"Empress Miniatures British SF" Topic

This is a 're-post, not sure if the last one worked.Here's some of the excellent Empress Miniatures 28mm British SF. I've painted them up to be in MTP as opposed to their more usual Crye multicam. Wanted to practice painting MTP, hung my smock up in front of me to get the colours and pattern, still a pig though. The figures are more suited to early Afghan, before MTP and Multicam came in, but so what.[URL=http://s1119.photobucket.com/user/foxweasel1/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20150302_210525_zpsrzoc8m9b.jpg.html]

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Cheers JJ. Forgot to say, the basing stuff is actual sand/grit from Helmand. The lads thought I was mad when they saw me filling an empty mycota pot!

Too much fiddly and delicate stuff on this range IMO (see the satellite areal in the one pack 5 parts to assemble) this is wasted effort for wargaming scale.
Start painting up the whole range tomorrow, reckon MTP (both the Brit and Yank versions for them all in the Empress range) am I right? Brit SF in plain kit ie black/grey/tan? Any incountry info would be appreciated.
FW nice work what paint you use and colours? I use the Vallejo range and a lot of the WW2 colours for my modern paint ups, love the idea of the sand (it seems apt)
Cheers happy gaming

Zargon thanks for looking. For the Empress moderns, the British should be in MTP and the Yanks in multicam or the green/blue cam. USMC have their own desert cam. For SF do what you think looks good, when we were in desert cam they were in crye multicam. We went to MTP (basically multicam) they started wearing old style tropical cam. Lately they've been cutting about in Afghan cam. In the really early Afghan days civilian kit was worn as well.
Empress can be fiddly, but worth it.
Vallejo colours, base is German cam beige, then khaki blotches, Coat'd arms faded olive blotches. Val German cam bright green in swirls. Val chocolate brown lines, then 971 green grey dots and lines.

Heck FW got those colours thanx very thoughtful of you I am going to also use CdA horse tone roan for base as an alternative. That Afghan camo sounds intriguing (some research tonight), I got a pic of the SF lot (Brits all in drabs and offblack/greys to work with too (plan to do a stick in those colours) then the rest as you said.
Yes Empress are great, maybe too great ;) I want to spend far too much effort on them :) but as I'm doing them for gain (money) I have to step off or I'd be doing eyes and fingernails. The weapons are truly little works of art.
Cheers

Cool mate, the figure on the left actually has CdA horse tone roan as it's base colour, so that will work fine.

OK while this is still on the front page, I started with the under colour as discussed, I see 2 things on the US troops, they have the newer 'old American football' style helmet which I assume makes them 2012 + incountry? And none are wearing the 'star wars protector ;)' that family jewels cover flap on the protection rig, the Eureka ones do (I like them and have some of those myself just wish Eureka would use a better less fragile metal to cast in) am I right in assuming the US troops no longer use the flap. And why? If so.
Cheers again BTW the pain goes on easy on the Empress figures even with the detail and good poses.

As in the British forces, all body armour is modular. It all depends on the threat how much is worn, no IED threat = no groin protector. So the U.S. troops still have them, depends on the figure designer of he wants to sculpt it, correct either way.
Cheers