"Picoarmor (3mm) NATO scheme - paint suggestions" Topic
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Quaker | 30 Jun 2014 2:09 a.m. PST |
I am currently working on a picoarmor Cold War Western Europe project, and knowing that things need to be painted brighter at smaller scale I was wondering if anyone had paint suggestions for NATO schemes (vallejo paints preferred)? |
HistoryPhD | 30 Jun 2014 10:59 a.m. PST |
Not sure if my blog will help you, but have a poke around. It's mostly 3mm early 80's. I've been doing mostly WarPac lately, but if you go farther back, there's Danish and West German stuff. verytinywars.blogspot.com |
Just Jack | 30 Jun 2014 4:47 p.m. PST |
Quaker, Here's my shot at NATO tri-color on some M-1 Abrams, mounted on pennies:
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Threw on a relatively bright green, then some reddish brown spots. It works for me. Great blog, History PhD! V/R, Jack |
HistoryPhD | 30 Jun 2014 5:06 p.m. PST |
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Zakalwe64 | 30 Jun 2014 10:35 p.m. PST |
Basically, you cannot go too light. Either use much brighter tones than tou normally would ( so-called neon highlighting), or underbase wit white and use diluted paints. History PhD, I love your stuff, but think you need to use a lighter colored basing flock to really set it off. |
HistoryPhD | 01 Jul 2014 5:50 a.m. PST |
I'm not a big believer in lighter tones. I prefer the way I remember vehicles when I was in the army |
Zakalwe64 | 03 Jul 2014 6:52 a.m. PST |
Not lighter tones on the vehicles: lighter to es on the flock you glue to the base. Try a spring green or yellow flock and see if it doesn't set your vehicles off to better effect. When you use a flock that's too close to the paint scheme at this scale, the vehilce just blends in or gets lost in the noise. Just Jack's figs above are a good example of this. It is a beautiful paint job, even if he doesn't use light tones, which would be my preference. But when the figs are placed on those dark green bases, they blend rig ht in. Imagine the effect if he had used a tan, yellow, brown, or light green base! |
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