Cammo paintin'

Does anyone wish to share how they do nice cammo paint jobs
on 1/300 and 25mm armour. Quick and not so quick techniques
considered. Choice of colours,reference sources.

sincerely

> Does anyone wish to share how they do nice cammo paint jobs

The quickest I've come up with is to paint the figure an
all-over dark color, say a very dark green. Then get take three
lighter colors -- a green, a brown, and a tan -- and load a big brush
like you were going to dry brush. Instead of dry brushing, peck at the
miniature.

I did this on three of the larger Future Wars tanks, and it looks great. From
a distance it blends together to a muddy green, but up close you can see the
different colors. The dark undercoat brings the details out beautifully.

> At 06:43 PM 8/22/97 +0100, you wrote:

Actually I use a very light green/gray (almost whiteish) then paint an
irregular diagonal-ish scheme in a dark green.  Lots of emphasis is
placed on disgusing and blurring any straight lines or regular features on the
miniatures.

My thought was camo is supposed to disguse and hide vehicles, so the spacing
and placement of the colours was done to disguise the vehicles on the gaming
board. It works very well in that many of my opponents have been caught
thinking one vehicle was another type, and some were caught not realizing the
actual facing of the vehicle. (hehehehe)

Michael Brain: Pinky are you pondering what I'm pondering?

Pinky: Uh..I think so Brain but, uh..Brain? where did all those cylinders
graduate from?

Brain: (Whacks Pinky Repeatedly)

> At 06:43 PM 8/22/97 +0100, you wrote:

I'm in the midst of painting a whole bunch of CMD tanks in Urban Cammo. It's a
simple scheme, but it looks pretty good. I paint the tank a dark grey (Cartoon
Colors Grey 25, actually), and then drybrush it a lighter shade (CC Grey 15).
I then use Ral Partha grey, which is so light as to be almost white, to draw
geometrical shapes on the tank. It's quicker than it sounds. I then fill in
the shapes with black. After that, I go back and paint the fiddly bits. It's
not perfect, but I like it.

> Tim Jones wrote:

1/300, you have a problem. A good cammo paint job really blurs the
detail. I have a Challenger II from GHQ that's chock full of detail, but after
an expert cammo job, looks like a featureless blob without a magnifying glass.

One method is as follows: First undercoat in black. This tones down the
colours you're going to put on. Now give it a thin coat of the base colour
(usually some variant of green). BEFORE THIS IS COMPLETELY DRY then paint the
next colour(s) on top (dark green, brown, black, dark red etc). This will
cause the edges to become diffuse. Now give it a thin wash of the original
colour, mixed with mud brown, to give it a "dirty" look. The result is an
exact replica of how the original looks. But, as I said, the whole point about
cammo is to break up outlines and conceal easily recognisable detail.

Examples of vehicles that have been camauflaged can be found by
following the path http://www.adfa.oz.au/ which has links to the
Australian Army web site, also US, UK, Canadian, French etc sites, where