Finished.
I agonised over the colours for the Caunter camouflage
scheme. My aim was to have a faded, used
look and so I didn’t want anything too bold.
I was very happy with the VJ 70977 Desert Yellow that I applied over the base
coat of Tamiya Flat Brown. After trying
out a few light blues on a scrap of card i had painted with the base coat I
settled on the VJ 70906 Pale Blue. The real
problem was with the grey green shade.
To use a light grey looked too much like the light blue and a dark grey
stood out too much. I was having much
the same trouble with greens. One of the
first I had tested was a craft paint colour Folk Art 923 Clover. It gave a poor cover and I put it aside, but
after going through other greens I came back to it and decided it gave the best
worn look.
After that it was easy to do the distinctive red and white
recognition stripes and I also added personalised vehicle names, more for fun
than anything. As the vehicles were
meant for Crete I wanted something with a bit of Greek theme and went for Hero (my
first choice and easy as only four letters) and based on its success I then
called the other two Hector and Hercules.
Finally came the weathering.
I researched rust and settled on using some VJ 70982 Cavalry Brown which I painted on in a few spots and then used my finger to wipe off, just leaving a stain in most cases and I was happy
with that. My research had also turned up the
use of lead pencil to dirty up vehicles and that was the final bit of work I
did.
PS These are Command Decision miniatures.
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