"Micro Scale Vietnam Painting - VC Skin & Anzac uniforms" Topic

I have a pretty limited palette to work from and can't afford new paints for six weeks, so here are some questions:

Would GW Desert Yellow, Kommando Khaki or GW Rotting Flesh be better for Vietcong skintone?

As to ANZAC uniforms, the Osprey shows them as a kind of stone khaki, somewhere in between Astartes Battlegrey, Kommando Khaki, Fortress Grey and Ushabti Bone with a mere touch of green. Does anyone have a good recipe for mixing them? If it affects things, I'm drybrushing over grey primer.

Cheers!

I've picked Desert Yellow for the VC skin, but would still appreciate help with ANZAC uniforms.

I paint them the same color unis as the US for the grunts.

How about SAS?

Hello there Unfortunate Wound, I do not use GW brand paints. I have only used Tamiya and Humbrol, I would suggest looking at the colours of Tamiya XF-5 Flat Green or Humbrol enamel matt 101. If you can have a look at either of these two paints, that will give you an idea of what to aim at for the Australian uniform "greens" in Vietnam. SASR wore the "greens" initally, followed by the locally produced "tiger stripe", as well as the US ERDL pattern. If you use any of these you will be ok. Time frames, early Vietnam involvement greens to tigerstripe to ERDL and later. References try the Austrialan War Memorial web site and I think is is "camopedia" (not sure). But the AWM site has some colour photos of SASR wearing the ERDL cams.
Regards
Allan

My first thought was to do them in that kind of dark green, but the Osprey shows the RAR guys in stone khaki, and by 1970, plain stone, which I'd like to mimic to set the ANZACs apart from the US I'll be doing later. I'll definitely do special ops in green though – microscale tiger stripe would be a huge pain!

BTW, did you mean to send me to a dawah site with the AWM link?

Mate, the Osprey "Australians at War" is pretty lacking for post WWII. I haven't seen their others to comment, but it sounds as if you're mistaking "polyesters", which are not a combat uniform, with greens. The photo below is from 1982, but the same uniform and webbing was worn in VN- except that helmets were rarely worn there, usually it was a bush hat.

Cheers.

Dal.

Cheers Dal! I was looking at the ANZACs in Nam Osprey – the pictures had them all tooled up in grey, so I just assumed.

That said, I ended up painting them like your boys here, so no harm done!