"Good green for 6mm and 10mm Napoleonics?" Topic

I am experimenting with painting some 10mm and 6mm Napoleonics but I am having difficulty finding a green I like at these scales for facing colors.

Any recommendations for a good green that will make facing colors pop at these scales?

I am priming white and giving the figures a light wash in either black or serpa to help bring out the details before I paint.

I have always followed the 6mm mantra of using lighter tones at this scale. However, for facing colours this poses a problem as the shades are laid down in regulations and if you lighten them, they are just not the right colour. This seems to apply to all facing colours. I have just been painting 6mm KGL line infantry; facings are dark blue. Having lightened that to a medium blue (Vallejo 'Flat Blue') it just does not look right and I have returned to a darker blue (Prussian Blue). Yes, it is more difficult to see, but at least it's 'right'. Lightening tones of trousers etc does look better and is not subverting regulations to the same degree (at least to me!). I have used Vallejo Olive Green for lighter green cuffs etc and Medium Olive for darker ones, but at the end of the day I would recommend experimenting and deciding what looks best to you. I prime with black as this provides the contrast, but let's not get drawn into the 'best priming colur' argument!!

Delort's right, of course. But there is a slight difference between "lighter" and "brighter." The smaller the scale, the more you want a purer unmuddied color to be identifiable at all. No, of course it's not always regulation, but a lot of what we do is done to make things more visible on the tabletop than they would be in reality. That's one reason we have 24 or 36 casting regiments of 28mm instead of 480-720 2mm castings, after all.

Miniature warfare involves a lot of compromises. Pick the ones you can best live with.

"[X] involves a lot of compromises. Pick the ones you can best live with."

Pretty much applies to everything.