat first. Then paint the large and small mid-green sploches ( the ones that you see as an outline around the light green splotches ) and paint them as a series of large overlapping dots, and just a bit translucent at the edges.

- Now paint the large and small light green splotches on top of the mid green ones, again as a series of overlapping dots.

- For the last color, drop a few random dark green dots and splotches over the light green, and over the base coat mid-brown. Let it all dry thoroughly.

- Apply the thin tone wash two or three times to tone down the colors and blend them a bit, and drybrush the high points lightly with khaki. ........That's it.


- ralph