"15mm USMC Modern Colors?" Topic

D*MN THE USMC!
I finally get to the point where I am ready to finish my US Marines (most of them in BDUS), and they go and change their damn uniform on me!
Oh well..back to the painting table.
But now..the question I need to ask y'all.

What colors would I use for the new USMC camo for 15mm?..
And what colors would they be for Vallejo?
I need the base coat, etc…

Thanks in advance.

Don't bother painting the full speckle pattern. If you do, it'll just blur the figures. Try a middle-green (US Uniform Green), speckled over say … Afrika Mustard. The black is too much. Technically, there's another color in the mix, close to Khaki, but there's so little of it showing that it barely shows at 15 feet from a live Marine.

If you really want to do it, Khaki base, brown wash, then stipple green and black over the top. This assumes that you're talking about the digital MARPAT, not the Digital Desert pattern.

i painted some 15mm peter pig USMC, i just went with a minimum of "dots" for the camo pattern, and let the infamous dip take care of the rest…… you can check them out on the modern crossfire yahoo group. i'm sorry about this but you have to join the group to see them, i try and approve you quickly, so you can jump off the group quickly (if you want to!)

my problem right now is the armys new ACU uniform!!! i've had my buddies bring theirs over, and it looks like i'm going to go with medium green as a base color, then the helmet arms and legs vallejo dark green. i leave the turso medium green and woodland camo it so it looks like the body armor… i'm going to go w/ a vallejo light sand speckle, then a testors ghost grey dry brush.

when i played with this on a couple of extra figures i have,and it gave the ACU uniform the "greenish grey" look i was going for….

sorry i didn't mention this, but i was painting the desert pattern.

lawrence

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any digital desert recently (left the service 8 months ago), but my advice still stands: Don't paint the full camo, just pick a base khaki/tan (like Model Master British Stone), and dip. Actually, don't dip, use an ink wash instead, with less surfactant (dishsoap, matte medium, etc) than normal. You want the stuff to pool and spot in this case.

I believe that the digital desert pattern has the same colors as the older 4-color desert, just in a different pattern on the fabric.

The desert pattern has two colors of bron, and what appears to be two of sand. The colors I've usesd were Kommando Khaki, BEstial Brown, Graveyard earth, and bleached bone. (All GW colors, with the first being the base coat.) I just do little dots, although stipling isn't a bad idea….