[SG] Painting, figs

Hi!

> By the way while on the topic of painting... has anyone

> a) tried putting camo net on 25mm helmets (think WWII)
Nope, but I'd be more than happy to know what others might have tried. My
Waffen SS guys would look nice with it :-))

> b) how do you pain spectacles?
Dunno, haven't tried :-

Beth.Fulton@csiro.au schrieb:
> G'day guys,

Reasonably 'African' from what I have seen, as do some of the Mercenaries.

On the other hand, I'm not too happy with the faces of the Gurkhas, fine
figures that they are otherwise.

> I was also wondering how well the NAC figs (the

Well, South/Central America has lots of Caucasians and Blacks.
Otherwise, there are not that many suitable figures with semi-Asiatic /
American Indian features.

> By the way while on the topic of painting... has anyone

Sunglasses are easy, dark or metallic colour and a gloss varnish.

Clear glasses? Never tried them. My idea would be to use:
- a dark skin tone (to make the shaded eye region darker than the face
- a silver wash
- a gloss varnish

Greetings

USE A VERY SMALL BRUSH, AND A CONTRASTING COLOR.

PAINT SMALL DIAMOND SHAPES ALL OVER THE SURFACE OF THE HELMET.

A BIT TEDIOUS!

FOR the SS or HEER, they also wore cloth camo covers over their helmets that
were held inplace with leather strapping that was;

a. worn on the outside of the cover (around the sides and across the top).
lower edges tucked into the helmet webbing.

b. worn around the side of the helmet, but laced in and out through slits in
the cover. again ends are folded into helmet webbing.

the Reich's armed forces also painted camo patterns their helmets.

(so did some US ARMY units)

DAWGIE, been there, done that as far as painting netting....

> At 10:29 AM 5/30/02 +1000, you wrote:

Start with solid black, and then use a blue grey to almost (but not quite)
fill the center of the lens. Then add two or three sky blue slashes at a 45
degree angle. Gloss the result, and there you go. Or there *I* go, at least.

> DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:

Ugh!! That's an understatement. Wouldn't it be easier to
just paint highly angled criss-cross lines instead? You
can get the diamond effect much quicker that way.  :-)

G'day,

Karl said:
> <PAU> Reasonably 'African' from what I have seen, as do some of the

Thanks.

> On the other hand, I'm not too happy with the faces of the Gurkhas,

We've only got one of those so far? What do you find is wrong?

> Well, South/Central America has lots of Caucasians and Blacks.

I was happy with using other NAC figs for the non-Indian figs I was
wondering if they had any figs that could represent Amazonian units etc (as in
the location not as in all female hell warriors in metal bikinis brandishing
large swords.... I have enough of those kind of figs already
;P)

> Sunglasses are easy, dark or metallic colour and a gloss varnish.

Clear glasses unfortunately. Just painting them all white looks wrong, but
putting black dots looks cartoonish. I ended up painting lower half to
2/3
of each spectacle flesh coloured and then putting the eye in the other
1/2
(or 1/3) works better than my other attempts and looks good on some
figs...
other figs I wish I could do better.

John also suggested:
> Start with solid black, and then use a blue grey to almost (but not

Sounds nice and I if the figs I was painting up were generic or modern I'd do
it, but these are Dad's Army figs (Brit comedy based on UK WWII home guard for
those who haven't had the pleasure) and I really wanted to get Mainwaring's
look right... especially if he's going to feature in a lot of
my future FMA/SG battles ;)

Dawgie suggested (re: helmet mesh):
> USE A VERY SMALL BRUSH, AND A CONTRASTING COLOR.

I'm just about insane enough to do tat;)

Indy commented:
> Ugh!! That's an understatement. Wouldn't it be easier to

That's actually a good idea, though still tricky.

> Claus wrote:
My
> Waffen SS guys would look nice with it :-))

What I ended up doing was using my dissecting kit (all those hours dissecting
insects has finally come in handy!) and go a bit of the packing sponge that
comes with most blister packs of figs and cut very fine slices of it that are
the right diameter to cover the helmet. Stuck it on before undercoating with
black. Then gave it a coat of very dark olive drab and then dry brushed with
olive drab. Its worked remarkably well (and it turns out not any slower than
the other possible methods)...I was just wondering if I'd missed a better
alternative.

Thanks

> Dawgie suggested (re: helmet mesh):

Use a very fine felt tip pen (ideally the archival sort, used for blacklining
but you ought also to be able to get it in other colors...well, in any event,
I can, don't know about Tasmania...) and draw them in that way. You probably
don't need a lot of it, just

G'day,

> Use a very fine felt tip pen (ideally the archival sort, used for

We've got a national archive, museum and nav centre here so hopefully someone
must stock these pens;)

Thanks

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