Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

14 posts ยท Oct 2 1999 to Oct 4 1999

From: UsClintons@a...

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 00:46:57 EDT

Subject: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

Hey guys,

I am about to start painting another batch of figs for SG2 and I need some
ideas for a good camo pattern. I had one...but then I used that pattern for
some ork elite. A rare unit let me tell you! And well deserving of a nice
camo pattern. ;-)

Anyway what I need are web links to sites that have good illustrations of
various real life camo patterns or pics of 25mm figs with camo patterns.

Thanks in advance, R. Scott Clinton

From: Brian Burger <yh728@v...>

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 1999 22:25:05 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 UsClintons@aol.com wrote:

> Hey guys,

Ork elites? ORK *elites*??? Ork whats?!?:>

> Anyway what I need are web links to sites that have good illustrations

http://www.battlefront.com/resources/poc/index.html

Pretty decent website - lots of scanned pics of real-world camo,
organized mostly by country.

Also, check your local library for "Brassey's Book of Camoflauge", Brassey's
1996. (ISBN 1857531647) It's got some great colour plates of camo historical &
present. Of course, the copy I *finally* got through
interlibrary loan had had some goon go through it with a razor - a third
of the plates & several pages were missing!

People like that should be executed. Publicly. Messily. (Pardon me -
just a pet peeve. I work for the local public library...)

Oh, and if you're looking for something to really, really inspire your
modelling, point your browser to <http://www.ghillie.com>. Very cool!

Finally, take a good look at the cover of SG2. The PA there has a very
cool camo scheme - very nice painting.

Hope these help,

From: UsClintons@a...

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 01:34:41 EDT

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

In a message dated 10/2/99 12:26:09 AM Central Daylight Time,
> yh728@victoria.tc.ca writes:

> Oh, and if you're looking for something to really, really inspire your

:-)  Thanks, already done.  One of my Orc Elite (YES they exist!)
snipers has a ghillie suit made out of gauze and flock. Looks pretty good if I
say so myself.

From: Ndege Diamond <nezach@e...>

Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 00:10:22 -0700

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> At 10:25 PM 10/1/99 -0700, you wrote:

Thanks for the link, it is a very good resource.

The DP9 pod people have done up some camouflage patterns for their Heavy
Gear game at http://www.dp9.com/Funhouse/camo/camoindex.html  A few seem
to be based off of RL camo schemes..

From: Ground Zero Games <jon@g...>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:03:24 +0100

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> On Sat, 2 Oct 1999 UsClintons@aol.com wrote:

Here in the UK, the softback edition of Brassey's has been appearing at
clearance sale prices at a few places over the last few months. Advice to UK
listers is grab a copy if you see it!

Jon (GZG)
> People like that should be executed. Publicly. Messily. (Pardon me -

From: Sean Bayan Schoonmaker <schoon@a...>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 07:46:36 -0700

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> Anyway what I need are web links to sites that have good illustrations

http://www.dp9.com/Funhouse/camo/camoindex.html

From: Andrew Apter <andya@s...>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:59:53 -0400

Subject: RE: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

One key question on Camo Ideas. What kind of planet are they going to? Even on
Earth camo needs to vary between jungle and temperate forest, winter and
summer. To bad you can not paint the pattern used by Predator now that is
sci-fi camo. The best camo uses the color of the enviroment thay are
going to so you have worlds of choices.

From: Michael Llaneza <maserati@e...>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 13:17:39 -0700

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> At 10:25 PM -0700 10/1/99, Brian Burger wrote:

1. any Ork troops that have heard of the concepts of discipline and tactics 2.
mythical foes used to scare Imperial Guard trainees

(3/4 of my painted 6mm infantry are GW Orks, funny thing about the
way they sculpted the faces on those, the eye sockets are deep enough that you
can paint the eyes red, the faces green and get the eyes showing through as
red; a great way to impress people who don't know how easy 6mm is to paint).

From: UsClintons@a...

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:34:46 EDT

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

In a message dated 10/2/99 1:52:50 PM Central Daylight Time,
> APTER@prodigy.net writes:

> One key question on Camo Ideas. What kind of planet are they going

Oh yes that is true...but who what's to repaint their minis for every battle!
;-)

No, I think I will just stick with a 'believable' camo pattern. Those by
default mean shades of green, tan, brown or gray. Anything else will look
kinda out of place next to the lichen ;-)

From: Andrew Apter <andya@s...>

Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 23:53:57 -0400

Subject: RE: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> Oh yes that is true...but who what's to repaint their minis for every
;-)

> No, I think I will just stick with a 'believable' camo pattern. Those

Then the real questions are what color is the table you play on most often and
how much lichen you want to glue to the figure.

From: Ryan Fisk <ryan.fisk@g...>

Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 11:24:49 +0000

Subject: RE: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> At 11:53 PM 10/2/99 -0400, you wrote:

I am thinking very hard about producing some red and purple gaming terrain
with some very wild-looking "tree" and "shrub" analogs and then painting
some of my figs in a red and purple camo pattern to go with them. It may or
may not make any actual scientific sense, but I think it will at least look
like the troops are fighting on an alien world.

Later,

From: Andrew Apter <andya@s...>

Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 13:03:41 -0400

Subject: RE: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> I am thinking very hard about producing some red and purple

Voivode Shrike (Ryan Fisk)

How about a dry world with a high Iron and cobalt content in the sand and
rocks. Makes for some very nice reds and blues.

Andy

From: Jeremy Sadler <jsadler@e...>

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 16:46:04 +1000

Subject: Re: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

> I am thinking very hard about producing some red and purple gaming

A damn fine idea. If you're providing the terrain, your troops fit it. Who's
to say that other worlds all have terrain the same colour?

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From: Brian Bell <bkb@b...>

Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 10:41:59 -0400

Subject: RE: Need Good SGII Camo Ideas

I had a game of DS2 at GZG-ECC II that was set on the moon.
One side had a high-contrast Black on Lt. Grey camo "Mountain Stone"
(see
http://members.xoom.com/rlyehable/ds2/) for one side and a 4 tone
greyscale dot pattern for the other side. I received a lot of nice comments.

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