"Vallejo paint color help" Topic
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| davbenbak | 23 Feb 2015 2:54 p.m. PST |
I picked up the following Vallejo paint colors on clearance at Hobby Lobby: Red Leather
Flat Brown
US Field Drab
German Cam. Med. Brown
Dark Vermillion
Beige Brown My question is, does anyone have any experience with these colors? If you do what are your favorite uses for these colors? |
| combatpainter | 23 Feb 2015 4:09 p.m. PST |
Hopefully they are not dropping the line. |
| Luisito | 23 Feb 2015 4:27 p.m. PST |
I like German Cam. Med. Brown or wood for spear, Beige Brown for leather : scabbard,belts ect |
Random Die Roll  | 23 Feb 2015 4:52 p.m. PST |
Those are some of my favorite colors….Africa core or more often Pulpy type "Indiana Jones" characters…where you know the prominent color is Brown but you want lots of range of color and highlight so the mini does not get the washed out look |
| Wargamer Blue | 24 Feb 2015 12:57 a.m. PST |
Beige Brown is a good rifle colour.
Flat brown is good for belts, boots. |
| TamsinP | 24 Feb 2015 5:59 a.m. PST |
Red leather and flat brown both get used by me as base colours for hair and horses; medium brown gets used mainly for hair, sometimes for clothing, very occasionally as a horse base colour; flat brown also gets used for leather, dark wood etc. The other 3 colours I haven't used. |
| Timmo uk | 24 Feb 2015 1:47 p.m. PST |
As Tamsin writes flat brown and red leather are great for horses. Mix flat brown with black and you get a whole range of warm dark hues. I've not used any of the others though. |
| bracken | 24 Feb 2015 2:18 p.m. PST |
Beige brown, is a good all round colour, I've used it from saddle blankets, base colour for bread bag's ammo pouches for WW2 Germans. Blanket rolls and confederate uniforms. Red leather for saddles and horse tack, even leather straps on WW2 Russians, or leather straps on my confederate infantry. Flat brown WW2 Germans, excellent for painting camouflage as is German camouflage med brown. US Field drab, WW2 US uniforms, bacecoat for falschirmjager jump smock's. Dark vermillion I've never used. I don't use Vallejo paints for horse flesh, they don't seem smooth enough but I think its just personal taste. Vallejo paints really do lend them themselves to WW2 stuff or so I have found. |
| PentexRX8 | 27 Feb 2015 10:37 a.m. PST |
I would add that Red Leather is good for holsters (Waiste and chest), binocular cases and rifle slings on WWII US troops. Also, German Camo Medium Brown is my preferred "mud". I use it on all of my non- desert bases. |
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