Afterthought: camo on 6mm infantry

Forwarded from Stuart:

I asked:
> I had a painting question that was affected by Delayed Action

Stuart said:
> Painting cam on 6m,m is tough. its too easy just to obscure the
This is for two reasons, first its very hard to paint realistic cam on a 6mm
and second, the 'besst' cam on 6mm is an impression of cam rather than cam.
OK, so 'how to' for the IF I would work them up like the 25mm UN figs, first
off a very pale Kahki (GW bleached bone), wash brown ink, then 'splotch' with
a contrast colour, (GW Bestial brown). As for small dark spots its best to use
a dark brown (GW Scorched earth) or black. If you paint in this way as a
general guide for coverage the first contrast colour would cover say 66% of
the armour, the dark second 33% and the final dark 10% or less. I would paint
the under fatigues in another khaki colour, perhaps one shade lighter then the
contrast tan (GW Snakebite leather). This will result in a fig with cam armour
which will stand out against botht eh fatiggues and the skin of the fig (skin
in flesh washed with not so dilute flesh wash darkened with a little brown
ink.
> PAU, olive and yellow will work in 25mm but not so wel in 15/6mm,
the pale colours blend into one another a little too much in th esmaller
scales. How about a compromise of sage green with dark green stripes with a
mustard yellow center (like US tiger stripe). Again, the idea is to impart the
thought of cam, so the colours would be in a similar ratio to the IF. In this
case I would use your olive green for the fatigues, it will produce a nice
contrast.
> OK, given my advocacy of contrast there is another technique but it