nnascati  | 30 Jan 2023 5:12 p.m. PST |
Strange question maybe. Has anyone come up with a way to represent tweed clothing? I'm talking about 28mm figures. |
| JimDuncanUK | 31 Jan 2023 5:38 a.m. PST |
Are you talking about tartan or regular English tweed? |
 miniMo | 31 Jan 2023 7:51 a.m. PST |
Ooh, fun!
I would do it with spray paints — a base coat in one shade and couple of different shades with a light spritz from a distance on top. Then brush paint other details.
I've done camouflage on small scale figures with this technique. |
| Martin Rapier | 31 Jan 2023 8:24 a.m. PST |
Normal tweed is just a thick wool material so I paint it like any other cloth. If it is patterned, then it gets patterns. |
| nnascati | 31 Jan 2023 1:09 p.m. PST |
Jim,
English tweed. I'm panting up a Copplestone mini to represent Nayland Smith. |
| JimDuncanUK | 31 Jan 2023 2:00 p.m. PST |
English tweed, so that's fairly plain, especially in 28mm. Maybe a very subtle check. Good luck. The figure on the left of image is the nearest to tweed I have done.
link Jim |
| forrester | 31 Jan 2023 2:00 p.m. PST |
Ive only attempted this twice [one of them being the 11th Doctor] and just did a brown jacket and some vertical dark lines to hint at a texture or pattern. Im sure more skilful painters can do better. |
| nnascati | 31 Jan 2023 2:03 p.m. PST |
I'm probably crazy to even think about it. |
| colkitto | 01 Feb 2023 2:11 a.m. PST |
If you looked at the tweed at a distance in real life would it not just appear as an overall uniform shade which is a blend of the various colours? If so Jim D's solution looks ideal. I did some Stars and Stripes for my 1/3000 Spanish American War US fleet once. I didn't paint the stripes (or the stars) but did a pink flag with a blue rectangle in the corner. It looked OK to me … |
| Col Durnford | 02 Feb 2023 1:59 p.m. PST |
I had the same basic issue with my 28mm Spanish for 1898. They have a blue and white pinstripe uniform. After looking at some examples and even a shirt one of the maintenance staff was wearing. I decided to go with a duck egg blue. The figures are viewed from a distance and the colors fade together. |
| Zephyr1 | 02 Feb 2023 11:09 p.m. PST |
I think the biggest problem would be tracking down a brown paint shade that matches (the dominant color of) tweed. If the mini's clothing has a texture, I'd do the base color with a wash of the lesser color, then drybrush… |
 piper909 | 03 Feb 2023 1:01 a.m. PST |
I've tried using a very splayed brush and only using the tips of the bristles, to create a non-uniform "speckled" pattern that seems vaguely tweedish. This in 25mm scale. But I've also used the same technique with large brushes on some cement statuary. It seems OK. |
adds a machinegun platoon to his WWI Brits.
