"Best Paint Colors for Chinese Warlord Troops " Topic
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| GARS1900 | 01 Nov 2017 10:49 a.m. PST |
I have some of Copplestone's excellent Chinese Warlord troops from their Back of Beyond range, and I was wondering what color I should use to paint them. I know the Chinese Army in this period generally used a light to medium grey, with some khaki in the southern regions. The Osprey on the Chinese Warlord Period seems to imply that it was a pale blueish grey. What specific paint colors do you all use to replicate the Warlord era uniform? I prefer Vallejo, but I'm open to other options. |
| RudyNelson | 01 Nov 2017 3:51 p.m. PST |
Drab peasant colors. Mid-blue, tan, gray.
Sometimes the colors Sr in a unit was uniform. Other were mixed with field signs of hat or arm bands. Osprey does a book book on the era.
In the boxer rebellion era, warlord troops may have the common white patch with unit or allegiance be written on it. |
| Umpapa | 02 Nov 2017 3:45 a.m. PST |
Sometimes even yellowish-khaki. I have painted mine 20 mm (1:72 HaT WW1 British) as Mexican federales/Chinese warlord troops with the same desert yellow/khaki color . |
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