"Painting 1/285 (6mm) scale" Topic

Anyone know of any sites or youtube videos showing how to paint this scale (mainly modern tanks/IFV/planes)?

Thanks

This guy does WW2, but it's a start:
link

The techniques are the same irrespective of period.

Here is another.

www3.telus.net/Ritterkrieg

GHQ also has a primer on painting microarmor.

link

I'm no expert – but the GHQ guide is very good.

Personally I prime everything with a standard auto paint primer in an aerosol can. Camo is a pain but UK and Soviet stuff is relatively simple – one or two colours starting with the lightest.

Then black wash with very a very thinned solution, and dry brush a lighter shade over the lot.

I'm attempting some US Army 1970's camo soon, which should be interesting – along with MERDC and some later NATO 3 colour.

Good luck !

The link McWong73 provided is quite good actually…. going to have to rereaed it when I get around to painting (hope I can still find this thread!)

I prime with a dark color (black under OD, brown under dark yellow or sand); dry-brush the main color over that; add any camouflage, rust, insignia, metal on tracks, etc.; add a thin wash of black; dry-brush some dust on the edges. That's about it. From playing distance most of that will not be seen, but I can't let well enough alone.