"painting 6mm 1/285 modern infantry ??" Topic

second attempt at this, first got deleted somehow??
looking at getting ghq 1/285 modern infantry to go with my armor (us french german figures etc)
how do you go about painting said infantry camouflage patterns on that scale, not sure i will be able to pull it off ? tips if you have them please?

Undercoat black.

Work out how the camouflage you want works – there will be a base colour and a number of colours on top. Look at how the pattern works.

Paint the figures in the base colour. When dry add splotches of the other colours in the right order, don't try to reproduce the camouflage to scale, but give the impression of the pattern (so for British woodland dpm swirls of green then brown, desert dpm swirls of brown.

Remember that the figures will normally be seen from at least two feet away (scale 200 yards or so), so don't worry about "accuracy" – you are giving an impression.

Paint faces and hands, webbing, boots, weapons and headwear.

Wash with thinned mucky brown paint, when dry dry brush with a light dried earth colour. Varnish and base.

I've been using Main Force minis:
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Most are prone. The officers are either standing or kneeling and the SAM guys are standing. And the mortar guys. But everyone else in prone, which eases painting dramatically fast. I use green or tan colored primer then a dark wash. Pick out flesh and weapons, then I use a pencil to make cammo. Flock and done!

What I do is base coat with the most common color, then use a stippling brush to add the remaining colors starting with the least common and finishing with the second most common. The key to the stippling technique is to use very little paint, almost as if you were dry brushing and gently stipple the colors from all sides. Vision magnification is crucial to see what you are doing.

Then I go back and do boots, weapons flesh, etc.

These Third World Warriors were painted in this fashion with Vallejo Khaki Gray as the base coat, followed by stipples of Iraqi Sand and Olive Green.

On these particular models I used Vallejo three tone filter, then a gloss coat, a coat of Army Painter Strong Tone and finally a coat of flat varnish. Probably overkill to do all that work for these buys but I was playing with the filters and washes.

I do need to finish the bases with flock and rocks.

Looks good Scout !