"US Infantry base coat color inquiry" Topic

What spray color do you use for US Infantry?

Still learning the colors for the various clothing items/helmets and overall color schemes.

Since the trousers and jackets seems to be different colors for the US Infantry is it best to just do a black under coat and then hand paint each color separately? Or do you a base coat the drybrush?

Thanks

Olive Drab. I paint the trousers in a lighter shade.

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I find the painting guides from Flames of War, giving speific Vallejo color numbers, are great.

You mean like this one?

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I'm painting 15mm. Most guides out there are for 28mm

I'm trying to avoid painting 8 different things for this scale.

You can keep US infantry fairly simple. I pretty much follow the colour scheme in the picture rather than the late war OD uniforms.

Being somewhat sloppy I just use colors I have, so British Uniform for the trousers, Middlestone (a sort of greenish tan) for the jackets and my reenactor pals US webbing all seems to be sort of yellowish tan so I do the gaiters and webbing ochre (what was the old GW bubonic brown). Helmets OD.

Give the whole thing a brown inkwash to dirty it up and it is good enough. You've only got four basic uniform and webbing colours, which is certainly a lot easier than Germans where every single bit of kit seems to be a different colour.

I use a black base coat.

if its any use here's the conversion document for Flames of War to Vaĺlejo

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I use Testors Model Master SAC Bomber Green.

If you have an airbrush, prime everything in Tamiya Khaki, then go back & paint in the other details. This won't work for the latewar uniform, but will help with the earlier style.

Damon.

Olive drab or green, just like everything else in the US Army.