| khurasanminiatures | 12 Jul 2012 2:21 p.m. PST |
How are you chaps getting on with painting multicam uniforms? It's subtle and easy to overdo but you want to show its a breakup scheme. Ideas? |
| Lion in the Stars | 12 Jul 2012 4:19 p.m. PST |
No luck on my end, even at 28mm. It works too damn well! (A 28mm figure 1 yard away from your eyes is the same apparent size as a real person 65 yards away, and multicam is designed to blur outlines past ~15 yards) The closest approximation of the real colors is to base with (Vallejo Model Colors) German Camo Beige, spatter with dark green ink and brown ink (you want those two to run and puddle), then spatter with Camo Dark Brown and Stone Grey (small spots of both). I haven't tried reducing the complexity yet, but I'd do that by only using the green ink and camo dark brown. |
| BigNickR | 12 Jul 2012 4:55 p.m. PST |
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| RTJEBADIA | 12 Jul 2012 10:11 p.m. PST |
In 15mm for me it always ends up either looking like a fairly generic lighter green based woodland camo or just a mottled brown-green-tan pattern… both look good but neither really quite looks like Multicam up close. |
| 14th Brooklyn | 12 Jul 2012 11:28 p.m. PST |
Here is my renditiom:
link Colours used can be found in the comments to the post! Cheers, Burkhard |
| Black Guardian | 13 Jul 2012 2:01 a.m. PST |
I have only recently entered the wargaming-community and wouldnīt call myself an experienced painter, but my ambitious project was to do Modern US Infantry in MultiCam without much experience in painting (I painted some Warhammer and Confrontation-Miniatures in the past, but not very many) Naturally, trying to get it right I had to make several attempts. My first experiments looked interesting but nothing like MultiCam. Too bright and with wrong pattern. So, I adjusted the color and decided to simplify it somewhat. MC as 6-color-scheme is very hard to get right and you donīt even notice the fine nuances of some colors on the minis. This is why my final version has only 4 colors, and Iīm still quite satisfied with the results, as it looks a lot more MC-like than my first attempts and even blends well into the environment without losing visual appeal close-up:
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| Evil Bobs Miniature Painting | 13 Jul 2012 3:51 a.m. PST |
I found stippling works well. |
| Amalric | 13 Jul 2012 12:02 p.m. PST |
Black Guardian, what four colors did you use? Thanks. |
| Black Guardian | 13 Jul 2012 12:57 p.m. PST |
Hey, Base color – Vallejo Medium Grey
Green Splotches – Vallejo German Camo Green
Brown Splotches – Vallejo German Camo Black Brown
White – Vallejo Dead White or Citadel Skull White Have fun ;) |
| LawOfTheGun mk2 | 13 Jul 2012 4:14 p.m. PST |
A nice tutorial on this blog:
link |
| Lobsterback | 14 Jul 2012 11:17 a.m. PST |
@Black Guardian, Nicely done! I think you broke the code in 28mm. |
| Black Guardian | 15 Jul 2012 1:40 a.m. PST |
Actually these are 20mm from Elhiem ;) |
| Lobsterback | 15 Jul 2012 5:13 p.m. PST |
Oh well – still worth a try to see what it does! |
adds a tower to his 15mm trainyard.
