A few years ago, i never thought, i would enjoy painting 2mm miniatures, especially i got older and
need glasses and shaky fingers now.
But of all ideas i found on the web, i finally tried it out myself. And i am lucky, that i done this.
You don´t have such details on 2mm miniatures like on larger scales (and 6mm e.g have already a lot of details compared to 2mm), therefore you dont need paint details.
You have general paint 2mm miniatures in another way than larger scales, because those must develop their effect in gaming distance and with their mass!
So i show you here a example of my ACW miniatures. ACW miniatures have already a first advantage, because of their basic uniform color blue or grey.
So in this example of the CS, prime the minature stripes in grey and the most is already painted.
Then do a fast brushstroke in the lower half of the stripe, to paint the main color of the pants.
Here i used a light blue, but you can use any other color you want (brown, grey tone e.g.).
Then i added single colored „dots/spots" to suggest different colors of pants. The same i did with the upper part of the minatures, to suggest different colors of shirts.
You need only a few and irregular spread colored dots. And those dots must also not exact painted as you can see in the close shots.
There are some ideas on the web, to indicate also the rifle and hands, but this costs to much time and you really dont see this details in mass later. So i simple saved those time ;)
Final i did also a brushstroke with skin tone in the area of the heads, to represent the faces.
As i said already, all must not be very exact, which is a huge advantage in comparison with larger
miniature scales.
Next advantage of 2mm miniatures is the basing. Most base sizes are for use with 6mm (or larger) miniatures.
So you can show larger units and you can still use free space on the base to indicate a kind of „diorama".
In my example, the bases got a prime of brown.
Then i painted with dark and light blue a small stream (left) and uses a picket-fence on the right base.
Add field roads if you want. You can/should use indeed more contrast (not to much realistic) colors, because those have more impact later (same applied to the miniatures too).
Add some flock or scatter to represent bushes (left) or fields (right) and the main base is ready.
Place your stripes on it in a way it fit and ready.
You can see more examples on the pic here of my ACW armies.
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