"US Infantry base coat color inquiry" Topic
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| captaincold69 | 26 Dec 2018 1:58 p.m. PST |
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 |
 Saber6  | 26 Dec 2018 2:06 p.m. PST |
Olive Drab. I paint the trousers in a lighter shade. |
| haywire | 26 Dec 2018 2:42 p.m. PST |
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 Extra Crispy  | 26 Dec 2018 6:28 p.m. PST |
I find the painting guides from Flames of War, giving speific Vallejo color numbers, are great. |
| haywire | 26 Dec 2018 6:59 p.m. PST |
You mean like this one?
or link |
| captaincold69 | 26 Dec 2018 9:34 p.m. PST |
I'm painting 15mm. Most guides out there are for 28mm I'm trying to avoid painting 8 different things for this scale. |
| Martin Rapier | 27 Dec 2018 2:04 a.m. PST |
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. |
| TonicNH | 27 Dec 2018 2:26 a.m. PST |
if its any use here's the conversion document for Flames of War to Vaĺlejo link |
| Dances with Clydesdales | 27 Dec 2018 5:49 a.m. PST |
I use Testors Model Master SAC Bomber Green. |
| Garand | 27 Dec 2018 1:01 p.m. PST |
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. |
| Thresher01 | 28 Dec 2018 2:37 a.m. PST |
Olive drab or green, just like everything else in the US Army. |
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