| badwargamer | 07 Jun 2019 11:48 a.m. PST |
Hi.My preferred method for painting a few hundred 15mm ww2 figures is to spray with a lighter shade of the main uniform colour then use a (usually) brown wash to create some shading. This also darkens the uniform hence the need to start with a lighter shade. I'm looking for suggestions for a spray to use for early ww2 French uniforms. I'm thinking either a light olive khaki with a brown wash, or a light brown and use a green wash. Anyone done similar or have any suggestions? |
| Mick in Switzerland | 08 Jun 2019 2:33 a.m. PST |
I think you need to go more towards olive green. I wrote this guide to painting WW2 French for Crusader many years ago in 2010. I also have French Army 1940 by Andre Jouineu which is clearly greenish khaki as the main uniform colour. PDF link |
| mildbill | 08 Jun 2019 4:16 a.m. PST |
Olive Green for WWII , works for me. |
79thPA  | 08 Jun 2019 10:38 a.m. PST |
I couldn't find a spray that I thought represented the French uniform well. Let is know what you end up with. |
| badwargamer | 09 Jun 2019 8:37 a.m. PST |
Will do. As with all of these things different sources give different takes on the colours. Some more green. Some more brown. |
| badwargamer | 23 Apr 2020 9:55 a.m. PST |
Finally lockdown has given me chance to start painting!
I ended up using a tin of FOW war paint Italian armour as a base colour. Then I am washing with Aggrax earthshade. This results in a very close match to the vallejo 879 green brown paint. If you wanted something slightly greener than green wash might work well.
Hopefully photo of french cavalry attached.
subheadingMark 1 | 15 May 2020 5:11 p.m. PST |
My observation of French WW2 uniforms is that they appear to have a bit more brown than is typical in an "Olive Green". Among Vallejo colors I look more for "Khaki" (No. 70988) or "Khaki Grey" (No.70880). I recently re-furbished some H&R French infantry figures that had been in my extras bin to create a company of Dragons Portees. These had been painted some 30 years ago using Poly-S "French Khaki", a color that was really rather green.
I am at a pretty small scale (6mm), and I'm afraid my photography skills are not quite up to showing details of the uniform color. But I much prefer the look I have achieved with Vallejo Khaki Grey. -Mark
(aka: Mk 1) |
| badwargamer | 16 May 2020 1:32 a.m. PST |
They look very nice. As wargamers we spend a lot of time trying to get the 'right's colours, when in reality we know that uniform colour varies dramatically. Different factories produced variations and then the fading of uniforms changed a lot. This is still an issue today. I have black uniform trousers that vary in colour dramatically…some have turned green, some grey and some blue. |
| badwargamer | 16 May 2020 1:38 a.m. PST |
This is my topic showing what I've painted so far. All the troops have been painted the same way but the lighting makes a difference as well as they appear different in some of the pics!!
TMP link |
covers the basics for this WWII theater of war.
has been spending time in paradise lately.
